A new semester brings change. And change is good. I needed new things for my changing life, and so like many others infected with the spirit of change, I made a trip to Target.
When Heather Hill was a child, the only foods she would eat were a few standard-order kid staples—mac and cheese, french fries, crackers and chocolate milk.
Tenting season has come to a close. Brave students organized themselves into groups of 12, bought their brand-name tents and raided their local REI for the warmest sleeping bags, gloves and thermal...
Jared Dunnmon met me for an interview at the Bella Union. Wearing water-repellent outerwear, a diving watch and five o’clock shadow, he looks like James Franco in 127 Hours—a film in which Franco...
On September 22, 2010, Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi left his dorm room, drove his car to the George Washington bridge, and jumped to his death.
It is being called a PR nightmare. Karen Owen’s PowerPoint, a teenager almost dead in a port-a-porty, a slew of misogynistic e-mails published on the internet and around the campus.
Towerview sat down with Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations, to ask him a couple of questions.
The day trip to Danville is just right for a lazy Saturday afternoon. After dozing in the rumpled mess of my comforter with the sun creaking in through tangled wooden blinds well past my alarm, I...
If you have not realized it yet, it is December, i.e., it is almost 2011. What does that mean? We only have one more year to live until the end of the world.
To Damion “Dame” Moore, his eponymous restaurant is simply a business. It just happens to trade in tender, succulent fried chicken and fluffy, buttery waffles instead of, say, car parts or Swedish...
Art Chandler’s voice echoes in the rafters of historic Cameron Indoor Stadium. His Southern drawl weaves between the dozens of championship banners and the retired jerseys of Duke legends.
In early October, an unsavory Powerpoint that Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, intended to be seen by three friends spread from campus listservs to the blogosphere to the Today Show and The New York Times.
It’s 2 p.m. on a Friday, and senior Chris Perry is weighing his options for the afternoon. For the most part, they seem to be as follows: Read about steel. Draw diagrams of steel. Do equations...
First there’s a busy signal. Then on the second try, I get a ring—actually no ring to be exact, just a cut right into an automated voice informing me of my options.
What's trending right now? It is not what you would expect.
When it comes to selecting a major, Duke football players have more diverse interests than their peers on the gridiron.
A few months since the Aug. 10 release of his debut record, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, Posner’s career has become a sort of massive overstatement.
The Wednesday I sauntered into Sam’s Kwik Shop off Erwin was a slow evening, one of those peculiar nights that are particular to North Carolina.
Sometimes, you just need a break. Not in the mood to make the trek out East to the beach?
Plenty of businesses have strange names. There is Ruth’s Chris Steak House. And Fifth Third Bank. Also, DSW Shoe Warehouse. And now Durham’s own King’s Daughters Inn.
