Why Duke bothers to form committees on how to improve itself-instead of just asking me-I'll never know. If this college is serious about changing for the better, here's three places to start: 1....
The academic world has a way with words; or rather, it has a way of grinding up once-meaningful words into a fine paste of incomprehensible terminology. There are all sorts of "college words"...
Somewhere in the Durham Visitor's Center, most likely locked in a back closet, is a tattered old box marked "ADVERTISING TAG-LINES: DO NOT USE." There, the city stores all its rejected slogans,...
If things keep going like this, 2006-2007 may very well be remembered at Duke as the Year of the Absurdly Lavish Party.
If you're among the roughly 20 remaining people in this country who have not appeared on television at some point during their lives, and you're just aching to rectify this situation, I may be able...
Stop me if you've heard this one before; there's all kinds of variations, but here's the version I'm most familiar with: (Me): How do you get an English major's attention? (You): Shucks, I don't...
I'd like to tell you which one it is, but Duke buses all look pretty much the same. Maybe you've seen it: on your left when you're getting on, in the very back of one of the older-style buses,...
Does Whole Foods pay these people? Honestly, where do they all come from, individuals dressed in that oddly attractive hybrid of urban sophisticate and hippie attire, pleasant and really...
Shame on you, Duke University. You position yourself as an illustrious center of higher education, an institution on the bleeding edge of academic progress and advancement. And yet you don't even...
Dear reader: Are you, or have you ever been, a person? If you've answered "yes," then a hearty congratulations to you! You're the recipient of a prestigious honor from one of the most famous and...
