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By Cindy Yee | January 22, 2003Senior Rod Fertig no longer has to brave the elements when he wants to get in touch with the folks back in Wyoming.
Senior Rod Fertig no longer has to brave the elements when he wants to get in touch with the folks back in Wyoming.
Laura Whitehorn never thought her invitation to speak at an African and African American Studies graduate seminar would attract a second glance.
Sorority recruitment week ended Sunday afternoon with over a thousand female students screaming, cheering, crying and hugging on Main West Quadrangle.
The Inter-Community Council selected the three finalists for this year's undergraduate young trustee this week, is the first group ever not to include a member of Duke Student Government.
Alan Kors reached into his back pockets and stepped from behind the podium with an air of confidence, unafraid of offending. "I wondered who would possibly hire him," he said.
A large audience of city employees applauded the City Council at their meeting Tuesday night upon hearing the news that a 2 percent rate increase would be added to their 401(k) plans.
A new theory of how people see proposes that past perceptions, as well as evolution, influence the recognition of visual stimuli, perhaps replacing the accepted theory that perceptions correspond...
Following the announcement that a reorganization of the biological anthropology and anatomy department will likely reduce the faculty by more than half, professors have expressed concerns about the...
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When Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier, asked her eight-year-old son what he would say if someone called him an "ugly n-----," he told her he wanted to be white.
Diversity was the name of the game as the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations on campus reached their climax yesterday with panel discussions, cultural performances and a poetry slam.
In an op-ed piece published last Tuesday in the San Jose Mercury News, President Nan Keohane called for university educators to push for aggressive steps to improve the academic standards of...
Administrators in Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine announced in meetings late last week that the probable reorganization of the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy will...
Nearly a month after the supposed cloning of two humans by the Raelians, a religious sect, the Duke community maintains mixed feelings over the implications of human cloning.
The University has reached its $2 billion Campaign for Duke goal almost a full year before its December 31, 2003 target, President Nan Keohane and campaign co-chairs Ginny and Peter Nicholas...
It began with a two-year "quiet phase" and Thursday it was still inconspicuous as the fifth story listed on the Duke News Service's website.
The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, a program aimed at encouraging minority undergraduates to study political science at the graduate level, has been awarded a $360,000 grant by the National Science...
Anyone looking for a sign that alcohol abuse has not worsened in recent years might only look at last semester's 22 hospitalizations for alcohol consumption-a number consistent with years past.
In a move that could prove disastrous for Duke University Health System, the State Employees Health Plan is planning to terminate its existing contract with DUHS in reaction to stalled...
A less-congested link between Raleigh, Durham and the Research Triangle Park moved one stop closer to reality as federal officials approved the first phase of the Triangle Transit Authority's...