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A brave new bookbag

Registration for spring semester is a few short weeks away. That likely means you’re either cherishing the new method of semi-excusable procrastination that is bookbagging or dreading digging through course guides and taking a step closer towards the post-Duke future.


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​Pot: why not?

To legalize or not to legalize recreational marijuana: lawmakers across the country have been contemplating this polarizing issue for years.


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Money for nothing?

Last Friday, hundreds of students flocked to the Washington Duke Inn to attend an annual celebration of scholarships and fellowships.


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Correcting for Columbus

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Hundreds of years later, children, schools and states celebrate the violence, genocide and imperialism that followed his arrival in the Americas.


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Look before you watch

This past weekend “Birth of a Nation,” a Sundance-favored period drama based loosely on the life of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who lead a slave rebellion in the 1800s, opened with disappointing numbers at the box office.