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Fear and loathing

By Eric Vivier | November 19, 2004

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The red light

By Shadee Malaklou | November 19, 2004

Sorority 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, 2004

After 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, 2004

Y 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, 2004

Y 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, 2004

In 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, 2004

I 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, 2004

I 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, 2004

If 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, 2004

No one has life all figured out.

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Who's that man with the old tin hat?

By Matt Dearborn | November 15, 2004

So 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, 2004

SIR 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, 2004

The 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, 2004

I 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, 2004

I 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, 2004

The 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, 2004

That’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, 2004

Like 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, 2004

My 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, 2004

A 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.