The firestorm of events surrounding Omar’s correct assertion that a powerful lobbying group hold sway over politicians is indicative of just how difficult it is to have substantive conversations about Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
This week, we strongly encourage the undergraduate student body to rank Trey Walk first when voting for Young Trustee.
The issues that prompted the takeover—racism, labor exploitation and financial constraints—continue to plague Duke’s campus today.
Not having a car on campus, having to maintain a work-study job and not being able to afford a Canada Goose puffer are seen as symbols of being “low income” at Duke.
Marching is easy and cathartic, but impactful organizing is difficult with slow turnaround.
With pressure so high, many male-identifying Duke students are desperate to secure a sense of belonging to an organization; so much so that some may have subjected themselves potential hazing to secure such camaraderie.
This form of racism affects more than just international Chinese students: multiple ethnic groups share solidarity in the fight for linguistic and, by extension, cultural autonomy.
As a community, we must think about how our conversations surrounding national headlines continue to support the institutions and whitewashed narrative of the United States.
Amidst all this small-talk of potentially winning a sixth nation title, campus seems to have glossed over problems that plague our basketball program and athletics as a whole.
More than just praising King as a paragon of “woke-ness” in our age of digital social media activism, we should take time to critique and ruminate on the many controversies surrounding Shaun King as an activist and prolific leader of various social justice causes.
For UNC as a whole, the future is cast into uncertainty once again as the institution continues to wrestle with ongoing racial tensions.
White men have been constructed in American mythology as untouched by bias, the only true arbitrators of competence and aptitude.
This documentary reveals a disturbing pattern of racist institutional failings endemic to the American criminal-legal system—failures only further complicated by the state violence that Black citizens routinely face from the same law enforcement officials that claim to protect the public from abusers like R. Kelly.
The new year gives each class cohort at Duke an opportunity to ruminate about their place in the University in space and time.
As long as the state legislature continues to protect archaic remnants of the past by any means necessary, the more troubling the future of North Carolina and UNC-Chapel Hill becomes.
Samuel’s deportation highlights the deeply broken system that has allowed ICE to intimidate and target residents of our communities without scrutiny.
In remembering George H.W. Bush, we should examine his legacy with a critical eye, and to not neglect the many flaws in a presidency that some have romanticized as a paragon of moderate Republican leadership.
But there is always time to reflect on your academic experience in a more constructive manner, and to avoid blaming everything on a fledgling scholar who is just trying to secure a stable position in academia.
These channels for community-building serve the priceless role of lovingly affirming the experiences and cultural touchstones that had formerly been sources of alienation.
As this semester comes to an end, it is all too clear that elite institutions like ours are not immune or indifferent to white supremacy.
