Funds dictate LDOC bands
Senior Eric Schwartz cannot wait for April 27 to come. One of his favorite bands—Collective Soul—will headline this year’s Last Day of Classes.
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Senior Eric Schwartz cannot wait for April 27 to come. One of his favorite bands—Collective Soul—will headline this year’s Last Day of Classes.
Disgruntled by the lack of a distinct Asian voice on campus, senior Isaac Chan decided to start a student-run magazine that would give Asians at Duke a forum for political and creative expression.
On a rainy day like Thursday, students all over campus are leaping, sidestepping or sloshing through puddles that form on the sidewalks and driveways or in the middle of the quads--and wondering why there are so many. E
Mention wine to some undergraduates and the likeliest response is disdain for its infamous, uppity etiquette. But for Kirstin Thomas, a second-year student in the Fuqua School of Business and co-president of Fuqua’s Wine Club, a Chardonnay is much more appealing than a Coors. She drinks wine at least two to three times a week. She counts it as “research.”
George McLendon arrived in July as successor to William Chafe as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Students are frustrated by the Bryan Center Post Office's hours of operation and the time it takes to receive mail.
When senior Ashley Carlson has to make an important decision in life, who does she turn to for advice? Her grandmother—“Nana,” for short—the “backbone” of her family.
According to top University administrators, President George W. Bush's fiscal budget for 2005 does not do much good for Duke. In fact, they said some of the proposed policies may even hurt the University.
Some law students apply to private law firms dreaming of the luxury and prestige of a skyline-view office and a six-figure salary. Third-year Duke law student Robert Mays, however, will begin a clerkship for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the eleventh circuit after graduation.
A college education does not come cheap, so freshman Chloe Chien counts herself blessed that she has a full-tuition scholarship from Duke. Chien is a Taiwanese who lives in Myanmar, where about 25 students head to the United States each year for higher education.
If the recent schizophrenic weather has you wondering whether you should be wearing shorts or a sweater, you're not the only living thing at Duke that is perplexed.
Your professor walks up to you in the office, proffers a hand and calls you "partner."
Students lamenting the lack of variety of food on campus will soon have reason to cheer, as Duke Dining Services looks poised to introduce in less than two years, a Pacific Rim restaurant on Main West.
Justin Pini is a self-confessed Ludacris fan. Come next Wednesday, he will finally get the chance to see his "hero" perform live at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Zaid Al-Husseini is frustrated.
Ashutosh Chilkoti of the biomedical engineering department is one speedy inventor. In about seven years at the University, he has obtained patents for five of his inventions, including one that targets cancer drugs to tumors using heat-sensitive polymers.
Some 30 undergraduates nationwide will descend upon the University next summer to take part in the selective American Economic Association's Summer Minority Program.
The University's recent warning against travel to SARS-afflicted areas underscores a dilemma faced by many Asian students, who have been unwilling to return home due to the epidemic.
Although some Duke students spend their Saturday afternoons catching up on sleep or homework, a dozen of them do something different--tutoring immigrants from Hong Kong and China in the English language for about two hours every week.
Abortion, incest, rape and pregnancy from a pro-life feminist perspective. Sally Winn, vice president of Feminists for Life of America, challenged an audience of about 40 Thursday to reinvent its views on these issues.