A dream deferred
(03/08/06 5:00am)
So you think you have what it takes to make it at Duke? What if Duke thinks otherwise?
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So you think you have what it takes to make it at Duke? What if Duke thinks otherwise?
Nobel Prize winner and Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology Dr. Peter Agre addressed a packed audience in the Von Canon meeting rooms to retell his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Thursday afternoon.
For students who want to get up close and personal with shadows and construction sites, the current pathways to the Bryan Center provide their fair share of an experience.
When she decided her reaction time needed work, sophomore Chelsea He had her roommate tape pennies to dollars, drop them and wait for He to catch the falling cash.
Forty Below remains the barbershop of choice for many basketball players from Duke and UNC and has been ground zero for the hype leading up to tonight's game.
Sunday night, junior Chris Kallmeyer made the leap from facilities chair to President of the Duke University Union.
It would take nearly the first 16 years of her life for Jhyrve Sears to receive the kind of medical assistance she needed for a disease that restricted her to crutches for the past two years.
Only tenths of an inch taller than the second-graders she stands with, sophomore Carly Knight may not have a physical presence that commands attention--but what she lacks in stature she makes up for in enthusiasm. With 20 seven- and eight-year-old kids clinging to her sides, it is evident that they care just as much for her as they do for the candy she holds above them as a prize.
Standing on an eight-foot-tall reviewing stand, flailing his arms and bellowing loudly, band director Neil Boumpani is in the midst of an intense effort to synchronize dozens of band members and scores of musical instruments in less than three hours. But what tries Boumpani more than time constraints or coordination failures are those things he cannot correct—in this case, absent band members.
Duke students reluctant to pay the $7 for movie tickets and organize carpools to the local cineplex no longer need to look past their own backyard for some screen satisfaction. The Screen/Society, presented by the Program in Film-Video-Digital, showcases films from across the globe that usually cost little more than time.