I've often wondered why Duke Student Government never seems to do anything substantial. Sure, they manage to do a lot of interesting little things, which is fine in the general sense.
If you're reading this, first know that I could never get a column printed in The Chronicle as an undergrad.
Last February when the Board of Trustees raised tuition, the University's news release did not mention, as it usually does, an increase in undergraduate financial aid. Omissions make me very curious.
I don't like much about winter, especially in the Midwest. Days are short, the landscape is dead and brown and sometimes the air gets so cold it feels like metal pressed against your skin.
Imagine spending all weekend on a three-page paper only to receive no academic credit.
It's morning, and espresso machines from New York City to Dubuque, Iowa are screeching themselves awake.
Each time I see the C-1 pull up to the West Campus bus stop, I lose myself in nostalgic remembrance.
I remember it like it was yesterday. Only a few weeks into my new position as a columnist last year, a beautiful girl named Emily Melson came up to me and thanked me for inspiring her to apply to...
It was just after a quarter past four in the afternoon a couple Sundays ago and I was sitting on my back patio with a good friend of mine-a fellow senior.
When the Eco-Olympics came to an end this year, a critical question was raised: What environmental good has this event actually achieved?
As a business executive and a business school professor, my bias is to look for markets and economic incentives in the non-government, private sectors of the health care economy in order to find...
I don't like Krzyzewskiville. There, I said it. Go ahead, Cameron Crazies. Wiggle those spirit fingers at me.
All semester I have been fighting the urge to write a political column, but with the first presidential primaries only six weeks away, I can no longer stave off the compulsion to pontificate.
Welcome Home." When I walk through the customs gate in Newark's Liberty International Airport in about two weeks, I expect to hear this standard greeting for returning travelers.
Sometimes events challenge us to figure out how we end up where we are. I reflected on this recently when I learned that a former mentor and friend from my college days, Randall Forsberg, had died...
When the eight-year Campaign for Duke concluded in 2004, its $2.36-billion total was the largest sum ever raised by a university in the South.
Hopefully the Clinton campaign isn't fretting over the Republican voter who asked John McCain how to beat the "witch" (the real word rhymes with it) or over John Edwards' accusations that Hillary...
Joe Alleva understands this much-if he's going to replace player-beloved Ted Roof, he's going to have to make a significant upgrade.
That's the joke surfacing around campus this week as students return back from Thanksgiving Break. Unfortunately, if you get the joke, you don't really get the joke.
It's official. The holiday "season of giving" is upon us-the time for planning year-end shopping assaults, considering charitable giving and thinking about budgets for next year.
