OPINION
Revamp the dining plan
By Editorial Board | December 6, 2013Starting in the spring, purchases made with food points at on-campus venues will be taxed.
Starting in the spring, purchases made with food points at on-campus venues will be taxed.
Many students have walked up to the main entrance of the Bryan Center Plaza and been shocked to see a brown slab of wood halting their path.
Members of Duke’s Student Government are working to add more courses about local history and politics to the course registry.
Seventeen-year-old Jesus Huerta was in the back seat of a police vehicle when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Nov. 19.
Thanksgiving weekend is a time to think, reflect and celebrate what we are thankful for.
Duke launched its dance program in the 1930s, housing a small clutch of enthusiastic students and instructors in the Physical Education department.
At last Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, several faculty expressed concerns about the expansion of master’s degree program offerings.
In many classroom settings, from large lecture halls to small seminar rooms, some professors are finding it difficult to stimulate discussion among students. Hoping to combat this deficiency, a...
In Wednesday’s editorial, we explored the value of athletic scholarships and their importance for recruiting exceptional athletes. Today, we consider merit scholarships and how they impact Duke’s...
Athletic scholarships not only reward outstanding athletes for their hard work, they also allow the University to increase the competitiveness of its sports teams.
After this weekend's win against Miami, Duke football was ranked No. 25 in the country in the AP Poll and No. 24 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Coming off a major win against Miami, Duke’s football program secured a place in the rankings this weekend for the first time since 1994.
We learn over the course of our undergraduate careers how to power-read assigned texts. In these cases, speed, rather than depth of understanding, is the name of the game.
Earlier this week, we discussed the search for a new provost. As we noted, one of Provost Peter Lange’s lasting legacies will be faculty composition at Duke: he is responsible for hiring nearly two...
Duke’s faculty and employee health plan will soon cover gender reassignment surgery.
By next Spring, the Provost Search Committee hopes to have selected three finalists for the provost position.
This June, Peter Lange, Duke’s tenth and longest-serving provost, will step down from his position.
As we have noted in past editorials, we are greatly concerned about the specter of the humanities' impending death.
A new service-learning promotional advertisement suggests that, if you wish to engage in service-learning, you must be “tired of the traditional classroom model.”
Every year administrators at the best universities stand at convocation, congratulate the incoming students and declare grandiosely that all of them deserve to be there.