To: Provost Lange and Academic Deans of Trinity and Pratt Re: Making Duke's First Semester Pass/Fail Academic culture is undoubtedly the toughest thing to change at a university. Whereas...
Duke announced Feb. 28 that it purchased 15 properties (12 houses and three vacant lots) adjacent to East Campus from local landlord Guy Solie. Such a small real-estate acquisition is not generally...
Duke University Durham, North Carolina Executive Vice President Telephone (919) 684 6600 203 Allen Building Facsimile (919) 684 8766 Box 90027 MEMO: Self-Pleasure Guidelines Dear...
Last week was one of the worst at Duke during my four years on campus. First, we lost back-to-back ACC basketball games against unranked Florida State and UNC. Second, the women's basketball team...
Lately, I've been having trouble with my Hate. For me, a lifelong Dukie and ABC (Anybody But Carolina) fan, this is very troubling. Usually, I can spew venom about Carolina on command. So why is it...
Growing up, I moved cross-country four times, lived in five different houses and went to five different schools in just as many years. This constant change of scenery left me without a solid base...
I was brought up as a Catholic. I grew up going to Mass every Friday, Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation; I mastered the art of whittling little crosses from dried palm leaves; I had guardian angels...
That's a wicked name.you could be like a Chinese superhero, man.Chinaman, Chinaman!...Got two chopsticks on his shirt, shooting noodles out of his wrist, catching bad guys with stale fortune...
Saying that Duke should rid itself entirely of ARAMARK Corp. when its contract expires this spring is like saying we need to stop nuclear proliferation. Students have demanded a change ad nauseum...
One night last year, I had an interesting experience while trying to help out one homeless man in Durham. As I walked out of Cosmic Cantina, he called out to me and my friend to ask for some money....
Public Law 103-160 sounds innocuous enough until one recognizes it as the infamous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy of the U.S. military. Although Bill Clinton campaigned for president in 1993 with...
Spring break is quickly approaching, and that means only one thing-declarations of majors will soon be due. Now since the majority of you sophomores probably have not submitted your paperwork...
My senior year in high school, I was voted "Most Likely to Discover the Meaning of Life Through Differential Calculus." The following year, in college, I received an A in my calculus IV class. Five...
Sweatshops suck. Two weeks ago, when Duke's administrators announced a new initiative to ensure our apparel was not made in sweatshops I was happy. The administration was making a worthy pledge to...
It's just about here-springtime at Duke. In most places spring is a time for rebirth, rejuvenation, and of course some hot squirrel-on-squirrel action. But Durham typically does spring a little...
Last year it seemed as if anyone with a semester of Econ 51 under his belt, a conservative leaning and a bit of free time took the opportunity to characterize the campaign for a living wage at Duke...
So three guys go to a bar. One's black, one's Jewish, and one's Hispanic. The black guy orders a beer; the Jewish guy orders some Manichewitz; and the Hispanic guy orders a margarita. They drink...
What's in a name? In the world of journalism, a lot. The Chronicle announced last week that from now on the author of Monday, Monday will be named at the end of the weekly humor column. As of...
I'm pretty sure elliptical machines steal souls. Maybe it was the dark, swirling appendages of the great machine, creating a black vortex from which no light escaped. Or maybe it was the vacant yet...
Whether you're Democrat or Republican, liberal or informed, I think we can all agree on one thing: the world has more than enough problems. So I don't understand why some students here at Duke...
