Duke’s Campus Concert Series has been garnering some press of late, so we should have posted this calendar a while ago. It’s a mix of campus and local bands but it’s a good way to check out the local sound. All concerts begin at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Armadillo Grill at Duke’s Bryan Center, unless otherwise noted.
Feb. 6 — Rat Jackson, Vodak, the Dirty Little Heathers
Feb. 13 — Fujiyama Roll, Pistil, Virgo 9
Feb. 20 — The Huguenots, the Accident That led me to the world
Feb. 27 — All Your Science, Fictional Detectives, Electric Funeral, David Eisenband
March 21 — Duke/UNC Battle of the Bands (At the Duke Coffeehouse)
March 27 — CCS and Small Town Records Release Party: Panda Force, Luego, Tauri Wind, Wigg Report (At Alivia’s on W. Main Street)
April 2 — Paleface, the Never, Lost in the Trees (at Von Der Heyn Pavilion in Perkins Library)
April 3 – Springternational: Panda Force, Sea Cow, the Fustics (on Bryan Center Plaza)
April 10 — Grappling Hook, Jason Adamo, Magic Babies
April 17 — Beloved Binge, the ExMonkies, Pink Flag, the Tender Fruit
As reported earlier by The Chronicle’s Zachary Tracer, this Thursday saw the largest single-day turnout of early voters at Duke’s West Union voting location to date. But, yesterday–Halloween Friday–topped Thursday’s 924 by over 200, when 1138 voters passed through the Old Trinity Room’s doors. See Zachary Tracer’s afternoon post for a spiffy graph of Duke and Durham’s turnout.
Today, Saturday, November 1, the voting location processed 907 voters, a number that we expected to be higher. Why? Well, today was people’s last chance to early vote, so we expected to see a high turnout from both lazy voters and those who couldn’t vote during the regular work week. Also, Durham County election officials decided to extend voting hours today by four hours, from 1PM to 5PM.
For a complete summary of Durham County’s seven early voting locations’ numbers, click here (PDF). As you can see, almost 100,000 voters voted early in Durham alone. If 2004′s presidential election results are any indication, around 70,000 of those votes will be for Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. We tried to find Wake, Orange, and Currituck Counties’ early voting numbers online, but could not. Do any readers know if and where that information is available?
As much as we like to consider ourselves a Southern Ivy, call the Gothic wasteland “the Harvard of the South” (suck on that Vanderbilt) and refer to Columbia as “the Duke of the North,” Duke will never hold a candle to the Northeast’s elite. We might beat them in basketball, but they yield more CEOs.
We at Duke thought we could rally around the brilliance of Duke University Improv’s “My New Haircut (Asian Edition).” A response to another viral sensation, DUI’s video become a hit. Duke students had made their name in YouTube history. But Yale had to best us. Not only is their “95 Theses” better produced and written than the DUI short, it is founded in academia. But if we can just accept that Duke will never be as good as the Ivy League, we can at least enjoy their superior intellect.
Loading ...