On Tuesday, the NCAA ended its boycott of North Carolina after the repeal of House Bill 2, the “bathroom bill” that pushed North Carolina into the national spotlight last year.
Life as a Duke student can feel surreal – from morning rock climbs, to lunches with Nobel laureates, to nights cheering on the most storied basketball program in college sports, capped off with twilights in Perkins.
Yesterday morning, I sat in the balcony of the Carolina Theatre next to a row of sweet old white women.
We all have that friend who, for the life of them, cannot seem to fail at anything they try to do.
Rejecting the natural gas plant is the right thing to do, and is best for Duke and its stakeholders.
So, would you trust a gas company to protect you? Do you want Duke to be a place you’re scared to go back to?
When looked at closely, it becomes a matter of partisanship; conservative ideology will not allow them to break ties with Trump, regardless of his outlandish claims.
Last week, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions finally released the regular decision acceptances for Duke’s Class of 2021.
This is the empty promise of Greek life. It institutionalizes social strata, provides titles and validates stereotypes. It supposedly turns this artificial society into a “come one, come all” fair playing field, where anybody is welcome to join as long as he or she is liked and feels comfortable in the group. This is a flawed vision.
To solve the problem of health care in this country, policymakers on both sides of the spectrum need to move away from polarized and counterproductive debates around health care and instead come to the table to discuss innovative ways to reduce its costs.
On Sunday, the Editorial Board interviewed President Brodhead; for the past two days, we have reflected on his history at Duke, mulling over the roses and thorns of his legacy.
The power dynamic created at parties sets up fraternities brothers to have power over the usually intoxicated partygoers. This power creates vulnerability; the women are not in control and consequently can be more easily exploited.
Every death is a tragedy, but when looking at statistics—and away from sensationalized media—terrorism is less of a danger than ordinary threats ruled with less vengeance.
A few years ago, I was perusing the archives of a college student newspaper. It was the end of the year, the time for graduating columnists to sit down and pen their last piece.
As university members, we occupy a privileged space, where we can freely circulate ideas, construct debates and transform discourses.
On Sunday, the Editorial Board had the privilege of interviewing President Richard Brodhead in his final year at Duke University.
Instead of using natural gas, the proposed plant will instead directly burn up Duke students’ tuition.
A Duke student expresses frustration with a lack of diversity in options for coffee on campus. In response, a peer creates a GoFundMe page to fund his annual “plantation vacation” to “fight exploitation of child labor in coffee plantations.” On his annual trip, he claims to find coffee beans that he uses to brew his own coffee.
A spokesperson from the Duke Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced Friday that a whopping 57 percent of the newly admitted class of 2021 is “really f*****g weird.”
On Sunday, the Editorial Board held an hour-long interview with President Richard Brodhead. Over the next three days, we will use his responses as a lens to examine three topics: Brodhead’s tenure and legacy at Duke, problems at Duke under Brodhead and the future of Duke after Brodhead’s retirement.
