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This is the fifth story in a five-part series profiling this year's candidates for Duke Student Government president.
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This is the fifth story in a five-part series profiling this year's candidates for Duke Student Government president.
For Scott Silliman, dealing with the media is almost a daily occurrence. He appears on CNN with Paula Zahn and on CNN International. He is interviewed on National Public Radio and quoted in USA Today. But Silliman is neither a politician nor a corporate spokesperson--the job that puts him in the spotlight is his position as a professor of the practice at the Law School, where he teaches national security law.
What started out as a road trip with some high school buddies led to a discussion on educational issues. And that discussion eventually resulted in Duke senior Michael Arjona and three of his high school friends from Marietta, Ga. creating educational Internet software that could revolutionize the way parents interact with their children and their schools.
The T-shirts will read: Durham, Chapel Hill, New York. The burritos will be healthy, the beer cheap and the atmosphere relaxed.
M ost towns can trace their beginnings to a brave journey, a conquest or a search for a better life.
Started by five members of the class of 2000, the founders of Duke University Improv, T.J. Monkey's may be a fictional location, but the group and its comedy website are for real.
Campus radio stations are traditions on college campuses. Every movie college campus has one, and even the high school kids on Saved by the Bell had their own station.
What do an Alaskan fishing village, an Alternatives Federal Credit Union in Ithaca, N.Y. and a western North Carolina town have in common?
Research Triangle Institute manufactures thousands of marijuana cigarettes each year. Produced for research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the marijuana is held in a secure vault at an undisclosed location. NIDA's stock is the only legal marijuana in the country.
Most students are familiar with clinical eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, but fewer are aware of a problem that affects even more people on campus: disordered eating.
Just because Duke Hospital is a sterile environment doesn't mean it has to look that way.
A typical day for freshman Adam Sandler includes attending class, doing homework and eating meals. It also includes praying several times a day and wearing a kippah and tzitzit.
While many students have typical summers life-guarding by the pool or twiddling their thumbs in an office, there are those few people who truly have summers to write home about.
It's that time of year again. The sun is shining, class attendance is dwindling and students are packing their bags for 10 days of spring break.
Public policy students will have two new study abroad options this spring, when pilot programs to Cape Town, South Africa and Mexico City begin.
The very notion of a ranking implies the capacity for climbing higher. But when the order is set in stone year after year, it may seem the competitors are climbing in place.
Whether through trips to the infirmary or fees on a student's bursar's bill, Student Health is a presence on campus for all undergraduates and graduate students. While the bulk of the department's clientele visits for minor ailments--allergies, the flu--some students come in for more life-altering discussions.