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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The night before the NBA Draft, Elton Brand and his old friend Ron Artest talked until 4 a.m. in the hallway of their hotel, desperately trying to speed up the wait until their names were called at the MCI Center.
When Craig Cohen, Trinity '96, reflects on the current situation in Kosovo, he thinks back to the words of a man he met in Azerbaijan last summer.
As a far-reaching goal this season, sophomore pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz hoped to make the NCAA provisional qualifying height. In front of 35,000 people at the Penn Relays Thursday, she accomplished that goal, setting a new school record and finishing second in the collegiate field with her vault of 11 feet, eight inches.
Last night's Duke Student Government-sponsored forum on the "Asian-American Experience" broadened into an honest discussion of racial problems at the University as a whole. About 20 students, half of whom were Asian, discussed a wide variety of issues.
After remaining inactive for three years, historically-black sorority Delta Sigma Theta will induct new members this spring.
When the Freeman Center for Jewish Life opens next month, it will change more than just the landscape of Campus Drive.
Battling strong winds this weekend in Clemson S.C., the men's track team scored 50 points at the ACC Championships, more than any Duke team since 1973.
What the women's track team lacks in experience, it makes up for in raw talent, as the Blue Devils found out this weekend at the ACC Championships in Clemson, S.C.
At the time, it was the worst possible thing that could have happened to Jillian Schwartz. Jumping over the hurdles as the top seed in the Illinois state track meet her senior year, Schwartz hit a hurdle, tumbled to the ground and badly broke her foot.
It wasn't their most dominating victory of the year-the No. 3 Blue Devils actually had to play doubles before they clinched the match-but Duke was able to record its 20th victory of the year yesterday, closing out the regular season with a 7-2 road victory over No. 16 South Carolina (14-5).
When the Blue Devils lost 4-3 to Texas in March, it was clear to Duke that this was not the same Longhorn team it had beaten 5-2 in the fall.
President Nan Keohane is accustomed to selling Duke to groups of prospective students. But for the first time, she specifically welcomed Latino students to campus Thursday night, kicking off the inaugural Latino Student Recruitment Weekend.
As sophomore pole vaulter Seth Benson prepared to sprint down the runway Saturday at the Duke Invitational, the crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium clapped rhythmically to urge him on. Benson had already cleared 15 feet, 6 inches to win the event and was going for a personal best 16-8. On his second attempt, he easily cleared the bar and set a new school record.
Harvard University economist Gregory Mankiw has a simple solution for making the world a better place: teach everybody basic economics. In his Friday afternoon talk, Economics Education and Economic Policy,<= Mankiw described his alternate universe, in which the general public understood economic principles.
Football season is months away, but Wallace Wade stadium will come alive today and tomorrow, when 2,300 athletes from 45 universities take part in the annual Duke Invitational track meet.
For fans accustomed to seeing their men's basketball team flying high on a giant TV screen, the welcome home celebration in Cameron Indoor Stadium yesterday afternoon was eye-opening. The players who sat on the stage looked a lot less like TV stars and more like human beings.
A poster in Gail Goestenkors' office reads "Success is a journey, not a destination."
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - All week long, as the tournament that was all but conceded to Duke months ago reached its climax, people have been desperately seeking some sort of Achilles' heel on an otherwise unbeatable team.
When Professor of Philosophy Carl Cohen of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor looks at his university's anti-discrimination policy, he sees entrenched hypocrisy. The standard use of racial preference in admissions processes, he argues, is inconsistent with Michigan policy and federal law.
For many coaches, the Sweet 16 is a benchmark, an indication that their teams have joined the upper crust of the NCAA. For Gary Williams, it's a curse.
