The Chapel Hill Town Council was presented with a report Monday night outlining a set of strategies designed to limit the size of the Halloween festivities on Franklin St. Under this plan, the town...
The Disney singalongs hosted by Duke University Union Freewater Presentations has proven to be a big hit among undergraduate students since its inception. What is meant as a way for Duke students...
I appreciate The Chronicle's Sept. 22 front page article, "Offshore drilling emerges as issue in N.C. races," on the issue of "offshore" drilling, but the claim that my "plan does not address...
Duke Student Government's retaliation against student input in the referendum is both offensive and misguided on so many levels. DSG is so consumed with pushing its own agenda that the concept of...
In response to Nana Duffuor's Sept. 18 column, "Playing Blue Devil's advocate," in athletics-and in academic, social or working life-the term character is not an indicator of perfection. All of us...
The Chronicle Sept. 16 article "Fuqua announces international growth" is a followup to a July 10 article that appeared over the summer, "Going global." Both speak of establishing Duke or Fuqua...
The Sept. 18 article, "DSG plans to evaluate spending" suggests that Duke Student Government's response to the failed student activities fee referendum will involve a lot of whining. Also, perhaps...
In response to Lauren Maisel's Sept. 15 letter, "Judicial Affairs' policies need more student input," I would like to clarify the process used this past year for changing judicial policy. Duke's...
If something is false, the more times you say it, the closer to the truth it becomes. Right? Lately that appears to be the mentality upon which the Republican Party has been operating. This policy...
In response to the Sept. 15 letter to the editor, "Where's my financial aid initiative?" by Nicole Diaz Nelson, Nelson's attack on President Richard Brodhead and financial aid at Duke was misguided...
Reading David Distenfeld's Sept. 11 article, "Palin comparison," I found myself confused by his partisan doublethink. Distenfeld and other Palin critics have furiously raised the spectre of...
In his Sept. 12 column, "Inspired by conservatism," Oliver Sherouse praised Sen. John McCain for advocating vouchers, an idea put forth by right-wing conservatives aiming to destroy the public...
Last year, Duke Student Government advocated a series of amendments to Duke's judicial process. These changes included entitling a student to more time between the start of his or her investigation...
I realize that the hot-button issue on campus is usually something like Tailgate, but can we shift the administration's focus away from that and think about the outrageous privilege and economic...
In response to the Sept. 12 column, "Inspired by conservatism," by Oliver Sherouse: On what planet has Sherouse been living on for the past eight years where he manages to find these inspiring...
The student activities fee is a great... job opportunity. The Chronicle article on Sept. 11, "DSG overhauls fee proposal before vote" was a good try at explaining what in the world Duke Student...
They said it couldn't be done, it was impossible to incorporate with this format. We were told it was a casualty of the "upgrade." The graphic schedule was gone forever and it's format not...
I'm writing to take issue with an insinuation given by my friend and colleague Mike Munger in the Sept. 8 Chronicle article, "Prof. admin contributions lean to the left." It is a mistake to equate...
The rally that took place in the late hours of Wednesday night's Duke Student Government meeting was neither a platform shift nor a dramatic change of course. It was, quite simply, a budget...
In his column "Palin Comparison" yesterday, David Distenfeld provided valuable insight into the club recruitment process on campus. It was when he attempted to equate this process with Sen. John...
