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K-ville is stupid. That’s the most important thing about tenting. Next to the stupidity, everything else is just sweetener. Not that I have anything but love for playing outdoor beer pong while waiting to watch Carolina fans and players and Ol’ Roy suffer. But K-ville is stupid, and that’s why you should do it.
You won’t have any trouble finding students who say that the administration has been far stricter in enforcing alcohol policy this year, but it’s a tough claim to prove.
DSG gets huge props for creating something called “Vice President for Social Culture.” Kim Jong-un is going to be mad at Dear Student Government for thinking up that lyrical title before he could. Actually, maybe that’s what Duke’s Social Culture needs—more military parades.
Making it easier to pay for a Duke education would help shoo away Duke’s cult of money. That would be good for all of us.
What makes the Duke Social Relationships Project report different from the long line of official (and unofficial, ahem) commentaries on the lives of Duke undergraduates? DSRP refuses to play the culture game, a stance that is both refreshing and overdue.
Beauty, courage, wisdom—sounds like a nice trio, but what are they and how do they work? Tom Ferraro, Frances Hill Fox professor of English and director of undergraduate studies, has made it his business to push his students to answer that risky question as thoughtfully as they can. If that sounds to you like high stakes stuff, you’re starting to understand why Ferraro teaches literature the way he does. To Ferraro, a liberal arts education is a powerful tool for living precisely because it involves asking difficult and essential questions.
The Duke brand is supposed to be something we project outward. If we’re marketing ourselves well, our brand is supposed to work as bait for high school students, a sacrifice on the altar of US News and a holy charm to ward off Jezebel and Deadspin.
Is print really dead? If you’re skeptical of that morbid conclusion, you have an ally in Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs. Jakubs notes that the number of patrons entering Duke’s libraries has steadily increased even as digital media becomes more dominant. Duke Libraries continues to acquire more than 80,000 hard-copy volumes in a typical year, and Jakubs doesn’t think that number will get smaller any time soon. Of course, Duke Libraries is also growing its collection of e-books and other digital materials. But the library space itself can’t be reduced to a downloadable file—last year’s $13.6 million gift from David M. Rubenstein is girding an upcoming renovation effort that will turn a western chunk of Perkins into the new David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Perkins as we know it is the place students tell Jakubs they “come to get serious,” but the building moonlights as the biggest party venue on campus. The next Library Party is on the horizon (“Heroes and Villains,” February 24), and last year’s “Mad Men & Mad Women” is widely and fondly remembered. Here are some things you should know about the multi-talented Duke Libraries system.
What does a good Young Trustee (YT) application look like? The fewer cliches, the merrier—that old rule of writing has special significance in the YT race.
I can’t believe I decided to major in English. I swear I just did it for the money.
Rush is about to start, so I hope you’re in the mood for matching sorority T-shirts. It should be a lot of fun, as long as we all remember not to take any of it too seriously.
How would Duke be different if none of us considered ourselves combatants in a campus culture war? If nothing else, we’d all be able to talk about on-campus problems without feeling like what we said had to reflect allegiance as much as conscience.
Mohsen Kadivar spent 18 months in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison, mostly in solitary confinement. Kadivar says he wasn’t especially bothered by the isolation, since it allowed him to work 16 hours a day on his theological and political writings. Calling Kadivar “resilient” sounds like cheerleading, so I’ll settle for calling him tough.
Take your favorite Cultural Figure and drop him/her at the front of your classroom. Imagine that, on the first day of class, he/she hands you a cranky syllabus—the kind that reels off threats and promises like someone’s manipulative parent.
Like all desperate seniors, I’ve spent a lot of time during the past few months interviewing for ways to feed myself. I can now confidently state that everything you need to know about interviewing can be expressed in three words: Be a leader.
Occupy Duke has resoundingly accomplished at least one of its goals, not so much in spite of as because of its critics. The Occupiers have succeeded in fostering a dialogue, and hecklers are a big part of the conversation.
Alex Rosenberg fits the classic mold of the philosopher: hyper-opinionated and self-assured. The R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and the chair of Duke’s department of philosophy, Rosenberg has probably never been part of a dull conversation. Rosenberg walks a fine line between offering answers and admitting that some answers just aren’t available. When asked whether his perfect world would be one without religion, he paused and sighed: “I suppose so. I don’t sort of deal in perfect worlds. I just want this world to be a little better, and even that, I’m not very sanguine about.”
As we’ve been repeatedly told, the house model is going to be set up whether we like it or not. Let’s just hope that one particular tenet of the administration’s proposal doesn’t work out the way they’ve planned.
Larry Moneta may well deserve the ire he’s recently raised both on campus and within the broader Duke community. Too bad hating on LMo might be exactly what LMo wants you to do.
A thunderstorm threatened to interrupt my interview with Nathaniel Mackey, the new Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing and winner of the 2006 National Book Award for poetry. The rattling windows didn’t faze Mackey. He kept answering my questions, speaking slowly, giving each word its moment. It was only when his phone started ringing that Mackey finally broke away from one of his answers. Having just finished telling me that the mundane world has to be present in even the most mystical art, he quipped, “The world is calling.” A joke, yes, but talking about writing with Mackey is like that: He creates his own space, both a refuge and a vantage point, using nothing more than language.
