Dear freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors: "We can't be potential forever," a friend said to me a few weeks ago-and he was right. The hardest part about college, for many precocious...
I don't profess to know exactly what it takes to have the perfect college experience. I don't have any step-by-step directions to help you make your time here worthwhile, and honestly, I don't...
Today, The Chronicle Online launched the first of many initiatives to better utilize the Internet as a central means of disseminating up-to-the minute news. There is now a website dedicated to the...
In the four years since, I have witnessed nothing short of an administrative ransacking of this school's social life. Deans, cops, neighbors, nerds and the shadow of the Ivy League have gradually...
Duke party scene is a shell of its former self. Vigilante RCs like Lesley Hill and restrictions on everything from tailgating to LDOC have effectively squashed the campus social scene, we're told. ...
The most distressing thing about Ryan McFadyen's e-mail is that it would seem pretty mundane coming from any large, all-male listserv on this campus. Our discourse on this campus is, to a large...
That's right, with the last night of regular Chronicle production in full swing, I'm typing a 25-page constitutional law paper-in addition to directing staff members as they piece together what is...
During my first three years of college I spent a lot of time watching Duke from that office. I watched students basking in the sun and protesters shouting and wielding signs. After all of that...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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.
