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(04/15/13 7:26am)
For years, students have celebrated Bon Appetit’s patronage of local vendors through its Farm-to-Fork program in the Marketplace and Great Hall. Consequently, many of us were surprised and disappointed upon reading the April 4 article, “Duke dining puts local vendors on hiatus.” This sudden “pause” on local purchasing reveals a larger issue: a lack of consistency and transparency in Duke Dining’s approach to sustainability.
(12/07/12 9:34am)
On the silver screen, we watched Sean Penn’s mob open fire on moviegoers in a Hollywood theatre. The dramatic clip, climax of the trailer for “Gangster Squad,” was met with stunned silence. The audience broke into uneasy murmurs. It was July 21, the day after James Holmes shot 70 people, killing 12, in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
(11/09/12 9:51am)
Tuesday was a great day for weed and weddings. Yet while Colorado and Washington serenely celebrate, West Coast environmentalists and food activists are up in arms over the defeat of California’s Proposition 37.
(10/26/12 3:39am)
What issue does Romney mention three times a day but never during debates? What can be found on the table in the first family’s dining room, but not in President Obama’s platform?
(10/12/12 6:39am)
Is Duke an “activist campus?” Three years ago, I would have replied with skepticism. The Duke I saw was a grade-grubbing, award-chasing, social-climbing campus. It was a place for intellectuals, perhaps, but not activists. Thankfully, I soon met passionate, visionary students who convinced me otherwise. And though some of the petty impressions persist, I’m starting to understand my college experience as an exercise in advocacy.
(09/28/12 5:58am)
“Umm excuse me, is the chicken free range?” inquired a friendly professor-type when I asked for her order. I confirmed with our chef that, indeed, the roasted chicken had the requisite free range stamp. But as I dutifully jotted down her order, I wanted to ask: What exactly do you mean by that?
(09/14/12 6:50am)
Here’s a game for Sporcle fans: What do the following locations have in common? Bangladesh, Barbados, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, Miami and Vancouver. Besides being unlikely locations for a Duke student to study abroad, these are areas that could be at least partially under the sea by the year 2100. There will be no dramatic “Day After Tomorrow” scenario. The gradual inundation will take many forms: coastal erosion, violent storms and nagging tides that creep higher each year.
(08/31/12 4:41am)
A smattering of red dots on a jungle-green canvas—this was my baby, my long-awaited final product. These colored pinpricks represented plantations of pineapple, coca, oil palm and cacao, and I had spent an entire week constructing them. As I entered thousands of data points, my finger muscles memorized the space between Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. Let it be known: Mapmaking is tedious work.
(05/17/12 10:40am)
I am a knee-jerk optimist. Call me naïve, but I can’t help hoping for the best. I tend to believe that the students in Perkins won’t steal my laptop while I grab coffee at VDH, which friends attribute to my “safe” Midwestern upbringing. I come from Iowa, a state that I’m proud to say legalized gay marriage the month before I graduated from high school. Knowing that the Supreme Court in this rural state could unanimously rule in favor of legalizing gay marriage, I was confident that NC Amendment One would be defeated on May 8. Durham was looking glamorous through my rosy glasses. Look at all the students voting early! Check out the Protect All NC Families signs on Main Street! How could this silly amendment pass?
