On Thursday, Blue Devils United decided to retract its endorsement for the position of executive vice president of Duke Student Government.
I guess we Duke students are supposed to always get what we want, no matter what’s in front of us. Even if it’s other Duke students.
We use this interpretation, so clearly void of actual moral authority, as an excuse to do nothing.
But perhaps the most enduring aspect of the Olympics is that all American athletes compete to bring glory back to the United States, regardless of their race.
When voting later this week, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Lintz first for EVP.
The final deadline for endorsements is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7.
It would serve prospective Blue Devils well to learn early on that when Duke says it welcomes students bold enough to stand up, it only means in a rigid, containable ways.
I realized that Blue Devils aren’t a mascot that embodies fervor and action, so instead I wanted to be represented by the worldwide symbol of enthusiasm, athleticism and pride. A sheep.
I had heard of the A word, the S word, and even the F word before, but this W word, before even I even knew what it was, seemed to be on a whole other level. After all, W is a much more exotic letter than A or S or F.
All of these problems create two distinct Dukes; one with individuals who can afford the vast luxuries that Duke and the Durham community have to offer, and another, forced to work harder in a crowd of opulent peers.
A local professor expressed concern over unknown activities occurring inside. “You see a kid go in there, and they seem completely normal,” he told officials, “but then they come out the next day, and they’re changed.” Upon these complaints, the Durham police gathered on Duke’s campus late Sunday night to investigate. But after entering through those dreadful Gothicc doors with expectations of a rescue mission, what they found was much, much worse.
Ultimately, this latest development in the struggle to improve housing represents another top-down approach by the university that askew student body requests in favor of disconnected experiments.
Rather than submitting to fear—accepting the nervous sweat that creeps down ducked heads as students in every state frequently huddle under desks and practice hiding from shooters—we must enact change.
In order for all students to flourish, we need to support each other first and foremost. After we all finish studying for their next midterm, that is.
My greatest fear is to discover that I’m nothing more than a hypocrite, just a fraud with lofty values who in fact stands for nothing at all.
Guns are bringing our flags to half-mast so often yet nothing is being done, so why not just make shorter flag poles?
At the end of their collective venting at yet another annual tuition increase, most Duke students and their families are left throwing metaphorical rocks towards an opaque, seemingly cabalistic Board of Disconnected Elites driving away from campus in their chauffeured Porsches.
It is time for Duke to publicly divest from any company or parent company that in whole or in part manufactures and/or markets weapons of war to the public.
Today, the Duke Faculty Union, the Duke Graduate Student Union and other organizations of workers in higher education are at the leading edge of why new kinds of worker organizing are essential.
It is unfortunate to see yet once again, another student favorite be replaced in the name of supposed improvement and progress for campus life.
