UNCLE EBENEZER and DJ RIDDLE were a bit shocked last week when Athletic Director Joe Alleva announced that Carl Franks had been fired from his position as head coach of the Duke football team.
As an Israeli, I would like to reply to statements in David Shiffman's Oct. 23 letter, "Syria should be part of Axis of Evil." Let's take this point by point..
I was driving home for fall break, on I-95 about 25 miles south of D.C.
Visitors to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, like visitors to Duke, are funneled through a gift shop on their way through the out door.
Duke Dining Services recently announced its intention to possibly add an Asian-themed restaurant to the West Campus student center that will combine healthy upscale dining and a grab-and-go option.
She was, in many ways, a typical Duke student. She enjoyed her classes, but she was smart, not brilliant. She went out occasionally, but she was at best, cute, not beautiful.
Homecoming weekend provided a nice distraction from the typical social grind.
I am writing in response to the Oct. 17 letter, "Gay marriage is not a right." Steve Nigh writes that marriage has in every case included opposite sex couples and excluded same-sex couples.
The firing of Coach Carl Franks this past weekend should not have been a shock. Nor should it have been a surprise. In fact, about the only thing it should have been was done two years earlier.
Duke self-segregates. So what? There are reasons why it's a bad thing. People often point them out. .
I was outraged by Tuesday's opinion piece, "Is Syria next." Yousuf Al-Bulushi needs to get his facts straight.
The students who submitted a list of 12 demands in the wake of the Sigma Chi incident received the response they deserved from the administration--very little in the way of direct changes, but a...
In the latest installment of the Duke housing saga, the Office of Residence Life and Housing Services has announced that it will likely not have enough beds to accommodate all of the students...
Who remembers what the viewbook for their Duke application looked like? I can't speak for the other classes, but for my fellow sophomores, the cover had the obvious "DUKE" in big letters along with...
In response to Philip Kurian's column, I must address a few issues..
Why religion? If religion is a social construct designed for the benefit of humanity, improving religions by making them more tolerant to serve more people is eminently sensible.
I've been to most of the home games of the football team during the era of Carl Franks and before.
Before we can provide any kind of service to any outside community, we need to serve our own communities and human interactions.
This week is Alcohol Awareness week.
In my struggle to process all that has happened this past weekend, I would like to add my thoughts to Christine Ng's pertinent and wonderful Oct. 17 article, "Students find 'Common Ground.'".
