With yet another Spring Break gone, Duke students are once more left to wonder where the time went. For many if not most of us, one place it didn't go was to performing volunteer work in the...
Since the Campus Culture Initiative Report was released several weeks ago, many have questioned the wisdom of its recommendation to stop assigning residential space to selective living groups.
What a surprise it was to read Elliott Wolf's March 7 guest column, which declared the report of the Campus Culture Initiative "trite" and worth only a "C" in an academic setting. As a member of...
The Chronicle is happy to announce that starting next week, we will be running endorsement letters for the 2007 Duke Student Government elections. We will accept letters from any and all student...
Who decided to put Spring Break smack dab in the middle of Lent? Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, is a Christian tradition encouraging discipline and commitment under the guise of promoting...
I spent spring break with a friend whose catch-phrase is "What's good, son?" He literally says it all the time-when he walks into a room, when he walks out or when he can't think of anything else...
After the fact, when asked about the March 6 Duke Student Government Town Hall meeting regarding the Campus Culture Initiative, I believe DSG Chief of Staff Paul Slattery, a junior, put it best:...
Dear Joyce, Everyone is leaving. Of course, I am stuck here in Durham for the ENTIRE break. I don't know what I was thinking when I thought it would be a good idea to stay here and get work done....
Having escaped from Kansas, I'm now back in the equally strange world of metro-riding, happy hour aficionados known as Duke-in-D.C. Or, as I like to think
Believe it or not, I'm actually typing this column while sitting in the back of one of my classes. I won't tell you which class, because that could threaten my participation grade, which I sorely...
Guys, listen up. I think I have some bad news. I recently read something that shook me to my very core. In studies on sexual selection in various species of birds, researchers have found that "if...
If you're among the roughly 20 remaining people in this country who have not appeared on television at some point during their lives, and you're just aching to rectify this situation, I may be able...
Many of my senior friends have been taking mini-vacations for job interviews since around or before January. In the days prior to their trips, they explain to me this overwhelming, life-consuming...
You heard it here first: Heidi from The Hills is a goner. I wonder who will fill the 80-pound void she's leaving behind.
Sticks and stones aside, words can carry a punch-a fact that has been made particularly clear since the lacrosse case first broke.
Rudy Giuliani is the newly anointed Republican front-runner. The fact that a man on his third marriage with a history of infidelity, the occasional penchant for cross-dressing and gay friends among...
As a member of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee, I spent the last several months (literally) banging my head against a wall. Having strongly conveyed my concerns about the CCI's...
Starting in 1975, the NCAA changed its rules to allow teams that did not win their conference tournaments to still earn berths to the NCAA Tournament. At first they limited all conferences to a...
As a retired sex kitten, I understand the appeal: The echo of a pounding beat in a dimly lit room, the triumph of a dry hump, the print of rosy lipstick on a frat guy's cigarette and the sound and...
I usually hate get-rich-quick schemes and the sketchy mountebanks who promote them, but this week I was somewhere in the middle of my interminable thesis when I came up with the best money-making...
