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(11/21/11 6:39am)
At last the holiday season is upon us, and that means many things: ugly holiday sweaters, long breaks, upcoming deadlines of 50 final papers that you haven’t thought about all semester…but to make everything better, the holidays also mean delicious, coma-inducing amounts of food. Being low on food points, I’m trying my best not to buy every single seasonal dessert in the Refectory at every meal. So, to hold me over—aside from chewing an excessive amount of gum at 3 a.m. or eating an excessive amount of cheap fries from Pitchfork Provisions at 3 a.m.—there are other ways curb my cravings until Thanksgiving dinner. Behold, the world of food porn.
(11/16/11 4:36am)
What is the Director of the Italian Language Program's favorite Italian meal? What was the Director of the Spanish Language Program's worst experience abroad? The Chronicle's Minshu Deng brings you the answers to all these questions that plague us students.
(11/11/11 4:47am)
Campus culture is created by a whole host of things—college students always seem to exactly what is happening on campus the millisecond after it happens. If you don't then you're behind. The Chronicle's Minshu Deng brings you Duke trending.
(11/08/11 7:42am)
Uganda, the “Pearl of Africa.”
(10/31/11 7:48pm)
As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino Student Association, in conjunction with the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA), has rolled out a new campaign to challenge Latino Stereotypes on campus. The posters are hard to miss because they seem to be everywhere and especially because many of the faces on the posters are familiar ones. I first saw some while drinking from a water fountain in the Bryan Center after noticing one of my friends’ faces on one of the posters.
(10/29/11 6:40am)
As most of us have sadly realized, Halloween falls on a Monday this year. This wouldn’t really be a problem at all actually, except it’s the Monday right after Parents’ and Family Weekend. So with no time over the weekend to do the cute, innocent things we do in college like go trick-or-treating, many of us are trying to squeeze in some fun before the weekend arrives. Not that hanging out with the hardworking individuals who raised you isn’t fun…
(10/21/11 9:21pm)
Being green is about to get a little easier. The German carpooling network, Carpooling.com, is getting ready to launch in the U.S.
(10/18/11 4:25am)
Y2K. 2012. Mayan prophesies. All the bees dying out. Comets hitting the earth and killing everything. This is what apocalyptic nerds dream of.
(10/07/11 9:20am)
How much do you really know about Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students? What is the theme song to the life of Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions? These two administrators hold the strings to the marionnette lives of students but we don't know much about them! The Chronicle's Minshu Deng is here to fix that for you.
(10/02/11 9:14pm)
Amidst all of the stress and procrastination of studying for midterms, I am still trying to branch out and try new things, meet new people, attend more events than is wise or necessary—#Mylifeisinshambles—but it’s okay, it’s sort of school-related. For my cultural anthropology class, I am required to write an ethnography on a population with which I am a foreigner, and so I’ve settled on Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino Student Association, which I admit is because I am friends with a few of its members.
(09/30/11 9:23pm)
Every wonder what Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells wished he knew how to do? Could you guess who Jeremy Yoskowitz, assistant director for jewish life, would do anything to meet? Chronicle blogger Minshu Deng has the answers for you. After picking the minds of two of the most recognizable religious leaders on campus, she came up with several facts any student would love to know about these men.
(10/05/11 1:55am)
Poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, white primaries—these were the transparently racist practices used in the past to prevent African Americans from voting. And then there is the racism of today, which is often indirect and not as clearly discriminatory. Case in point: currently Republicans are attempting to rewrite state election laws, requiring voters to have valid government-issued photo IDs.
(09/25/11 12:01am)
Don’t drink and drive. Don’t text and drive. Also, come to think of it, don’t drink and text either. Just trust me on that one. These instructions have all more or less made their way into collective common sense. But, “don’t text and walk?”
(09/20/11 7:49am)
People-watching on the Bryan Center Plaza is a favorite pastime of mine. As I sit at a table near one of the misters inhaling my Great Hall grub, I take inventory of my surroundings: bright sunlight, clear skies, happy students, stressed students—a sea of students, and a metaphorical sea at that because you see there is no water here.
(04/23/11 4:08am)
College is as perfect an opportunity you will get to dive into something new. One of the most rewarding new things you can try is a foreign language. Yet, we often fall into a false sense of learning so much, only to be caught awkward and speechless when we finally study abroad and try to talk with locals. How to ease the transition between the classroom at Duke and the real world where, oh right, we’re supposed to apply what we learn: that is the question.
(04/18/11 4:02am)
First things first, watch this.
(09/12/13 9:33am)
Most of us take the time to watch the movies that win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, or at least we’re familiar with the film titles. Many of us might even watch the cute Best Animated Short as it circulates on social media. But how many of us have taken the time to look into the Best Documentary Short?
(04/18/13 9:37am)
Durham is officially the tastiest town in the South. Last week Southern Living declared the Bull City as one of the hottest foodie destinations in the nation, citing classic locales such as Geer Street Garden and new favorites that include Cocoa Cinnamon and Scratch Bakery.
(03/21/13 9:02am)
Back when people bought real CDs, half the thrill was looking through the paper album sleeves, staring at the background art and going blind memorizing the lyrics in size-two font. While those days are long gone, album art can still be just as potent as the music itself. Each song on the Pet-Tich-Eye record is accompanied by original album art from a visual artist in the Triangle area. All ten artists exhibit a distinctive vision that is apparent in the varied styles of the pieces, from the color-saturated photograph of “White Sunrise” and the carefully crafted sketch of “No Hesitate” to more minimalist images such as the whitewashed cover for “East Coast/West Coast Time.”
(02/21/13 10:09am)
Last week for Valentine’s Day my friends invited me to see Safe Haven, yet another adaptation of a novel by Nicholas Sparks, the acclaimed author of romantic fiction novels such as The Notebook and A Walk to Remember. My initial response: no. But I reconsidered and decided sure, okay, I could use some loving and some time well spent with friends.
This film is built on the solid foundation that supports every Nicholas Sparks movie: a hot couple. Katie (Julianne Hough) is a young woman running away from a dark past, and Alex (Josh Duhamel) is the widowed general store manager who struggles to be a good father following the death of his wife. They fall in love, naturally, and the rest is an anagram of the first four letters of “history.”
