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At the 57th Grammy Awards pre-telecast, Associate Director of Duke Performances Eric Oberstein, (T ’07) won the Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy for his work as producer on the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra album The Offense of the Drum. He stood smiling on the stage with the album’s contingent and Orchestra’s director, famed jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, who accepted the award.
Researchers at Duke's Bursac Lab have grown the first artificially contracting muscle tissue, creating new possibilities for drug and medical testing.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>"This is not a tour where someone will come out of the bushes and grab you,” Noel Dale joked. “And if they do, I have a ghost buster’s right hook.”My guide for the Durham Pub Crawl and Haunted Adventure Tour, Dale was a bearded black man with a gap-toothed smile. The excursion, put on by Tobacco Road Tours, kicked off at 7:30 p.m. with a round of drinks and greasy snacks at Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom on Blackwell Street in the American Tobacco District. Dale passed around a clipboard for everyone to sign before the tour began, removing any liability from Tobacco Road Tours should anything happen. After Tyler’s, the tour visited Alley Twenty Six, Whiskey and Bull McCabe’s Irish Pub. Between each round of drinks, Dale led the group to a building and told a few ghost stories associated with the location.After the first round of drinks, Dale led the group out of the bar and through the Tobacco District. It was already dark and starting to drizzle. In front of an old smokestack, Dale explained that the tour would introduce people to the history of Durham. Many of the ghost stories came from back when Durham was a tobacco town, and are said to have taken place in the old factories and buildings owned by people with prominent names like Blackwell and Duke. Dale described himself as an actor involved in theater, storytelling and comedy and said he stumbled onto this gig through an ad on Craigslist. As for whether there would be actual ghosts on the tour he was cryptic.“I tell people to take pictures because sometimes you will see [ghost-like] orbs,” he said. “And we have no control over that.” The tales introduced a father and daughter who suffered a gruesome fate, the vengeful ghost of a woman who haunts the building where she was raped and murdered, a man who haunts his old office as he waits for his ex-girlfriend to come back to him and other ghostly inhabitants of downtown Durham. Dale tied each story to a historic building in the city and often told them in a tongue-in-cheek tone. Ashley McDuffy, an engineer living in Raleigh, and her friend Sarah Bradley, an editor at a Durham company, came with their husbands on a double date. “We’re just looking for a good time, to hear some good stories and drink some good beer,” McDuffy said. This wasn’t the first ghost tour and pub crawl that Bradley had been on, but she hesitated to call herself an expert.“I just like ghost tours,” she said.Senior Rowan Murray said he came on the tour to tag along with his friends but joked, “you can tell that I’m fascinated by the spirit realm.”The tour was not all ghost stories, however. As the group trooped through Parrish Street, Dale also described the history of Durham’s Black Wall Street. On the last stop of the tour, and just when it began to rain in earnest, Dale was joined by a fellow tour guide, Brandon Wright. Wright ended the night by telling a story about a factory worker who haunted the lights of a former Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company factory after his untimely death while changing a lightbulb. Murray said he had actually been inside the building—which is now sealed off to the public—a few years ago.“They cut the power in that building off permanently,” he said as the group trudged its way through the rain to get one last drink for the night.At Whiskey, a dimly lit cigar bar with blues music playing in the background, I spoke with an imposing bouncer who would only identify himself as “Hebrew” and dismissed the idea of ghosts. “I believe there are evil spirits among us that cause you to do bad things, just like you have good spirits for protection,” he boomed, his gold fillings flashing in the darkness as he spoke. “Ghosts are a fairy tale. There ain’t no such thing as a ghost.”
Investor, BET founder and part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, Bob Johnson spoke at Duke's Fuqua School of Business last Friday.
A new campus enterprise could give students more options for acquiring notes when they miss a class.
Prices for Duke students to get low just got higher.
After moving from home to home, dozens of displaced bicycles from the Duke Bikes Program are up for sale.Duke recently disbanded its bike loaner program due to a lack of space, funding and interest. But some students are already looking for ways to bring it back.The bikes were housed below the West Union Building until renovations began, and then temporarily moved to the Arts Annex off of Campus Drive. Because the University Center Activities and Events has decided to stop paying for the bicycles, the 65 bikes will be sold Friday at the annex for about $100 or less.“It was a combination of a not ideally organized bike program that lacked oversight and the fact that the UCAE wasn't willing to fund it because of lack of demand,” said sophomore Lavanya Sunder, Duke Student Government vice president for services.Sunder has been trying to form an ad hoc student committee to reform the bikes program.“There was a larger interest than I expected,” she said. “I thought it would be a committee of maybe seven people, but almost 50 students expressed interest."Sophomore Andrew Diao, who reached out to Sunder, said he was a frequent user of Duke bikes. Diao, who arrived to the interview on his own bike, said the program was under-publicized and out of the way, so he had trouble finding it the first time.Sunder outlined her vision for a new program where there would be multiple stations around campus instead of just bikes at the Arts Annex.“We've found companies to make that program at Duke,” she said. “But we need funding to make that happen.”A new program not only needs funding, but an office to oversee it, space to store the bikes, mechanics to maintain the fleet and someone to manage checking the bikes in and out, said David Pittman, Director of Student Activities at UCAE.“It sounds easy but it's not,” he said.Diao said having a robust bike program would make getting around Duke easier.“What a lot of people don’t realize is that it’s so much faster to bike as compared to taking the bus,” Diao said.Especially during busy times, such as before popular class times, it is difficult to even get on a bus. Diao said that by the end of his freshman year, it only took him around eight minutes to bike from East Campus to West. That semester, he only rode the bus three times.Sunder argued that because the majority of Duke students live on campus, having a bikes program would help decrease the University's carbon footprint. Many students unnecessarily drive from campus to campus, she added."Duke has this thing where they want to be carbon neutral by 2024," she said. "We focus a lot by being green and sustainable, and a successful biking program is part of that."As for Diao, in addition to getting to class, he said that having a bike has really opened up a world of urban exploration for him.“You’re not stuck at Duke,” he said. “You can go out and see the town and even go to places that aren’t as accessible by car.”The bikes will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Arts Annex on Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The state of North Carolina's political situation has encountered controversy since the start of last summer. Many of these political changes have direct effects on students, such as the voter ID law signed Aug. 12. In order to determine how the student body feels about the government's actions, The Chronicle's Tony Shan and Linda Yu sat down with Duke students to discuss North Carolina politics."We are spending less on education than we were four years ago, we are making a marked effort to disenfranchise certain voters that lean one way—and that's a clear misuse of the power the state legislature is supposed to have."—junior William Overton, Winston-Salem, N.C."I think the new gun laws are a bit too free. On one hand, people have a lot more freedom. But on the other hand it puts the public in danger." —Thomas Liu, Trinity '13, Chapel Hill, N.C."So [the new voter ID law] basically makes the process more difficult for out of state students. As an out of state student, I feel like it's wrong that I can't partake in the process down here." —junior Fantasia Jacobs."In some ways it's good, in some ways it's bad. If there's something you don't like, you can have your right to speak by voting." —Jasmin Burnett, A.B.P employee“I just don’t know the whole picture…I don’t think it’s fair, but I don’t know enough to form a solid opinion.” – senior Andrew Chio."Concerning voter ID laws, there’s the good in addition to the bad because there’s going to be a lot of voter fraud going on. Last year during elections, I was thinking how easy it would be for an international student to vote for a President here, and that definitely should not be happening. But there will also be minorities that will be underrepresented because they don’t have these IDs, so if they’re going to create this voter ID law but not make it easier for somebody to gain an ID lawfully, then it’s a bad idea." - senior David Wang."It’s just politics as usual. If Republicans are controlling things they’ll pass these laws but if Democrats were to get control they’re going to go ahead and repeal it. All these things are more controversial now than they will be upon implementation. That’s just the way the political dialogue works—it operates on these little catch phrases." - senior Rebecca Li."Honestly, I’m a bit ambivalent [about the voter laws] – if I can go back home to vote, then I’m fine." - sophomore In-Young Jo."I don’t really think too much about it, this isn’t my permanent home so the voter laws don’t really affect me too much." - sophomore April Pun"At this point it's almost embarrassing for me to say I'm a North Carolinian. Governor McCrory and the general assembly have taken what was for years the most progressive Southern state and turned it into a punch line on late-night television. It's ridiculous." - sophomore Tom Vosburgh.
Seven Duke alumni took on a 500-mile run that bridged together their time at Duke with their service in the Iraq War Aug. 11.
Resting at the top of the masthead of Duke's independent daily newspaper, The Chronicle, is the name of junior Danielle Muoio. Formerly a department head of the Health and Science section of The Chronicle, Muoio was elected as the Editor in Chief of v. 109 by Chronicle staff this Spring.
Of the many administrators and sub-administrators at Duke, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta is one of the most visible.
Local Durham residents and several Duke Divinity School students gathered at the intersection of U.S. Route 15-501 and Mt. Moriah Road Monday to protest a Dec. 17 change to Durham ordinances that outlawed begging on the medians of major roads.
Some individuals hope to bridge Muslim and Christian black churches through interfaith dialogue—a goal inspired by former Duke professor C. Eric Lincoln.
When writing the student sermon that she delivered to the Duke Chapel this weekend, senior Jocelyn Streid found inspiration among her fellow Cameron Crazies at 4 a.m.
The Asian Students Association hosted the annual Lunar New Year celebration in Page Auditorium Saturday. The event featured performances by numerous dance groups to commemorate the Year of the Snake. The Chronicle spoke with students who attended about their thoughts on the performances.
Things got futuristic during the Alexander Hamilton Society’s third debate of the year as missiles and lasers beamed from space shot through the discussion.
With Duke’s 73-68 victory against the Tar Heels and subsequent bonfire, the Duke community shared their excitement and thoughts on the course of the game with The Chronicle.
A team of Duke undergraduates working with the Nowicki Lab created a lifelike robotic sparrow to test a theory of angry bird behavior.
Controversial performer Mike Daisey challenged the distinction between theater and journalism in a visit to Duke.
An unidentified individual was killed in a train accident just off of East Campus Tuesday evening.
