The Joost Bosland awards
(11/23/04 5:00am)
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the "Support Duke's Troops" Joost Bosland Awards (SDTJBA's).
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the "Support Duke's Troops" Joost Bosland Awards (SDTJBA's).
We should support our troops, now more than ever. I have been away from Duke for almost a year now. I do not miss President Richard Brodhead, Larry Moneta or John Burness. I do not even miss Duke’s outstanding faculty. What makes me miss studying at an elite American private university is the out-of-this-world support staff it can afford.
Pasha Majdi himself has admitted that “a major problem with all Duke Student Government elections is that they basically amount to who can put up the most posters on campus with a stupid slogan and a big picture of their face.”
Coach K is a wimp. Duke is a bad neighbor. Sororities are elitist. iPods are a joke. Moneta is incompetent. We live in turbulent times….
Duke is run like a corporation. Usually, I am not bothered in the least by this fact. The management of our endowment, until recently unguided by any moral imperative, has allowed for the financial aid I am receiving. The efficiency of OIT has saved me from viruses many a time. I generally trust the University to keep the interests of our academics and students in mind when formulating policies.
I have changed my opinion. I love sororities. This past Sunday was bid day, and marked the end of rush for the nine chapters that belong to the Duke University Panhellenic Council. Hundreds of freshman girls (though supposedly less than in previous years) finally found their true sisters. Of course, Sunday night was the time to celebrate the continuity of these institutions of oppression and segregation.
Larry Moneta calls it a "piazza/plaza." He is thinking "water elements, beautiful surfaces, light and color." Tallman Trask once mentioned two levels. It will definitely replace the walkway. That is all we know. And that last part should change.
February 28, 2004 is the deadline for one of the most important decisions concerning Duke in the next decade. And no, you are not the only person who has no idea what I am talking about.
This year the Honor Code was replaced with the Community Standard. Yet, a recent experiment made it abundantly clear that something is rotten.
Last Saturday, at 12:53 p.m. sharp, Nannerl Overholser Keohane engaged in an act so sordid I had to turn my head and look away. The photographers present did everything but that--they just kept clicking like madmen. Despite the moral abjection of the scene, these pictures are likely to end up in Duke propaganda, not in some fetish magazine. What, pray tell, did our beloved president do to evoke this kind of reaction? She helped raise the last wall of a Habitat for Humanity house, as part of a project called Blitz Build.
This Saturday, East Campus was flooded with my favorite kind of people--homosexuals.
In the middle of Tuesday's Chronicle you will find the calendar of what has been called 21 Night Stand (a name straight out of a Faran Krentcil column). This is three weeks of extra programming made possible by a $50,000 grant from the Division of Student Affairs. It is Larry Moneta's way of trying to improve the much lamented social scene at Duke--and I think it is great.