She’s back. Crystal Mangum, the notorious Duke lacrosse accuser, appeared in public today for the first time since that whole player-life-ruining brouhaha two years ago. What’s the occasion? Promoting her book, but of course.
In the book she writes: “I want to assert, without equivocation, that I was assaulted.” What she can’t say without equi...
Many colleges have been embroiled in controversy over the alleged offensiveness of their mascots. Just last year, University of Illinois’ Chief Illiniwek performed his last mascoting duties due to opposition by Native American activist groups.
Now a new controversy is cropping up. A Christian group wants Duke’s Blue Devils name gone because th...
While relics from our past, like New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys, are resurfacing, another old favorite is biting the dust. MTV is pulling the plug on TRL, with its last episode scheduled for November.
Who knew the show was even still on the air?
Back in the day, TRL defined “cool” and launched the careers of stars like Britney Sp...
Remember that whole Giuliani-Duke-golf-team-lawsuit-scandal thingy from the summer?
Well, apparently it’s not going away.
He’s still suing, and scarily enough, he may win.
A column in The Chronicle explains:
Andrew Giuliani's lawsuit in response to his "unfair" dismissal from the Duke men's golf team reeks of absurdity. Even from the fili...
You can’t make this stuff up.
Saturday two skydivers landed in Duke’s Wallace Wade Stadium with the game ball before the team’s match-up against JMU.
Unfortunately, the skydivers meant to land eight miles away at the UNC game. While in the air, the jumpers decided to cancel the leap because of cloud cover, but when the clouds suddenly opene...
Crystal Mangum, the girl who riled up Durham after accusing three Duke Lacrosse players of rape, is coming out with a tell-all memoir.
Now, now, before you get all up in arms, there is some good to come from “The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story.” For one thing, Mangum plans to donate $1 from the sale of each book to aid battered...
So yesterday we brought you news that a Harvard grad’s job more or less entails loading and unloading Barack Obama’s bags.
Today we learn that a Duke education can get you even farther in politics. Instead of carrying Obama’s luggage, Duke alum Reggie Love carries the guy’s toothbrush, mouthwash, cough drops, aspirin and wet naps.
Love, a f...
I don’t want to act too excited lest it all be a cruel, cruel joke, but it appears as if some college presidents may actually support lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18.
College leaders from such well-respected universities as Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State have joined the Amethyst Initiative movement which seeks to provoke a national deb...
The situation continues to get stranger - Clay Aiken’s baby has finally arrived. Born at 8:08 on lucky day 8/8/08, baby boy Parker Foster Aiken is going to need all the luck he can get with weirdo genes like his daddy’s. Wanting desperately to be a father, Aiken had his 50-year-old friend Jaymes Foster artificially inseminated. Does anyone else ...
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