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Miho, you should start every column with 'Dear Diary,'" my friend said after reading one of my columns, rolling his eyes with an expression that screamed "I'm not impressed.


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Moral dichotomy

In some ways, Duke is split into two moral opposites. I got the first clue during my orientation weekend, when I persuaded my hall-mates from Brown to accompany me to the Marketplace party.


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Sorry feminists

Many of us saw the fliers posted around campus informing us that feminism isn't so bad after all, that it's simply "the theory of the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.


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Regaining confidence

Like almost all graduate students, I have gone through times when I thought that I was not cut out for grad school. Completing a graduate or professional degree is hard.


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Hands off my yams

I hate Thanksgiving. I mean, I really, really hate Thanksgiving," a Durham hairdresser snarled while running her bony, hawkish talons through my hair.


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Giving thanks

Four weeks from today will mark the beginning of Winter Break. Four months, Spring Break. And just four days separate us from starting to "give thanks"-Thanksgiving Break, that is.


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Don't be a hypocrite

To the select few stating they are ashamed to be a Duke student because 75 Duke students had their cases thrown out of court: why are you so bitter? (Note, your bitterness is rubbing off on me to...


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Saving water

Everyone has probably noticed the "Drought in Durham!" warnings posted in Duke's dormitories. According to the fliers, we only have 72 days worth of water left, so "please conserve" and "report leaks.


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Cat-astrophe

You know, you really shouldn't smoke," I said to Pokey, a friend's two-month-old cat, as she lifted her paw to her mouth and took another pull on her Parliament.


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Better TV

As the nation prepares to make the leap to digital television, Congress is trying to decide how many billions of dollars it's going to spend to make sure no TV viewer gets left behind.


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Numb3rs

A title such as the "Summary of Unrestricted Unallocated Budgeted Funds" may conjure an image of an abstract and unintelligible financial statement.