There are a lot of homeless people in Chapel Hill. I don't want to see them. I don't like hearing, "Can you spare some change?" every time I walk down Franklin Street. I hate those pangs of guilt...
A crisis is here and now, and it's time for you to recognize it. I'm a terrorist. You're a terrorist. Richard Brodhead is definitely a terrorist. If the more publicized aspects of...
JACK BAUER'S BIDET is lonely-his one female friend "found a nice Pratt boy." Quite frankly, JACK is confused. What would propel a lovely young Trinity student toward an engineer? It's like Romeo...
The recent republication of a series of political cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has been greeted by an international, intercultural and interfaith firestorm. Now, these cartoons may have...
Woody Allen delivers a monologue at the beginning of Annie Hall recounting an old Groucho Marx joke that goes "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member."...
As a freshman, I'm still recovering from those harrowing, soul-searching, life-determining months and years that went into my decision to come to Duke, and around the Marketplace and in Writing 20...
On this page you've read numerous compelling, incisive and sometimes scandal-mongering commentaries about the current state of Duke dining. This is not one of those commentaries. Sure, I enjoy...
The majority of the postgame discussions did not revolve around Duke's hard-fought victories. Instead, the only thing anyone wanted to talk about was the allegedly poor officiating that helped to...
President Richard Brodhead had his annual "conversation" with Duke Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council Monday night. Brodhead was his usual part-Yogi Bear,...
Like so many others of my generation, I've grown up thinking that you're supposed to be able to find anything on Google. That's why when I googled Black History Month, I expected to find pages and...
Some of the best life lessons I've learned at Duke have come from the man who polices the chapel traffic circle every morning. Along with jewelry made of bike parts, Chance always dispenses...
The quality of care extended to students through Counseling and Psychological Services at Duke recently has been called into question by some on campus. Recognizing that confidentiality and...
Dissent is not necessarily patriotic. It can be. But it can also be treasonous. It depends entirely upon the nature and content of one's dissention. To dissent is no more unequivocally patriotic...
In the wake of the latest unpleasantness between the Islamic world and the secular West this last week, one thing is certain: We haven't seen the last cartoons of Mohammed with a bomb tucked into...
Early on the morning of April 18, 1985, Mike came into the world with misplaced vessels and a hole in his heart. In the first hours of his life, he was flown by helicopter to the only surgeon...
Today there are two sports rivalries in America that, according to history and hype, stand high above the rest. They are Duke-North Carolina in college basketball, and the Yankees-Red Sox in...
Every college has a few dirty little secrets it keeps hidden in the closet. or in Duke's case, the bathroom. I transferred to Duke from a "pot school" where it is usually easier to obtain marijuana...
Self-described "conservatives" at Duke are fixated on the notion that "liberals" are crowding out their ideas, as shown by the uproar over "academic freedom" and Harry Belafonte's Sunday appearance.
It's that time of year again! Pretty girls abound! JACK BAUER'S BIDET thought he woke up in a gutter on Franklin Street after a characteristic pre-drop/add bender, but it was just sorority...
If you look at the political affiliations of Duke students on facebook.com, you'll notice a lot of moderates and apathetics, and it's really not surprising.
