The Perkins Lab is a second home to many of us. We have camped out there and in the adjacent Deryl Hart Reading Room as faithfully as our brethrens tenting in K-ville. For this eulogy, I inquired...
At 2,800 seats, the proposed Durham Performing Arts Center will be bigger than the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (2,442 seats), the largest theater on Broadway (1,940 seats), and only four...
Olivia Vaughn, better known to last year's residents of Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory as "Miss O," was fired last year on the 89th day of her 90-day probationary job period, a not-so-uncommon yet rather...
The Daily Princetonian reported Nov. 13 that "Yale freshman Jian Li has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Princeton for rejecting his application for admission, claiming the University...
Today. Nov. 30, 2006: The world holds its breath as the pope visits the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in one of Islam's greatest strongholds-Istanbul.
If the first few weeks of the college basketball season are any indication of what is to come, there is going to be a great deal of excitement all the way until early April.
I'm just going to put it out there: I love the History Channel. As I write, it's 3:30 a.m. and I'm still in front of the television watching a story on British engineering in the nineteenth...
Somewhere between the football watching, turkey eating and ritualistic baby-blood consumption (we're Jewish), I found myself going through some of the boxes of poor finger paintings, chipped...
The fight is more heated than ever-this past month, the state of Michigan voted to ban government and public university affirmative action practices, and despite backlash, Yale freshman Jian Li...
"I do know the following items about the case that would lead one to hesitate before throwing out the case.. The Duke lacrosse players were not angels-they had a previously established history of...
This last week, I spent all of Wednesday and much of Thursday in the kitchen, making pies and potatoes and whatever else we included in Thanksgiving dinner at my house. Seriously, I barely left the...
Note: Before this season, current Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson was the head man at Oklahoma. From 2000-2004, members of Sampson's staff made 577 extra phone calls to recruits. Sampson himself made...
I have a dynamite idea for a new horror flick. Get this: The movie opens with a panning shot of an eerily deserted outdoor shopping mall, an especially nice mall done up to look like a Disneyfied...
The dilemma.. Every one of us faces it, though some more frequently than others. The question that arises more often than any other at college: Should I do it? Should I go out tonight? Academics...
This month's selection of Duke's newest Rhodes and Marshall scholars continues to exemplify the success that Duke students have in the post-graduate scholarship process. Since 2000, Duke has been...
So, without further ado (because there was plenty of ado up there)... THIS is what I'm thankful for this year. Mostly I'm thankful that DSG made the right decision regarding those Robertson Scholars.
KAMAPALA, Uganda - I arrived home one night last week to a large group gathered to hear a young Ugandan doctor, fresh from two years in the United States, breathlessly sharing his travel stories.
Last year, I organized and captained a tent full of Robertson Scholars-one from Duke, 11 from Carolina. I was one of the 19 who pulled off Duke apparel to reveal Carolina blue underneath and...
Holidays kick ass, don't they? What a fantastic concept: a day designed solely to sleep late and party with those closest to you. And though no one works, somehow commerce is at its peak. Why don't...
I was having a conversation with an international student the other day who informed me America had no culture of its own. What we had instead, this student explained, were many distinct, separate...
