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O, woe unto us! Hunter S. Thompson has died! He has shot himself in the head while talking on the telephone with his wife. His children were in the home at the time. And now he is dead.
Just one more week. Just one more week until Dan Rather “retires” from CBS News’s anchor chair and starts filing reports for 60 Minutes. Just one more.
A frequent student gripe about coursework is that what we’re learning has no relevance to our lives. For relevance, fortunately, we can turn to the library.
Welcome, comrade! Congratulations on defecting to graduate school, an endless march from darkness into light towards a bountiful utopia, guided by scientific principles and strict adherence to the...
Imagine for a moment that you are our beloved Coach K.
The other day I had the pleasure of finding out what an insensitive person I am.
For the past few years, an unspoken sentiment has surfaced on the pages of The Chronicle, at the meetings of student government organizations and in countless conversations across campus.
Amidst the fury of scattered postings on West Campus, an anonymous black-and-white flyer chanced across my view.
I live in the 4D building of Keohane Quad, which means that whenever I am hungry, 24 hours a day, I can walk down two flights of stairs in my slippers and order a waffle. Or, between the hours of 8 a.
What was your first impression of me?” I asked my closest Duke friends over the past summer.
This is the worst possible time to be a writer. By “worst possible time,” I mean the whole “this day and age” thing, and not Friday, specifically.
Some students still wonder why President Richard Brodhead handled last semester’s Palestine Solidarity Movement controversy the way he did.
I should have known better when I first read the headlines claiming that Ward Churchill had compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.
Apparently, stereotypes are bad. I have come to that conclusion after months of exhaustive research, testing mice in a secret, underground laboratory.
“…The mission of Duke University is… to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship… to provide wide ranging...
There is a lot of anger about wealth among Duke students. We tend to scorn the practice of admitting students based on legacy and financial donations.
Recent events have put Duke’s alcohol policy in the spotlight.
Last August, two of my friends and I road tripped to Canada. We took our time getting up there, meeting weirdos, taking pictures and camping out.
TOMMY SEABASS was excited this weekend to acquire a ticket to the Duke Food Service Employees Basketball Tournament, a little-known annual ritual taking place after-hours in the Brodie Gymnasium.
The language of culture obscures its limitations. From time seemingly immemorial, African Americans have fought within culture’s contradiction—to be oneself, and to be black.