I'd like to take this moment to be thankful that I didn't go to Duke as an undergrad. Now before you take up rakes and shovels against me, listen to my reasoning. Since I moved here, I've been hearing a lot about "effortless perfection," a buzz phrase for something Duke women apparently crave to the point of mental deterioration.
Things change, people graduate, but the morning Chronicle, tinged with a cup of Alpine coffee, is forever. It's under these auspices that I say goodbye… to both The Chronicle and to Duke. My column, since its meager (and controversial) beginnings freshman year, has attempted to understand a college culture that values sex on social terms, and my investment in the Duke lacrosse case reflects this.
A column written by David Rademeyer appeared in The Chronicle entitled "T-Shirt Ethics" (April 10) in which Rademeyer attacks the Honor Council and the new Duke Community Standard. The DCS recently was passed by student referendum, receiving 74 percent of the vote.