Duke must either respond to the fact that many professors treat Friday as a perfectly feasible night to slap on a midnight due date and give us our libraries or mandate that professors knock it off and give us our Friday nights — the former being the far more likely possibility.
Many of you favor Duke merchandise, and that’s only natural. It’s usually pretty comfortable (sweats), and people have been sporting college merchandise since its invention. Even before that, they probably wore some form of merchandise, possibly a nifty lapel pin or something analogously fashionable for the 1800s. So, it’s no big deal if you do, except that you may face accusations of perniciously propagating classism.
The great tragedy is that Walz missed out on potential new voters among our student body and faculty. In my view, anyone who is a part of the Duke Democrats or has been invited, assuming exclusivity, is almost certainly already voting for Harris/Walz. Walz probably did not gain significant new voters from this event besides those possibly garnered from the resulting press and media.
I’m not even sure wealth is the premier issue here. The girls interviewing us may have just been looking to relate based on shared experiences of themselves or their friends. A faultless phenomenon.
Sitting outside of the Devil’s Krafthouse, watching the debate and knowing that at least some of the members of the Duke Democrats and the Ciceronian Society worked together to make such an event happen was a sign of hope. Collaboration and amnesty between left- and right-wing students is a fine first step. I hope we can incentivize voting without the fine print of who to vote for.
