We write to deplore a breach in civility between the Duke and greater Durham communities. Last Saturday, at the conclusion of the WXDU Backyard Barbecue held on the West Campus Plaza, three Duke...
I remain troubled by how out of touch with reality members of the academic far left are about the Muslim world. Andrew Gerst's Aug. 30 column "Where are the Moderate Muslims" has set off angry,...
After all of the controversy over using stereotypes as the basis for humor in The Chronicle last semester, you would think that this year's writers and cartoonists might have learned a lesson. But...
"Actions speak louder than words". or do they? During the past nine months, the Duke community has been highly scrutinized and criticized by the outside world. While the main focus of attention...
What Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, did was make people see the beauty in the terrifying. Making people care about manatees is easy. Making people care about scorpions, jellyfish,...
The official name of the new medical school is the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (GMS), a name that reflects a full partnership between Duke and the National University of Singapore to...
Why does everyone overlook the not-so-minor detail of Central Campus students having a nearly impossible time of getting to or near East Campus?
Who are the moderate Muslims, those whom Gerst pleads to stand forth in the name of Islam and break " this fortress of lies and hate" that beguile " thousands of college-aged Muslims caught in a...
This Tuesday, summer classes at Duke were in session, in spite of the Independence Day holiday. During the rest of the academic year, Duke also has classes in session on Labor Day and Memorial Day....
I applaud Randall Drain, Trinity '05, for his courageous and poignant column published in the June 15th issue of The Chronicle. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Drain that the lack of support...
The failure of the DSG Student Services Committee to obtain alcohol for the Tent Masquerade Party was an unfortunate mistake that highlighted fundamental problems in DSG and wasted this year's only...
Recently at the University of Maryland a bar offered "penny pints" during a two-hour period in which only women were permitted entry. As a response to such an event, female university...
In order to reach a conclusion on the fate of the millions of immigrants that live in the United States, we must first drop stereotypes and recognize the reality. The generalization made of illegal...
The vitriol bounced off the letters page of The Chronicle, directed toward an op-ed quoting C.S. Lewis's famous line from The Abolition of Man: "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue...
At the risk of arousing the wrath of the righteous, I would like to offer my impressions of Mike Pressler, recent coach of the Duke men's lacrosse team. I have known Coach Pressler and his family...
I am both appalled and saddened by an anonymous and cowardly quote in the April 11 article, "Community questions if case is closed." The Durham resident who refused to give her name said, "The...
As a former desk editor and current editorial board member at The Daily Tar Heel who is living at Duke this semester, I rarely praise The Chronicle. In fact, I often toss it away in disgust after...
Perhaps, as Stephen Miller suggested yesterday, the Lacrosse team incident was not the incident that protesters and community leaders should have cited to speak to larger ingrained prejudice at...
As both a Durham resident and Duke student, I am appalled at the recent events and actions taken by the DA's office and Police Department in their investigation of the Duke Lacrosse team. The...
Now that "the innocent can be ruled out" I hope that the opportunistic Mike Nifong, the Durham community, the media and the nation can apologize to the Duke men's lacrosse team just as quickly as...
