OPINION
Thursday's newspaper
By Karen Hauptman | March 11, 2005Yesterday afternoon, The Chronicle’s distribution bins were empty.
Yesterday afternoon, The Chronicle’s distribution bins were empty.
The truth can finally come out now that my parents have made the final payment on my college education.
My fellow citizens, I speak to you via Chronicle column to inform you of a great danger that is about to infiltrate U.S. cities today.
Anyone who has dated someone of another ethnicity knows that not everybody is fine with interracial relationships. Couples often receive awkward looks and stares in public, and many college...
Loans aren’t our favorite type of financial aid—in fact, those of us who have loans often complain about making monthly payments after graduation.
I have been to lots of different sports since I have been here—I’ve been to wrestling and it is one of the places where you see the nature of what disciplined skill looks like.
Before I realized the unique experience that is college, I had only secondary sources such as history books and Saved by the Bell: The College Years to go on.
NOTE: none of the jokes included belong to the author. Joke 1 — A marquis returns from a business trip to find his wife in bed with the archbishop. After a moment’s pause, the startled...
Despite all of the varying opinions espoused about the ideal nature of a tax system, one thing seems clear: People do not particularly enjoy paying their taxes.
There’s a lot of brilliance among Duke’s undergraduates. But you’d never know that from looking at our dominant culture.
In the autumn of 2004 I returned to Duke as a graduate student, and many things on campus had changed. Here at the age of 23 I began to feel old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and...
The Duke Sudan Coalition faces an interesting dilemma.
When you’ve been writing these for as long as I have, you start seeing arguments everywhere. They sprout from exhausted soil, even from the most outworn rhetorical tropes.
O, woe unto us! Hunter S. Thompson has died! He has shot himself in the head while talking on the telephone with his wife. His children were in the home at the time. And now he is dead.
Give the governor a harrumph.
Just one more week. Just one more week until Dan Rather “retires” from CBS News’s anchor chair and starts filing reports for 60 Minutes. Just one more.
Imagine for a moment that you are our beloved Coach K.
A frequent student gripe about coursework is that what we’re learning has no relevance to our lives. For relevance, fortunately, we can turn to the library.
Welcome, comrade! Congratulations on defecting to graduate school, an endless march from darkness into light towards a bountiful utopia, guided by scientific principles and strict adherence to the...