Orientation introduces freshmen to Durham
(08/26/05 4:00am)
This year’s freshman orientation features more than inflatable toys on the quad, an improv show and Student Health’s infamous “Party Boy Chad.”
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This year’s freshman orientation features more than inflatable toys on the quad, an improv show and Student Health’s infamous “Party Boy Chad.”
KABULA, KENYA—As I was heading back to my hut after seeing my first African wedding, I regretted my choice in footwear. The recent rain had transformed the road into a mud pit. Instead of doing the right thing—going back and getting shoes—or the fun thing—stripping down to a bikini and showing my fellow volunteers how to wrestle, Duke-style—we trudged on, the road trying its hardest to swallow my $2 Old Navy sandals with each step. I finally made it back though, washed my feet and headed over to the main house on the farm where I live. As I ate my usual all-carb dinner, I started to feel a bit queasy. The boosa I had earlier at the wedding emerged as the prime suspect. The warm, maize-derived drink was allegedly “only slightly alcoholic and only a little bit illegal” but I had not wanted to turn down good old-fashion Kenyan hospitality or miss out on a “cultural experience,” so I had joined the guys who were drinking from a collective pot using three-foot wooden straws.
Although many students anticipated a new array of delivery options after spring break, Dale’s Indian Cuisine, Mad Hatter’s Café and Bakery Shop, The Q Shack and Chai’s Noodle Bar and Bistro have yet to join Duke’s Merchants on Points program.
The University will award five honorary degrees during its May 15 commencement exercises, President Richard Brodhead announced last week. An honorary degree is given as a decoration rather than as a recognition of studying at an institution.
At a hearing Tuesday afternoon in Durham County Superior Court, District Attorney David Saacks declared the state plans to pursue the death penalty for Thomas Anthony Pitt, who has confessed to murdering former Duke employee Curt Blackman last May.
At the first event sponsored by the brand-new Duke Political Union—a student group that plans to bring high-profile political speakers to campus—Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., spoke to a crowd of about 50 students in the Bryan Center Thursday morning.
As part of Women’s History Month activities on campus, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue came to Duke Tuesday to deliver a speech entitled “Women, Leadership and Public Service.”
Many officials and community groups across North Carolina say that instituting a living wage—an hourly pay rate that supports a minimally comfortable quality of life—would greatly ease the struggles of the state’s working poor. But business interest groups and skeptical economists have stalled the efforts of most living wage supporters—except in Durham County.
Last summer, the Belmont Apartments were home to summer school students, Durham residents and, according to federal charges, everything you’d need to make a fake ID.
Several major credit card companies, attorneys general from across the country and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are teaming up to curb online cigarette sales.
Local government officials and community groups hoping to stymie a developer’s plan to build a housing subdivision adjacent to Duke Forest are catching a break.
President George W. Bush submitted a $2.57 trillion budget proposal to Congress Monday, leaving out funding for the Triangle Transit Authority’s proposed commuter rail project.
President George W. Bush stopped in Raleigh Thursday as he continued his cross-country tour hoping to sell his plan for Social Security to Americans young and old
Juggling the desire for revenue and a responsibility to work for the common good, Duke's technology transfer operations are striking a balance.
Durham School Board member Jackie Wagstaff is stirring things up in the local public school system.
The Durham City Council dropped the word 'interim' from Patrick Baker"s title Friday and appointed him to the position of permanent city manager--the highest appointed position in city government.
After almost seven months without a city manager, the Durham City Council is slated to pick a permanent one today.
Like many students, junior John Erickson came back to school and noticed four large benches on the Main Quadrangle--and he was confused.
The female population in state and federal prisons has soared to a record high in the United States and shows no sign of slowing, with the incarceration rate for women growing nearly twice as fast as that of men, the Department of Justice announced Sunday. North Carolina mirrors this national trend, recently experiencing difficulty housing this growing population of female inmates.
The participants in the 2004 Randolph versus Blackwell feud have defined dorm benches as primary targets in expressing distaste for other dorms.