Column: Words from the black book
By Like a Polaroid Picture: Shadee Malaklou | January 7, 2004I own a little black book. I'm a regular at Shooters. And I like my men.
I own a little black book. I'm a regular at Shooters. And I like my men.
This Saturday at 2 p.m., the mens basketball team will take the court against St. Johns in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
After reading and re-reading Paul Musselwhite's comments regarding affirmative action in The Chronicle a few days back it would be easy to dismiss the author as ignorant and publicly reprimand him...
While I disagree with Paul Musselwhite's hypothesis that affirmative action is the elephant in Duke's room of segregation problems, the practice ultimately helps nobody and has no place at this...
Recently I had the pleasure of seeing the Durham most students don't get to see over their undergraduate careers at Duke.
Campus Council and the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services have gotten the ball rolling, now it's up to Duke Student Government to close the deal..
The Chronicle's editorial (Dec.
Affirmative action, according to Dictionary.com, is a policy that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity as in education and employment.
Within 24 hours of Sunday's armed robbery of a student at the Bryan Center ATM machines, the Duke University Police Department announced it was stepping up its patrols and urged community members...
Two weeks ago in Miami at the FTAA ministerial, over 10,000 individuals came face to face with American democracy. Our freedoms were thrown in our faces.
I am the product of an interracial relationship.
In his critique of Duke's affirmative action policies and how they foster facial segregation, Paul Musselwhite neglected to consider how the tactless expression of opinions such as his have...
I'm inclined to agree that self-segregation is a problem at Duke, but Paul Musselwhite's final solution to this problem is at best naive in its analysis and at worst disturbing in its implementation.
While Philip Kurian, and many others, are willing to focus only on fraternities and other campus social institutions as causing structural segregation, many other large factors are ignored. .
The new Medicare bill that passed through Congress last week has been dubbed the greatest expansion of Medicare since its conception 40 years ago, and a savior to senior citizens relying on...
Duke's parking problems extend much further than the exorbitant price of tickets.
I asked Ms. Cornell, a Trinity senior and public policy major, to a lunch interview at the Armadillo Grill so we could talk about pirates, but I hardly expected her to come dressed as one.
Responding to Howard Dean's controversial comments about southerners, their pick-ups and the stars and bars, Georgia Senator Zell Miller stated, "Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as...
Monday was World AIDS Day, a day that has decreased in prominence because of the growing awareness of the problems posed by the disease.
aSelf-segregation? It appears that segregation on campus is much more institutionalized than we think..