OPINION
Column: Finding the right perspective
By Becky Young | April 18, 2003For much of the past four years, it seems that all I have done is write.
For much of the past four years, it seems that all I have done is write.
It's spring in North Carolina, and that means droves of people, typically prospective students, are descending upon the campus.
It seems Duke-Durham relations just may be alive and well after all.
Pop quiz-you get off the bus at West Campus and are greeted by students with cameras who ask, "Is affirmative action fair? Do you think about race every day? Would you date someone of another race?".
A lot can happen in 30 years.
They may be married, teach in the same department and have similar research fields, but ask Eric and Carol Meyers how they met, and they just might give you different answers.
Cameron Levy, come on down! You're the next contestant on The Price is Right!.
Sleeping bags, canteens, makeshift homes and masses of people-no, we're not talking about Krzyzewskiville.
It's the day after freshman move-in and President Nan Keohane needs to address 1,600 students anxiously waiting to have their decision to attend the University reaffirmed.
Students who spend a semester studying abroad on the beaches of Australia and alongside the Seine in Paris have nothing to complain about, right? Ask them in years past, and they might have given...