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Last year's conflict between Duke Student Government and Campus Council over which group has authority over residential concerns unfortunately overshadowed one of the issues that spurred this...
The University has decided to repay the federal government nearly $700,000 after two employees embezzled federal grant money from the Center for Demographic Studies and its lead researcher, Kenneth...
As Duke welcomes a new freshman class and new academic year, the first anniversary of a very black day looms ahead.
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill engaged in discussion earlier this week about their summer reading assignment, a book called Approaching the Quran: The Early Revelations...
If you haven't noticed yet, we have an inferiority complex here at Duke. It's subtle, but you start to see it soon enough.
Welcome freshmen, and thanks for all the publicity. I spent the summer in Austria, and even there I couldn't help but hear about our University's summer reading assignment.
Some recent letters have appeared in The Chronicle that criticize the Editorial Board's support for ending the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
Nuclear deterrence works. It always has, it always will. This is the single greatest lesson of the Cold War, and it remains true even post-9/11.
Librarians do not usually speak out publicly on tenure decisions, but having been the University's military history bibliographer for nearly 25 years, I feel both qualified and compelled to write...
I was distressed to see such a misrepresentation of the wedding scheduling process for the Duke Chapel in The Chronicle recently.
I usually like anti-drug ads.
Thirty years ago last month, President Richard Nixon, Law '37, signed into law the legislation that jolted women's athletics forward.
It’s 2:15 a.m., Monday morning, and I should be studying for tomorrow’s quiz. But if we’re here at Duke to learn, I’ve got something much more important to think about—and it all started when my...