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Contents 1 Course Pages 2 Organizations and Clubs 3 Guides 3.1 Moving to Durham and Duke 3.2 30 Cool Things That Happen at Duke and Few Other Places (if any) 4 Collaborate 5 Campus 6 Town 7 Food and Drink 8 Residential Houses & Housing 9 Content Produced by Duke People 9.1 Books 9.2 Blogs 9.3 Music 9.4 Art 9.5 Film/Video 9.6 Academic Papers 10 Tips and Advice for 10.1 Frosh 10.2 Seniors 10.3 Graduate and Professional Students 10.4 Jr. Faculty 10.5 Staff 10.6 Alumni 11 Best Of 12 Worst Of 13 Study Spots 13.1 East Campus Study Spots 13.1.1 Lilly Library 13.1.2 Trinity Cafe 13.2 West Campus Study Spots 13.2.1 Bostock Library 13.2.2 Von der Heyden Pavilion 13.2.3 The Gothic Reading Room 13.2.4 The Old Perk 13.2.5 Teer Basement 13.2.6 Room 299, Physics Building 13.2.7 The Bryan Center 13.3 Elsewhere 13.3.1 Quads 13.3.2 Duke Gardens 14 15 Alumni 16 History

[edit] Course Pages

[edit] Organizations and Clubs

• Brown Ballroom Dance Club
• Brown Vietnamese Student Association

[edit] Guides

[edit] Moving to Durham and Duke

[edit] 30 Cool Things That Happen at Duke and Few Other Places (if any)

[edit] Collaborate

[edit] Campus

Theater

Museums

Religious Life

Lost & Found

[edit] Town

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina

News

• The Duke Chronicle - Duke campus paper

Parking

Haircuts, Barbers and Salons

• • Duke Haircutters
    • Price:$15 (plus tip)
    • Quality: Excellent
    • Accessibility: Right in the basement of the West Union, just steps from the West Campus Bus Stop.

Transportation

Supermarkets and Food Shops

Laundry and Dry Cleaning

[edit] Food and Drink

Restaurants Near Duke

Takeout menus

Restaurants That Deliver

Vegetarian

[edit] Residential Houses & Housing

Houses

Dorm Rooms

Best for Parties

Best Views

Biggest

Smallest

Best for Quiet Study

[edit] Content Produced by Duke People

[edit] Books

[edit] Blogs

• Beyond the Code - By David, a duke student who offers the thoughts of a college student pertaining to many things social, political, and technical
  
• Blog of Gheco Unn - Blog by duke student, Gheco Unn
  
• Blog of Convenience - blog by Duke engineering professor
  
• Truth About Duke - sports blog following Duke sports
  
• Duke University Press Blog - blog of Duke University Press
  
• Duke Research Blog - blog by people doing research at Duke
  
• Nicholas Student - blog students at Duke's Nicholas school with contributors Mike Donohue, Alex Michalko, David Palange and Brandon Warner
  
• Dank Professor's Weblog - blog by Professor Barry M. Dank that examining sexual politics in higher education and beyond.
  

[edit] Music

[edit] Art

[edit] Film/Video

[edit] Academic Papers

[edit] Tips and Advice for

[edit] Frosh

[edit] Seniors

[edit] Graduate and Professional Students

[edit] Jr. Faculty

[edit] Staff

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Best Of

• Best Study Spots
• Bathrooms
• Courses
• Places to Meet New People

• Best Out of the Way Date Places
• Best Student Jobs
• Best Sleeping/Napping on Campus
• Best CAs
• Best Bathrooms
• Best Places to Park
• Best Workstudy Jobs at Duke
• Best First Date Places
• Best Places for Dates - For Two People
  • Jazz at the Mary Lou every Wednesday night, plus free wine and cheese.
  • Movies at Southpoint.
  • Picnic, or watch the sunset (or, on occasion, an eclipse) in the Duke Gardens.
  • Stroll Ninth Street and get dinner; smoke some hookah at International Delights, if you're into that sort of thing.
  • Go to a Pitchforks concert or any music group performance for that matter.
  • Bike the American Tobacco Trail.
  • Pay for an obscenely expensive dinner at Another Thyme (and pronounce it with the TH sound), or a quasi-**obscenely expensive dinner at George's.
  • Concerts at the Duke Coffeehouse. Very cheap and you can impress him/her with your music knowledge.
  • And while we are talking about concerts: Cat's Cradle. WXDU-FM gives free passes to concerts almost every week. Totally worth it.
  • Walk the trails of the Eno River State
• Best Places for Dates - Groups
  • Head on over to The Loop and share a tasty pizza and some conversation.
  • A nice little drive or stroll over to Locopops
  • Midnight Disney Sing Alongs are the best thing that ever happened to group dating.
  • There's always fun to be had with students from neighboring NC Central University.
  • Hang out at the American Tobacco District

[edit] Worst Of

• Bathrooms
• Courses
• University Policies
• Buildings
• Dormitory

[edit] Study Spots

Whether you're a pre-med Biology major, an English and Political Science double major, or an Electrical Engineering major, odds are that at some point in your college career, you're going to need a quiet place where you can study. A place where you can sit down for hours without distractions and make the most of that precious time. These spots vary for everyone, but here are a few that have been found by others to work well.

[edit] East Campus Study Spots

[edit] Lilly Library

• Ok, I know what you're thinking. A library, how cliché. Well, the truth is that it works out extremely well. Lilly has a number of rooms where there are tables and plenty of seating so that you can sit down with your books or your laptop and work on whatever you have to do. There are two large rooms on the main floor, as well as rooms on the basement level. It's always interesting to wander through Lilly during reading period and see the spots people have chosen to study in. Random couches, spots on the ground between the stacks; open ground is fair game. On the floor above the main level are more study rooms, but these ones come with a very stern ground rule; no noise. This isn't enforced by librarians, but rather by the students. If you so much as sneeze, you're bound to get a look from at least one person in the room.

[edit] Trinity Cafe

• Trinity Cafe is a great place to study with one or two friends, but the tables there won't accomodate large groups. It's convienient, if taxing to your FLEX account, to have food and drink mere feet away. Also a great place to sit down and meet with a professor or TA outside of office hours.

[edit] West Campus Study Spots

[edit] Bostock Library

• Before you shoot me for mentioning another library, read what I have to say. Bostock is new, it's beautiful, and it is a great place to study. There are computer clusters on the first floor and basement level, and ample seating everywhere else, including some very comfortable chairs scattered throughout. You can even study on one of the levels of the bridge that links Bostock to the stacks and Perkins. You can also get to the Perkins stacks from Bostock, and if you really need to be isolated, you can be there. Bostock library is open 24/7 during the academic year.

[edit] Von der Heyden Pavilion

• The Pavilion is home to the Mad Hatter's Cafe and Bake Shop location on campus, and it also has a lot of seating and tables. The Pavilion itself is open 24/7, though the Cafe closes at midnight.

[edit] The Gothic Reading Room

• While some may argue that only suicidal pre-meds study here, it's perfect for those who love the sound of silence. Bookshelves and portraits of past university presidents adorn the walls under a gorgeous vaulted ceiling. There are power strips at every table, it's open 24 hours, and there are printers in the computer lab downstairs - thus, it's perfect for those pulling all-nighters. The sound of a page turning echoes through the room, so don't even think of letting your cell phone go off. You will receive plenty of death stares.

[edit] The Old Perk

• Located just outside the Gothic Reading Room, the Old Perk is a place where you actually can talk. With large, ugly furniture left over from the Perkins remodel, you can sprawl out across large circular tables, study with friends, or simply watch people go in and out of the Gothic Reading Room.

[edit] Teer Basement

• Rarely explored by those in Trinity (except for CS majors), this "dungeon" seems like a second home to Pratt engineers. It has 45 Linux computers and two large printers, so it is rare to find it fully occupied, though classes are sometimes taught in the lab. The large tables just outside the computer lab are a favorite spot for engineers meeting to work on problem sets. Its convenient location means that it stays fairly active throughout the day and night.

[edit] Room 299, Physics Building

• This little known study area was once the Math and Physics Library at Duke University, later replaced by Vesic Library. Inside you will find four to five tables, lots of windows, and very comfortable chairs. What you won't typically find are other people. The room is largely deserted, with the occasional graduate student or two.

[edit] The Bryan Center

• For those who like some action around when they study, the Bryan Center is an ideal spot. With music always playing in the background and food easily accessible, some people find this to be a great place to get some work done.

[edit] Elsewhere

[edit] Quads

• On days with nice weather, studying outside can be a wonderful experience. Quite inspirational for those group discussions in the humanities, but not very practical for working on labs or problem sets. Recommended for light reading.

[edit] Duke Gardens

• Right along with studying on the Quads comes studying in the Gardens. The Gardens contains plenty of area where students can sit down on the grass and crack open their books. Unfortunately, the Gardens are so beautiful when the weather is nice that they aren't very conducive to studying. Recommended for even lighter reading.

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[edit] Alumni

Brown Alumni Association - an online community for Brown alumni

[edit] History

The University's Insignia Hasn't Avoided Controversy

The history of the seal and motto of Duke University has been mercurial with an unpredictable changeableness through the years. With the adoption of a shield (above), primarily for marketing, the official seal is not as visible as it used to be. However, the seal is carved in stone at several places on both East and West Campus. The seal is circular with Duke University in Latin and the motto, Eruditio et Religio, around the outer edge. The interior design consists of a wreath composed of two different kinds of leaves with a cross with rays of light behind it in the center.

There is no official record of the adoption of the seal even though the use of one is authorized by the charter of 1851. The earliest extant examples of the seal are on diplomas in 1869 and a bank loan in 1883. The first printed representation of the seal and motto is on an invitation to the commencement exercises of 1889. An early institutional history by Bruce Craven, grandson of President Braxton Craven, notes that President Craven selected the motto in 1859 at the time the name of the college was changed to Trinity. Braxton Craven stated that "for a church college, the name Trinity included everything that a church college ought to stand for, and that with the motto, formed a consistent plan of Christian education."

The motto "Eruditio et Religio" most probably originated from a Methodist hymn by Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Titled "Sanctified Knowledge" in the contemporary pre Civil War hymnal, the third stanza begins "Unite the pair so long disjoined, Knowledge and vital piety . . . ." Further proof that the hymn was well known by the founders of the college is that another phrase from the hymn, "ignorance and error," appears in the preamble of the constitution of Union Institute, a name of the institution before it became Trinity College. The desire to join education and religion in a common endeavor is not at all surprising when one remembers that Methodism originated on the campus of Oxford University when John and Charles Wesley were students, and that one of the worldwide legacies of the Methodist Church is the founding of institutions of higher education. In North Carolina the most prevalent form of higher education was sponsored by the church. The Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Quakers each founded institutions known today as Duke University, Greensboro College, Wake Forest University, Davidson College, and Guilford College in the 1830s.

The first reference to the seal in the minutes of the board of trustees is a curious handwritten note dated May, 1888, by the new president, John Franklin Crowell. Crowell emphatically stated that the Latin on the existing seal was indefensible and that he would not sign a diploma using it as "it would be a reflection on my scholarship." This comment was followed with the bold command, "Get a new seal." After the change of name to Duke University in 1924, the Latin inscription read Sigillum Universitatis Dukensis which was changed again in 1957 to Universitas Dukiana. Apparently the designers of the seal have had difficulty agreeing on the proper Latin through the years.

Mace and chainPresident Douglas M. Knight initiated a study of university symbols in 1964 which implemented far reaching changes. A committee consisting of representatives from the medical center and the art department composed an official shield designed for use on a variety of commercial products where the seal was thought to be inappropriate. The shape of the shield is patterned after the Duke family crest with the notched top inspired by the roof lines of the Gothic architecture of West Campus. A triangle, the symbol of unity and the Trinity, is incorporated within the borders of the shield, with the theme further emphasized by the repetition of three vertical bars representing education, religion, and health. This is the first time the concept of health is visually introduced in a university symbol. The motto is repeated on a ribbon beneath the shield. With the approval of the new shield, the seal was reserved for use only by authorization of the board of trustees. Additional committees at the same time recommended the design of a Duke flag, the designation of an official shade of Duke blue, the authorization of an official distinctive Duke doctoral cap, gown and hood, and the design of an official chain of office and mace (above) for use by the president.

The aims of the university date from bylaws prepared by President John C. Kilgo at the request of the board of trustees in 1903. When Trinity College became the undergraduate school of the new institution, Duke University, in 1924, the aims, motto and seal of the college were adopted and thus continued by the university. The aims of the university are most prominently displayed on a bronze plaque in the main quadrangle of West Campus which was a gift of student and alumni members of The Order of Red Friars, a local honorary society. The plaque was dedicated at Homecoming Weekend in 1942.

In 1993 the university telephone directory had on its cover a striking color photograph of the pediment above the entrance to Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus which depicted the seal of the university. Taken with a telephoto lens the close up image of the motto revealed the stonecutter's misspelling of the Latin word Religio! Thus a permanent reminder of the difficulty with the Latin in the official seal through the years is displayed for all to see. The prominent cover touched off a flurry of correspondence in the Chronicle over the "newly discovered" seal of the university. Some writers thought it to be politically incorrect while others defended it as quite appropriate. Also many references over the decades have attributed the origin of certain university symbols to either Washington or James B. Duke. What we know of the origin of the seal, motto and aims of the university are attributable to the actions of the board of trustees in the context of the total history of the institution from its inception in 1838. Discussion is always welcome about university symbols but it should be based on an accurate understanding of the institution's history.