McCall Wells

Duke, Forward

McCall Wells is Trinity '17. Her column, "duke, forward," runs on alternate Fridays.


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The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Time's up on traditional solutions

Accountability and consequence for sexual misconduct on college campuses is long overdue, especially when a lack thereof means the threat of violence and retraumatization for all those who must share the offender’s space. But, if expulsion and other sanctions listed in Duke’s sexual misconduct policy were to be viewed through a restorative justice lens, I think they’d fail to meet the core tenets of reparation, reunion and transformation that the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation outlines as crucial in the restoration process.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

N***** in Madrid

The debates I took up with Duke administrators and ideologically different acquaintances now seem like child’s play in comparison to the labor of achieving mutual respect and understanding with complete strangers. Contesting the merits of identity politics with a conservative friend in Vondy was one thing, while it would be another to discuss it with new colleagues from around the world.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

How much is a picture worth?

Nevertheless, I find it unsettling that we spend so much of our free time skimming through hundreds—if not thousands—of images and life updates from people with whom we’d never hold more than a five-minute conversation. 

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