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,...
I am the 21st century's Quentin Compson, stuck in a past I never experienced, a past I will never escape. For us, love is a Bob Dylan song. War is a Marvin Gaye song. Home is a Talking Heads song....
Would you vote for Jesse Longoria again? Given the choice, would you have returned the same officers to the DSG executive board? How about your senators? Have they earned the spot you gave...
It is a good thing Early Decision is binding, otherwise we might not have a new freshman class. While that would solve the housing crunch, I wonder who in my class would accept their seats if this...
I've used the words "incompetent" and "irrelevant" to describe Duke Student Government-but "corrupt?" That's just crazy. Or so I thought. Three recent events and one from the beginning of the...
My lovely editor described my previous column as "750 words with no point." In fact, it was about how Duke is perceived by outsiders (but she was right about the lack of point). Shortly...
Every so often, old traditions change. What worked for one time period may not always work for another. Duke is no stranger to this. We've integrated the Woman's College into Trinity College....
When our peers are accused of heinous acts, we should be the first to demand they be given the presumption of innocence-their immutable right. Instead, from the first day, many immediately...
My time at Duke is almost over. I turned in my thesis last Friday and spent the weekend packing up to move to New York next month. Like any school experience, mine has had its ups and downs, but...
In my last column, I urged people to avoid the Blame Game during these times of blurred clarity despite the fact that many have painted the lacrosse situation black and white. Though I questioned...
A year ago, on a C-2 bus, I met a mother and son visiting Duke for the first time. She leaned over to ask the location of a particular building, and we soon started chatting about the University,...
Last Wednesday, students received an e-mail from President Richard Brodhead about the "issue that is troubling our community." It listed five wide-reaching (and so far well-received) steps that the...
I was planning to write a mock fashion column this week . . . seriously. For any of you who actually read Towerview, you must have noticed that the editors often include a fashion piece with...
It's been a wild few weeks at Duke. And the women's basketball team was slightly disappointed. JACK BAUER'S BIDET didn't monopolize as much space as he usually does last week, and three open...
The official catchphrase for the media whirlwind surrounding the lacrosse controversy, "the perfect storm," has become the perfect way to describe the convoluted meltdown of race, class, gender and...
Among some of the more interesting national stories, including immigration, the Moussaoui trial or even Rep. Cynthia McKinney's slugging of a member of the Capitol Police, there is the story of Dr....
Another week has come and gone. And the investigation of the Duke lacrosse team has not yet yielded charges against those accused of the alleged sexual assault of an NCCU student and mother of two....
I was impressed when TIME magazine-a mainstream publication-produced a fair and balanced report on global warming as the cover story for its April 3 edition. CNN quickly picked up the story and ran...
Before I transferred to Duke, I attended NYU and lived a short distance from Ground Zero. That's probably why I wrote this column-even the aftermath of one "9/11" was one too much to witness. For...
