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Why do we educate ourselves? The majority of Duke students are fairly intelligent and have gone through a rigorous American education designed to battle the Communist threat.
Have you ever been in a class and thought that all this talk of natural selection and humans evolving through favorable mutations across generations may not be true, and that the complexity of life...
It never fails. Pick up The Chronicle and open to the back—you’ll find some 19-year-old anxious to let you know his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the peace talks in Darfur.
When future generations look back upon this time in Duke history, their main observation will likely be the overwhelming pace of our physical development.
I would like to preface this column with the following: As a left-leaning independent who proudly thinks for himself, I personally hold Michael Moore in the utmost contempt.
While watching The X-Files, I mentally poured this drink: Take one glass bottle and one Styrofoam cup. Fill the glass bottle about two thirds full with gasoline.
Treat thy neighbor as thyself.
The Duke-UNC Men’s basketball game only two days away, and TOMMY SEABASS could not be more excited.
President George W.
Iraq"s election has come and gone, and it seems most everyone is hailing it as a historic achievement for Iraqis and Americans.
On Tuesday Jan. 25, President George W. Bush addressed African-American leaders in an attempt to sell them on his new controversial proposals for reforming Social Security. .
Some people become president, but most don’t. Why, exactly? Nobody really knows, but after exhaustive research the best explanation seems to me to be name recognition.
Do you remember when you were a kid and you’d find something you desperately wanted in a toy store? You’d tug at your parent’s pant leg and plead with them to let you have it.
At first it seemed as though she were dying.
At the Ben Folds concert last Thursday, I spent much more time watching my fellow Duke students than Ben Folds himself.
ow big a farce can an election be without anyone noticing?.
Duke is a pretty appealing place. We boast a first-class faculty, a brilliant student body and stirring architecture.
TOMMY SEABASS was forced to change his plans last week once the news of former Duke President Douglas Knight’s death hit campus.
The tapestry of human knowledge is a wondrous thing. Scientists re-define nature, politicos predict how human beings interact and humanists envision new possibilities for what we can be.
In case you’ve forgotten, I am the columnist who sat at the West Campus bus stop in a folding chair to raise awareness of complaints made by Duke Transit employees.