Perhaps my greatest obstacle is that I don't have many nice things to say about Duke. I have problems with the lack of intellectualism on campus, the fact that the social scene revolves entirely...
My life at Duke capturing memories, peering through a lens at the happenings of the unique collection of people who move through this place of gray rock and mortar. As I leave this campus with a...
Life is weird. I've never won a single lottery, raffle or drawing. And yet, I somehow hit the jackpot when there was a .006 percent chance of winning. Some call it karma, some call it fate and...
Ladies and Gentlemen: JACK BAUER'S BIDET has gone national. JACK's sweet prosaic godliness-nay, the unadulterated truth that spews like bees from a Loop trash can from JACK's nimble, slender,...
No matter how good something may be, I'm a person who always thinks it can be better. I'll preface the list by saying that I have thoroughly enjoyed most of my experience here and could have just...
Am I the only one who has had trouble sleeping recently? I have to believe that I'm not the only one who has been feeling a strange combination of stress and apathy about my current life at Duke...
There are lessons to be learned in the midst of this crisis, they say. Never in so short a span of time was a truer phrase more oft-repeated. Lessons in tolerance, lessons in compassion, lessons...
I love America. Unfortunately, Americans are stupid as hell. Remember just last month when hundreds of people swore they all spotted a leprechaun hiding in a tree in Mobile, Alabama, on St....
Duke has undergone some pretty spectacular changes over the last four years, and I have been fortunate enough to witness and even participate in a few. We now have a legitimate art museum, an...
As proud residents of Durham who care deeply about the perception folks carry about our community, we felt compelled to respond to an April 5 column poking fun at Durham. The column was...
Even if the alleged rape proves false, this is a good opportunity for Duke to improve its campus culture. Many have already started to do this, blaming specific groups known for substance abuse...
Dr. Larry Moneta (a super-nice guy, might I reiterate) recently invited me to drop by his office to discuss the future of Tailgate. I'll let the transcript speak for itself.
This is a nation of laws, and unless we uphold them all, none of them means anything. As a sovereign nation, we have every right to secure our borders and not be labeled unfair, racist or immoral.
Rather, much of student life is pervaded by a culture of alcohol abuse, sexual looseness, noise violations, public urination and other forms of boorish behavior-what I call the culture of crassness.
Many people have randomly asked me, based on the content of my columns over the past three semesters: "Elliott, why do you hate Duke so much?" And based on the content of my columns, it is a fair...
If you are ever lucky enough find yourself in northern South Carolina in the early part of May, you might just have the privilege of witnessing one of nature's strangest phenomenons-the annual...
I'm writing my final column at the beach in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm here with three new friends from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, none of whom I knew at the beginning of the...
You had to have heard it at some point this past week. It was everywhere, all at once-a huge, collective sigh of relief. Heck, you can still hear it now. I've decided that it is probably the worst...
Joy of Joys! JACK BAUER'S BIDET might be the first Chronicle joke-mongerer with a better-than-average shot at being read by the one, the only, the "Reverend" Al Sharpton. The defense in the story...
There was a lingering hope that the return of DNA tests would grant a sense of finality to the allegations against the Duke men's lacrosse team. What the Duke-Durham community has witnessed,...
