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Each Duke dorm room comes with a bed frame, a mattress, drawers, a desk and a chair. Only God knows what else ends up in there. Soon, professional movers will too.
Just one month ago, Duke students on spring break received a notice to not return to campus due to COVID-19. Some students didn’t get the message until days later.
A block down from Duke’s East Campus, a nondescript white food truck sits behind a bar. Its owner is really, really excited about chicken tenders.
Junior Ceren Ebrem was studying in the Student Wellness Center when she heard a loud thump. She looked up and saw something fall to the ground through the building’s large glass windows.
One in every 28 residents in Durham saw an eviction filing in 2016, and Durham has over 900 filings a month.
As racially charged incidents have occurred on Duke’s campus in recent months. the Southern Poverty Law Center says that colleges across the country are witnessing similar acts.
Durham and Mayor Steve Schewel want you to ditch your car, and they have $1 million to help do it.
“Not a lot of people try sneaking in,” a line monitor said. “And almost all of them that do try, we catch.” Emphasis on the “almost.”
When New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson first conceived of daylight saving time, he surely had high aspirations.
The Bryan Center’s Lobby Shop has a cool new offering: a slush machine.
Open Data Commons Attribution License. Background images from the DukeMTMC data set, courtesy of Megapixels. Source: Ergys Ristani, Francesco Solera, Roger Zou, Rita Cucchiara and Carlo Tomasi.
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