For the thousands of Duke students and alumni who have failed to find a sense of community on this campus, it is not a question of whether or not housing reform should happen; rather, it is when and how it will happen.
The fact that legacy admissions, a policy first implemented at Ivy League universities to keep Jewish students out, continues to be used at Duke at the expense of highly qualified non-legacy applicants, reeks of institutionalized racism and classism.
If Haspel does break the glass ceiling as the first female director in the CIA, the shards of her victory will most likely fall upon those disadvantaged all across the world in the name of “intelligence” and “security.”
Ideally, in the future, strides being made in graduating diverse legions of new innovators and thinkers will be enough to thrust universities into headlines, but, until then, here’s hoping UMBC will continue to thrive and attract leaders of tomorrow with the added extra boost from the historic UVA game.
Detach concepts of personal worth from internships and jobs, find solace in loved ones and try to redefine how you think of leisure time.
After carefully considering the unique, extremely original platforms of each candidate, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Alex Blitz first when voting for VP of RB today.
Today March 8th, marks International Women’s Day (IWD). Ever since it was first established by the New York branch of the Socialist Party of America in 1909, millions of people across the world have used today to celebrate the movement for women’s rights.
After strongly considering the specifics of each candidate’s platform, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Kristina Smith, current Vice President for Services and Sustainability, first when voting this week.
At a research university with a compact undergraduate population exceeding 6,000, the positions of DSG President and EVP can inspire a certain type of awe and reverence.
When voting later this week, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Lintz first for EVP.
It would serve prospective Blue Devils well to learn early on that when Duke says it welcomes students bold enough to stand up, it only means in a rigid, containable ways.
Ultimately, this latest development in the struggle to improve housing represents another top-down approach by the university that askew student body requests in favor of disconnected experiments.
At the end of their collective venting at yet another annual tuition increase, most Duke students and their families are left throwing metaphorical rocks towards an opaque, seemingly cabalistic Board of Disconnected Elites driving away from campus in their chauffeured Porsches.
It is unfortunate to see yet once again, another student favorite be replaced in the name of supposed improvement and progress for campus life.
Ultimately, this proposal is not only a dangerously ill-informed attempt to satiate the interests of the NRA, but also crafted entirely against the wishes of the teachers worried their schools will be the next one to hold candlelight vigils featured on the nightly news.
Durham’s circa 1922 statue was erected in part by an allocation of $5000 in country tax money at a time when black Duhamites were restricted from voting and politically repressed by Jim Crow laws. Meaning they had no say in their tax dollars being funneled to the monument’s initial construction.
Public transit is not a zero-sum game; transit investment does not have to equate to citizen displacement. Durham is at a crossroads—it must decide if it truly wants to be an accessible city for all, and act accordingly.
Comparing the atmosphere of ‘68 verses ‘18—both years being characterized by a deep distrust in government, crises within American liberalism and deep political divisions—numerous parallels can be noted.
Professor MacLean’s language has no place in this world—not in the mouths of either the right or the left, not at a book talk, and certainly not at Duke University.
Nowhere in the American Dream is there a caveat about having to teach schoolchildren how to dodge bullets sent hurling through their hallways.
