You have in your hands the first issue of the fourth volume of TowerView. That, by a strange quirk in the intricacies of our counting system, makes the magazine three years old today.
On the Fourth of July, I did something of which I'm not particularly proud: I went to work.
I've recently been telling people that I don't feel as though I'm graduating. I much prefer my air of incredulity about the upcoming goodbyes to the somber attitude of a girl who realizes her...
It's been happening for the past 30 years: a seemingly endless influx of Northerners, Westerners and other transplants into the Raleigh-Durham area.
In its last game of the season, the first round of the Final Four in San Antonio, the women's basketball team played in front of a packed Alamodome of 29,619 people.
The Icarus myth tells the tale of a young boy escaping his exile on a pair of glorious wax-and-feather wings. But upon taking flight, Icarus becomes reckless, ascending too close to the sun.
Dr. Margaret Pericak-Vance is running a little late.
When Erica Peppers started looking at colleges during her junior year of high school in New York, Duke University was not at the top of her list.
What makes Duke, Duke? I have often been asked this question in my 30-year tenure as university archivist, a job I held after eight years as a resident undergraduate and graduate student.
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, the faculty of Princeton University honor economist John Nash by laying their pens before him.
I now realize both weeks were unseasonably warm.
When Leon Dunkley first applied to be director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture four years ago, there was a similar position opening up at Guilford College, a Quaker school also in...
For Carlos Boozer, being a sociology major isn't necessarily about workloads, ease or simply following in the long line of Blue Devil basketball players to study humans' social tendencies.
The very notion of a ranking implies the capacity for climbing higher. But when the order is set in stone year after year, it may seem the competitors are climbing in place.
