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Damn the running man

“AIM is the devil.” The black letters have faded since sophomore year, but the thin white homemade label has stuck faithfully to my Dell laptop.


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Beauty and Brains

Gwendolyn Mumma, if you’re out there, you should know you’re one hot chick. Or at least you were in 1955.


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REARVIEW MIRROR

When most people ask how I spent the last three months of my summer, I usually just tell them that I was in Washington. After all, that's true.


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Rumors of War

have you ever been the target of a mortar attack? Mark Hoffmann, Trinity ’00, and his best friend from Duke Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Chris Nigren, Engineering ’99, have.


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BEHIND OFFICE DOORS

Eight stuffed chihuahuas from a Taco Bell promotion. A handwritten letter describing William Preston Few’s initial concept for Duke University.


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Beauty & Brains

Gwendolyn Mumma, if you’re out there, you should know you’re one hot chick. Or at least you were in 1955.


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The Beefed Up Olympiad?

TowerView's Michael Mueller recently caught up with 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist Mike Conley. Conley, who claimed the triple jump championship in Barcelona, has maintained strong ties to the U.S.


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DOCTOR HOOKUP

I received a seemingly innocuous e-mail a couple of years ago, its subject bearing a rather enticing exclamation: "SOMEBODY HAS A CRUSH ON YOU!" My initial thought was that it was some sort of bait...


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Behind the mask

Edward Arlington Robinson's poem Richard Cory was perhaps too morbid when I read it for the first time when I was in the seventh grade.


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ART SPACE

There's a building on East Campus that has a one-way mirror in place of a door. Most students don't notice it, only staring blankly ahead as they walk past.


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Bordering on Crazy

The most disturbing thing about being in a mental ward is the idea that someone else thinks you're crazy. Carolyn* struggled a lot with that during the four days she spent there.


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The Keohane Era

   President Nan Keohane is wearing a hard hat. She has done it before, and her collection of ceremonial protective head gear sits precariously stacked on her office windowsill as evidence.


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your dad's rotc?

Strange noises float up through the fields like whispers on the night air. Bullfrogs and crickets and swamp things buzz all around; the occasional bird chirp emanates from the trees.


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cheater cheater.

In order to be a good college cheater, what a student needs most is an unswerving determination to succeed with the least amount of effort.


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King for a Year

    While I was interviewing a graduate student for my story in this issue, I asked when he first ate at Biscuit King. A committed King enthusiast, he could provide me with no answer.