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Small clusters of students gathered around a dwindling bonfire Sunday night and looked resentfully at nearby Campus Police officers who were taking students' names and checking DukeCards.
With the flick of a fountain pen, James B. Duke transformed Trinity College into the Duke University that currently graces recruitment brochures and the pages of Sports Illustrated.
There wasn't a bonfire on campus. There wasn't even much of a celebration following Duke's third victory this season over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
More than a month after escaping from house arrest, the man who broke into a University student's apartment Sept. 18 dressed as a state trooper has been arrested in Charlotte, this time posing as a football player.
The Board of Trustees approved a 3.5 percent increase in next year's undergraduate tuition-the lowest rise in 33 years. At their Feb. 26 meeting, the Trustees also announced small improvements in two minor components of undergraduate financial aid.
On the eve of the Duke Student Government elections, DSG's Election Commission met to consider two separate complaints alleging inappropriate campaign conduct in the presidential race.
Although the Board of Trustees considered many issues during its Feb. 26 meeting, residential life eclipsed all others as the central focus of discussion.
Plans to build an elevated train stop near the Medical Center may be back on track, but the station may end up at a different location.
With the Duke Student Government elections three days away, the six presidential candidates faced off on several significant issues surrounding life at the University at an hour-long Chronicle-sponsored forum last night. Even as the candidates tried to distinguish themselves on the details of their platforms, the event revealed a general consensus on many issues.
The Medical Center is home to countless research centers which quietly churn out cutting-edge technology in many scientific disciplines. A recently awarded $4.5 million grant allowed one doctor to create yet another of these centers, but this one is unique: its only home is on the World Wide Web.
Snow flurries aren't the only thing making it look like Christmas in Durham these days.
With more iterations than most students' career plans, the upperclass residential plan continues to evolve. Now, with the Board of Trustees' quarterly meeting just days away, administrators are fine-tuning their plans for allocating social space.
In a 2-1 verdict Tuesday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that Duke must pay $500,000 in punitive damages for failing to appropriately respond to an employee's sexual harassment complaints.
Late last week, a group of about 110 students from the University of Wisconsin at Madison ended their 97-hour anti-sweatshop sit-in in the school's administration building. They left with Chancellor David Ward's assurances that the school will withdraw from the Collegiate Licensing Company's Code of Conduct unless the code protects female workers' reproductive rights and requires full public disclosure and living wages.
After only three months in the Devil's Den, Cattleman's Steakhouse is being herded away from campus.
Hundreds of Dave Matthews' fans will file into Page Auditorium tonight like ants marching. But the venue's limited seating has kept many out in the cold, leaving some students to wonder whether it is wise to spend so much money on a single concert.
More than three years after a sexual assault in Duke Forest sent shockwaves across campus, a Mebane, N.C., resident has been charged with the crime.
During an early-morning protest yesterday at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Chancellor David Ward faced the television cameras and said more than "Cheese!"
For members of Students Against Sweatshops, the most important challenge of being locked in the Allen Building was trying to broadcast news of their 31-hour sit-in to the outside world. But upon vacating the premises Saturday night, they faced an even larger task: spreading news of their achievement.
Cough medicine may be as coveted as spots in Cameron Indoor Stadium this month; a state-wide flu-like epidemic is hitting the University especially hard, said Student Health officials.
