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March obviousness

bro's stuff
Ben Brostoff
March 19, 2010

We are living in a progressively stat-oriented time.

How to make it in America

je ne sais quoi
Eliza French
March 19, 2010

One night in New York City during break, my friends and I waited on the N train while a W train groaned down the track. The train passed us by to reveal an advertisement on the tunnel wall for the latest HBO series, “How to Make it in America.” The show chronicles underdogs from Brooklyn trying to make it big.

Behold a new reality

spread the embers
Michael Stauch
March 19, 2010

“A lot of y’all are still soundin’ like last year,”  Drake raps on his critically acclaimed mixtape, So Far Gone, before going on to say that the rap game needs change, and he’s the cashier. So Far Gone, following in the wake of Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreaks, might be the first “post-808s” album. As such, it shares not only its quirky, minimalist beat selection, but many of its lyrical themes.

A phoenix out of the ashes

Lina Feng
March 18, 2010

Many successful innovations arise out of crises, which create remarkably fertile opportunities for reinvention. Post-Katrina New Orleans is no exception. But unlike the legendary phoenix, which relies upon magical intervention, how does rebirth of a living, breathing city take place?   

Make way for the destructors

in real life
Daniel Flavin
March 18, 2010

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been really upset about something since I came to Duke.

No more free yearbooks

uncommon conviction
Vikram Srinivasan
March 18, 2010

If you ask students how many times they’ve opened their Chanticleer yearbooks, periodically handed out free on the West Campus Plaza, it’s safe to say a substantial majority will give you a number in the low single digits. For many, that digit will be zero.

Loves me, loves me not

i'm just saying
Metty Fisseha
March 18, 2010

If I see one more of those “do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend” surveys, I think I’m actually going to Tasmanian devil rip it up to shreds.  

They’re literally everywhere. In the bathroom stalls. Littered up and down my hall. On my door even, which I’m pretty sure is an invasion of personal space. And they’ve been up for a long time now, which leads me to believe that the study is over and done with—but I’m positive that someone, the anti-Cupid, is going around reposting them on a daily basis.  

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