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“I kept thinking about how normal everything felt that day, and how many plans we had that came crashing down."
“Teeth are not luxury bones!”
What happens when you bring a former rock band guitarist together with a former U.S. ambassador?
Trying to balance academics, extracurriculars and busy social lives, Duke students often neglect their mental health.
With early voting in the North Carolina primary opening Feb. 13, many students will cast votes in the coming weeks for their presidential candidate of choice.
Young Trustee finalist Ibrahim Butt, a senior, seeks to empower marginalized voices, a mission that he has sustained from his high school involvement in the United Kingdom to his years at Duke.
Cosmos Lyles is not only the founder of Duke staple Cosmic Cantina. He was a triple major at Duke, and he loves to play guitar and invent useful gadgets. As his friend says, "He’s such an original thinker. He always figures out his own way of doing things.”
It became the hottest topic of The Chronicle opinion pages, the epicenter of a verbal firestorm between incensed Duke students.
Ordinarily, Upchurch comes to campus wearing white tennis shoes, white shorts and a white custom-made Nugget t-shirt, but today’s colder weather means he’s donned light blue jeans and a sweater. A steady stream of students flows into the building, anxious to escape the cool drizzle outside, and many of them—a pair of wrestlers, a girl with Beats headphones draped around her curly hair—pause to bury their hands in Nugget’s heavy, golden pelt, which smells, according to Upchurch, like “buttered toast.”
The Il Forno renovation over the summer led to the removal of the small pasta option, leaving students with only the regular-size pasta.
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