People at Duke have been talking about pickles for a long time. Activists have chanted, "Don't eat pickles," while carrying signs featuring large crossed-out cucumbers.
Today's culture craves bad news. Every morning, millions of people around the world flip on their television sets and click immediately to their favorite news channel.
When a gravelly-voiced North Carolina politico in a Panama hat named Mack Mahoney began complaining that Duke University Hospital was covering up a potentially fatal medical mistake, the media was...
Besieged by reporters in the wake of Duke1s 66-56 loss to Tennessee in the Final Four, Alana Beard fights back the tears that usually run down her cheeks on the rare occasions she loses a...
Love it or hate it, you have to admit that there's something about April. How else to explain the plethora of references the month seems to get in literature?.
Doug Breeden sits in his office on a warm April day inside the Fuqua School of Business.
Fourteen years ago, Ruth Grant sat in her hospital bed in the Duke University Medical Center maternity ward, waiting for a teaching assistant to bring her class' grades to her.
It sounded like the perfect story: Figure out who is ranked first academically in the senior class and find out how they got there.
How do you get immediate responses to your e-mails from deans, an invitation to the home of arguably the most well known professor at Duke--despite the fact that you've never met him before in your...
It's a scene that few at Duke would like to contemplate. A militant group opposing U.S.
Universities are peculiar places, sequestered from the "real world" and yet expected to make sense of it all. Our world is more confusing and challenging than ever.
The end of every academic year is the beginning of a new one, and so it's only fitting that TowerView should take the opportunity with our last issue this year to take a look at the rising stars...
At a Students Against Sweatshops meeting one February evening, Jessica Rutter describes a recent protest she attended in Los Angeles with other Duke students to fight the retailer Gap's alleged use...
Virginia to South Carolina. Cradle to grave.
When most students consider Duke's special collections library, they're probably more likely to think Walt Whitman than Wonder Woman--if they know the library even exists.
Lurking in the shadows of the nation's top law school admissions departments, an elephant has entered the room.