DukeAFRICA, a university-recognized cultural organization that serves to promote, educate and advocate for African culture on campus, has decided to endorse Jamal Edwards for Young Trustee.
After interviewing each of the candidates and serious deliberation, Duke Political Union has decided to endorse Jamal Edwards for Young Trustee.
BSA President Henry Washington responds to the statement released by Young Trustee candidates Wills Rooney and Max Schreiber last week.
Cameron Crazies. Little kids watch us on TV, dreaming of being part of the Craziness one-day. College students across the country envy us, they hate us.
Similar to Alexandra Villasante-Fricke who was President during 2007-08, we were saddened to read “Duke without Mi Gente,” but not for the same reasons.
I cannot believe that Grace’s Café, a restaurant that has been a part of Duke for almost 20 years, was so unceremoniously voted off campus by a group of students that is unrepresentative of the communities that care about Asian food options.
Paul Mees' January 14th Letter to the Editor spreads misinformation about being LGBT that was rejected beginning in the 1970’s by all major professional groups associated with medicine, psychology/psychiatry and the social sciences. He encapsulates his fallacy by saying, “If I were gay or trans-gendered [sic]... I would want to know all of the relevant consequences in order to make an informed decision.” Being LGBT is not a choice.
Pearce Godwin’s January 20th guest column laid out a commendably balanced view of the division in America’s gun control debate.
I was Co-President of Mi Gente during the 2007-2008 year, and I came up with the idea for and executed the Latin Chic Library Party (yes, I made library parties "a thing"). I was saddened to read "Duke without Mi Gente." To be frank, the tone of the letter struck me as militant and entitled.
In a recent letter to the editor from Paul Mees T'86, Duke’s LGBTQ+ community and its allies were reminded of just how far we have come.
Ladies and Gentlemen: (Is this okay to say?) The guest column from the Duke Open Campus Coalition published January 20 brought back memories of my skirmishing with the nascent politically correct/multicultural radical scholars in the early 1980s as editor and publisher of Spectator Weekly.
Bennett Carpenter, the young author of a column published on January 19, has bought into the defeatist and, ultimately, racist notion that something called “white privilege” is enough to keep the black population in metaphorical chains.
Today is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that has long been celebrated by many of my friends and peers.
I am a die hard Duke fan, class of '71. I attend basketball games regularly and love all the drama.
In trying to bring clarity to the debate over campus speech, Bennett Carpenter's column on January 19 makes several mistakes and omissions about the First Amendment. Carpenter says he cannot imagine how student activists could violate anyone's First Amendment rights.
Dear Mr. Mees, As an alumnus of a beloved university like Duke nearing his five-year reunion, I share in the nostalgia you must have felt upon returning to campus.
Duke basketball has the best fans in the world, bar none. Or at least we used to have the best fans in the world.
We don't know anyone, really. Our perceptions and ideas of others are often times false, based on snippets of half-listened to conversation, what others might have said about this or that person or what they may have said about themselves but that we misinterpret.
Having made the journey back to Duke for the first time since 1986, I took my son to see a plaque in the Bryan Center that had several names on it, among them my late father.
The November 25 article “Colleagues defend Califf amid criticisms of industry ties” does not provide a full picture of Dr. Califf’s lifelong commitment to patients, his reputation for being a person of great integrity and the scientific rigor he has insisted upon as a researcher his entire life. As members of Duke Cancer Institute’s Board of Advisors, and as individuals who have been profoundly impacted by cancer—Ellen having lost her sister and Estelle a 19 year survivor—we felt compelled to make sure that the Duke community fully appreciates the incredible contributions Dr. Califf had made to science and patient care.
