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A Year of Lacrosse
By Mike Van Pelt | March 8, 2007From March to March, a look back at the past year in the controversial case.
From March to March, a look back at the past year in the controversial case.
Any traumatic experience is an opportunity for growth and improvement. For the members of Duke's lacrosse team, last spring's rape scandal certainly qualifies.
A lot of people don't know what to make of David Brown. His best friends are black. He's a brother in Phi Beta Sigma, an historically black fraternity. He went to a Washington, D.C., high school...
Towerview Feature: They say every girl cries at least once during rush. * So although you may not wonder why approximately 400 freshmen women sign up every year for the Panhellenic Council's...
Age: 20 | Hometown: Houston Kelley Akhiemokhali wasn't sure what to expect from Duke. She didn't visit the University, so before freshman orientation she had no idea that students lived on two...
If you believe the national reporting on Duke-Durham relations over the last few months, you might think Durham is more of an obstacle than an asset to the average Duke student. Not for junior...
When you stumble into a party for Duke engineering professors, this is how you'll be able to pick Fred Boadu out of the crowd: He'll be the only one who responds to the name Fred. He'll also be the...
If it weren't for the influence of a particular physics professor, Calvin Howell would have never come to Duke. Nearly 30 years ago, Howell was a physics major at Davidson College deciding where...
The Campus Culture Initiative has become a catchphrase of sorts lately-added as a vague explanation for anything and everything. Aside from a couple of letters to the community, little-to-no...
Reggie harris isn't a bad guy-he just plays one on TV. If you're walking around campus, you might see the second-year law student hitting the books, but if you're watching reruns of the series...
For Naike Swai, the decision to come to Duke from Moshi, Tanzania, four years ago wasn't a difficult one. "I'm quite a flexible person," she says, "so the place where I'm in has never mattered to...
Although all roads supposedly lead to Rome, the study abroad path is one few black undergraduates take during their tenure at Duke. Jazmyn Singleton is one of the few.
For 40 years, BSA has helped black students work for full equality on campus. In another 50, leaders think they'll have it.
For Chris Davis, the transition to life at Duke wasn't all that difficult when he first arrived on campus three years ago.
Name: The Blue Devil Age: 85 (but doesn't look a day over 23) Occupation: Amateur Mascot TV goes inside the suit with Duke Basketball's biggest-headed fan
Name: Mike Nifong Occupation: Durham County District Attorney
In the early '90s, two African-American student body presidents turned an unwieldy organization into a more representative DSG.
It seemed to be an impossible task. How could Towerview hope to describe "The Black Experience at Duke"--or the experience of any group, really--in mere words? How could a writer, or a group of...
DURHAM 2014 The International Olympics Committee will choose the site of the next Winter Olympics in July and RM would like to submit officially a bid on behalf of the West Campus Plaza.
Boniventura Mwapule used a computer for the first time at age 19. He learned English by watching American action films, earning money for tickets to those movies by selling empty beer bottles. And...