Features

NEWS

Toying with the Tablets

The MacBook Pros and iPods looked lonely on nearby tables; the poor iPod shuffles screamed of neglect. The long-awaited iPad had come out exactly one week earlier, and the customers were still...


The Duke Chronicle
NEWS

Outdated Professor Headshots

You choose the course. Probably not because of this individual professor's mildly attractive headshot set against that marbled background, but you’ve chosen him nonetheless.


The Duke Chronicle
NEWS

The Popular Vote

The Duke Student Government subcommittee on electoral reform met last night to discuss possible alternative methods for electing the next DSG president. Citing the success of the reformed Young...


NEWS

Seventy Years in Cameron

Earlier this year, Cameron Indoor Stadium celebrated its 70th birthday. Since its opening in 1940, the arena has evolved into a cathedral for basketball. What do the next 70 years hold?


The Duke Chronicle
NEWS

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

At 7:10 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, Reynolds Price began breaking down Virginia Woolf’s renowned novel, To The Lighthouse. It’s like this, he said: autobiographical fiction meets stream of...


NEWS

Beauty and the Ballad

“Beauty for Ashes: Truth, Triumph and Tension," an exhibit on display on the lower level of the Divinity School, commemorates the bombing and celebrates Black History Month. It draws on the same...


NEWS

Roadside Wisdom: David Cutcliffe

Attend a bi-weekly Cokes with Cut with David Cutcliffe, and he’ll teach you plenty about football schemes and strategies. Now, learn more about the man outside of Wallace Wade Stadium.


NEWS

Basement of The Regulator

Go in through the front door of The Regulator. Walk past the magazine room on the left, the register on the right, the fresh hardcover releases deliberately arranged in the center. Then, descend.


Steven Galanis, in his four years at Duke, has transformed Spartan Entertainment into the dominant force in nightlife during the post-Lacrosse era of Duke’s social scene.
NEWS

The Mayor of Main Street

Over the last four years, senior Steven Galanis, the co-founder of Spartan Entertainment, has held court over Duke in Durham nightlife. How has Spartan seized the social scene?


The Duke Chronicle
NEWS

To Whom It May Concern

I’m applying for a summer analyst position because of your firm’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost banking institutions, because of the company’s partnerships with other Forbes 500 firms...


The Duke Chronicle
NEWS

Debriefing

Once settled at brunch, the stories start to come out one by one, gradually and then suddenly. Everyone’s night is eventually put together.


NEWS

Up In Smoke

Durham is a city built largely on the tobacco fortune of Washington Duke, the namesake of this University. But for the last month, smoking has been banned in public places in North Carolina.


NEWS

Roadside Wisdom: Abdullah Antepli

In July 2008, Abdullah Antepli came to Duke as the University’s first Muslim chaplain. Here, he offers his thoughts on religion, faith and his favorite name—and his love for a certain Apple mobile...


NEWS

Master of the Public Domain

In “The Public Domain"—a comic book about fair use and the battle between private interest and public good—James Boyle addresses the problems he sees with today’s intellectual property laws.