Academic freedom requires that we get to create many different, discrete safe spaces. But you can’t claim your safe space and deny others theirs.
Over the past few months, it has become en vogue for well-meaning middle-aged journalists, social scientists, and politicians to chastise college students for their perceived “sensitivity.” Scholars and pundits from Frank Bruni to Bill Maher have bemoaned the coddling of American students, as well as the development of an awareness of microaggressions and advocacy for safe spaces.
On Monday, James H. Ball Sr. and Wendy A. Ball, parents of Duke alumni, published a letter in the Chronicle establishing the cessation of their long-standing monetary support for the University, in light of political and atmospheric changes they have perceived to be harmful.
They controlled the majority of the known world for almost a thousand years. They maintained the foremost military of their time.
The Chronicle's editorial board says we have no reason to listen to views that are “patently false or feed into dangerous historical trends.” But neither of these characterizations is true.
Yesterday, we opposed Duke’s decision to allow Charles Murray to speak on campus, echoing concerns voiced during the Middlebury College student protests in response to Murray’s visit to the school.
More broadly than one’s individual opinion of Murray, the precedent of censoring unpopular opinions on college campuses is dangerous from any perspective.
With this type of job offer, it is unlikely that the country's top engineers are flocking to work on the most challenging problems we face.
As an influential university, we must be careful and critical about which people we entertain as intellectual leaders.
It’s not so much the school you’re at, but what you do when you get there.
For partners to be straightforward about what kind of sexual acts they are willing to perform, they must build relationships of trust, respect and sacrifice: relationships that are unambiguous about the shared love upon which they are built.
On Tuesday Charles Murray spoke on campus at event organized by students involved with the American Enterprise Institute and the Duke College Republicans.
Essentially, we used a country rather than experienced it.
Now contingent faculty members need the support of students as they bargain for better working conditions and request the compensation they deserve.
Stephen, I listened to what you’ve been saying for the past decade, and I’m writing to tell you that although I hear you, I think you’re due for a reality check.
Healthcare is complicated, and it’s probably wise to ignore anyone who boils the issues down to one or two basic problems.
Ben Carson, we want to identify ourselves in you, not simply because you too are African-American, but because you recognize us, that we too are here.
Amidst media fervor about Russian hackers, Republican infighting and fake presidential wiretaps, a previously controversial situation has quietly evolved beyond notice of the general populace: the nomination for Antonin Scalia’s vacated seat on the Supreme Court.
During these years, certain factions on university campuses have attempted to “out liberal” each other and in many cases, created a climate of intolerance unless one mirrors the political beliefs of these factions.
Just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the Washington Metro Orange Line from New Carrollton to Vienna was packed like sardines.
