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(10/13/11 8:18am)
Last Wednesday, I marched with nearly 15,000 other people in the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. I have also spent some time at the live-in itself at Zuccotti Park. I am writing to encourage Duke students to support the national movement by peacefully occupying Duke. Duke itself may not be a primary culprit in the scandal of corporate greed overwhelming our nation (though this is debatable). By most accounts, Duke has encouraged research and debate, increased financial aid and made efforts to keep student loan debt manageable.
(01/28/09 9:00am)
Edward Mahoney-professor emeritus of philosophy and a Catholic priest in the Raleigh Diocese, who passed away Jan. 8-taught my ancient philosophy course in the spring semester of 2003. He was a great man who made sacrifices few of us in the secular world, I think, could ever fully appreciate.
(10/17/08 4:00am)
I want to thank Tariq Mohideen, with his Oct. 16 column "Mad as hell," for having the incredible courage to share an absolutely essential message with the Duke community: a plea for greater public tolerance and moderation in Islam.
(04/16/07 4:00am)
This is a tale of two crises at Duke. The first is the kind we hear of the vast majority of the time: crimes against victims we can sympathize with, perpetrated by people or forces with whom we can't. With vigils, lectures, publications and other vital efforts, we condemn sexual assault, rapists and bigots. Global disease comes next. With no one to blame, exactly, for HIV and AIDS, we condemn the diseases themselves and pray for a cure.
(04/02/07 4:00am)
WASHINGTON - No one quite knew what to expect in a cold parking lot outside the McDonough Gymnasium at Georgetown last Saturday morning. The Duke men's lacrosse team was coming to town, and anticipation seeped through the air. Would it be like the Blue Zone again? Would it be all old people? Would there be alcohol at all?
(03/19/07 4:00am)
ARLINGTON, Va. - Having escaped from Kansas, I'm now back in the equally strange world of metro-riding, happy hour aficionados known as Duke-in-D.C. Or, as I like to think of it, the "Gothic Bureaucracy."
(02/19/07 5:00am)
In two days, the University of Illinois will abandon its 81-year-old mascot, Chief Illiniwek. A large population of students supported the Chief: in 2004, according to The New York Times, more than 9,100 students voted in favor of keeping the mascot, while around 4,000 voted against it.
(02/05/07 5:00am)
Introduction to British Literature: 297 seats remaining." ACES wouldn't ever spit out such a ridiculous thing. Humanities classes, with few exceptions, rarely enroll more than 30 students. But what if the situation were reversed?
(01/22/07 5:00am)
In the course of a few generations, four years at college have begun to morph from a luxury for the American elite to a rite of passage. According to U.S. Census data, 4.6 percent of Americans had completed at least four years of college in 1940; the number rose to 27.7 percent in 2005. This phenomenon-which has condemned more and more trophy-chasers to three years of law school-even has a name: degree creep.
(12/06/06 5:00am)
On the face of it, Wikipedia-the free Internet encyclopedia-serves a noble purpose: bringing an incredible depth of knowledge to greater audiences than ever before.
(11/08/06 5:00am)
With the digital revolution, we now exist as two entities. There is the "digital" self, who writes with the swiftness of the Internet and the anonymity of an IP address, and the "real" self, who walks and talks. With every medium and context, of course, we must adapt to a new protocol-whether it be communicating without body language over the phone, or choosing to curb one's tongue before calling home.
(10/25/06 4:00am)
When the conservative Academic Bill of Rights author David Horowitz spoke in Page Auditorium last March, a handful of Duke affiliates tried to silence him. The few faculty and students who did so-by loudly giggling, of all things-essentially failed, much to the relief of those who actually wanted to dissent from Horowitz's speech.
(10/11/06 4:00am)
Overland Park, KANSAS - The last time I saw my new home, a modest two-bedroom garden apartment in suburban Washington, D.C., was about a month ago, when the air still rang with the sound of crickets. The closest thing to that out here in the Kansas City hotels is the whir of icemakers and air conditioning, though once in a while you might really hear the tumbleweed roll.
(09/27/06 4:00am)
Since early 2003, 44 Duke professors have signed a petition calling on the University to withdraw investment from "all companies with military ties to Israel." The petition-which also includes the signatures of 161 students, 21 staff and 39 alumni as of Dec. 15, 2005-outlines a series of demands for Israel to meet before Duke might reinvest, including compliance with or acceptance of several United Nations resolutions and a "viable, internationally recognized state acceptable to the Palestinian people."
(09/13/06 4:00am)
O beautiful for spacious skies/For amber waves of grain/For purple mountain majesties/Above the fruited plain!/America! America!."
(08/30/06 4:00am)
Islam is not the enemy," declared the San Francisco Chronicle in an Oct. 14, 2005 staff editorial. "Islam is not America's enemy in terror war," wrote the Daily Herald, a Provo, Utah newspaper, when headlining an Aug. 20 column by Charles Haynes, a scholar at the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va.
(05/01/06 4:00am)
Dear freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors: "We can't be potential forever," a friend said to me a few weeks ago-and he was right. The hardest part about college, for many precocious 17-year-olds home away from home, is finding passion. Most Duke students have come off four high-school years of doing everything-service clubs, varsity sports, the newspaper, student government-and doing it all brilliantly.
(04/26/06 4:00am)
Nice guys finish last, Leo Durocher once quipped, spitting fire as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s. It's hard not to think of that cynicism when one enters the warren-like office of Erwin Chemerinsky, his walls covered with hundreds of books on constitutional theory, civil procedure, legal history--and a framed photo of the greatest Dodger in baseball history, Jackie Robinson.
(04/26/06 4:00am)
What's the deal with Central Campus? Late in July, President Richard Brodhead said students would be moving into the cushy new "student village" in the fall of 2008. As the weeks and dollars keep on rolling by, so does the Central move-in date.
(10/26/05 4:00am)
First Lieutenant Matthew Lynch, who graduated from Duke in 2001 and died last November, had a lot of things to carry in his heart.
