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Bush or Kerry. Coke or Pepsi. Shooters or Parizade’s. There are many hard choices to make at Duke, but students will no longer have to make the last one as they get dressed to go out on the weekends.
Speaking to nearly 500 students in Griffith Theater yesterday, President Richard Brodhead challenged them to become active creators of their own undergraduate experiences.
High school is a time when many people expect teenagers to make mistakes and shirk responsibility in the name of fun. But today’s high school student probably spends more time poring over Kaplan’s than pouring a drink from a keg. America’s teenagers have become more familiar with the Fiske Guide than with Ferris Bueller’s escapades.
Freshman Jenny Shull did what most people would do when black liquid started pouring down from the sprinkler in her Blackwell dorm room Thursday night.
Nearly three weeks after the end of formal fraternity recruitment, neither individual fraternities nor the Interfraternity Council has released details about the results.
When asked who his favorite superhero is, senior Andrew Wisnewski responds without hesitation: Batman. When he thinks about the similarities between himself and his animated hero, he laughs. “The thing about Batman is that he doesn’t have superpowers,” Wisnewski said. “It’s all willpower, strength and determination.”
While other graduate students eagerly await the arrival of offers from lucrative investment banks or renowned hospitals, first-year public policy graduate student Joe Ingemi dreads opening his mailbox. A letter may come that forces him to leave the University and return to active military duty.
Breathe a sigh of relief, poker aficionados—your beloved games of Texas Hold ’Em are safe.
Atkins. South Beach. The Zone. Study abroad? For Junior Christian Bonilla dropping 15 pounds was one of the side effects of spending three months in Florence during a continuing decline in the value of the dollar.
Instead of the usual gripes about the frigid weather, the complaints heard this year in Krzyzewskiville seem to be about the noise level as hundreds of students have been partying late into the night.
Sophomore Deepak Bastakoty trekked to Durham from Nepal—one of 85 countries represented by Duke undergraduates—ready to take advantage of everything Duke had to offer.
Long a student favorite for late-night burrito cravings and its legendary 'Dillo wings, the Armadillo Grill has expanded its services this fall to include a wider range of alcoholic beverages at its bar.
Uproarious laughter filled a sold-out Page Auditorium Friday night as author David Sedaris regaled students and parents with stories from his published works and selections from his diary.
Although benches that traditionally adorn the Main Quadrangle are often resigned to a fiery fate, benches built for this year’s homecoming could face a worse destiny—obscurity in an interior quad or an off-campus location.
Duke University Union is bringing a little bit of Deutchland to Durham today with Oktoberfest, Duke’s annual version of the famed Munich festival. This year, Oktoberfest will have several features beyond those of its German counterpart, most notably a former star of MTV’s The Real World and a musical group featuring Duke alumni.
The thrill of seeing your name in print, the sense of community that comes with being part of a well-respected campus organization, finding sleep-deprived friends who understand what a nutgraph is. These are all good reasons for Duke students to become involved in The Chronicle, but to this list another reason must be added: Join The Chronicle to find true love.
Although The Chronicle has seen its fair share of scandal and controversy over the past hundred years, one accusation it has avoided so far is nepotism.
Delegates from the nine established sororities at Duke picked Zeta Tau Alpha over the other two finalists as the 10th chapter in Duke’s Panhellenic Association. The sorority received six votes; Kappa Delta received two votes and Sigma Kappa received one vote.
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka discussed power and “the seemingly endless struggle” between power and freedom in Griffith Film Theater Friday afternoon as part of a series of events that carried a global theme through President Richard Brodhead’s inauguration this weekend.
It’s an election year, and students have been bombarded from all sides by voter registration campaigns: in the Marketplace, on the Bryan Center walkway—even in their e-mail inboxes. Most freshmen, however, were not even aware that the election for their own representatives in Duke Student Government had taken place until after officials had tallied the votes.
