The Duke Friends of Israel Executive Board would like to thank the Muslim Students Association and the Arab Student Organization for emphasizing commitment to the relationship between MSA, ASO, DFI...
As an alumnus and former employee of both Duke Student Affairs and the prior insurance vendor, I was discouraged to hear of the difficulties that Duke students have suffered due to the recent...
Ben Shelton's Jan. 7 column, "Just add fried chicken," is very close to making a good point about campus culture, but just narrowly misses the important bit. His definition of "culture" is a little...
In response to the Jan. 8 letter submitted by Scott Smith following Duke's Jan. 7 game against Davidson, we would like to assert that the band's free-throw distractions are in no way racially...
I was fortunate enough to get tickets to last night's game and travel from Michigan to attend my first game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. As a neutral, yet rabid college basketball fan, I had always...
The Panhellenic Association's chapter presidents would like to respond to the statements about Alpha Omicron Pi published in the December Towerview's "Rumor Mill." Not only were the statements...
The Dec. 4 editorial, "DPAC excitement and reservation," is insipid and infuriating. The $46-million Durham Performing Arts Center has four seats less than Carnegie Hall. The average ticket will be...
I recently read the Nov. 21 editorial, "Send Brown into town," expressing disappointment in Duke Student Government Vice President for Durham and regional affairs sophomore Andrew Brown and his...
At the School of the Americas protest two weekends ago in Ft. Benning, Ga., I met a woman named Maria from El Salvador who had been tortured by SOA graduates. She had been working with teachers'...
I often hear the one-sided claim that marriage is a religious term. In fact, the etymology of the English word "marriage" goes back 800 years to the Latin word "maritus," and, over time, it has...
They're in our bathroom stalls, residence halls and classrooms: signs reminding us to flush the toilet this way or that, recycle, use double-sided e-Print and not wash our hands. But despite...
The Nov. 24 editorial, "Let SLGs live on Central," is the second-the first is the Nov. 11 editorial, "Let sophomores live on [Central]"-I've read recently to propose that the Arts Theme House be...
I had the pleasure of returning to Cameron Indoor Stadium two Sundays ago to watch the men's basketball game. What stood out more than anything was the lack of student seating. I know you don't...
In response to the Nov. 21 editorial, "Send Brown into town," let me be Duke Student Government Vice President for Durham and regional affairs sophomore Andrew Brown's publicist for the day. In the...
Oliver Sherouse naively stated in his Nov. 21 column, "Defending the defenders," about gay marriage that he does not "really have a dog in this fight." It is this type of attitude that perpetuates...
Although Oliver Sherouse's argument in his Nov. 21 column, "Defending the defenders," may be technically well thought out, he is still guilty of making the same sweeping generalizations about the...
In response to Mike Cools' Nov. 20 guest column "Tobacco's turn," I'd like to ask him what the rights of an individual are with regard to smoking. Certainly a person has the right to breath...
I was pleased to read Abby Alger's Nov. 18 DukeVotes piece, "Cents and sensibility," regarding the prospects for the Republican party in America. From my progressive, Democrat perspective, it is...
James Tager's Nov. 19 column "Shut down the SOA" is an example of poor research. He criticizes Duke students for enjoying their weekend instead of going down to Fort Benning to protest something he...
In Ade A. Sawyer's Nov. 14 column, "Deuces dubya," he labels President George W. Bush as "simply unprepared for his moment in history." Although I understand-not necessarily agree with-his explicit...
