We hear it from the cradle to the grave, one overarching demand to warm our bodies (and souls) and cover our natural state: Wear pants. No exceptions.
I know it’s Friday afternoon, but this is Duke, dammit! The learning should never stop! To that end, For Good Or For Awesome presents a fun experiment that you can do in your free time, like...
If Austin Powers were Japanese, he would look like my dad. With his unruly, side-swept hair, thick glasses and goofy grin, my father looks and acts silly.
I recently saw a bumper sticker identifying Jan. 20, 2005 as the “National Day of Mourning.
I think it’s about time for one of those “random thoughts and missed headlines” columns—there are just too many crazy things going on in the world and at Duke to choose just...
“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates to, and the more extended its area of applicability.”.
Confession: In the three years I’ve been at Duke, I have spent a grand total of about one hour participating in community service.
I blame my mother for my dabbling in metro-sexuality. The actual I-kid-you-not dialogue went like this:.
Here’s a serious question: is there a “correct” set of political values?.
As a 12-year veteran of the cash-strapped Maryland public school system, I had a hard time getting used to the comparative lavishness that is inherent to an elite private university such as Duke.
TOMMY SEABASS watches a great deal of cable news, and he is therefore very familiar with the pending case of Debra LaFave, the 24-year-old Tampa, Fla.
This afternoon tens of thousands of Americans will march in our nation’s capital to mourn the victims of 32 years of legalized abortion and to urge judicial reconsideration of the infamous...
We hear it all the time, from birth to death, socialized (or deluded) to order the senselessness of our existence: This is right. That is wrong.
What follows is a very simple, straightforward list of the things that I would like to see happen during my last semester at Duke.
The United States is the richest nation on earth. Despite this fact, millions of hard working Americans live check to check, struggling daily to make ends meet.
This past Friday, at an academic conference on women and minorities in the science and engineering workforce, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury...
It’s one thing when Duke administrators open their arms to shadowy individuals tied to violent organizations. It’s another when they cancel classes for them.
In a recent meeting I attended at Duke, the argument was made that we should abandon using GRE scores in our graduate school admission decisions (or at the very least allow departments to opt out...
