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The red light
By Shadee Malaklou | November 19, 2004Sorority girls—you don’t have to put on the red light… or the red garter belt.
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Second-class citizens
By Christopher Scoville | November 18, 2004After the November elections, 13 states now ban same-sex marriage, and some of these states also ban any possibility of civil unions or domestic partnerships.
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I am waiting
By Aaron Kirschenfeld | November 18, 2004Y ou’re standing at a bus stop when one, two, three, four, five, six full busses roar past. You’re late to class.
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Hands off my tra la la
By Rob Goodman | November 17, 2004Y ou, reader, did not vote. Or rather, the odds are that any given college-age reader of this column did not vote, as the 18-to-24 age group had a failure rate of about 60 percent.
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Taking it straight
By Andrew Waugh | November 17, 2004In a motley motel room 20 miles east of Memphis, where the only thing cheaper than the beds was the liquor we spilled in them, I stood staring into a rusted mirror behind a bathroom door which on...
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Como canta la zumaya
By haddeus Edwards II | November 16, 2004I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.
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You're such a 4.0
By Yoni Riemer | November 16, 2004I bought a lamp at this thrift store in Durham. Because of its lack of luster, I took to it a bottle of Windex and some napkins I stole from The Loop. BAM! Genie time! I’m not kidding.
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Girls jumping on trampolines
By Lauren Fischetti | November 16, 2004If you are like me, after reading my headline, you will chuckle to yourself as you recall one of the funniest shows to ever grace your television screen—Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla’s...
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Is it in you?
By Philip Kurian | November 15, 2004No one has life all figured out.
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Who's that man with the old tin hat?
By Matt Dearborn | November 15, 2004So I’m going back home to California for winter break, and I’m beginning to prep myself mentally for the entourage of questions I know I’ll be getting, not only because I’ve...
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Thankstaking
By Sir Elton Brand, Prince of Tennis | November 15, 2004SIR ELTON was thinking of being a total jerk this week, just to prepare for this whole Thanksgiving holiday you Americans have.
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A review of a review of Tom Wolfe' s new book
By Jonathan Pattillo | November 12, 2004The literary powers that be always consider the release of a new Tom Wolfe book the literary event of the season.
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iPods, not wePods
By Sarah Kwak | November 12, 2004I was walking to class on East, when I heard a voice start singing some ’90s pop “classic” behind me.
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Wisdom gained by caring for the dying
By Richard Payne | November 12, 2004I was struck by the recent column, “In Appreciation of Life,” written by Anne Katharine Wales. She made many interesting and moving points.
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After rhetoric
By Paul Musselwhite | November 12, 2004The posturing of the election is over. There’s a rare pause in campus and national rhetoric; people are thinking.
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Passing for straight
By Amelia Herbert | November 11, 2004That’s so gay.” “He acts like such a fag.” “He’s clearly gay, look how he’s dressed.”.
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While you were sleeping
By Stefan Dolgert | November 11, 2004Like many of you out there in Dukedom on Election Day, I was awake late into the night, watching as those fabled Democratic precincts in Cleveland failed to deliver Ohio to Kerry.
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Balancing equations
By Carolina Astigarraga | November 11, 2004My boyfriend came to visit me last year and eager to show him Duke in all its glory, I spent the subsequent days showing him around all the obligatory visitor hotspots.
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In appreciation of life
By Anne Katharine Wales | November 10, 2004A few weeks ago I attended my first funeral. Walking into the wake, I was surprised by how scared I felt to see my grandfather displayed inside the casket.