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In the 1994 film "Forrest Gump," the titular character's mom told him that life was a box of chocolates and that “you never know what you’re going to get.”
When John Krasinski and Steve Carrell tried to lead the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch as co-managers in “The Office,” audiences and fellow tired-of-the-bickering employees learned that sometimes, it’s best to have only one at the top.
In an isolated system, entropy can never decrease. The Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that the universe can only get more and more disordered.
The number nine carries some ancient significance. There were nine planets in our solar system before Pluto got the infamous downgrade. Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” describes nine circles of Hell. There are nine muses in Greek mythology and nine different levels in both the Aztec and Mayan underworlds. They say a cat has nine lives.
Kat Rader was face-to-face with Boston College’s Éabha O’Mahony.
Duke has won nine of its eleven matches so far this season. Six of the nine games it has won went to four sets. One went to five.
At its root, a good volleyball offense jumps high and hits hard. It makes for a fun highlight reel; it gets points; it sends the fans into a frenzy and the opponents into frustrated silence.
The rivalry is back.
Anyone who has spent the day at the beach knows the ebb and flow of the tide. It’s high in the morning, low by night when it drains from the shore, and will rise again by the next morning.
2021 season: 3-9, 1-7 in the AAC (9th in the AAC)
Duke earned its first victory of the 2022 season Saturday evening against Rider at the doTERRA Classic in Provo, Utah.
2021 season: 3-9, 2-6 in the ACC (6th in the Coastal Division)
For those who followed Duke’s squad last year, be prepared to see plenty of unfamiliar faces on the court as the season takes off. Duke has added seven freshmen and two graduate transfers to its roster, meaning that much of the preseason has been about “trying to do a lot of work together and working on getting to know each other,” head coach Jolene Nagel told The Chronicle. The trajectory of the season will depend on how well the Blue Devils can work as a cohesive team and establish their dynamic early on in the season.
“All good things must come to an end,” reads the proverb. It’s one I’ve never understood.
Senior Kacia Anderson and Edgar Virgüez, Nicholas School ‘18 and ‘22, were chosen by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and President Vincent Price as Duke’s next Undergraduate and Graduate Young Trustees, respectively, wrote Margaret Epps, secretary to the Board of Trustees and Price’s chief of staff, in a Tuesday email to The Chronicle.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2022, Duke announced Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, an article was published in the Recess section promoting a speaker event hosted by the Duke Medical Ethics Journal and Asian American Alliance.
Valerie Ashby, dean of Duke's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, was named president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on Monday. She will leave Duke on June 30 and begin her role at UMBC on Aug. 1.
Braving the rain on a gloomy Thursday afternoon, a group of workers lifted a green campus bench onto a truck to be whisked away—part of Duke’s plan to prevent a repeat of February’s illicit bonfire.
In November, Wendell Moore, Jr. stood in front of a sold out Madison Square Garden crowd and motioned for fans to get louder as they conquered Kentucky. Soon after, they landed in Las Vegas and handled Gonzaga in an ear-shattering win.
