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Crazie outside of Cameron

Around this time last year, I was sitting in a high school newsroom, querying staff as to the precise meaning of mysteriously oft-referenced "brackets." People actually watch college basketball,...


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A splendid failure

Some days I sit down to write my column with ideas flying through my head.  Other days, Word's pulsating vertical bar seems to mock my efforts as my first sentence accordions across the screen,...


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Hot or not?

I have a confession to make: I have a huge thing for Mick Jagger. I myself find it odd that I am so attracted to an old, wrinkly man. My love for him eclipsed that of my original attraction to...


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Outside the bubble

This past Spring Break was more for me than a chance to go home, flop down on the couch and enjoy palatable food and reliable, decent cable TV service. It turned out to be an intellectual journey,...


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Taking action-responsibly

On a national level, those outraged by the policies of President George W. Bush should speak out more, and those who are not should work harder to defend him.


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Craven Quad vs. Planet Central

If you've ever seen the classic comedy Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear starring Leslie Nielson, you'll remember the following scene: Frank Drebin (Nielson) crashes through the glass ceiling at...


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The Book of Czaja 1:1

A few weeks ago I had an interesting conversation with my roommate after I returned from a 10:05 class. Me: I'm back. Roommate (just waking up): Ugggggh, I don't want to get up. Me: Yeah it's...


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Yale's disgrace

As you may have gathered from my previous columns, I am very liberal, yet even I am disgusted at the ridiculous ideas the elitist universities in this country are promoting.


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Using our resources

Everyone seems to have something to say about Duke's social scene or lack thereof. Here is the real problem: Rarely does someone offer any solution.


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True service lies in sacrifice

As dependent on mainstream media as anyone, I thought I'd be spending my spring break putting the finishing touches on restored homes in New Orleans. After all, the reports I saw said that the...


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WARNING: dangerous column

As I've often stated, I consider myself a conservative, so I have not missed the fact that Duke's faculty is heavily weighted to the left. And I couldn't care less. You read correctly: It doesn't...


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Where's my sorting hat?

There are two important parties at Duke, and I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking about the partiers and the non-partiers. I'm not sure what percentage of people fall into each group, but...


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Textbook terrorism

Mohammad Taheri-azar, a 2005 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, turned himself into police on Friday afternoon after driving a rented sports utility vehicle into a crowd of students at the University of...


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Love never quite had this flavor

I am addicted to drama. And if the Nielsen ratings tracked the television viewership of college students-which they're going to start doing, incidentally-they would find that I am not alone. Like...


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Revamping Elliott's

The loss of Elliott Wolf's server as a resource for watching and downloading movies, television shows and Duke basketball games left a void in many students' lives (especially the lonely ones)....


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Going green

Duke is blasting ahead on a course of environmental sustainability by constructing greener buildings and developing new research facilities. But we have yet to make some more basic reforms-namely,...


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A woman's place

I should know better than to watch prime-time television. One show Friday night bothered my more feminist sensibilities-on Ghost Whisperer, a dead boy was haunting his mother and baby sister. The...