OPINION
Duke’s Sturgis graduation do-over
By James Boyle | August 27, 2021Let’s spread joy and learning rather than infection and fear. Let’s be better than Sturgis.
Let’s spread joy and learning rather than infection and fear. Let’s be better than Sturgis.
I encourage you to contact your school's President and insist they join other school Presidents in putting pressure on Biden and his staff to evacuate academic support employees.
I was so excited for our relationship to evolve from mentor/mentee to friendship. I was so excited to be able to catch up with you in another city many years down the road. I was so excited to see your Facebook updates of a wedding, of kids, of a family.
You could always go to DJ for advice on anything—he always had the bigger picture in mind.
Daniel was passionate about life. He loved basketball, cheese pizza, anime and gaming. His friends and family meant so much to him. He was an advocate for others and consistently challenged people to do better, be better.
Our fight in Bosnia cannot be fought alone. Evil is never contained within borders and it inevitably spills over.
It’s time for Duke to give its student body a more accurate reflection of reality and stop using fear as a control tactic. America is moving on from the pandemania, and Duke should too.
Will my (our!) future working conditions at Duke change for better or worse without employee say in the matter?
To succeed in research, one must learn to fail with grace.
Duke regularly ranks near the top of charts identifying trademark bullies, not as compared to other universities, but as compared to all companies doing business in the US. This is not a good look.
In this time of financial austerity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in light of the broad support from the Press’s authors and editors, we hope that Duke will not prioritize the allocation of resources toward anti-union efforts, and instead engage in productive and collaborative discussions with DUP Workers Union representatives.
Graduation is a momentous occasion, maybe most of all for the families and loved ones who have invested so much in their students. They deserve an invite, just as they have received at peer institutions.
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.