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Housing reform betrays Duke's diversity

(02/19/19 7:44pm)

A common value defines the Duke experience. It pops up on path signs around Cameron and Wallace Wade Stadiums. Proudly and prominently, it marquees on basically every item of Duke promotional material and across Duke’s expansive web presence. In the many notifications from President Price and the occupants of the Allen building, the administration often reaffirms its commitment to this value: diversity. 


A call for community

(02/18/19 5:00am)

We have just completed the annual ritual of rush. Hundreds of students spent hours on end meeting with members of fraternities, sororities, and non-Greek selective living groups (SLGs) with the hope of being accepted to a tight-knit social communities. For some, bid day was the day where their dreams came true, opening the door to the exciting years ahead of new friendships, events, and a strong support network. For others, bid day represented the disappointing end of what appeared to be blossoming relationships and the shattering of your vision for the Duke experience that lay ahead.




Undergraduate Environmental Union endorses Luke Farrell as Young Trustee

(02/10/19 5:56pm)

The Undergraduate Environmental Union formally endorses Luke Farrell as Young Trustee. The Undergraduate Environmental Union (UEU)* consists of 11 student environmental organizations: Duke Campus Farm, Duke Climate Coalition, Duke Energy Club, Environmental Alliance, Duke Conservation Technology, Duke Student Government - Services & Sustainability Committee, Food for Thought, Duke Smart Home, Duke Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and Green Devils.** We appreciated each candidate’s attentiveness to Duke’s environmental footprint and their willingness to make Duke a leader in sustainability. We concluded that Luke’s history of engagement on environmental issues and his fluency with high-impact areas of environmental action set him apart as a candidate and earned unanimous endorsement from the UEU members.











Against censorship

(01/14/19 5:00am)

For most Duke students, Thanksgiving was a much needed break from academic demands, internship applications, and general responsibilities that define our lives on campus. But apparently there is no rest for the wicked. On November 23rd, the day after Thanksgiving, the Chronicle reported that posters from a group called “Identity Evropa” appeared on Duke’s campus. Part of the broader alt-right movement, Identity Evropa is one among many organizations who hope to apply lipstick to the pig of white nationalism. Calling themselves “identitarians,” members of the group aim to infiltrate college Republican organizations in order to inject white supremacist ideas into the mainstream. Sadly, this is not the first instance of hateful people announcing their presence at Duke. Less than a week before the Identity Evropa incident, a swastika was painted over a mural devoted to victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting. That too was but the most recent incident in a spate of anti-Semitic attacks that have repeatedly marred Duke’s campus. In response to these hateful events, various student groups, from The Chronicle's independent Editorial Board to DSG to the Graduate and Professional Student Council to the People’s State of the University, have all called on the Duke administration to implement a “robust hate and bias policy.” As someone of Jewish heritage, these acts on campus pain me and I empathize with the good intentions of those proposing the hate speech policy. But even though I understand how they feel, I still don’t think censorship is the answer.