OPINION
Sunder is the safe bet
By Editorial Board | March 4, 2014Picking from a crop of smart but imperfect candidates, we offer a qualified endorsement of sophomore Lavanya Sunder for DSG president.
Picking from a crop of smart but imperfect candidates, we offer a qualified endorsement of sophomore Lavanya Sunder for DSG president.
We encourage every student to educate themselves on the issues present in this election and to exercise their right to vote on Tuesday, March 4. Vote Sanka for EVP, and Yes on the 40 Percent Plan.
An initiative to raise starting teacher pay across the state marks the latest act in the saga of North Carolina public education.
Students often grumble about being stuck in the “Duke bubble”—an educational sphere governed by its own rules, where underage drinking is tolerated and FLEX serves as legitimate tender.
Peer universities are actively challenging the income inequality between their highest and lowest paid employees.
Duke’s campus is an 8,470-acre legal exception. Students rarely have to confront the legal consequences of crimes like underage drinking or mild drug use, and the Duke University Police apparatus...
The past quarter of a century has seen the price of attending college skyrocket.
It seemed like students had only just finished celebrating the survival of Snowpocalypse 2014 when we received news that administrators planned to reschedule missed classes—on Saturdays, no less.
Michael Sam, a defensive end for the University of Missouri Tigers, announced last week that he is gay.
Academics have long been accused of trading in convoluted and rarefied prose.
This month, spates of winter weather—including a snow storm three weeks ago and last week’s “Snowpocalypse”—have resulted in the most substantial snowfall in the Durham area in recent memory.
When it comes to female sexuality, the elite university is an embittered battleground, and discussions about Lauren*—a first-year porn actress—have extracted salacious and sexist commentary from...
Courses designed to teach creativity are cropping up on campuses across the country.
Last week, the Editorial Board lauded the expansion and growing success of Me Too Monologues, which saw its attendance skyrocket to nearly 1,800 students this year. Duke is now exploring the...
Student Government recently passed a budgetary statute of $5,000 to partially fund a new campus-wide bike-sharing program.
Football players at Northwestern University are currently petitioning the National Labor Relations Board for the right to form a player’s union.
Last week, the drugstore chain CVS announced it would no longer sell tobacco products in its stores.
'Tis the season to be reflective. Me Too Monologues—one of Duke’s most popular events is back and now spans two full weekends of heartfelt storytelling and stirring performances.
Duke University Press, which publishes more than 40 journals and 120 books annually, recently launched a new digital platform that consolidates its databases for journals and e-books.
Interdisciplinarity, usually an ill-defined buzzword at Duke, has found a concrete purpose in a partnership between the Divinity School and the School of Medicine.