OPINION
Letter to the Editor: Defending Sigma Chi
By Staff Reports | September 26, 2003Before I proceed with my defense, I want to state something outright: I am not a racist.
Before I proceed with my defense, I want to state something outright: I am not a racist.
When the Duke University Union's Oktoberfest celebration kicks off on Oct.
I wasn't exactly buoyant with optimism when I decided to attend my first Howard Dean gathering.
In my observation of student life, a few new trends have popped up on the radar that cannot go without mention. Some are good, others wrong and the rest too ridiculous to ignore.
Over the summer I worked as a summer hire for the Department of the Navy.
Nathan Carleton laments the fact that he can no longer trust librarians. At issue is a website on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he finds "biased and anti-Semitic.
Let's review some of the stories of the past week. First, most of the Latino community was in an uproar following Sigma Chi's "Viva Mexico" party.
During the contentious debate surrounding the expansion of the ACC this past summer, Duke consistently voiced its opposition to the plan, and voted against the addition of Miami and Virginia Tech.
Twenty years ago, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture was founded at Duke.
The Duke mission statement discusses the University's "commitment to learning, freedom and truth" and "an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry.
In the Sept. 17 issue there was a front-page article, a letter to the editor and an editorial regarding Sigma Chi's "Viva Mexico" party.
Over a year of intense data gathering and analyzation culminated Tuesday with the release of the Women's Initiative Steering Committee's Report--one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Ah, yes, the lifestyle of a common Duke frat boy: cocaine, heroin and sexual assaults. Bridget Newman has finally found the key to what makes fraternity life at Duke tick. After reading her Sept.
This Saturday, East Campus was flooded with my favorite kind of people--homosexuals.
The Duke Conservative Union has admittedly been fairly quiet about campus issues this year. That's why we're surprised to be taking so much heat.
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California successfully petitioned a San Francisco court to delay the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
I wouldn't be very surprised if you haven't already heard of the "security fence," as our prestigious CNN terms it, that Israel is building to separateitself from the Palestinians in the West Bank.
We don't know how to communicate. Man, oh man guys, we have no idea. Things happen: someone says something that pisses us off, makes us uncomfortable, offends us, whatever, and we just shut down.
What's white, wears a collared shirt with khaki's and seeks to offend? Give up? It's a Duke Conservative Union member.
In his landmark 1956 study, anthropologist Horace Miner examined the body rituals of the Nacirema, a people embarrassed by their their physical selves and their physical functions, including any...