OPINION

Un Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido

By Mi Gente Alumni | February 5, 2016

As recent Latinx alumni of Duke University, we proudly support Mi Gente’s letter to the administration, “Duke without Mi Gente,” and its decision to boycott Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW). The carefully constructed demands include demands for a cultural center, a comprehensive plan to hire Latinx faculty and administrators, full funding for future recruitment weekends and public acknowledgement and apology for the lack of institutional support for Latinxs on campus.

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OPINION

Refusing feeding time: A response to My Belonging

By Antonio López | February 1, 2016

Brother Abele designed its architecture, my father waited its tables at the WaDuke and now, finally inside these walls, I once again must do my part in educating this University of its own hypocrisy.

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OPINION

Mi Gente’s demands miss the point

By Michael Courtney | January 28, 2016

On January 26th, The Chronicle reported that Duke’s Latino organization, “Mi Gente,” decided to end its successful collaborative relationship with Duke’s Office of Admissions to recruit Latinos and issued “demands” on Duke’s administration.

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OPINION

Duke without Mi Gente

By Mi Gente 2015-16 | January 25, 2016

Dear Duke University, This coming Spring semester, Mi Gente, Duke’s undergraduate umbrella Latinx student organization, will cease its collaboration with the Admissions office with respect to Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW). Our organization, which serves the entire Duke community, a Latinx community comprising of 7 percent of the student population and a first year population comprising of 10 percent, will no longer organize and facilitate Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), which attracts 60-80 prospective students every year.

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OPINION

Refugee debate in Germany: It is not that simple

By Thamina Stoll | January 22, 2016

In the light of recent mass sexual assaults in Germany and elsewhere by people of foreign origin, it is unsurprising that German or rather European citizens—especially those that align themselves with right-wing movements that have opposed Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy from the very beginning—demand a halt to said policy.

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OPINION

Dear first-year me

By Pooja Mehta | January 22, 2016

Today is the day you go back to the convention center for the second half of recruitment. The past week hasn’t been easy.

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OPINION

Paris, tragedy and apathy

By Sid Gopinath , Ashima Chadha , Basil Seif , Grace Park , Kathy Lee , Luis Martinez-Moure , Priyanka Venkannagari , Sarah Darwiche , Caroline Ayanian and Nader Helmy | January 21, 2016

On October 10, 2015, two suicide bombs tore through the crowds at a rally for peace taking place in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 102 people and injuring over 400.

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OPINION

Guns: More or less a polarized issue

By Pearce Godwin | January 20, 2016

President Obama has announced new executive orders to increase gun control in the wake of mass shooting tragedies across America.

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OPINION

An open letter to President Brodhead

By Duke Open Campus Coalition | January 20, 2016

Dear President Brodhead, With this letter, we—a group of Duke University’s student leaders—come together in forming the Duke Open Campus Coalition.

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OPINION

My love affair with Mary Duke Biddle

By Nathan Bullock | January 13, 2016

The Mary Duke Biddle Music Building (MDB) is my favorite building on East Campus. Built in 1971 by American architect Edward Durrell Stone, it has housed the music department of Duke University since it opened.

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OPINION

The Duke difference

By Anonymous | December 7, 2015

I spent most of Saturday sitting inside my bedroom closet unable to move. For most of the week I had been trying to run away from my life and had ended up in my closet looking for my back-up plan—pills I had saved when I was sick over summer—to finally end my life.

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OPINION

Why do we always lose on firearms?

By Seaver Wang | December 7, 2015

In the famous viral opening of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” protagonist Will McAvoy gives a speech in which he explains how America is no longer the greatest country on Earth. In the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, that ended fourteen lives, I once again feel like our country is so very far from being first among nations.

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OPINION

The Yik Yak black attack

By Danielle Holt | December 7, 2015

“No your black life does not matter.” –November 13, Duke University On Friday, November 13, President Brodhead held an open conversation in response to various racial injustices happening on campus and at institutions of higher education across the nation.

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OPINION

How language turns advocates into reformers

By Lauren Forman | December 7, 2015

I’ve spent the last year studying oppressive language. My honors thesis in Public Policy (which I submitted on Friday!) explored how the language surrounding racial profiling, stop-and-frisk and use of force in the New York Police Department offers strategic policymaking insight.

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OPINION

Unwanted freshman drinking practices

By Diana Evans , Jamie Park and William Harris | December 3, 2015

If given the choice between doing something fun with friends that doesn’t involve alcohol or going out, over 85 percent of Duke’s freshman class responded that they would prefer the option that doesn’t include alcohol.

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OPINION

Imposter phenomenon

By Students of "Women in the Public Sphere" | December 2, 2015

Like many of you, I remember the day I got into Duke with special clarity. The jumping, the crying, the overjoyed shouting from my mom and sister.

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OPINION

Rules by students, for students

By DSG Committee for Residential Life | December 2, 2015

In 2007, HDRL and students came together to develop a student-driven assessment for Selective Living Groups. The end result was the first iteration of the Residential Group Assessment Committee (RGAC) and its accompanying scoring rubric.

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OPINION

Do better

By Sabriyya Pate | December 2, 2015

The recent #DUBetter demands presented at the “Duke Tomorrow” panel left me astounded.

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OPINION

Unjust continuation fees remain problematic

By Duke Committee on Continuation Fees | November 24, 2015

Dean McClain's response to our editorial on the hidden costs of graduate school at Duke represents a productive start to a dialogue that’s long overdue.

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OPINION

Thank you, Abigail Labella, GPSC President: A letter in response

By Rachel Rothendler | November 24, 2015

Let me be clear from the outset that I speak solely on behalf of myself and that I am not an objective party in this matter nor will I pretend to be.