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(01/16/15 10:36am)
The University made a huge misstep by reversing its decision to allow students to recite the adhan from the Chapel Tower before Friday prayers. Allowing the call to prayer was wise, empathetic and progressive. Granted, it subjected us all to hysterical insensitivity from the likes of Franklin Graham and Fox News, but if the University had stopped there, the good would have ultimately outweighed the bad. As it happened, in the face of this opposition, the University almost immediately decided to cancel the call to prayer, wiping out all gains and capitulating to intolerance and Islamophobia and thereby undermining the University's claim to be, in the worlds of Michael Schoenfeld vice president for public affairs and government relations, "an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus."
(02/17/10 10:00am)
I was pleased to see The Chronicle publish a letter to the editor Feb. 16 entitled “Replace inefficient employees,” which complained about the “indolent” employees who work on campus. The writer complained that the opportunities for acquiring omelets and sandwiches on campus, so capacious at her old boarding school, were severely cramped at Duke due to inefficient employees who should be punished.
(04/21/08 4:00am)
You wouldn't be able to think up a more striking study in contrasts than Erwin Chemerinsky and David Horowitz. It was under rather unfortunate circumstances last week that interested Duke students got the chance to compare them up close. I say unfortunate because it marked one of the last appearances of Chemerinsky as a professor on Duke's campus, and because it meant David Horowitz was within 50 miles of me.
(04/07/08 4:00am)
In my opinion, part of moving from adolescence to adulthood is moving beyond anger or disrespect toward authority to a grudging acceptance. Eventually we realize that some form of authority is inevitable and learn to make our peace with it, working within the system instead of angrily against it.
(03/24/08 4:00am)
I was walking to the library earlier this week after a late class, bracing myself for an hour or two of studying, when I saw a sign advertising an event with Reynolds Price in the Rare Book Room. "Hear Reynolds Price read his translation of the Gospel of Mark," the poster said. I sensed an opportunity, not only to put off studying for an hour or two, but also to hear Price's uniquely melodious voice for the first time since last year. I ducked in just as Price was beginning and sat down.
(03/03/08 5:00am)
At the party in the library Friday, I passed President Richard Brodhead puttering through the crowd. I had a momentary desire to put my hand on his shoulder, look into his eyes and say "Dick, I support you." I'm sure it's something he doesn't hear very often, and I thought it might buck him up. Fending off lawsuits probably takes a toll on a man.
(02/18/08 5:00am)
I know that most people at Duke don't like reading political columns. But at this point, I think one is due, so humor me for a few minutes.
(02/04/08 5:00am)
I got a lesson on the differences between men and women when Heath Ledger died. Whenever I told a girl about it, she was shocked and saddened. Whenever I told a guy about it, he wanted to know if the next "Batman" movie was cancelled.
(01/14/08 5:00am)
This is the most vigorous campaign season in living memory. Living at Duke you wouldn't really know.
(12/10/07 5:00am)
Once upon a time, I thought having free time was a bad thing. I used to be somewhat indignant about all the free time I seem to have at college. It's pretty pricey to go to Duke, as well as difficult to get accepted in the first place, so I guess I expected to be constantly occupied, just to get the most out of the cost.
(12/03/07 5:00am)
DUBUQUE, Iowa - I don't like much about winter, especially in the Midwest. Days are short, the landscape is dead and brown and sometimes the air gets so cold it feels like metal pressed against your skin. Winter has its hazards as well as its inconveniences. There's black ice, frostbite and Seasonal Affective Disorder.
(11/19/07 5:00am)
As of today, the Iowa caucuses are 45 days away-a mere month and a half, broken up by the biggest holidays of the year.
(11/05/07 5:00am)
I hope I don't kill a deer sometime in the next two months. Driving through rural Iowa, I probably travel more than 700 miles a week, and at least every day I slam on the brakes as one of the animals leaps across a two-lane state highway or county gravel road. After years of being hunted, I guess this is their form of revenge-threatening drivers with the possibility of several hundred dollars in body work.
(10/22/07 4:00am)
DUBUQUE, Iowa - When I came to Iowa, I didn't realize it, but I was being inducted into a strange and exclusive fraternity. There is a certain community of people here which-although it isn't secretive or hidden-can't be understood by outsiders very well. Once you're a member, however, you'll always be connected to the other members in a special way.
(10/01/07 4:00am)
DUBUQUE, Iowa - It's been said that in academia, the feuds are so bitter because the stakes are so low. If anything proves that, it's working a full-time job in Iowa.
(09/17/07 4:00am)
Postville, Iowa, has the most rabbis per capita of any city in the United States.
(09/03/07 4:00am)
For those of you just coming off your first weekend at Duke, being on campus must be an exciting and liberating experience.
