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Crowds upwards of 133 million shoppers flooded malls nationwide the day after Thanksgiving, or "Black Friday"--so named because it allegedly is the day when retailers begin to turn a profit for the year.
An oversized banner headline stretched across the top of The Chronicle’s Nov. 8, 1972 front page, yelling: 1,535 more days. America’s voters had just re-elected President Richard Nixon by a landslide margin of 61 percent of the popular vote against Democratic rival Sen. George McGovern. Although Nixon’s victory was predicted by most pundits at the time, The Chronicle and many students attending Duke in 1972 were far from enthused by the election outcome.
Approximately 45 students attended an emergency closed-door town hall meeting Tuesday night at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life to discuss their concerns about The Chronicle.
have you ever been the target of a mortar attack? Mark Hoffmann, Trinity ’00, and his best friend from Duke Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Chris Nigren, Engineering ’99, have. The shells make a whistling sound as they fly overhead and a whump-whump that shakes the ground and makes your toes tingle in your boots when they hit things. You can’t do anything but just put your head down and hope it isn’t your day.
The inauguration of a university president is a time for celebration and anticipation of change. The change of presidents provides an opportunity to host a whirlwind of inaugural events that display the institution’s best aspects to the nation’s educational elite.
Claudia Steer, Trinity ’04, and sophomore Anteneh Addisu were detained at Café Parizade Thursday night after allegedly assaulting Durham Police Department officers. The incidents come a week after a group of Duke students reported excessive and discriminatory treatment by DPD officers at another Parizade party.
In the University’s most recent effort to curb high-risk drinking activities, Duke is reaching out to community members in order to discuss strategies to reduce alcohol-related problems.
While the opening convocation for freshmen and new transfer students is a centuries-old tradition, this year’s ceremony celebrated the uniqueness of the incoming Class of 2008 and the “newness” of entering the Duke community for both the students and the University’s ninth president.
This summer, the Duke community not only joined the nation in mourning the death of former president Ronald Reagan but also grieved the losses of an employee of the graduate school and two Duke students.
Darlene Thompson is tired. She has just gotten off her second job as a janitor at a nearby mall. Six years away from retirement age, Thompson is barely able to make ends meet between this and her primary job with Angelica Corp., an industrial laundry service that pays her $8.25 per hour without health benefits or a workers' union.
After several rounds of back-and-forth discussion about Duke's financial obligations to Durham, the University has agreed to pay the city a total of more than $1 million.
Duke, YMCA end agreement
Although summer will not technically begin until June 22, plans for arts and culture events at the University for the coming academic year are swiftly being realized. Duke University Union and Duke Institute of the Arts, two of the largest arts programming bodies on campus, are looking forward to a landmark year of more--and cheaper--performances.
In order to be a good college cheater, what a student needs most is an unswerving determination to succeed with the least amount of effort.
This is the second in a series of articles examining current research trends, nationwide and at Duke.
The voice mail message of incoming Dean of Social Sciences Susan Roth says she will be on sabbatical until September--but it isn't true.
As thunder rumbled in the distance and sheets of rain pelted the Von Canon room windows, a small group endured the storm by attending "Jalapenos, chest hair and the power of Greyskull: Duke men and the violence that affects our lives," the second keynote address for Sexual Assault Prevention Week.
Dean-elect of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences George McLendon announced Tuesday the appointments of three divisional deans in Arts and Sciences to replace current Dean of Natural Sciences Berndt Mueller and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Karla Holloway.
The search for a new Duke University Health System Chancellor of Health Affairs continues, as scheduling conflicts between the candidates and the search committee members delay the decision process. Originally slated for the end of March, the announcement of whom will replace current Chancellor of Health Affairs Dr. Ralph Snyderman has been pushed back to April.
Duke's freshly-tanned spring breakers are back on campus, loaded with wild tales of drunken Cancun nights and beer-for-breakfast cruises. But storytellers beware: those six tequila shots you said you had before venturing on that karaoke stage probably had closer to the equivalent of eight standard-sized shots.
