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February 1st, 2008
In K-ville, anything goes
By on February 1st, 2008
At this time last year, if someone had told us that we would be in college paying $48,000 for tuition and sleeping in a tent in 25-degree weather with seven other people for a two-hour basketball game, we would have called them crazy. But here we are, one year later, doing exact that; so call us Cameron Crazy.
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January 31st, 2008
Durham: Safest drunks and most eligible bachelors
By on January 31st, 2008
Apparently behaving with the bottle isn’t the only thing the Bull City does well. As part of its MetroGrades series, Men’s Health has also lauded Durham as one of the Best Places to Live for Men, Fittest Cities for Kids, Least Workaholic Cities and one of the top places for women to meet men.
Most Duke students couldn’t vouch for Durham as a place to rear children or hold a full-time job, but they could respond to the magazine’s verdict on the city as a stomping ground for men and the women who pursue them–and raise eyebrows.
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January 30th, 2008
Durham renovation faces possible roadblocks
By on January 30th, 2008
When I spoke with Mayor Bill Bell concerning the ongoing downtown Durham renovations, he described downtown as “the living room of a community.”
“I think we’re seeing that it’s a new face for downtown Durham and hopefully it represents a new face for Durham,” Bell said. “Impressions are important, whether you’re downtown for the first time or have been downtown for some time.”
He said he was pleased with the progress thus far, and—expressing a sentiment I heard over and over throughout my interviews—stressed the importance of creating a vibrant downtown, both economically and culturally. But the renovations aren’t complete yet, and several potential obstacles stand in the way.
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January 30th, 2008
Josh Sommer fights back
By on January 30th, 2008
Junior Josh Sommer is not your typical cancer patient. In fact, there’s not much about him that could be described as “typical.” What struck me most about our interactions over the past week was the sheer amount of energy and passion for the Chordoma Foundation he had bottled up inside. When he spoke, the countless hours of research and planning came through, and I could tell I was talking to a rare type of person. He didn’t need to look up facts or figures during our conversations. His memory served as a working encyclopedia on chordoma and the foundation’s fight against it.
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January 28th, 2008
Coal plants center of environmental debate
By on January 28th, 2008
Just west of Charlotte, a cluster of five innocuous looking power plants sit at the crux of North Carolina environmental history. Depending on who you ask, the coal burning plants are decrepit or innovative, belching hazardous chemicals or turning out remarkably clean low-emission air. These plants, collectively known as the Cliffside Steam Station, have become the centerpiece of the debate over clean energy in North Carolina.
The debate has received wide news coverage, from major papers such as The (Raleigh) News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer, as well as advocacy blogs and other smaller Internet media outlets. Both sides, however, have come to distrust the media’s portrayal of their cause and the facts surrounding it. Jim Warren, director of the environmental activism group North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, said the media has “allowed Duke Energy to get away with key and major distortions of fact” about the Cliffside project. Marilyn Lineberger, a spokesperson for Duke Energy, told me that new coverage tends to gloss over “all the [environmental] benefits” of building more efficient coal plants like those proposed at Cliffside.
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January 25th, 2008
Class of ‘01 survey finds networking, parents crucial to career choices
By on January 25th, 2008
Findings of the “Five Year Out” survey give some validity to the motto, “It’s not who you are; it’s who you know.” Not only did many members of the Class of 2001 change jobs frequently, 50 percent of the time they found their new positions through personal connections—such as networking, friends, family and co-workers. Twenty-three percent of the Class of 2001 has communicated with Duke about their careers since graduation—most often to use alumni career services and to network.
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January 25th, 2008
Across the nation, college students push for gender-neutral restrooms
By on January 25th, 2008
Duke students seeking gender-neutral living options have quietly but soundly proposed their way into one on-campus bathroom.
The establishment of one lonely facility on West Campus may seem inadequate, but the accomplishment would have been impossible without our commitment to formalities. Some student organizations, however, are taking a more aggressive approach to changing University policies. When Duke “activists” toil away writing resolutions and proposals, transgendered students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are voicing their frustrations with a petition drive and mass mobilization.
January 23rd, 2008
This week in Duke sports
By on January 23rd, 2008
A bunch of the Blue Devil teams hit the road this week, headlined by the men’s
and women’s basketball teams playing at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech
Thursday night, respectively. The men continue on the road this weekend in
College Park to take on the Terrapins while the women come home to Cameron for
a showdown with Tennessee next Monday.
The wrestling team will also be in College Park this weekend, grappling with
Maryland Saturday afternoon. The fencing and track and field teams, meanwhile
head north this week. The fencers travel to Penn State to battle a group of
teams including the Nittany Lions while the track and field team goes to Boston
for the Terrier Classic. The men’s tennis team is home Saturday night for a
tussle with the Elon Phoenix.
January 23rd, 2008
Grad students hurt by Few renovation
By on January 23rd, 2008
Residence Life and Housing Services is under fire from both undergraduates and graduates. Undergraduates want to know exact numbers of on-campus bed spaces available to them next semester, and graduate students said they are unhappy with the new policy, which moves many of them off Central Campus.
Housing is a confusing thing, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications for Residence Life and Housing Services. She noted that there are so many different factors in housing that providing an exact number would simply be misleading and generate even more uproar in the Duke community.
January 22nd, 2008
Durham police hard to reach
By on January 22nd, 2008
As someone who has written for The Chronicle for three years, I think I have had the opportunity to speak to someone from the Durham Police Department once or twice. And even those encounters have been brief, “I’ll call you back when I find more information,” phone calls. I have received a police report once from them. The communications officer works Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., sharp, or so it seems. Every time I attempt to contact the police department, be it via phone or e-mail, I have to leave a message, which I can say with much confidence, will remain unanswered. Or it will be answered just a couple days too late.
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