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(08/26/09 7:00am)
For several months, the van noisily dragged a sheet of metal from its undercarriage along the city street. One day, the noise stopped when the metal had been ground down enough so that it no longer touched the road. A few months after, the transmission fluid spontaneously bled out of the vehicle, a condition from which the van miraculously recovered only days later. And a few days after that, another piece of metal (from God knows where at this point) escaped from its natural resting place under the van, clanking along the ground. Add this to a broken right headlight, slight rusting of the right passenger door, a pseudo-functioning rear passenger sliding door and a gas mileage between 12 and 15 mpg, and you have yourself a good, old-fashioned "clunker."
(04/10/09 7:00am)
I ain't never seen no white person," the child confided. The summer elementary school lunchroom was bustling with more than a hundred kids as the St. Louis summer day rolled by. Seven volunteers, including five Duke students, were taking as much of a rest as they would get during their DukeEngage project. But for a child who had never seen a white person before, the four volunteers with lighter skin seemed odd. According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the school had enrolled one white student since 2004. When I played football in the morning with the kids, my draft nickname alternated between "Duke" and "white boy." Such schools are deemed "racially isolated." According to the Civil Rights Project, 38.5 percent of African-American and 40 percent of Latino children attend such racially isolated schools.
(03/27/09 7:00am)
When the student body votes in the Duke Student Government election this upcoming Tuesday, a new constitution resolution will also be on the ballot. The document seems to be effectively brief, but sometimes what initially appears to be sweet can be quite sticky in application.
(03/20/09 7:00am)
OBAMA WANTS YOUR MONEY!" the man was shouting from the right rear window of a red sedan. It was St. Patrick's Day in New York City and the revelry had momentarily turned into political criticism in the middle of 12th Avenue.
(03/06/09 9:00am)
Recovery.gov finally got a little more exciting this week. Now you can see a map of the United States, with breakdowns of where federal stimulus dollars are going. Even if it does nothing else, at least a few more inquisitive people will learn just where Missouri is located in the United States. I choose my home state, Missouri, for a reason, and not just because the second question I was asked as a Duke student was whether or not my state was on the West Coast (it's not).
(02/27/09 9:00am)
Never again" just keeps coming around. Last semester, I wrote a column about the swastika vandalism that appeared on East Campus. The victims of that bigotry were housed in Giles. Just a few days ago, Giles received another free makeover, this one targeting homosexuals.
(02/20/09 9:00am)
The black-suited, horned monster of the dark side stood perched by his master, taking in the cold dull air. "At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi," the demonic disciple said. "At last we will have revenge." "You have been well trained, my young apprentice," the master assured. "They will be no match for you." And so began the epic battle that would result in the death of countless Jedi, good destroyed at the hands of pure evil, until a glimmer of hope burst into a cataclysmic blast leaving good triumphing over evil.
(02/06/09 9:00am)
President Barack Obama sat on the plain, wooden chair, calm as always, facing CNN's Anderson Cooper, who had just asked the president which was more sobering: the daily national security report or the daily briefing on the economy. The president responded that the most alarming aspect of the crisis is how "fast the economy has been deteriorating." It explains his push for quick passage of the fiscal stimulus bill. Not everybody, however, agrees that a stimulus is necessary. Recently, the Cato Institute bought an ad in major newspapers, signed by a few hundred economists, denouncing the government spending initiative.
(01/30/09 9:00am)
Earlier this week, America witnessed perhaps the oddest whistle-stop tour in its history. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, while he was being tried in his home state of Illinois, decided to make a stop on Good Morning America... and The View... and Larry King Live... and just about everywhere else. And he started off with a bang: Oprah Winfrey for senator! And that's where his show ended. No one really cared about what else Blagojevich had to say. But the idea of Oprah as senator was quite novel.
(01/23/09 9:00am)
Before Tuesday, many Americans believed that they would never live to witness the day this country would swear in a black president. There's only one black legislator sitting in the Senate today. Struggling urban school districts predominantly serve minority communities. African-Americans are overrepresented in prison populations. Racism has evolved into a de facto state of society-yet the civil rights movement is no longer as important as it once used to be.
(01/16/09 9:00am)
Only a few blocks from where I am staying in New York, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River. At around 3:30 p.m., the television flashed the breaking news. Police sirens blasted throughout the city and continued to do so, with less frequency, three hours later. As soon as the plane hit the water, commuter ferries were dispatched to the crash site. The ferry operators, Coast Guard, police, firefighters, paramedics and countless others worked quickly and seamlessly. All 155 people were taken off the plane, brought ashore in either New York or New Jersey, and sent to hospitals for treatment. At 5:54 p.m., Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. David Paterson, and other leaders held a press conference to tell the world what they knew and what they didn't know.
(01/09/09 9:00am)
Just a few weeks ago, no one was talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a pressing matter. When 1.5 million Palestinians were blocked off from the rest of the world, when rocket barrages struck civilian targets in southern Israel, when a militant organization took control of the Gaza Strip, the United Nations didn't call an emergency session. The world, and most notably the United States, the apparent mediator in the region, stood back from this powder keg. Now that it has exploded into its obvious result, the international community is in an uproar. But these denunciations are coming too late.
(12/08/08 5:00am)
Operation Hushpuppy, Day 17?-I've lost track of the days outside of Edens base 2A, but by my memory's count we started the siege on McClendon Tower more than two weeks ago. I'm holed up in one of the abandoned Keohane tunnels we dug from the Edens territory years ago. I'm just about out of rations and I'm down to five socks, but enough ammonia to keep them at bay. They've eaten straight through the tunnel light wiring, but there are a few holes through the surface shining gray light down. The sky is always gray.
(11/20/08 5:00am)
Last week, we were lied to. You may have noticed an administrator's quote in the Nov. 11 article in The Chronicle, "East Campus dorms vandalized," describing vandalism involving a swastika on East Campus as an "isolated incident." But was this really the lone instance of such intimidation? This "isolated incident" was, according to a member of East Campus Council, actually the second occurrence of such intimidation at Duke. You weren't notified when the first swastika showed up. Most students weren't informed about the second swastika. And no one was told there could be two separate occurrences.
(11/06/08 5:00am)
That will be 12 McNabbs, please. And throw on some Kobes, too. But get rid of those Romos. His pinky injury is killing the price!
(10/23/08 4:00am)
Fifty-three years ago, a secret group on this campus took matters into their own hands. They decided it was time for a change. This group worked their connections, pushed their agenda and got exactly what they wanted-something better, more independent, maybe even slightly subversive. What was this secret society's plan? Bringing something to campus that would last for all eternity. Not a monument to commemorate their own brotherhood, but a temple of knowledge for all students. This group conjured up the Gothic Bookshop.
(10/09/08 4:00am)
A crisis in five acts:
(09/25/08 4:00am)
The Duke Student Government referendum was a sham. Your government pulled a fast one on you, and you may not even be aware.
(09/11/08 4:00am)
Ten months and 10 days in a urine-stained, lightless, grave-like cell in Jordan and another in Syria. Ten months and 10 days of beatings. Ten months and 10 days of interrogations causing spontaneous defecation. Maher Arar was a Canadian citizen. He was a suspected terrorist and, during a flight layover in New York, Arar was detained by the United States and was later sent to rendition camps for further questioning. He didn't return home until almost a year later. He was convicted of nothing.
(08/28/08 4:00am)
Have you noticed the sidewalks getting a little bit more crowded? Those airplane seats just not as cozy? Fast food bags slightly more prevalent than they used to be? Less kids out on the playground?
