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The Chronicles Of Redick

Love him or hate him, he was the best in the business for four years, a Dukie for the ages. How the young, stupid and lazy J.J. Redick transformed into an All-American--and a man.


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Riding The A Train

This is your brain: Exam week. No time to sleep. Papers to write. Problem set in desperate need of solutions. No clean underwear left. Lab report due in three hours. This is your brain on Adderall:...


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Last Month

Overheard in Durham, LSU vs. Duke comparison and Speed Limit featuring the DSG Election


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RIDING THE A TRAIN

This is your brain: Exam week. No time to sleep. Papers to write. Problem set in desperate need of solutions. No clean underwear left. Lab report due in three hours. This is your brain on Adderall:...


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The Contenders

They play varsity sports and compete on the quiz bowl team. From rural Indiana to the suburbs of Detroit, from across the Atlantic to down the street, high school seniors everywhere have gone...


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Greek and Black

Sporting a slick dark suit and polished dress shoes, Blake Stanfill exuded an air of class and sophistication as the beat of smooth jazz filled the dimly lit Mary Lou Williams Center for Black...


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A dream deferred

So you think you have what it takes to make it at Duke? What if Duke thinks otherwise? That was the case confronting current Duke junior Doug Rosenberg. He excelled in one of the country's top...


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5 Questions for The Duke Observer

TV's Molly McGarrett caught up with the latest blogger to chronicle the Duke scene, the so-called "Duke observer." From his perch at www.dukeobsrvr.livejournal.com, the anonymous student responded...


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Facebook Follies

FROM THE FIRST DAY facebook.com opened to Duke, students embraced the site. Facebook offered students a cocktail of IM, e-mail and personal information. One Yale student likened it to "Internet...


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Endless Summers

On Wednesday, February 22, with the Dr. and Mrs. Cook and about 200 people looking on, the 2006 Samuel DuBois Cook Colloquium took place in the Griffith Theater. Dr. Shirley Malcolm set the tenor...


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The Rumor Mill

iTUNED-OUT After scouring ACES for classes that might give them free iPods "for educational purposes," students who scored the free toys are still only using them at the gym. With midterms already...


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From corn husk to bio-bus

Got gas? The buses and utility vehicles at Duke don't-at least not in the traditional sense. Duke has been utilizing alternative fuels since the late 1990s, including biodiesel and natural gas...


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Victims of their own success

This is a University of two Dukes. For the first, the letter with "congratulations" at the top and the signature of Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag on the bottom is a means to an end. In...


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All the president's men

Before Duke was Duke, politically minded graduates didn't go far beyond elected office. Eight Congressmen have come from Duke over its century of history, and of those, four represented or...


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Saving Miss O

Miss O, as she is affectionately called, has 193 children. As she sits on a bench in the entryway to the Gilbert-Addoms dormitory one afternoon, college freshmen bustle around her-returning home...


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Town-Gown on Points

In the Princeton Review's 2005 student survey of college rankings, Duke's town-gown relations were fifth worst in the nation. Duke officials may dismiss them as unscientific, but these ratings...


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New at the Nasher

Like the slick Johnny-come-lately it is, the Nasher Museum of Art is relying on a web of connections and a family name-rather than deep pockets-to stay on the cutting edge. And so far, the...