At this month's Final Four in San Antonio, Jake Poses caught up with Calvin Hill, father of Duke basketball standout Grant Hill and former star running back for the Dallas Cowboys.
When I first arrived at Duke about three years ago, the lack of accessibility was really striking. Am I confined to a wheelchair? No, but my preferred mode of transportation is by bicycle.
Duke University places a high value on improving accessibility campus-wide.
Once upon a time, in the land of Durham, in the dominion called Ninth Street, there lived a King.
The inside of the Great Hall's kitchen is a mess.
It's Friday the thirteenth, but Zannie Voss is all smiles.
The lone man stood and sometimes crouched on the sideline. The players kept their distance, as he had kept his distance from them.
As the Durham sky gets darker and darker on Thursday nights, the lights in the offices of the Wachovia mini-skyscraper off West Main Street turn off and the ones downstairs at Café PariZäde light up.
"As long as they are authentic expressions, I'm wedded to them," my favorite Duke professor announced the first day of class.
Emma Lazarus' words inscribed on Lady Liberty have welcomed immigrants to America's shores since the statue--a gift from the nation of France (yes, we were friends once)--was unveiled in 1886.
With an inviting smile that translates as ease in both our languages, Angélica, who is mature beyond her twenty-two years, settles into a seat beside me and her son's stroller.
he small cement bench surrounded by a crowd of black students sits under a tree adjacent to the Chapel Quadrangle.
St. Peter of the Chapel Quad Joe Martin decides who is worthy to enter the most sacred parking area on campus.
Class 608 explodes into the room with a whirlwind of mumbling, stumbling and wondering that only 12-year-olds can produce.
But that's not what she's thinking.
Phil Harvey sits in his office in rural Hillsborough, N.C., surrounded by the tools of his trade. His desk, like that of any other businessman, is cluttered with reports and memos.
