Invitations to change befuddled me because I did not understand the tone of the question. Why would I be disinclined to laziness?
Andrew Gerst's Aug. 30, 2006 editorial, "Where are the moderate Muslims?", recycles clichés and myths about the Muslim responses to the atrocities of 9/11. Gerst accuses Muslim moderates of...
While in an undisclosed frat section one night during orientation week, I was asked at least a dozen times if I was a freshman. Upon giving the answer, "No, I'm actually a sophomore," each time, I...
I totally support canceling tailgate. Who wants to preserve Duke's second-most unique tradition and the best weekend fun? I know I hate having the opportunity to shotgun cheap beer with people I've...
I had a good friend once. Maybe I misphrased that. I still do have a good friend, a number of good friends, but this good friend is no more. No more my good friend, that is, he's still plenty alive.
Despite what they may say, athletes aren't just regular students here at Duke--some are campus celebrities, a select few are national ones.
If millions of Muslims do not support terrorism actively, their silence may be doing so passively. At a time when hundreds of Islamic clerics, leaders and "activists" are openly fostering sectarian...
I do consistently take note of how the word FREE* sparkling in the advertisement window always has an asterisk stamped obtrusively next to it. This so-called "detail" never fails to disturb me. Our...
I can't remember my first experience with power, but I'm sure it was something stupid: being physically restrained by another person as I tried to throw my ice cream on the ground, or bite my...
So while some people might say moving practice from the afternoon to the early morning basically means nothing, I say, "Hey, whatever. It's not like head coach Ted Roof has to worry about...
Before we came to Vietnam, our group wondered what it would be like working in an area our country had destroyed with people who a little more than thirty years ago were our mortal enemies.
Welcome to school, Duke University Class of 2010! I hear good things. Some pretty fly honeyz. Gerald Henderson, I think you're the man. If you're looking for an agent after this year, I just want...
I celebrate today, for it's been years in the making. It's the fresh start of a new era in Chronicle history. Today's editorial pages represent a tremendous step for student opinion.
The more information that surfaces the more apparent it becomes to fair-minded observers that our lacrosse team was railroaded and that three of our fellow students are being put on trial not...
It's been five months since March 14, 2006. Five months since a woman accused three Duke students of raping her, and five months since the ensuing controversy nearly tore our community apart.
Duke is at a crossroads." A friend of mine said those words to me the other day in the midst of a discussion about the upcoming semester, and I can't think of a more appropriate way to describe the...
Students, as for you, men and women of the Class of 2010-the Double Dimes, as my internet spies tell me you have dubbed yourselves: if this day is harsh for others, it's great for you. Today you...
Sports Commentary: You get three chances to pick favorite teams: when you're born, when a new team moves to your city and when you go to college. you have two options. You can seize the...
What defines Duke? I suppose that is a loaded, multi-faceted question. On the one hand, there are the admissions-office-brochure answers: good academics, good basketball (ok, great basketball) and...
Class of Dimes, Wow. I sure am amped to meet you all. You're smart as heck. And you're cute, too-as yet unscathed by the Freshman 15, sleep deprivation and professorial assertions that you're a...
