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Several blocks off East Campus were evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a local property owner reported a suspicious package outside a building at 731 Broad St. near Markham Avenue.
Forty years after John Coltrane's death, the jazz world lost two important links to the legendary saxophonist this week.
The blowout upset of No. 1-ranked Maryland in women's basketball was not the only surprise at Cameron Indoor Stadium this past Saturday.
Faculty response to President Richard Brodhead's reinstatement of indicted former lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann took two very different forms this week.
As the Campus Culture Initiative and echoes of last spring's lacrosse scandal place race relations at the University under a microscope, some campus leaders have said the diversity of residential arrangements bears re-examination.
At a discussion in the Perkins Library Rare Book Room Thursday night, two scholars pointed to decentralization and organization as the defining dynamics of American Muslim communities in the 21st century.
It's a long way from the Navajo reservation in Ganado, Ariz. to Durham. It's almost 2,000 miles by car-and perhaps even farther culturally.
Oddball. Radical. Weirdo. Genius. They all describe saxophonist, composer and bandleader John Zorn, whose Acoustic Masada performs at Page Auditorium tomorrow night. Zorn, a recipient of a 2006 MacArthur "genius" grant, defies any categorization more specific than the catchall "improviser." Since his first record in 1980, he has played (to name a very few) Japanese S&M-influenced metal, bluesy hard-bop jazz, noise rock, tributes to film music and avant-garde classical.
Food or FLEX-it's not just a choice for dinner anymore. It is also an option for donating money for care packages for soldiers, sailors and Marines on active duty.
Duke has the third-highest percentage of black freshmen among the nation's top schools, a survey in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found.
The University will award a master's degree to dismissed history graduate student Zihui Tang in December under an agreement reached with Provost Peter Lange, sources close to the situation confirmed Wednesday.
Keith Urban's status as a country star must be such conventional wisdom by now that no one told Urban himself. It's not until the seventh song on Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing that there's even a trace of country. Of course, in the preceding six songs, there are plenty of other styles-soft rock, alt-rock, disco and a Celtic-flavored ditty serving as a reminder of his Aussie roots.
Despite steady rain showers Tuesday, turnout at the polling station serving West Campus was the highest it had been in years, election officials said.
What does it take to make a man leave the comfort of his home and quit his job for the hardscrabble life of a musician? Well, you might say it was a bad case of the blues.
The second dancer present at the March 13 party at which members of the 2005-2006 men's lacrosse team are alleged to have committed a rape said Monday that the alleged victim told her she wanted to have "marks" on her.
Nothing inspires campus activism like a national media scandal.
Duke students will be watching District Attorney Mike Nifong's race against two challengers closely when voters go to the polls November 7th. Lewis Cheek has vowed not to serve, meaning that if he were elected, Gov. Mike Easley would appoint someone else to serve the term. Steve Monks is running as a write-in candidate.
At a recent Pulsar Triyo gig on Main West Quadrangle, a student was overheard mentioning how she loved seeing the Pulsar Triyo play. "I like to listen to jazz live, but I just can't get into it on CDs," she added.
As the weather cools down, midterm elections are heating up, and administrators are encouraging Duke students to get involved.
Statistics released this month in the Duke University Police Department's annual Clery Report show that despite some fluctuation, crime numbers for the University remained stable in 2005.