24-hour diner forced to close
By Tayo Famakinwa and Mike Miller | August 26, 2002Unexpectedly good business and a lack of resources forced Rick's Diner to stop serving food late Sunday night just three days after opening.
Unexpectedly good business and a lack of resources forced Rick's Diner to stop serving food late Sunday night just three days after opening.
Although the opening paragraph of Ethan Canin's "The Palace Thief," reads "This is a story without surprises," the short story provided enough material for over an hour of discussion during...
Sounds of hammering, piles of sawdust and heaps of rejected bed frames greeted students entering dormitories this week.
I know that the sentiments of the students and the parents are somewhat divergent at this point. As students, you are eager to get on with your life at Duke.
Students at E. K. Powe Elementary School bubbled with excitement Thursday as Martin Luther King, III, son of late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even seniors will feel the freshman rush of excitement this year as they return to campus. Why? Many of them will be finding their way in a new world too.
Some will graduate in just 18 months and some will be gracing campus for almost a decade, but this year's new class of graduate and professional students nevertheless gathered together as one...
Although the scene outside freshman convocation Thursday much resembled those of past years, the Class of 2006's signing of the Honor Code on the Chapel Quadrangle had a hint of irony this year.
Newly appointed Durham police chief resigns.
Formerly the most despised undergraduate housing on campus, Trent Drive Hall has suddenly become a more attractive place to live, several of the dormitory's new residents said this week.
In her convocation address to the Class of 2006, President Nan Keohane called on two unique metaphors to stress the importance of character and diversity.
Duke, no stranger to the national spotlight, stepped back from the stage this month as its nearest colleague, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became a lightning rod in a national...
The Princeton Review released its rankings this week of the nation's top universities in 63 different categories, and Duke ranked in the top 20 in eight of the categories.
As off-campus safety concerns grow, the University is responding with a website to increase students' awareness of crime in their area.
In the wake of a lawsuit challenge, legislative action and fevered controversy, discussions of the summer reading assignment Approaching the Qur'an proceeded calmly this week among freshmen at the...
Years of discussion, planning and construction culminated Monday with the opening of the $38 million West-Edens Link, the centerpiece of long-awaited changes to upperclass residential life.
HOPE will be taking on new meaning for some Durham residents this winter.
The University received $264,580,049 in charitable gifts in the 2001-02 fiscal year, a small increase over last year, despite the economic downturn.