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(04/20/09 7:00am)
In 1998, Mother Jones magazine ranked Duke as the most activist school in America. We were given this distinction due to our ground-breaking anti-sweatshop policy, which came about as a direct result of student pressure. We beat out UNC (as it should be), by seven places. Duke students were surprised; one of the anti-sweatshop activists, Ben Au, Trinity '99, told Duke Magazine that, "Overall, I don't know how activist people are, except about beer-on-points."
(04/07/09 7:00am)
My freshman year, I passed out in Blackwell's second floor bathroom and split my lip on a toilet seat. Sent to the hospital, I was told I was seriously dehydrated. I hadn't even been drinking alcohol (no, honestly. I hadn't). It was that I simply wasn't drinking enough water. The doctors had to pump three liters of fluid through my veins. That was a fairly rough day, but I learned an important lesson. Water: It's pretty important.
(03/24/09 7:00am)
Purple." Junior Sam Bowler's face splits into a huge grin. "When I was a child, our family shared this purple blanket, that we would wear when sick. So, for me, purple is a color of healing, of community, of emotional connection and caring. What do Duke students care about, what causes are we emotionally connected to? I believe that each Duke student has an individual story that connects him or her to a larger social need. And that's why I founded Purple."
(03/03/09 9:00am)
Have you ever been in a room where you're the only person who hasn't been in jail? It's an odd feeling, and I highly recommend it.
(02/17/09 9:00am)
I spent this weekend at a place which has been marked by revolutionary action. Many years ago, a group of radicals boldly staged a takeover in order to have their voice heard and to assert their rights. As a result, subsequent generations were better off for their willingness to risk their own safety on behalf of a cause. As you probably can guess, this place was Boston.
(02/03/09 9:00am)
How would the governments of our planet prepare six billion people for the end of the world? They wouldn't." That's the tagline for Hollywood's new Apocalypse movie, "2012." The movie, not yet released, appears to combine scientific theory with ancient prophecy: 2012 happens to be the year in which the Mayan calendar ends. Some believe that this is not a big deal. Others, most notably New Age theorists, believe that the Mayans were on to something, and that the date 12/21/12 will mark the end of mankind on this Earth.
(01/20/09 9:00am)
I'm always in a good mood when I'm eating chicken korma. It's delicious. But I have a friend who evidently doesn't feel the same way, because he was in an angry mood when we met up at Dale's last week.
(12/03/08 5:00am)
I was listening to Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki's convocation speech, originally delivered Aug. 20 to the Class of 2012, on my iPod last week. Nowicki said some things that made me a little nervous. At the end of his speech, he decided to talk about "the really important stuff that makes up this campus-you, its students." He explained that "you must incorporate yourself fully into the body and the mind of Duke University. Renew us. Become us and make us more and better than we are now. "
(11/19/08 5:00am)
They put the Cameron Crazies to shame. Thousands of people converge in Fort Benning, Ga., every November, for an entire weekend. Some have come from the nearby area; others have flown or driven hundreds of miles to be at this annual event. All around, people carry signs, posters, even full-sized puppet figures, singing and shouting slogans and generally making their voices heard. But they're not rooting for a basketball team. In fact, this has nothing to do with sports. This is the annual November vigil to shut down the School of the Americas.
(11/05/08 5:00am)
I wrote this column on Sunday afternoon, when I had no idea who our next president will be. On this Wednesday morning, it is possible that we still don't know who the next leader of our country will be; maybe we'll have another election-day fiasco, a protracted and ugly recount, a low point of political wrangling that will last for weeks, if not months.
(10/22/08 4:00am)
My rabbi chose an odd topic to discuss on this Yom Kippur: food.
(09/24/08 4:00am)
I spent my Saturday afternoon hanging out with 15,000 people.
(09/10/08 4:00am)
I wish I could say it was Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag's fault. On Duke's admissions Web site, he waxes eloquent about how Duke is the place for students to "develop leadership skills" and "use their leadership skills in new venues." Our admissions Web site also proudly boasts "Leadership and Service Opportunities" and profiles some of our approximately 400 student organizations.
(08/27/08 4:00am)
The average Duke student has many reasons to feel poorly disposed towards his Tar Heel neighbors: their uncomfortably competitive basketball team, their lackluster shade of blue and the fact that Tyler Hansbrough killed a man in cold blood in 2004 (no, I can't prove that).
(06/19/08 4:00am)
So far, this is the worst presidential election I have ever seen.
(04/18/08 4:00am)
We would like to clarify our position, and offer our viewpoint on several recent events regarding the Tibet vigil and the ensuing reaction.
(04/11/08 4:00am)
In the recent Tibet controversy that has ignited agitation in London, Paris, San Francisco and now at Duke, creating a storm of disagreement and a whirlwind of protest, I wonder if we've forgotten about Tibet itself.
(02/12/08 5:00am)
The bus ride to East has been really pissing me off recently. It's because of the graffiti. Or, at least, what we refer to as graffiti. In reality, our 'graffiti' is just the sad and stunted progeny of a regal line of antiestablishment expression. If graffiti is a lion of the urban jungle, our East Campus Bridge graffiti is a domesticated house cat.
(08/26/05 4:00am)
It’s only the first day of school, and already I’m way behind. It’s not like I’ve been slacking off. I went to all the student send-off parties and I pre-registered for all my classes. I read The Kite Runner. But I feel as if I’ve missed something, as if I haven’t been able to capitalize on the opportunities offered to me.
