The recent and deeply ugly disturbances on campus involving threats and racial slurs have coincided with a national wave of dissatisfaction with college culture.
The Chronicle’s recent editorial that argues for the disbanding of the Duke College Republicans comes to a strong conclusion without a strong argument to back it up.
It was another life, another time, another place. Well, actually, it only feels that way. In reality it was freshman orientation, four years ago, on East Campus. I had just returned from the great...
Well, folks, we've done it yet again. The interminable hours of endorsement meetings have passed, the letters nobody reads have stopped taking up space in the paper and most of the inane posters...
Duke has always drawn its share of haters. In fact, we're the No. 1 most hated school on CBS's NCAA tournament Facebook application. We're like the Yankees or the Lakers: good enough for long...
So I guess we've finally learned what it takes to turn Duke against Barack Obama: picking North Carolina for the Final Four and not us. What's worse, he even had the unmitigated gall to pick the...
All war is a scam." Well, that's what a student in a class of mine told the professor as we were all sitting around waiting for class to start, anyway. I hadn't been following the conversation...
Last week, Duke was hit by a troll. Not the kind of troll that waits under bridges for unsuspecting billy goats, but the kind that has become so plentiful on the untamed Internet. In Internet...
One of the disadvantages of living on an active college campus is the number of events and student groups trying to get your attention. Fliers, posters and banners compete to have the loudest...
Fair: now there's a great word. Everybody loves things to be fair. Fair play is so ingrained in our cultural consciousness that our national leaders feel compelled to examine baseball players over...
