One of my favorite distractions from doing homework is intricately planning the next few years of my life. Since freshman year, I've spent countless hours on ACES writing down every class that I...
The morning after Red Auerbach died, I went to the library. I went looking for a book that John Feinstein wrote with Auerbach in 2004 called Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game. I...
Every month or so, there is an ad in The Chronicle. Way in the back with the ads looking for bartenders and care for the elderly. The ad has been placed by a loving couple. They'd like you to be...
As I prepare for my final 7 a.m. bout with ACES, I realize that over the years these registration windows have been geared as much toward satisfying graduation requirements as they have my...
Know any good ghost stories? Any spooky tales of the weird and uncanny? I don't. Of the very many I've heard over the years, I can't recall a single one. You'd think after years as a Boy Scout and...
I, like many others, have a plan to make Duke better, and since I don't have too sexy a vocabulary, I figured I'd just steal someone else's intro and get to the meaty part. So, without further ado,...
Every poll suggests that Rick Santorum will lose his race to return to the U.S. Senate. That's probably good news in Pennsylvania's bobo suburbs, where folks regard Santorum as an ideological...
Not long after Hurricane Katrina, I attended a friend's birthday celebration. Two new students who had recently transferred from a college in New Orleans were also at the party. After chatting...
Over the past few weeks, questions have been raised about Duke University's position on voter registration, especially surrounding a decision by Duke Athletics not to permit voter registration in...
As the bottomless bookbag of ACES opens its jaws and you take the courageous leap into the academic abyss, think about this: In the near future, Trinity administrators could force you to take less...
When we Dukies were younger, once a year we got to dress up as a princess or a super hero and parade around our neighborhoods collecting candy from nearby houses. We would spend hours in Party City...
RLHS hates fraternities. And now they're employing new tactics to prove it: institutional theft. This essay is the story of how they stole from me.
With a 12th game added to this year's schedule, Duke (0-7) has a chance to one-up three previous Blue Devil teams that finished the season with an abysmal 0-11 record.
Proffered examples of our crass behavior abound, including everything from standard weekend bacchanalia to subtle forms of sexual harassment. Speculation on the origins of and possible remedies for...
When the conservative Academic Bill of Rights author David Horowitz spoke in Page Auditorium last March, a handful of Duke affiliates tried to silence him. The few faculty and students who did...
If there is one thing I have come to appreciate during my past five months of study in Vietnam and Uganda, it is the strength of American democracy. In the United States, elections are free, we...
Last April I wrote to The Chronicle in support of Mike Pressler, former coach of men's lacrosse at Duke. At that time I was concerned that the decision to fire him had been premature, coming only a...
How many papers have I written at Duke? How many pages of analysis, memos, research and reports have I wrenched out of my head during my three-and-a-half years of collegiate-level academics? More...
On Sept. 4, 2001, The Chronicle ran a staff editorial declaring, "It is sad that a top-10 institution like Duke is even considering [Sean] Dockery."
This column is of a different tenor. It addresses not University policy but University life. I would without a moment's hesitation sacrifice the implementation of this entire second part of my...
