We need to do better—even right here at Duke—to support our transgender youth and provide access to sports teams that align with a person’s gender.
I pray that the young men infected right now never have to know what it’s like to lose someone during COVID-19.
Change begins with the courage to admit the truth. It can be really hard, especially when many of us experience a lot of imposter syndrome, but it’s easier to talk about these things when you really internalize that you’re not the only one experiencing them.
My ask to faculty is this: please, keep up the flexible teaching.
For me, FLUNCH is probably the most important way to connect with students and to understand what the Duke experience really is like for you.
Duke University, like other historically white colleges and universities, came late to desegregation. Although moral considerations played a role, the primary concern was money.
Ten years ago today, my best friend Drew Everson passed away during our senior year at Duke University.
As the colder months draw closer at Duke, sweatshirts emerge from hibernation, and students are awash in the bustle of the semester. All the while, something seems absent.
The victims of sexual assault are not a flawed exception to our current system; rather, our system is exceptionally flawed.
The scale of the challenge is why now is no time for any Duke student to turn off, tune out and settle for a future that is less bright than what America has always promised.
It was incredibly inconsiderate that our video was used, very obviously, as the face of Duke’s racial equity initiative, without any notification of such actions or proper credit where credit was due.
In pandemic times, S/U is a vitally important vessel that can provide students with sorely needed academic flexibility.
If we demand justice and equality for all Black lives, we must examine our meaning of the word “all” and affirm its inclusivity.
To ensure that the administration follows through on their promise of transformative justice, we have to force their hand. And to do that, we have to keep from them what matters the most: our money.
I wonder about the people in charge who are acting with such nonchalance about our health and safety. I wonder whether their mother calls them to ask them how they’re breathing today.
Although calling for manifold actions across the university, Price’s far-reaching anti-racism commitments shared one thing in common: each would cost real money.
Facebook is potentially as detrimental to humanity as Big Tobacco ever was. It has certainly used the same corporate playbook.
It feels nearly impossible to find a sense of belonging in a place that negatively highlights your differences and denies your entry.
Duke University is defined and strengthened by the thousands of international undergraduate and graduate students in our community.
