The independent news organization of Duke University
Some Duke students have been working to raise support for an act aimed to help undocumented students acquire American citizenship that was blocked by the U.S. Senate Tuesday.
The Pride Committee of North Carolina hosted the 26th annual Pride Parade and Festival at Duke’s East Campus Saturday to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
The man who admitted to killing former UNC student body president Eve Carson was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Many members of the Duke and Durham communities have found themselves stopped at the intersection on Swift Avenue and West Main Street, waiting for a churning freight train to clear the tracks.
As Durham County’s Hispanic population grows, it faces both new challenges and opportunities.
After a close battle with Oklahoma City-based Big Truck Tacos, OnlyBurger fell short of winning the Food Network’s food truck contest, the network announced Sunday night.
Although many Durham residents do not rely on bikes for transportation, the League of American Bicyclists recently named the city a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community.
A Vanity Fair magazine article written by Todd Purdum, a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair, served as the inspiration for a roundtable discussion on public policy gridlock...
Those who have lost faith in the Durham Public Schools system now have a forum to learn and clear misunderstandings.
An exhibit of scientific images and photographs of everyday items honored graduate student Abhijit Mahato’s unique combination of interests in the arts and engineering in a memorial contest Wednesday.
A crowd of over 325 law students rose yesterday, at the dean’s command, to welcome Samuel Alito, associate justice of the Supreme Court, to the School of Law.
A group of about 30 students and faculty members gathered in the Duke Chapel Saturday morning in remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
OnlyBurger is cookin’. The Food Network will announce Sunday whether OnlyBurger, a popular mobile vendor often seen on campus and around Durham, has won a place on one of its shows.
More than 70 students packed into a room in the West Union Building last night for the fourth annual “Minorities on Wall Street” event.
Last year, students at Durham’s E.K. Powe Elementary School were asked to draw what an ideal library would look like. With a renovation of the facilities now complete, some of their ideas became a...
Col. Gregory Lusk, an Iraqi war veteran, will lead the North Carolina National Guard starting Oct. 1, Gov. Bev Perdue announced Thursday.
A panel of state officials met for the first time Wednesday afternoon to discuss the search process for a new director of the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab after a report released last...
A discussion Wednesday addressed the question of the federal government’s role in criminal law and matters of constitutionality.
Dukies planning to take the GRE next Fall will be among the first wave of students to test out the exam’s new format—in the most comprehensive reform of the GRE in its 59-year history.
The flooding in Pakistan is the worst disaster that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ever seen, but some Pakistani students on campus feel that the situation has barely registered on their...