Column: Manufacturing intellectualism
By Stuart Rojstaczer (From a Distance) | February 5, 2003A couple of years ago, I went on a five-day field trip to Yellowstone National Park with some Duke students. It was one of those classes from hell.
A couple of years ago, I went on a five-day field trip to Yellowstone National Park with some Duke students. It was one of those classes from hell.
For a columnist supposedly concerned with racial issues, Nikyatu Jusu showed surprising inconsistency in her Friday column.
I got an email the other day to look at Malignant Humor, this new online humor magazine, so I thought I'd give it a try. I was surprised and shocked by much of what they put up on the website.
Liberals now seem to cover for the most illiberal force on the planet, Islamic fundamentalists who destroy free speech and enslave blacks and heap blame on U.S.
While home over break my little sister and I started talking colleges.
I'm writing this letter in the hopes that other Duke students may be better informed of the practices of the Fairview Restaurant at the Washington Duke Inn.
Recently released plans for the renovation of Central show a promising vision for the University that will turn the currently rundown backwater that is Central into an integral part of the campus.
Try to imagine my dismay when I read the comment by Larry Moneta in the Jan. 17 edition of The Chronicle.
Last August, well before military action against Iraq seemed inevitable, a poll showed that 54 percent of the British public viewed their prime minister as "Bush's poodle.
Have you eaten at the Washington Duke Inn lately? We have, and it was an experience that made us wish we had gone to the Marketplace for dinner.
The offer was tantalizing - spend 10 to 20 hours a month passing out an energy drink to my fellow students and get paid a whopping $250, plus a free digital camera and all the energy drink you can...
In September 2001, administrators instituted a system of self-regulating party monitoring to improve security at on-campus parties.
Amidst all the Alan Davis Band Armadillo Grill concert publicity, thousands of Duke students trekked to Cameron Indoor Stadium or tuned in to ESPN2 Saturday night to watch undefeated No.
The nationwide campaign by Palestinian supporters to divest from Israel has been a total flop for a good reason: The public understands its total hypocrisy and is not willing to absolve terrorism...
You've probably received Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey's e-mail instructing everyone at Duke to cease using peer-to-peer programs like...
It may be, as Diane Nelson wrote, that we need "to actively make alternative histories.
Walking through my hall on the way to the bathroom today, I found stapled to the wall a copy of Harvard University president Lawrence Summers's recent speech regarding divestment from Israel...
She is beautiful.
In a Washington Post column last week, Stuart Rojstaczer, associate professor hydrology, presented evidence of grade inflation over the past three decades at Duke and about 30 other universities.
There is a scandal on this campus. The most vocal self-declared "progressives" and "conservatives" at Duke are actually the exact same people, and no one is saying anything about it.