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I write to add a Duke employee's voice to alumnus Bob Conroy's protest of the "Blue Devils for Dole" reception that was held last Friday.
Over the past year, I have become appalled at the way the Duke community has been treating its varsity football team.
It is with increasing interest and anxiety that I have been following the national debate on a war in Iraq.
When the University released a mission statement entitled "Rebuilding Duke Football," composed by Director of Athletics Joe Alleva, it took the first step toward rebuilding a beleaguered program...
To answer Pavel Molchanov's first question: I believe Germany has an obligation toward the United States, maybe not to pledge unconditional support in all areas of foreign policy, but at the very...
President Nan Keohane's and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva's comments concerning academic standards for football players are Orwellian.
As thoughtful, scholarly students who recognize that how our country acts at home and abroad affects our American citizen identities, we have a patriotic duty to speak out against the subversion of...
When Duke Student Government restructured its work this year to eliminate legislators' individual projects, the idea was to organize work around a committee that could handle larger problems more...
What is love? The triviality of this question never ceases to amaze me.
Recently, in the waiting room of a doctor's office, I picked up a women's magazine and, to my astonishment, discovered the existence of an apparently well-known phenomenon called "the mommy wars:"...
Apparently Duke's new tactic in community building is through large daily gatherings at the East and West Campus bus stops. Those of you who take the bus during peak hours know this chaos.
This interview with Associate Vice President for Auxillary Services Joe Pietrantoni is the first in a series of Oak Room Interview designed to shed light on the personalities of noted campus...
At the request of Provost Peter Lange, a new task force will begin meeting this month to consider the distribution of classes throughout the day and the week for undergraduates.
I would like to take this opportunity to voice my disgust with the University for allowing an event entitled "Blue Devils for Dole" to take place.
Amid all of this emotionally charged rhetoric of name-calling and war waging, the human capacity for reason seems to have vanished.
As lifelong liberals, we are more than a little saddened to say that Justin Walker's commentary on the spinelessness of Congressional Democrats was, for the most part, dead on.
In the staff editorial in last Friday's paper, The Chronicle demonized various Duke employees for having a reception in support of Elizabeth Dole for U.S. Senate candidacy.
I applaud the columns in Wednesday's edition of the The Chronicle: "Qur'anic Questions" by Bala Ambati and "The joys of thought" by Chandra Jacobs.
Not since Bill Clinton snubbed Newt Gingrich on Air Force One has a sitting U.S. president demonstrated the kind of petty vindictiveness that George W.
Of course, it's now that Yoga Ed is entering the public school system.