If Duke truly wants to make a meaningful impact on the troubling campus culture that breeds sexual misconduct, it needs a lot more than a simple policy change
The student group, dressed in bright orange and carrying posters with phrases such as, “Use your noodle: get us the mac we deserve” and “It’s not too cheesy: we want mac,” stood in the center of the plaza where they protested for 15 minutes before leaving to make their 1:25 classes.
As alumni and prospective students arrive on campus, this month presents a rare moment of convergence between past, present and future members of the Duke community.
At a place like Duke, where students pride themselves on their acceptance of all people regardless of religion or ethnicity, it seems backward that it’s still acceptable to mock God and Christianity in front of people who incorporate religion into their lives.
We at the Duke Engage chapter of the Partners in Health organization implore our Senate representation, Senator Richard Burr and Senator Thom Tillis, to protect the Global Fund and support the right of all human beings to live healthy lives.
The Community Standard can’t succeed without a community behind it—and it’s up to us to create that community.
Shattering one’s blue-colored perspectives of campus life should thus be forefront in the minds of prospective students who are set to flock to Duke over the next few days.
I believe this is not an issue of right vs. left, but an opportunity to define civil discourse at Duke.
The first step to honestly address the ills committed against African Americans is to accept and acknowledge America’s troubled history with race.
The storytellers of old always worked to reshape history as they saw fit, but if we can allow a platform for diverse groups of storytellers and creators in the 21st century, then change can follow.
The responsibility is on us to make prudent decisions regarding our social media and internet activity.
There is no proper time to promote justice. There is only a perception of respectability that attempts a line in the sand, a line separating the acceptable from the “rabble-rousing.”
I desperately wish that everyone I meet thinks of me as the complex individual I am—an amalgamation of bits of each of those characteristics.
Rather than turning their backs to the current outstanding problems with the University, former students should face them head on in an honest confrontation of their own complicity, for only then can the University make amends for its past and move on to a better future.
Yet, there is more work that needs to be done, and the demands made by the students on Saturday articulated a vision forward.
It is without a doubt that passionate student activists will continue to remind current students, alumni and the administration, that milestones like the Silent Vigil should not be a one-time occurrence.
Graduate student workers do crucial work for the university including acting as instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants. Why aren’t they paid a living wage?
No one can deny that Democratic efforts in Congress will continue to be stonewalled so long as Republicans hold a majority.
Congratulations to The Chronicle's Sam Turken and editorial staff for illuminating the role that Duke alum Heath Freeman, '02, and his company Alden Global Capital plays in undermining American journalism.
Graduate workers across the country are organizing, and our unions are increasingly successful in winning better working conditions for themselves.
