Over break, I was flipping through channels when I stumbled upon a replay of the Ricky Hatton-Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match on HBO.
That's right, Chronicle readers. You get to savor columns from a total of three former and current Monday, Monday columnists in THE MORNING WOOD, ZACH BRAFF, and... who's the new guy who thinks...
If you had to describe Duke in one word, what would it be?
When I got back to campus this semester, I was quite pleased to see a certain banner hanging out of a dorm room on Main West Quad which expressed solidarity with Burma.
It's been more than a month since Karl Rove descended upon our happy campus, leaving in his wake a tearful trail of angry editorials and exhausted rhetoric.
This Sunday, Lindsey Harding will become Duke's second women's basketball player to have her jersey retired in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. I, for one, do not see the occasion as reason...
It would be great if the lacrosse case were "D-E-A-D, dead," as one particularly excited Towerview columnist put it. After all, I certainly never thought we'd still be talking about it nearly two...
One Tuesday late last semester, I headed to Perkins for some hardcore Econ 51 studying (a.k.a. responding to several urgent Facebook wallposts, updating my profile, then staring at my notes for 20...
At this moment, dozens if not baker's dozens of people are reading this column wearing heavy coats and thermal underwear, and not because The Chronicle has high readership in Fargo, N.D. Rather,...
Gay rights agitators have taken to wearing shirts with dubious identity claims. DukeEngage, the project destined to do something incredibly noble, has emerged amid proclamations of moral supremacy.
This is the most vigorous campaign season in living memory. Living at Duke you wouldn't really know.
I am not a religious man. Not that I lack spirituality (I take frequent catnaps and consider myself an avid practitioner in the art of meditation); I simply choose not to observe the customs of...
That's what they keep asking me. One acquaintance almost knocked her pearls off chirping, "Wow! That's, like, really far away." The neighbor with Pierre the labradoodle cautioned, "You're not going...
Gone is the baby-smooth face that smiles at you from my column space. My youthful locks that once flew freely in the wind are no more; their fate was the trash, swept up unceremoniously from the...
Winter Break is a time to celebrate the people in our lives. We spend Christmas and Hanukkah with our closest family members, and New Year's with our closest friends. Coming home is all about...
Two weeks at home and a quick puddle hop to Israel have almost made me forget the priceless feeling of superiority that consumes me the second I set foot on this campus.
The administration gave current and future Duke students a sizeable Christmas present this December: a $6.7-million boost to the financial aid budget, estimated to benefit some 2,500 undergraduates.
Duke may have been on vacation for the past month, but global politics have been anything but quiet.
According to a survey I made up for this intro, 83 percent of Americans create New Year's resolutions.
It was an autumn night last year when the idea came alive for me. My roommate and I were talking about girls (big surprise), but the concept meant much more.
