Improving Duke

April 9, 2009

Before I begin my list of suggestions, I must acknowledge the progress Duke has made since I began coming here.  When I was a freshman, I had to ride all the way through Central on the C-2 bus if I wanted to go to West Campus on the weekends (20 miles in the snow, uphill [...]

Read the full article →

Debating FML

April 8, 2009

One of the benefits of writing a blog is that you get to address issues you wouldn’t normally be able to in print.  The fact is, it’s the Internet, most anything goes.  So with this post I decided to engage in a debate on the merits of the (in)famous site known as Fmylife.com.
For those of [...]

Read the full article →

The launch

April 7, 2009
Read the full article →

Vin Diesel: action star (again?)

April 7, 2009

Here’s some news that will surely shock snobby film critics everywhere: Vin Diesel has made a successful action movie. It’s an occurrence as rare as a celestial event, so I’d like to take some time and comment on it.
First of all, let me excuse that chomping sound you are no doubt hearing right now- that’s [...]

Read the full article →

The ivory tower

April 6, 2009
Read the full article →

Why I’ll be fluttering soon

April 3, 2009

So today I came across this video on Slate.com by way of Twitter:

Obviously, everybody’s been talking about Twitter lately.  People love it, hate it, are thoroughly confused by it, etc.  If you think about it, all those different reactions make sense, seeing as Twitter is really just an aggregated thought stream.  That is, a stream [...]

Read the full article →

Obama’s start

April 2, 2009

A little over two months ago, President Barack Obama was inaugurated amid much fanfare and excitement. Since the time of Franklin Roosevelt, it has become customary for presidents to get their agenda started within the first 100 days of their administrations, a period that ends on April 30.  Your fearless columnist, though, will be too [...]

Read the full article →

Alternative uses for Earth Hour 2009

April 1, 2009

This past Saturday, cities across the world took part in “Earth Hour 2009” as households, businesses and famous landmarks turned off non-essential lights for an hour from 8:30 to 9:30 pm. Though perhaps 1 billion people didn’t end up participating like the organizers, the World Wildlife Fund, claimed would, it nonetheless appears to have been [...]

Read the full article →

A question often asked

March 31, 2009

Why do we go to college?
It seems like a simple question, but the answer can be rather complex. Or perhaps it’s just that there are multiple answers, none more correct or incorrect than the others. For example, I might answer that I go to college to not have to get a 9 to 5 daily [...]

Read the full article →

Why this is a tiresome subject

March 27, 2009

Every year around this time I hear people argue against minority recruitment weekends.
The arguments are always pretty familiar:

Minority recruitment weekends shut the rest of the community out and keep them from welcoming minority students.

Introducing students to Duke in the context of race predisposes them to identifying themselves along racial lines.  And as a result they [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →