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A preventable murder

(10/28/99 4:00am)

Neenef Odah and Maggie Wardle, sophomores at a Kalamazoo College (a small liberal arts college in Michigan), had been dating on-and-off for a year. According to some of Wardle's friends, Odah wanted a serious relationship, but Wardle was having cold feet. On Oct. 16, students saw Wardle, 19, at a dance with another gentleman-a friend of hers. Odah, 20, saw it too. At 12:15 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 18, Odah confronted his ex-girlfriend in her room, shot her two times with a shotgun and then took his own life.


Alternative political literature

(10/07/99 4:00am)

This column would have been about George W. Bush's ethnicity gaffes-which include calling the Greeks "Grecians," Kosovars "Kosovarians" and East Timorese "East Timorans." But thanks to Edmund Morris, Pat Buchanan and John McCain, instead of writing about Governor Bush's seeming ineptitude at understanding foreign affairs, this column will be all about alternative forms of literature-the invented character biography, the campaign propaganda autobiography and the supremacist revision of history.


Mumford

(10/01/99 4:00am)

Can anyone figure out Lawrence Kasdan? He is one of the most prolific screenwriters of the past two decades, having penned Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi andThe Big Chill-Kasdan's last intentional foray into comedy


Trick

(09/24/99 4:00am)

There isn't a mystery behind what makes Trick, a gay romantic comedy, one of the funniest, freshest films of the year. Set over the course of one night in New York City, Trick chronicles the story of a young Broadway musical composer named Gabriel (Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell's little brother) and Mark, a go-go boy (Jean Paul Pitoc.)



On the Brink

(04/02/93 5:00am)

Allison,* Trinity '99, was diagnosed with severe depression while still in high school. She sought therapy and was on an antidepressant for a year and a half before matriculating to Duke. She came hoping the problem would remain part of her past. "I though that no one could tell," Allison says. "I was wrong."