An Open Message to President Brodhead and Our Colleagues,
We are saddened and angered at the calculus used to determine what Duke can “afford.” To choose, on this, of all weekends, to exclude and insult members of our community by downsizing support for the public adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, tarnishes Duke in ways that may not be easily monetized but that nonetheless entail enormous costs. We stand with our students and other members of our community to respectfully suggest that the best way to protect them is to unequivocally support them.
Sincerely,
Diane M. Nelson
Wahneema Lubiano
Mark Anthony Neal
Markos Hadjioannou
Susan Willis
Jehanne M Gheith
Rann Bar-On
Peter Sigal
Donna Zapf
Jack Bookman
Kenneth Surin
Jocelyn Olcott
Guo-Juin Hong
Susan Thorne
William Noland
David Need
Owen Flanagan
Negar Mottahedeh
Claudia Koonz
Karla Holloway
Rebecca Stein
Walter Mignolo
Sally Deutsch
Priscilla Wald
Liliana Paredes
Irene Silverblatt
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