In a column published in the The Chronicle on 24 September 2018 and reprinted on 26 September, Eladio Bobadilla attacked the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University in a completely irresponsible manner.
Job fairs have never been my thing. As I walked around Wilson Gym in my suit last Wednesday, I was embarrassingly sweaty and incredibly flustered.
I am writing you this letter as an alumna of Duke, a proponent of safe universities for women, a classmate and a colleague to highlight the problem of sexual assaults being covered up and blindly allowed on our university campuses across our country.
I’m having one of those weeks. Four midterms, classes as usual, club meetings, this column to write and the pressures of finding a summer internship looming annoyingly in the backdrop of all my thoughts.
$8.5 billion should not just represent some abstract measurement of institutional worth for us in the Duke community. More than just an arbitrary mathematical variable in the many college rankings Duke is a part of, our endowment has the ability to directly improve our quality of education and life as students and community members at a major research university.
Cooperpalooza. MireGras. Moonstone. Maxwell’s Atlantis. Round Table’s That 70s Party.
While this foundation certainly isn’t the only entity weaponizing their money for political and monetary ends, this recent news item highlights the ways in which college campuses are increasingly mutating into ideological battlegrounds with wars bankrolled by wealthy, outside institutions.
Although the debate over gun control flares after each school shooting or spike in crime, it is genuinely difficult to pin down the start of this societal conflict.
My bar mitzvah was an event for the ages. Picture a night at Shooters, with a greater percentage of Jews, less sexual harassment, and, of course, all attention directed solely towards me.
Dear President Price, What kind of a place are you running, if you permit academic freedom to all who apply, but make someone who cleans toilets afraid to complain about their working conditions?
I am deliriously happy to be turning 21 at Duke University. Here, I am blessed with incredible friends, a community that accepts me for who I am and more resources than I know what to do with.
Thanks to Doan & Satisky’s excellent article, “Housekeepers to rebid for shifts, locations as union president resigns in protest,” the greater campus community is now aware of a grave injustice that has been unfolding for several weeks in relative silence.
Ultimately, while the core issue facing us is not the box itself, but rather the racist prison industrial complex, this change is one part of a blueprint towards justice.
Dear Frances, This is my first year of college and things are going overall super well! Except... I have four midterms coming up next week, and I'm not sure how to prepare.
This weekend, I attended a screening held by DUU Freewater Presentations of the movie Eighth Grade. The coming-of-age film, written and directed by Bo Burnham, follows eighth grader Kayla Day as she struggles through her final week of middle school.
“I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts!” So (supposedly) spoke the Trojan priest Laocoon, urging against bringing a wooden horse into Troy.
The points which Eladio Bobadilla makes in his recent article, “Accepting Koch Money” is troubling in that it assigns cause for the rise of violent nationalism in this country to a school of thought that is, based on its underpinning tenets, fundamentally at odds with the alt-right movement.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is considered an expert in trauma.
Best Colleges has Duke ranked as their 10th happiest university, and with a simple stroll around campus, it’s easy to see why.
Dear Noah, Can you believe that you’ve been in college for over a month now?
