Despite the media hype surrounding Barack Obama's presidential bid and John Edwards' recent frankness about his desire to raise taxes and implement a national health-care system-as well as Joe...
I love words. Words are the basis of communication and without them, I could not enjoy my so-called life as a writer or a logophile. To be a writer means to be able to let others know they aren't...
Cinderella: Why, it's like a dream. A wonderful dream come true. Fairy Godmother: Yes, my child, but like all dreams, well, I'm afraid this can't last forever. At an early age, Disney...
A few nights ago, I was in the car with my friend Sarah on the way to a party in Raleigh. As on most long car trips, we were yammering about guys, work, mentors, the usual, when somehow we ended up...
Like the popular relationship status on Facebook, one's religious affiliation is becoming ever more complex.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children and adults of all ages: Welcome to Carolina Week.
If Facebook still sported its short-lived "Pulse" feature, I submit that it would have NBC's "The Office" among the top-10 TV shows, and rising. (A trend among other writers on these pages has been...
Where did you first encounter the lacrosse accuser's real name? Were you searching yahoo.com, which indexes 89,500 websites containing her first, middle and last names? Or perhaps you stumbled...
Introduction to British Literature: 297 seats remaining." ACES wouldn't ever spit out such a ridiculous thing. Humanities classes, with few exceptions, rarely enroll more than 30 students. But what...
Twenty members of the Duke student body were banned from attending the Duke-UNC men's basketball game scheduled to take place this Wednesday. All were charged with enrolling at the University of...
Two simple words: "funding" and "selective." The issue: the interpretation of these two words as they apply to the Student Organization Finance Committee's ability to grant student groups "Charter"...
Times are tough. And in these trying times, it seems no one is trying hard enough. The political climate is palled by the gloomiest of clouds. With a forecast of "nothing but trouble," and an...
Shame on you, Duke University. You position yourself as an illustrious center of higher education, an institution on the bleeding edge of academic progress and advancement. And yet you don't even...
When we were at Ivy League schools 40 years ago, lofty ideals were affordable. Back in the '70s, the average annual tuition and fees for a private college were around $7,000, inflation-adjusted to...
Last week, on FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly's opening segment criticized 88 now-infamous Duke professors for last spring's widely fustigated "We Are Listening" ad and reigned...
I was six months old and about eight stops down the Green Line from Len Bias when he died of a cocaine overdose in his College Park, Md., dorm room.
I'm going to be straight with you. It's hard to be unattached and living in Durham when you're not an undergrad.
This Sunday, for the first time in the 41-year history of the Super Bowl, an African-American coach will hoist the Lombardi trophy in celebration of his team's win.
The Bears are going to the Super Bowl. What's more surprising is the excitement I feel, the urge to pump the air with my fist and rummage through 418 Facebook groups for the name that appropriately...
There are few things I understand less than the widespread fear of "entering the real world" among my fellow seniors. Our lives may have been fairly predetermined up until now, but isn't this the...
