Subscribe to this tag Timber! Down Goes Duke’s Losing Streak, Goal Posts, Student
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - September 17, 2007
After Duke's football team snapped a 22-game losing streak (the longest in the country) with a 20-14 win over Northwestern, hundreds of fans stormed Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, tearing down the goal posts in "a visceral reaction to a moment of pure fanatic jubilation.
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The Roof, the Roof, the (Dorm) Roof Is On Fire
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - September 7, 2007
ontinuing the nation's War on Smokers, North Carolina is pushing for a law that would require smokers to puff only fire-safe cigarettes.
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Summer Book Review
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Michael Barone
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Michael Barone - September 4, 2007
Europe's clash of religion and politics, the outrageous Duke rape case, and the partition of India and Pakistan.
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Trail Mix
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - July 23, 2007
Daily roundup from campuses nationwide.
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Trail Mix
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - July 19, 2007
* An influx of iPhones has crashed Duke University's wireless network, Inside Higher Ed writes. Questions: Is this Apple's fault? But why only at Duke? And lastly, how come so many Duke students can afford an iPhone?.
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John McCain on Iraq
Michael Barone - April 12, 2007
John McCain spoke eloquently at Virginia Military Institute. Here are his concluding paragraphs:.
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The Duke Lacrosse Players Case
Michael Barone - April 11, 2007
With news that the charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped, bloggers LaShawn Barber and K.C.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail - January 25, 2007
Students at American University are protesting a conference, scheduled to be held at the school, by a group they say has promoted ecoterrorism, destruction of property, and harassment of students on AU's campus, the Eagle reports.
Boston College announced it has eliminated all freshman students' predeclared majors; even those declared during the fall semester will disappear from the records, the B.
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Duke Provost Defines 'Condition of Our Era': Too Much Free Speech--Or, Uh, Too Much Bad Free Speech; Meanwhile, Another Lax Lawsuit!
The Paper Trail - January 12, 2007
The lacrosse controversy that began last spring got very ugly--with "merciless, distorted," even racist attacks in E-mails and blogs--because of the "condition of our era," Duke Provost Peter Lange said yesterday in a speech. Blogs and E-mails have let faculty and untenured outsiders alike take liberties with their liberties, saying mean things rather than smart, thoughtful ones.
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Latest Plot Twist Could Be the Last for Duke Lacrosse Scandal
The Paper Trail - December 18, 2006
News that the case's alleged victim is pregnant could be the final plot twist in the Duke lacrosse scandal. Defense attorneys say they could be one motion away from erasing all charges against their clients, three former members of the university's lacrosse team charged with raping an exotic dancer they hired to perform at a party, the Chronicle reports.
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No Duke Lacrosse DNA Found on Alleged Victim
The Paper Trail - December 14, 2006
New DNA evidence sheds more doubt on accusations against three former Duke athletes charged with rape, kidnapping, and sexual offense. The tests, performed by a private lab hired by the prosecution, found no DNA from any of the three players on their alleged victim, the Duke Chronicle reports.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail - November 10, 2006
To fight rising tuition it calls a "war on the poor," Penn State's Black Caucus will mobilize other student groups, the Collegian reports.
Princeton has poured $20,000 into a new television studio, which it hopes will "highlight.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail - November 9, 2006
Federal abstinence education funds, meant to encourage 20-year-olds not to have sex, will flow to the University of Iowa, the Daily Iowan reports.
The Durham district attorney who led the investigation of three Duke lacrosse players will remain in office-despite a campaign against him led by the lacrosse team, the Chronicle reports.
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Dishonorable Mentions: Help Needed
The Paper Trail - November 8, 2006
A Duke Chronicle election blogger saw more students "absorbed in their economics textbooks or their dinner conversations" than by televisions tuned to CNN.
A Rutgers University voting station had only 12 voters by noon yesterday, the Daily Targum reports, picking "quiet" as the euphemistic adjective of choice.
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