Despite the exhausted FACs whose sweaty size-large T-shirts testify otherwise, many freshman have come to Duke minus something important--something heavier than even boxes packed with five dozen...
As the most recent alteration to Duke's ever-morphing housing policy, beginning this fall, students who are kicked off campus for housing violations will be required to pay the full amount of their...
As the scientists who participated in the "So You Wanna Get Buzzed" drug and alcohol orientation, we would like to respond to the recent editorial expressing great relief that freshmen would not...
Three years ago this week, my oldest brother Geoff, a 1997 Dartmouth graduate, called me as I was frantically packing up 18 years of junk that I just could not live without in college, to wish me...
When the Class of 2007 descends upon campus a month from now, its members will not have to endure one of the most dreaded events of the orientation process: So You Wanna Get Buzzed, an hour-long...
I was walking down Michigan Avenue and a woman was holding a "homeless" sign with her two little children. Her calloused hands were grasping a cup filled with a scanty assortment of coins.
What up gangstas. To those who know the column and have come back, respect. For all you freshman, step right up and experience "TALing It Like It Is.
From the moment we get our acceptance letters, we are on the track, and though changing lanes is encouraged, taking alternate routes seems to be out of the question.
In a landmark decision Monday, the Supreme Court held that race can be a factor in college admissions. The court stressed, however, that affirmative action is no longer based upon the need to...
It had been a particularly slutty month for Sidney. That is how these things usually happen - one does not go to war without some impetus.
After 21 years, this quintessential Long Islander is leaving...for good.
In response to mounting criticism of the current system and months of debate, administrators have recently taken the first steps towards revamping the University's dean's excuse policy. Pending the...
I'm no Miss Cleo, but the future of Duke athletics doesn't look like it will improve if the ACC gobbles up Big East schools Miami, Syracuse and Boston College.
It has become exceedingly clear over the past few years that baseball is no longer America's national pastime.
On college campuses across the nation, student privacy is under attack.
As hot summer air settles in across the American landscape, the sweltering masses flock to their favorite leisure venues in search of the latest innovations in underwhelming entertainment and...
The the Freeman Center for Jewish Life took a positive step toward improving its financial stability last week by agreeing to make major changes in its infrastructure.
On June 2, after its required biannual review of existing federal regulations, the Federal Communciations Commission enacted changes that relax certain rules governing regulation in the media market.
Last week, officials announced a partnership between Duke and Craig Venter, the driving force behind the first successful mapping of the human genome.
