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By Elizabeth Rudisill | September 1, 2005What do you know about Duke Student Government?.
What do you know about Duke Student Government?.
I am just coming to realize how small the world actually is.
There was a time when gasoline was cheaper than bottled water, when friends were neither “poked” nor “confirmed,” and when the only bell that mattered was the Victory Bell...
With relatively little fanfare, Duke submitted its Form 990 to the IRS and made it available to the public over the summer.
It was only 11 in the morning, but the sun was already scorching. I wanted to wipe the sweat off my face and swat the bugs off of me, but my hands were sticky from touching the tobacco leaves.
Hope is possibly the most addictive drug in the world because most people desperately need to believe in something. They will hold onto their faith long after they’ve lost everything else.
In an unprecedented sting operation that looked more Hollywood than higher education, undercover Alcohol Law Enforcement officers in conjunction with uniformed Durham police officers stormed an...
The city of Durham occupies a curious place in modern America.
It’s only the first day of school, and already I’m way behind. It’s not like I’ve been slacking off.
New graduate and professional students, welcome to Duke! You have chosen to come here for a higher degree in graduate, medical, law, business, nursing, divinity, public policy or environmental school.
“[Life] is solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”.
Uncle Sam wants you… to learn Arabic and join the intelligence community! An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education details a new scholarship program created by Senator Bob Graham. D-Fla.
KABULA, KENYA—As I was heading back to my hut after seeing my first African wedding, I regretted my choice in footwear. The recent rain had transformed the road into a mud pit.
London’s Fleet Street was the legendary and historic home to Britain’s major newspapers, and the bars that kept them going for more than 300 years.
When I watched the ’80s movie Blue Velvet a few weeks ago, one scene transformed the movie for me from a sadomasochistic cream dream into thesis-worthy material.
Speaking at a May 16 news conference in Raleigh, Professor John Hope Franklin, Duke’s famed historian, urged the state legislature to support a two-year moratorium on executions during which...
In 1973 as a freshman at Duke, I remember being startled to see a sign above a billboard in Smithfield, N.C., stating “This is KKK country.
The monotone voice read, “Appoggiatura,” and then pre-teen screams of excitement yelped from the audience. Less than two minutes later, a winner was crowned.