Midway through my first semester at Duke, I did something I still regret. I tallied the per-meal cost of my freshman year dining plan.
Fifteen miles from Duke, buffalo roam. Linda and Jeff Peloquin have ranched bison for six years on 80 acres at Hillsborough’s Vista Wood Bison Ranch, and they have more orders for meat than they...
I imagine the scene 10 years from now. My hypothetical fiancée and I reach a point in our relationship where it’s time for an attempt at complete honesty, and I have to make a confession.
Your bus pulls in late, and you and your eighth-grade classmates are split hastily into three groups, everyone trying to make up for lost time.
Despite its close proximity to Duke, few students venture down I-40 to the capital city of North Carolina.
Sometimes Alpine’s brewed beans just won’t cut it. You’re exhausted, falling asleep—even Red Bull is of no avail.
Although Cameron’s builders may appear egalitarian by having unknowingly outlawed luxury boxes through their humble design, all seats were not created equal. Unverified and most certainly...
Let’s face it—the academy can be stodgy. And lo and behold, the Duke brand has its healthy share of fluorescent hallways and tiny desks, airplane-hanger lecture halls and 75-minute monologues.
Seth Gross puts the cheese below the patty on his burgers. Because the crucial burger buddy, whether cheddar or bleu, hits the tongue sooner, its flavor does not get as easily lost among the other...
Before Elizabeth Dole was North Carolina’s first female senator, before she was a would-be first lady and, in fact, before she was even Elizabeth Dole, she was the president of the student...
If square-footage is an indication of institutional priorities, Duke’s research laboratories are more important than God and college basketball combined.
One day while driving near the Duke Forest, I noticed a signpost prohibiting entrance into the forest due to hunting.
To enter Reynolds Price’s home, you must pass through a wall of windows. Step into the house at midday on a lazy Saturday and the living room is awash in a light that warms the wood and...
Painting your body Duke blue is the only time it’s okay to go completely monotone. Outside of K-ville, dress up your winter grays, blacks, navies and browns with some color.
A librarian eating a granola bar at her desk. A student sipping coffee. Two peers discussing a PowerPoint for their upcoming class project.
I lost my apartment key yesterday, less than 24 hours after picking it up from the Residence Life and Housing Services office on Central Campus.
I had something like a nightmare last night. I saw the eyes of an evil queen, as large as my fists, golden, with black blades at their centers: a lioness.
In Darren Aronofsky’s well-dressed horror film Black Swan, one scene in particular is a crucial demonstration of how the film could’ve succeeded, but ultimately chose not to.
The clerk at Wine Authorities welcomes a typical Dani Durham to the store’s upbeat, quirky showroom and helps her select a Pinot Grigio he says will go nicely with her dinner that evening. You...
Physically, Marvin Tillman is the anti-librarian. With sloping shoulders and a handshake like grasping a baseball glove, Tillman’s past days boxing and playing semi-pro football—he is a former...
