There are three things every Jewish kid knows by his or her Bar or Bat Mitzvah. 1. Cheeseburgers aren't kosher. 2. Cheeseburgers are tasty. 3. And, most importantly, Sandy Koufax didn't pitch on...
Point yourself at downtown Durham on Main Street, take a right at the light onto Buchanan, and make your first left into the parking lot of a red brick warehouse. It's a building that might be...
The last few days have been a truly exciting time to be on Duke's campus. This past weekend, in case you were unaware, was Homecoming weekend, which, as far as I've learned, means pretty much...
Professor Orin Starn recently wrote in The Herald-Sun, "A university that prides itself on innovation would become a bold leader in much-needed college athletics reform." What is so innovative...
After the unabashed success of Nasher Noir, with more than 1,500 (1,500?!) students essentially teetotaling to the delight of the Durham community's Thursday night, faulty rationale follows that...
We've heard so much during the past six months about the so-called "culture of crassness" at Duke. More specifically, undergraduates have been assigned what Rev. Sam Wells, Dean of the Chapel,...
Durham - A Duke freshman died earlier today from alcohol poisoning after drinking heavily at a fraternity party last night. He was admitted at 3 a.m. and pronounced dead earlier this morning....
In an old shoebox in my closet at home lies a picture of my dad and me racing down the beach. I have no idea where we were running or what we were running from, but I do know that it looks like we...
Center of campus life. Host of events. Heart of the campus. Mister of warm bodies. Much has been made of the West Campus Plaza. For the hefty price tag and year of discomfort, we shouldn't be all...
For as much as J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams were the poster children for Duke basketball in their tenures here, they also fell (heartbreakingly and consistently) short of that elusive NCAA title.
Since early 2003, 44 Duke professors have signed a petition calling on the University to withdraw investment from "all companies with military ties to Israel." The petition-which also includes the...
KAMPALA, Uganda - It was rush hour in the city. As always, I was stuck, crammed into an overcrowded, dilapidated minibus taxi in a hopeless gridlock near a sprawling market. The ubiquitous red dust...
Fifty-six weeks after Hurricane Katrina, that's what a fan's sign said when the Superdome opened Monday night.
Last spring I attended the annual Take Back the Night speak-out on the Chapel Quadrangle. The last stop on the Night's march between East and West Campuses, and the capstone for Sexual Assault...
Last Thursday, I did something I hadn't done all year: I woke up before 11 a.m. I don't know why, but I just woke up in such a chipper mood that I decided to cruise around campus on my skateboard....
You're a racist." She spat out the words with a loud, gleeful disdain, making sure everyone around was aware of her discovery. "I am?" I wasn't surprised by her accusation. It had already come to...
It is easy for us to make "friends." Just click. Back. Click. No discrimination. It is even easier to maintain friends.
Sept. 13, an existing policy was clarified: Students' off-campus conduct will definitely be investigated and punished by on-campus authorities. Before administrators get too ahead of themselves, I...
The other day, I went to have dinner at the Loop with a longtime friend from freshman year, a good-natured but not particularly astute selective living group bum. You know the type-not the most...
Several feet away, an upperclassman was screaming into her cell phone, "Mom, these f-ing hicks don't understand anything! They shouldn't even have the right to vote."
