Are Germans an endangered species? This provocative question was the lead of a recent Reuters article about Germany's shrinking population. Between 2003 and 2005, the number of people in Germany...
In line with its conservative nature, Duke has a very small LGBT community. Given the relatively weak voice of the gay students, it is not surprising transgender issues are usually overlooked by...
I need to apologize for my last column. Even I screw up from time to time. Yet I hope to redeem myself by taking responsibility for my actions. (Insert generic uninspired jab at George W. Bush...
When I first came to this school, I had it all figured out. I was riding high. I had just aced my GED test and then had been accepted into Duke (if the admissions office asks, I'm an Eskimo from...
There are a lot of homeless people in Chapel Hill. I don't want to see them. I don't like hearing, "Can you spare some change?" every time I walk down Franklin Street. I hate those pangs of guilt...
Duke University is home to hundreds of prestigious professors who have published on thousands of pertinent subjects. As a Duke student, I have the unique opportunity to read their work and then...
A crisis is here and now, and it's time for you to recognize it. I'm a terrorist. You're a terrorist. Richard Brodhead is definitely a terrorist. If the more publicized aspects of...
JACK BAUER'S BIDET is lonely-his one female friend "found a nice Pratt boy." Quite frankly, JACK is confused. What would propel a lovely young Trinity student toward an engineer? It's like Romeo...
As a freshman, I'm still recovering from those harrowing, soul-searching, life-determining months and years that went into my decision to come to Duke, and around the Marketplace and in Writing 20...
The recent republication of a series of political cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has been greeted by an international, intercultural and interfaith firestorm. Now, these cartoons may have...
Woody Allen delivers a monologue at the beginning of Annie Hall recounting an old Groucho Marx joke that goes "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member."...
The majority of the postgame discussions did not revolve around Duke's hard-fought victories. Instead, the only thing anyone wanted to talk about was the allegedly poor officiating that helped to...
Like so many others of my generation, I've grown up thinking that you're supposed to be able to find anything on Google. That's why when I googled Black History Month, I expected to find pages and...
President Richard Brodhead had his annual "conversation" with Duke Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council Monday night. Brodhead was his usual part-Yogi Bear,...
On this page you've read numerous compelling, incisive and sometimes scandal-mongering commentaries about the current state of Duke dining. This is not one of those commentaries. Sure, I enjoy...
Some of the best life lessons I've learned at Duke have come from the man who polices the chapel traffic circle every morning. Along with jewelry made of bike parts, Chance always dispenses...
The quality of care extended to students through Counseling and Psychological Services at Duke recently has been called into question by some on campus. Recognizing that confidentiality and...
Dissent is not necessarily patriotic. It can be. But it can also be treasonous. It depends entirely upon the nature and content of one's dissention. To dissent is no more unequivocally patriotic...
Every college has a few dirty little secrets it keeps hidden in the closet. or in Duke's case, the bathroom. I transferred to Duke from a "pot school" where it is usually easier to obtain marijuana...
Today there are two sports rivalries in America that, according to history and hype, stand high above the rest. They are Duke-North Carolina in college basketball, and the Yankees-Red Sox in...
