Remembering John Blackburn
By Mary D.B.T. Semans | January 21, 2011At Duke, as with many institutions, we are surrounded by beautiful things: collections, buildings, museums, art objects and on and on.
At Duke, as with many institutions, we are surrounded by beautiful things: collections, buildings, museums, art objects and on and on.
I remember visiting Duke as high school junior for a tour of the campus. My tour guide joked about the giant staircase past Perkins and Bostock as the “great divide” between Trinity and Pratt.
Hear that? It’s the sound of 65,000 dreams dying to be fulfilled; the course of over two million lives to be decided in Congress in the coming days
As David Reynolds correctly stated in Tuesday’s letter to the editor (“Big K-Ville groups unruly, hard to manage”), certain actions committed prior to the Michigan State game were inappropriate,...
The Krzyzewskiville walk-up line large-group policy needs to change. Last Wednesday during the walk-up line for the Michigan State University game, there was a group of 100-plus students that...
A long-term discussion about Duke’s international plans and global strategy must include a review of the current admissions policy as it pertains to international students who are not U.S. citizens...
I have become increasingly disappointed by your journalists’ biased coverage of Duke Student Government.
In the past few weeks, we all have heard about the immediate and pressing dilemmas facing Parking and Transportation Services, particularly in regards to parking and bussing around West Campus.
In response to the column “Harry Potter sucks,” I would first like to say that I agree with Ms. Li: The world would be a much better place without stories emphasizing love, friendship and...
I write in strong support of President Brodhead’s message to students to own their short time at Duke and, in his words, to accept the responsibility to visualize change, force discussion and take...
Our own campus culture, which is a very personal thing for us, is under the nation’s microscope. It’s time to regroup.
I was misquoted in the otherwise-lovely article “’Precious director takes issues head on”
Antonio Segalini’s column “A slippery slope” refers specifically to the creation of the finance concentration within the Economics major.
In his column, “Anticipating unknown unknowns” Gregory Morrison states that “the differential [housing] fees... have been abolished.” We feel it is necessary to clarify that the fees remain in...
What angers and disappoints me the most about the administration’s decision to cancel Tailgate is the idea that the football team deserves more support than other student organizations and...
As a Duke student and Durham native, I am always acutely aware that the “Duke bubble” does not extend to athletic events.
We have been proud to support Tailgate over the years and provide a venue that is open to all but unique to Duke.
I’ve been to a lot of Duke football games over the past 12 years, but Saturday’s game marked two extremes; it was both the most exciting game I’ve seen at Wallace Wade and also the most poorly...
There is not enough space here or in this entire newspaper to do descriptive justice to the experience of being a woman on Duke’s campus.