In any given Duke Student Government race, there are certain types of qualified individuals. There are outsiders who feel DSG needs reform, insiders who feel they have more experience and leaders...
Almost all the candidates for DSG executive positions this year are qualified and could do a great job in the positions they're running for. They can all sell themselves, and I'm not here to do...
Although I graduated from Duke in May, I am currently at UNC Law, still living in Durham and still missing the Gothic Wonderland. This past Saturday night, days after the lacrosse story appeared...
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. Philip Gourevitch may have been writing about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but the title could just as easily be applied to...
Hello, boys and girls! It's about that time of year again, and there'll be no National Championship to get classes cancelled for you. So here's the most important Midterm of your career: I The...
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,...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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.
Currently, students pay $1,589 for insurance. That's 50 percent higher than the $1,063 students paid just two years ago.
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...
Duke students have had to cope with a lot since 2001:
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.
Behold! JACK knew something was missing from Duke. Was it a communist graduation speaker? No. Was it a sustainable social scene? No. Was it a bloodthirsty wild penguin plague, cutting an...
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...
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...
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...
