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."
Imagine my surprise when looking through an old college diary, I realized that I had both lied and cheated on more than one occasion, and what most surprised me was that I had absolutely no memory...
There are a lot of things at this great institution of learning that confuse me. I'm confused by the labyrinthine design of the Edens dorms. I'm confused by the Great Hall's decision to open when...
A few days ago, I got on the bus exhausted from a hard day of classes. Luckily, I stumbled upon the last remaining seat and collapsed into it. I looked up and noticed a girl walking down the aisle,...
Last Friday was the application deadline for aspiring presidential committee student representatives, including those seeking to fill two undergraduate vacancies on the President's Council on Black...
Here's a question for every Duke fan out there: Would you trade five wins for the basketball team to get five wins for the football team in return? Even though this will never happen, if some...
(URGENT ANTI-TRAIN UPDATE: Speaking of losing, Duke Football not-won again this weekend. Shocking. Two games into the three-game season series, Duke is now trailing the State of Virginia, 49-0. On...
If we are better than this, then how come no one in the group outside the Plaza responded to their friend's racist remarks of "Ching, chong, chang" as my friend and I walked by, minding our own...
