For resident assistants, the challenge becomes facilitating connections in communities brought together by random housing assignment through frequent, intentional programming and predictable visibility in the dorms.
There is no greater place to appreciate culture and discourse than the ground zero that is a college campus. There are spaces and outlets out here in the “real world” for those sorts of things, for sure, but they aren’t as disposable and as easily reachable.
Historically disadvantaged communities are often the targets of hate speech, and the near explicit backing that nationalist groups in the country receive should not be entirely surprising. It is a pre-existing condition of our country to use our laws to justify the most or near greatest forms of invisible inequity.
I would like to propose that we not leave a blank space to remind us of what was, but instead replace Lee with an appropriate religious leader.
Perhaps this question should not be so ubiquitously dreaded, for truth be told wide eyed silence is the most valid answer.
Immigrants at Duke and around the country deserve compassion and protection because they’re humans, not because of how many degrees they hold or how many hours they’ve committed to research.
Here is the bad news for the left wingers of the Democratic Party: when it comes to advocating for universal health care in the United States, talk is cheap.
The apparent racial and gender-based suffering of white men appears to be the latest and most meaningless political cause to rally around.
Today, President Trump has made a decision that affects Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and/or their families.
At a university as diverse as this one, food has the power to bring people closer together, and the act of preparing food in a domestic setting is a grounding and centering one. Duke is our home, and what we eat is just as important as what we study. Please give us pots and pans.
Ultimately, dragging down and demonizing Antifa is not the pathway to effectively fighting white supremacy. Instead, nuanced criticisms and productive conversations on how to best serve the needs of those who need it the most, while working towards mobilizing one’s community, represent the keys to a future free of fascism or fear.
All my dreams of deep cultural exchanges and widenings of perspective shattered, I wondered about the tendency of these programs to offer entirely new ways of seeing the world, and our tendency to expect such a thing. If we truly expect to relate to people of a different continent, country, religion, culture, and background, we need to stop framing the encounter as a one-in-a-lifetime experience that will change the way we understand the world.
Historically, DSG has also had a considerable issue with attendance, along with a serious problem in diversity that fails to fully represent Duke’s multifaceted student body.
If UNC can do it, we can do it better. Here’s to a Bryan Center Plaza that makes a pity of the Tar Heel pit.
I am utterly dismayed at the front page of the Duke Chronicle on 8/30/2017.
A two-day training academy does not suffice in providing students with a comprehensive understanding of how unique cultures operate.
Privilege deserves to be acknowledged, but it does not deserve to censor.
Banning bikes from the quad shifts the risk to other locations; it does not remove it.
As students finally settle back into the academic year, it seems that the Duke bubble — the seemingly impervious metaphysical barrier that prevents the many problems of the troubled outside world from disturbing the utopian tranquility of the Gothic Wonderland — has yet again set the mood of campus life. However, it would behoove us to remember that the lives of our fellow students do not begin or end within the walls of Duke. It is specifically pertinent to regard the experiences of students of color, who may be faced with assimilating back into campus life after a racially charged and emotionally taxing summer.
It is a sorry state of affairs when, concurrent with one of the most devastating natural disasters to ever face this country and untold suffering and misery yet to come, our students can muster complaints regarding culinary options available to them at a lavish on campus dining facility, and the school’s newspaper finds this newsworthy, devoting front page, above the fold coverage to such a trivial matter.
