While catching up with on-campus news, I just read a couple of Elliott Wolf's recent columns and was absolutely outraged by the current state of the Office of Judicial Affairs.
This code is a disgrace, and an affront not only to students but to their parents and all alumni. Is it not enough that the current president in Washington and his cronies trample on our Constitutional rights? Now we see (again) that Duke's administration cares not at all about students' rights, but is ready to side with a Durham Police Department that has repeatedly proven to be not merely untrustworthy but outright corrupt.
I encourage all undergrads, "guilty" or not of any behavior that the administration might not like, to stand up for their Constitutional rights and their rights as members of the community. Write to Dean Sue, Dean Bryan, President Brodhead, Vice President Moneta and anyone else who might conceivably listen. And if that doesn't work, begin protests outside the Allen Building.
While freedom from prison may not be at stake, your access to a Duke education (and any diminishment of that which disciplinary action implies) is, and these tactics are, truly, a "social disaster."
Michael Weiner
Trinity '91
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