She smiles. I mean, she’s wearing a mask and also a face shield over the mask and also gloves, but I assume she smiles.
President Price issued a statement about the events of January 6th in Washington. As a holder of a Duke degree and long-time employee, I find this statement sorely lacking.
Duke has not merely an opportunity to tell a wider, more diverse story of its origins, but to tell a story that will guide it into its second century.
In June, President Vincent Price published a statement about anti-racist initiatives. In December, Duke's alumni magazine published a letter to the editor that gaslighted anti-Black oppression, shamed BIPOC for their marginalization and demonstrated overt racism.
Our new minor, believed to be just the second of its kind in American higher education, will not solve these problems. But it does signify a key step in what promises to be a very long journey.
How can admissions be considered fair, just and need-blind when a select, privileged few are afforded a “supporting” voice on the basis of nepotism?
Duke University, like other historically white colleges and universities, came late to desegregation. Although moral considerations played a role, the primary concern was money.
To engage in pleasure-based sex is to release yourself from your mind’s prison, from managing and calculating your every appearance, sound and movement, and from enduring pain or discomfort to save your partner’s ego.
Once you know it to be unjust, upholding the status quo makes you part of the problem. Don’t be a centrist.
Part 2 of our Discrimination episode presents discrimination as a nuanced problem, delving a bit further into the issue on campus and discussing potential solutions as outlined by the Duke community.
While the outcome of the 2020 presidential election can certainly dispel some of our political anxiety, the fight to address climate change and pollution must persist.
Understanding that Christ was NOT a white man who stood for status and abuses of power matters. Actually, it does more than matter; it is imperative.
It’s been an honor to serve as your plague jester. But I’m tired. I’m ready to hang up the proverbial mascot costume. It stinks in here. And I think the last guy vomited through the eye holes.
Today, November 8, 2020, of all days, I’m thinking about that final senior column I didn’t write.
"Everyone’s trying to rush to a certain destination. Take your time; you’ll get to your destination."
It’s clear that we’re seeing a new path forward for privacy advocates: the ballot box.
Even after Donald Trump leaves office next year, people will continue to organize on the ground as they have been for centuries. It is our duty to join them.
When we lose sight of the personality of others and act as if we own everything and owe nothing, we turn from love to hate and violence.
Read quotes from the episode, reflecting the issues voiced by students and by a professor who studies social identities and interracial interactions.
This partnership between The Bridge and The Chronicle was born from a desire to make the silenced and hidden perspectives of underrepresented Duke communities apparent.
