Reluctant Advocate
By Lindsay White | April 23, 2007Online Exclusive: I'm on the Duke Students for the Protection of Animals mailing list. Yes, I know. I just thought I'd say it upfront. Last week I received an e-mail from one of its members...
Online Exclusive: I'm on the Duke Students for the Protection of Animals mailing list. Yes, I know. I just thought I'd say it upfront. Last week I received an e-mail from one of its members...
I have this fear. It's two years down the road, and I'm interviewing for a job. I'm an English major, so it'll be at someplace like Chili's. I'll sit down, coiffed and prepared, and my interviewer...
Back when my mother was at Wellesley, in the mid-1960s, there was a particularly outspoken, conservative Christian organization on campus dubbed "the Godsquad." In the midst of a pretty progressive...
Last fall a psychology professor at DePauw University asked her students what labels they attached to the sororities at DePauw. Among a whole slew of stereotypes, Delta Zeta girls at the university...
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth, preserved from the first century A.D., bearing what many claim is the ghostly image of Jesus of Nazareth.
You've probably figured this out, but I'll lay it out there anyway-I'm white. I'm so white that they named me Lindsay White to really drive the point home. And, like most white people mired in...
This last week, I spent all of Wednesday and much of Thursday in the kitchen, making pies and potatoes and whatever else we included in Thanksgiving dinner at my house. Seriously, I barely left the...
An old urban legend at Duke is that Edens Quadrangle was built to discourage student protests and rioting in the 1960s. Edens-a confusing maze of entrances and stairwells that all look the same,...
Every month or so, there is an ad in The Chronicle. Way in the back with the ads looking for bartenders and care for the elderly. The ad has been placed by a loving couple. They'd like you to be...
It's happened a few times. My computer starts to slow down. It beeps at me. Programs shut down for no apparent reason. I sit staring at the screen while Internet Explorer takes forever to load. I...