Oak Room changes name, menu
With a new menu, a new mission and a new name, The Oak Room Grille opened Wednesday to little fanfare and mixed reviews.
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With a new menu, a new mission and a new name, The Oak Room Grille opened Wednesday to little fanfare and mixed reviews.
Efforts to bring the DTV Movie Channel back have run into a financial roadblock, but officials are optimistic that the service may return in the next year, even as Internet-based alternative CFlix attempts to stake a claim to the campus' movie-on-demand market.
Despite a flood in the West-Edens Link that interrupted voting, quadrangle council elections ran smoothly Sunday night with higher than expected turnout.
A 23-game losing streak and a week of rain can create a devil of a celebration.
A 23-game losing streak and a week of rain can create one hell of a celebration.
Conflicts involving race, sex and God have inflamed human passions for centuries--starting wars, toppling empires and, in some cases, even bringing great happiness. So organizers of a new program entitled "Beyond the Comfort Zone" think they might heat things up on campus by mixing all three elements together.
This is the fourth story in a five-part series profiling various student leaders this year.
As the Jewish High Holidays fast approach, an established center and a new organization are preparing to cater to Jewish students.
Almost seven months after a reported sexual assault in a Randolph Dormitory bathroom, University officials are beginning to implement safety and security measures in and around dorms on East Campus.
It wasn't quite the turnout they expected, but administrators called the first ever sophomore convocation Tuesday afternoon a success.
Freshman Whitney Morton decided Monday that Biology of Dinosaurs wasn't for her: After just one class, she logged on to ACES Web and dropped the course in favor of one in art history.
Rick's Diner in the West-Edens Link returned to almost full service Monday after a hectic 12 hours late Sunday night when a dearth of food caused the four-day-old eatery to turn away customers.
They were the ones overseeing each quad's check-in tables in the Intramural Building last week and the ones speaking at the first quad-wide meetings Sunday night.
Students looking to rub shoulders with the likes of Spike Lee, Carl Bernstein and Dr. Jocelyn Elders may have their chance now that the chair of the Major Speakers division of the Duke University Union is up for grabs.
Although the scene outside freshman convocation Thursday much resembled those of past years, the Class of 2006's signing of the Honor Code on the Chapel Quadrangle had a hint of irony this year.
The Princeton Review released its rankings this week of the nation's top universities in 63 different categories, and Duke ranked in the top 20 in eight of the categories.
Some will graduate in just 18 months and some will be gracing campus for almost a decade, but this year's new class of graduate and professional students nevertheless gathered together as one Thursday for their convocation.
Pictures from freshman move-in 2002.
Two major construction projects on Science Drive started over the summer are progressing on schedule, but a third has been delayed for at least six months because of funding problems.
Ten billion dollars. Believe it or not, that's the figure box office gurus are eyeing for the year 2002 in movies, and it's this summer's unusually strong batch that has execs seeing 11 figures. Unusually strong not just because tickets are selling faster than WorldCom stock, but because Hollywood has finally put together a set of flicks that won't completely lower your IQ.