Online Exclusive: Intelligent. Ambitious. Motivated. These are words typically used to describe the students that comprise our esteemed university-the kind of words that go along with...
The media coverage of the tragedy at Virginia Tech is rewarding insanity and complicating grief. But there are 32 families, and an entire university who are grieving. Not sad, not upset, not...
Why Duke bothers to form committees on how to improve itself-instead of just asking me-I'll never know. If this college is serious about changing for the better, here's three places to start: 1....
By now, there isn't a soul in the United States who hasn't seen the greasy, glinting forehead of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for what broadcast news and the blogosphere are terming "the...
I was on my way to East Campus one day when I noticed something very odd, something I definitely hadn't noticed before. The bridge that so many Dukies pass under every day was sporting a fresh,...
It's going to be an interesting summer. And putting it that way is a dramatic understatement. In the coming months, Republicans and Democrats will navigate the political landscape with an eye...
I'd like to take this moment to be thankful that I didn't go to Duke as an undergrad. Now before you take up rakes and shovels against me, listen to my reasoning. Since I moved here, I've been...
So as it turns out, I am really terrible at goodbyes. But after writing in this space for over eight months, I at least wanted to try to seize this one last opportunity to share what I feel I have...
A column written by David Rademeyer appeared in The Chronicle entitled "T-Shirt Ethics" (April 10) in which Rademeyer attacks the Honor Council and the new Duke Community Standard. The DCS recently...
Things change, people graduate, but the morning Chronicle, tinged with a cup of Alpine coffee, is forever. It's under these auspices that I say goodbye. to both The Chronicle and to Duke. My...
Mike Nifong isn't the only one whose career is spiraling out of control these days. Just ask top executives at America's largest student loan corporations, who may find themselves disgraced and...
Usually, I know that I've written a controversial column as soon as I'm done writing it. But I never know how controversial it is until I wake up the next morning. As a general rule, if I wake up...
We've reached the end of the school year and finally the beginning of a resolution to the lacrosse scandal. I thought it only fitting to consider the lacrosse scandal from a religious perspective....
It's been four years and I still don't know quite what to make of Duke. I've wondered what kind of a theme could explain this place. Something made us all come to this school, situated in a...
This is a tale of two crises at Duke. The first is the kind we hear of the vast majority of the time: crimes against victims we can sympathize with, perpetrated by people or forces with whom we...
Online Exclusive: So you retro-prom'ed, Old Duked, Nashqueraded, Chronicle-partied, and semi-formaled like it was your job all weekend-and now you have a stack of papers and deadlines that...
The first time I met Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior, I was less than impressed. He was sweaty, muddy and late. A bit of a biking fiasco had caused him to show up to the...
I won't mince words, Paul Slattery: you've got a very tough act to follow. But don't let it scare you. Consider it instead a golden opportunity.
All right, I'm a little miffed, you know, like Duke students at a T.I. concert. I thought the school knew the meaning of a standard bartering agreement, but apparently I was mistaken.
Work hard, play hard." It seems that everywhere you go, Duke students pride themselves on their ability to manage the academic rigors of a prestigious university and still maintain a social life...
