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When I started this story—about Duke’s secret societies, about what might have happened and what did—adrenaline kept me going on the hopes that I would find their sordid tales. My intentions were not the best the day I traipsed into the University Archives, in hopes of revealing information on the secret societies of years past.
Student Affairs officials rejected a request from Duke Student Government's programming committee to hold an event with University-bartended kegs.
RALEIGH — For some, memories of the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh—which ended its 10-day run Sunday—conjure up smells of fried funnel cakes, dizziness from a ride on the Tilt-A-Whirl and neon-colored stuffed animal prizes.
It was the bottom of the eighth. Freshman Peter Ludas sat perched on the edge of a chair, the Southgate dormitory commons room brimming with sweaty first-year students, a stack of pizza boxes piled in the back. The room erupted in cheers.
Gwendolyn Mumma, if you’re out there, you should know you’re one hot chick. Or at least you were in 1955. That’s the year The Peer, a monthly news and humor magazine at Duke, named you “Peer Girl of the Month,” and they put that glossy pic of you applying your lipstick coyly on the back page. Congrats.
There was no heartbreak for this hotel.
Gwendolyn Mumma, if you’re out there, you should know you’re one hot chick. Or at least you were in 1955. That’s the year The Peer, a monthly news and humor magazine at Duke, named you “Peer Girl of the Month,” and they put that glossy pic of you applying your lipstick coyly on the back page. Congrats.
Residents and emergency personnel in western North Carolina readied Thursday for more wet weather as Hurricane Ivan was scheduled to make a sweep up the Eastern seaboard over land already saturated from earlier storms. Meteorologists say spin-off storms from Ivan, most likely tornadoes, are possible as far east as Durham.
The morning of Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1969, Duke students awoke to find that the cover of their student newspaper was simply a full-page black and white picture taken the night before of protesters on campus. The image depicted a long, winding line of 2,000 students, faculty and staff members carrying lit candles. A quote from then-president and School of Law alumnus Richard Nixon was the only text on the page.
Reports released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau have shed light on the growing economic problems that affect North Carolina residents, particularly children. The state is one of just seven nationwide to see a rise in the poverty rate and one of 10 states in which the median household income declined.
Tobacco money may have paid for the stone, but faith was always the bedrock.
Each August, Durham residents get visible reminders of Duke students’ arrival on campus—lines of overflowing minivans with New Jersey license plates, a mass of students at the local grocery store and an absence of parking spaces at shops off of East Campus. Many say the return of the roughly 10,000 students enrolled in Duke’s various schools and programs, as well as the parents and families who come for first-year student orientation, breathes much-needed energy and money into the local economy.
“You can get all A’s in college and flunk life.” This sentiment from author Walker Percy was just one nugget of advice shared by panelists at Sunday’s freshman-oriented summer reading discussions. For their first college reading assignment, the newest Duke students read Mountains Beyond Mountains by Pulitzer-prize winning author Tracy Kidder, which chronicles the life of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Duke alumnus who has committed his life to providing health care in the developing world.
Incoming freshman Sarah Ball knows she wants to join a sorority, and the Panhellenic Council's recent decision to move up formal sorority recruitment by a week has not changed her mind.
The Duke Student Government polls will be open today for legislative and class officer races, a result of the successful passage of a referendum on the March executive election ballot that moved elections from the fall to the spring and redefined senators' constituencies. In previous years, legislative elections were based upon residential location and held in the fall.
For some student legislators, like Duke Student Government President Matthew Slovik, the nearly three-and-a-half hour meeting Wednesday night was a tearful conclusion to a four-year experience. Before the senior sermons and giggly jokes that concluded the 10th DSG Senate, however, the body faced a full docket--including a presentation by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, several pieces of legislation and nominations and selections of several officials for the next year.
The Haitian proverb deye mon gen mon, meaning "beyond mountains there are mountains," ends Pulitzer-prizing winning author Tracy Kidder's non-fiction work, Mountains Beyond Mountains. The book chronicles the work of Duke alumnus Dr. Paul Farmer and has been selected as the official summer reading book for the Class of 2008. Incoming freshmen, however, should not expect to find the book itself a challenging read but rather an easy-to-digest, inspirational tale.
A now-defunct student-run travel company may have cheated dozens of Duke students out of over $25,000 through various trip schemes in the past year.
Duke Student Government had a concise and productive meeting Wednesday night--approving several pieces of legislation, hearing new statutes and making nominations for awards and positions--in lieu of the star speaker's absence.
Duke has its Carolina, Yale has its Harvard; and although Yale may not have its own Krzyzewskiville, it does share with Duke an intense athletic rivalry.
