Last year, an introductory economics class had a midterm exam, worth a large part of the final grade, with an extensive take-home portion.
Wednesday. What a day. The hangover from last Saturday night is cooling off, and there's still enough time to get pregame materials for tomorrow night.
ESPN celebrated its 25,000th SportsCenter Sunday night. I of course, watched it. Twice.
As the eyes of the world this summer focused on the Middle East, South Asia and Wall Street, Hong Kong quietly marked the fifth anniversary of its status as a Special Administrative Region of China.
This Friday, Aug. 30, is the date set by the baseball players' union for the first work stoppage since 1994.
I would like to start off by saying it is not surprising that there has been limited discussion of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's book choice for their summer reading here at...
For some unknown cosmic reason, the Class of '50 took a big hit this year.
Tap Tap. Squeeeak. Can you hear me now? GOOD. This column, like those 900 numbers, is for entertainment only. So please feel free to laugh. Here's a little special sauce to brighten your Monday.
A curious thing happened a few days ago.
The last several weeks have seen the search for a new Durham police chief transform from a competition among three seemingly qualified candidates into a rollercoaster of scandal and public...
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...
