The recent and deeply ugly disturbances on campus involving threats and racial slurs have coincided with a national wave of dissatisfaction with college culture.
As the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, I would like to clarify my statements concerning diversity training for graduate and professional students at Duke University.
As the November 20 article on Friday’s forum noted, the forum began with a prepared statement recounting fifty years of unanswered minority demands—a fitting reminder of the many brave people who have fought institutional oppression.
Reading “Vegetarian community growing rapidly in Durham,” written by Anupriya Sivakumar on November 12, it was great to see the issue of dining hall food choices brought up.
I wanted to share some thoughts I had in response to Tyler Fredericks’ November 12th column, “Safe words and violent spaces.” His column makes it clear that the “safe space” movement on campus ironically has made campus unsafe for the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority to conduct its philanthropy, unsafe for Brian Grasso (who refused to read “Fun Home”) to maintain his religious principles and unsafe for the Chronicle’s Editorial Page Editor Jonathan Zhao to express his political beliefs.
Dear President Brodhead, On behalf of the Duke LGBT Alumni Network, thank you for your strong and faithful support for the Duke LGBTQ community.
I’ve been out of the military for 20 years now, and I served two tours of duty in Iraq during desert storm/desert shield, one tour in Yugoslavia enforcing a no flying zone and a tour in Haiti to remove their military junta.
As a Miami football fan since childhood, Duke graduate and sports editor of The Chronicle during Coach Cut's second season in Durham, I have a unique perspective on every game involving the 'Canes and Blue Devils.
I read with great interest last Thursday’s editorial, “From gentrification to revitalization: what Duke can do,” regarding the recent growth in property values for some downtown neighborhoods.
Municipal elections influence crucial issues facing Durham residents including living wages, affordable housing, parks and recreation centers, downtown development, public transportation and safety.
As an alumna and current doctoral student, I have watched this scene unfold over and over—when Black students at Duke are terrorized, we continue with business as usual. Sometimes, however, we may offer up 10 minutes of our time.
What has happened to free speech at Duke? On Wednesday, a student published a column condemning the Palestinian acts of violence on Israelis and gave his reasoning for the justification of settlements in Israeli occupied and unoccupied territories.
To any Duke student, the October 8th article about excessive fire alarm activations seemed incredibly predictable because it has happened to everyone at least once.
I disagree with Duke Political Union’s September 30th column, “Welfare and the federal government,” on several points.
From SNL sketches, to The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, comedic and satirical media now have a substantial impact on how Americans receive and digest news and current events.
I am responding to your 16 Sept. editorial entitled "Legacy admissions: something given for little returned." In your article, you state, among other ridiculous untruths, that "those that believe legacy students bring a coherent or uniquely beneficial background to Duke are deluding themselves." In other words, you believe that legacy students do not belong at Duke.
Sally, Rob and Tom are three freshmen running for the last remaining position on the DSG Free T-Shirts Committee.
On July 14, Iran, the P5+1(the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – plus Germany) and the European Union completed a marathon 20 months of negotiations.
In response to The Chronicle's story on some Duke students objecting to reading Fun Home for religious reasons, I would recommend that those students take themselves and their summer reading assignment a little less seriously.
We want to take an opportunity to emphasize not only our grief and mourning over the tragedy, but our anger and outrage at the way this event has been characterized in the media and what it...
