Security mailing gets high marks
The full details of security measures and communication procedures to be implemented in case of an on-campus emergency were sent to all parents via mail over the holiday break.
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The full details of security measures and communication procedures to be implemented in case of an on-campus emergency were sent to all parents via mail over the holiday break.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will not investigate potential criminal misconduct by former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong in his handling of the Duke lacrosse case.
Last week's re-election of Mayor Bill Bell and incumbent City Council members Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown in Durham's municipal races leaves the City Council almost unchanged from 2006.
Mayoral and City Council candidates will face off at the polls today following one of the most contentious municipal races in recent years.
Nobel laureate Dr. Peter Agre will leave his post as vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center to join the faculty of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The decision was announced Tuesday.
Move over, Richard Nixon.
In the midst of escalating gang activity, crowded schools and a costly civil lawsuit stemming from the Duke lacrosse case, incumbent Bill Bell is facing stiff competition from challenger Thomas Stith in the race for the mayor's office.
Stressed that you bombed your midterms?
A ruptured underground pipe in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy building Wednesday morning caused a sewage leak that seeped into the Fleishman Commons, the Sanford Deli and first-floor restrooms.
The East Campus Union was evacuated at about 11:30 a.m. Thursday after the smell of smoke caused by a burnt-out heater filled the building, Duke University Police Department officials told The Chronicle.
It's not everyday that 500 individuals from El Centro Hispano, the Judea Reform Congregation, the Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center and the Watts Street Baptist Church can gather under one roof with a common goal in mind.
In 1986, when International House Director Carlisle Harvard came to Duke, there were 47 international students enrolled. Times have changed since then, as Duke has increasingly extended its reach across the globe.
Even in a crowd of screaming Cameron Crazies, sophomore Vatsala Kabra's accent stands out among the slow Texan drawls and Long Island twangs.
In Sherryl Broverman's AIDS/Emerging Diseases class students often begin the course expecting to learn about the worldwide pandemic.
At the first executive meeting for the Duke University Union, members of the board discussed the future of the University's largest programming body.
Although for many Duke undergraduates, summer plans often include ritzy internships or world travel, not many can boast of having crisscrossed Muhuru Bay in Kenya by bicycle with a translator in tow.
The University announced plans to implement a base pay rate policy and provide health care coverage to all of its contracted food workers Sunday afternoon.
From the classy and elegant Nasher Noir gala to the festive Springternational carnival held annually on the Main West Quadrangle, students have partied all over campus this year.
Two years after four Duke students became intrigued with the idea of starting a free school supply warehouse for teachers in Durham, their ambitions are finally being realized.
Gail Mills, business administrator of the Durham Rescue Mission, said she was jolted out of bed shortly after midnight a week ago by news of a fire in the local homeless shelter she helped found.