Mohsen Kadivar, an Ayatollah, dissident and Iranian exile who now teaches at Duke, dedicated his first book to his father. “A humble teacher,” Kadivar calls him, “practicing reason, religiosity,...
We finish October wearing masks. Cloaked in cloaks, hair under wigs, eyes canopied by false lashes. Costumed masses will parade Franklin Street, unrecognizable. On Halloween, we experience the...
We have no 9/11 stories to tell. Like most Americans, we were far from New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. that day.
The weather plans to turn cold tomorrow. By “cold,” we mean forecasts predict a drop to 56-degrees Farenheight in Durham. North Carolina routinely cushions us out of summer, remaining sultry and...
Do you perceive a relative lack of quality among today’s artists when measuring them against the Eagles, or even Chuck Berry?
Sunday, May 1 marked our first day of production as a new masthead. At 9:30 p.m. we were adding the finishing touches to the issue and looking forward to an uncharacteristically early night. Less...
SMELL THIS MAGAZINE. Ink and glossed pages—32 of them—like all the Towerviews that came before.
Like the comings and goings of the McRib, time works in mysterious ways.
The Chronicle has a history of being produced by undergraduates. Towerview, this stack of papers affiliated with The Chronicle, has a (much shorter) history of being produced by The Chronicle’s...
The university publication is a constantly changing entity. At its heart is a group of rapidly changing students putting words, images and designs together into a non-saleable commodity.
Some people say that the best gifts are the gifts of self. Or that it’s the thought that counts. We’d like to respectfully disagree.
One ring of people to rule the world; one issue to find them, one school to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I've never understood the attraction of Chronicle columns. Reading or writing them-it seems to me that both are overrated. But sometimes it's nice to have a chance to get on your soapbox, and...
In Thursday's editorial, "Our loss of will," the independent Editorial Board cited a speech by Reynolds Price sixteen Founders' Days ago. The phrasing used to capture the way in which it was...
Recess has a wide purview-and today, with the rest of these pages full of fine art, music, film and interior design, I'm taking a stab at media criticism. With luck, I can be like David Carr-become...
The most exciting announcement of all is that this year TV celebrates its tenth anniversary volume!
Sophomore Benjamin Cohen was elected sports editor for Volume 104 of The Chronicle at a meeting of the sports staff Monday night.
