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Krista Cipriano, who served as director of the Duke Craft Center for 26 years, is "surprised" that the center is being named after her, a decision made by the Board of Trustees last May. But ask any of her colleagues or students, and they will say the decision makes perfect sense.
As sororities say good-bye this summer to their storage homes of about 10 years, the future looks bright for the organizations, but grim for their former establishments.
As sororities say good-bye this summer to their storage homes of about 10 years, the future looks bright for the organizations, but grim for their former establishments.
Wander up to the second floor of Perkins Library and you just might stumble upon a group of 20 students intensely involved in graduate-level statistical analysis.
It's 3 a.m. on a Tuesday morning--what are you doing? For a certain group of music lovers, sleeping or studying is not the answer. Instead, they're spinning discs at the radio station.
T he air is crisp, the leaves are changing and students' desires to get out and enjoy the season are on the rise. This can mean only one thing--fall has arrived in North Carolina.
At Duke, the classes are tough, the professors seldom slow down, and the students are as competitive as they come--for some students, this pressure is compounded by the fact that they have a learning disability.
A lthough the lines do not exactly rival those to get into a Duke basketball game, students have been known to stand in queues that stretch across quads to listen to a cappella groups sing.
April 26, 1986--for most, this is not exactly a day that lives in infamy. But the people of Belarus, especially the children, must still deal with the effects of that day's disastrous nuclear reactor explosion every day.
Terry Sanford-it is hard to set foot on Duke's campus without hearing his name, seeing his picture or strolling through a building named for him. But how much do students actually know about this campus legend?
Take my roommate. Take my money. Take all of my free time. What could possibly spark students to say they would give up their most coveted belongings-Duke basketball of course!
He's big, he's blue and he seems to pop up just about everywhere. He's the Blue Devil mascot, and he's not just a figure at athletic events, but an icon for Dukies everywhere.
In a world of computer clusters and DukeCards, the Rare Book Room seems to be a relic of ages past, when mysterious mansions housed rooms full of leather-jacketed volumes, when ornately bound books covered the entrances to secret passageways.
Senior Greg Virgin, who is engaged to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Christine Elliott, explained that after having tented out for the UNC game and watching Duke lose, he did not enjoy returning home to hear his fiancee and her Carolina friends mimic the typical D-U-K-E chants.
Take a walk down the hall of a typical Duke fraternity section, and you might stumble upon something a bit surprising for an all-male residence: a freshly pressed pair of pants atop a full-size ironing board. In a world where laundry baskets filled with crumpled t-shirts outnumber wrinkle-free khakis, the Duke Reserve Officers' Training Corps' required dress days create an exception to the rule.
Envisioning a way for women across North Carolina to share their experiences, Duke graduate Emily Colin, Trinity '97, has helped found the Carolina Women's Partnership, a publishing company dedicated entirely to women's literature.
Telling the complete story of Christ in just under two hours and 45 minutes might seem like an impossible feat, but year after year, the Duke University Chapel Choir undertakes the task.
Let the bench wars begin!
Glowing lights, traditional and modern Indian music and dancers clad in colorful saris and channia choles filled the stage for Diwali 2000, a two-day event put on by Diya and other students of the Duke community.
Conservation, documentation and exhibition. This three-fold concept is the focus of To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, an exhibit currently on display in Durham.
