University breeds false sense of future career security
(10/03/96 4:00am)
We can't all be heroes because someone's got to sit on the curb and clap as they go by, right?
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We can't all be heroes because someone's got to sit on the curb and clap as they go by, right?
Speaking Monday night in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Senator Bill Bradley mapped out his vision for the future course of American society, a journey that idealistically ends in Billings, Montana.
The demographic composition of the Undergraduate Judicial Board came under fire from a number of Duke Student Government legislators in a meeting Wednesday night.
Thank God for prostitution. The world's oldest profession provided Hollywood actresses with some of the meatiest roles of their professional careers in 1995, and finally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scrapped together a Best Actress race and a Best Supporting Actress race for the Academy Awards Monday night of which it can be proud, full of workaday whores pounding the pavement in Vegas (Elisabeth Shue in "Leaving Las Vegas"), high-class call girls hustling the gambling palaces of the same town (Sharon Stone in "Casino"), and bubbly hookers from the Big Apple who dress in pastels and decorate with phalluses (Mira Sorvino in "Mighty Aphrodite").
A Snapple commercial has come between filmmaker Spike Lee and the University.
What a perfectly titled movie to see the weekend before Valentine's Day: Beautiful Girls. As in, these are what girls who are beautiful look and act like, these are the Chosen Few, so take notes, you slightly overweight, slightly too loud chick who couldn't even find a platonic male friend to tag along to the theater with you (no offense, Allison, you were a great date). But I am currently not in a boyfriend-searching frame of mind, so I snuck into the theater (the showing had sold out when we got there) prepared for your simple, sweet, basic and (I'm not afraid to admit it) Gen X-type flick.
When I was a teenager, Armageddon arrived three times yearly, when my mother took me clothes shopping. This entailed bloody screaming matches over midriff-revealing tops, rugbys advertising their own makers on the front and bathing suits sporting apertures in the most unlikely of locations.
By Rose Martelli and
Although the Blizzard of '96 has come and gone and Durham skies have cleared since Thursday evening's freezing rain, the campus remained frozen under a bed of ice and snow until temperatures finally rose during the weekend. Treacherous stairway and walkway conditions have made runs to the Lobby Shop ordeals of considerable risk.
It's the end of Saturday nights as we know them.
"K-ville" has taken on a whole new meaning.
A group of students has taken its frustrations with President Nan Keohane's decisions about student life and deposited them at her front door.
Derek Owens
Anne Tyler
Tim McLaurin
New ways to learn theatrical arts are on the wax at the University these days.
Trinity junior Christian Grose may have lost his bid for next year's Duke Student Government presidency, but he'll still have plenty of politics on his hands.
California grapes will not be available from University stores in the foreseeable future as administrators decided this week to reinstate a California grape boycott due to farm workers' health and labor conditions.
Fraternities are planning to make the best of a University-imposed, shortened rush process.
If you had told Trinity senior Kristin Rechberger last year that she would spend her first 12 months after graduation in South Korea, she never would have believed you.