It's happened a few times. My computer starts to slow down. It beeps at me. Programs shut down for no apparent reason. I sit staring at the screen while Internet Explorer takes forever to load. I...
Did you know it was Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15? Well, neither did most of Duke's campus. As part of Mi Gente, Duke's Latino Student Association, we promote events and...
Last Thursday will go down as one of the darkest days in recent memory for Duke underclassmen. Two agonizing decisions were made, each allegedly headed by men of nearly equal power and importance...
I am extremely disillusioned with the president of the country of the United States of America. Am I allowed to say that? Am I allowed to be extremely disillusioned with him? I mean, I don't want...
The Campus Culture Initiative, in its ardent search to find the cause of Duke's cultural cancer, is missing one very important point-that Duke students don't want things to change. Duke students...
Duke was dealt a setback-or a "hiccup," to be precise-this week when the Durham Planning Commission voted against changing Central Campus' zoning designation from "residential" to the more flexible...
It was a perfect Saturday. Sunny and bright, hot and humid-the kind of day that was made for college football. About nine beers deep, I entered the stadium just before kickoff, having spent the...
As I walked behind the church, I heard a crunch beneath my feet. When I looked down, I was standing on a human vertebra.
I have a need for speed. I drive fast; I walk fast; and I live fast. But due to one too many traffic tickets, I have been forced to slow down-while driving at least.
I was stuck in line at the airport when I first realized you've gone through substantial changes while I was away. My curling iron set off a bomb alert, so I had plenty of time to think about your...
Overland Park, KANSAS - The last time I saw my new home, a modest two-bedroom garden apartment in suburban Washington, D.C., was about a month ago, when the air still rang with the sound of...
The popular trend at Duke is to solve our real and imagined problems with elaborate and esoteric plans and initiatives. These programs are invariably more concerned with being politically correct...
Dan Brown, you've done it again. Set another record that is. Your reign over the New York Times best-seller list and spot on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential...
"But I think this would be a good time to intern for one of our senators-especially Allen, since he's going to run for president."
Although I'll admit that dogs are filthy beasts, and children are, generally, a bunch of jerks (I'm not even going to start on firefighters), I think that Duke students have given Durham a worse...
College and professional sports have many different rules and regulations. The games still basically look the same, and the modifications usually just add nuance and uniqueness that distinguish...
To those who argue that Duke is divided, segregated, and aching in bits and pieces where it ought to be whole, I offer not a rebuttal but some small comfort: all sorts of genial quirks unite our...
I spent the rest of the run thinking about why I had laughed at this poor woman. It had nothing to do with cruelty, because I felt terrible for her and was relieved when I saw that she was...
Yesterday, a friend of mine leaned over to hug her friend. She ended up half in his lap. She giggled. She and the friend started to talk.
What were we thinking when we wrote our parody of Paul Haagen's Faculty Athletics Associates Program? The answer is simply that Professor Haagen's program appeared to be a public relations exercise...
