Dear Dr. Monday, It seems like every Chronicle article this week has involved a Duke student nearly dying in one way or another, and I’m scared.
The 2016 presidential election is nearly upon us, and the candidates are ready to fight. Ingenious debate questions have raised a variety of issues, from the abortion of baby Hitler’s fetus (Ben Carson wouldn’t do it, Jeb Bush would) to foreign policy.
Last week, students were relieved to hear that a new member hospitalized for an alcohol-related incident is expected to make a full recovery. Thankful as we are, we must not allow near misses of this nature to be okay.
For most undergraduates, Duke’s three campuses are supposed to be home, from waking up in twin or full XL beds to late walks back from socializing or the libraries.
For the class of 2016, the iconic gothic wonderland promised in brochures and experienced briefly freshmen year has been a mess of construction.
I cannot believe that Grace’s Café, a restaurant that has been a part of Duke for almost 20 years, was so unceremoniously voted off campus by a group of students that is unrepresentative of the communities that care about Asian food options.
Paul Mees' January 14th Letter to the Editor spreads misinformation about being LGBT that was rejected beginning in the 1970’s by all major professional groups associated with medicine, psychology/psychiatry and the social sciences. He encapsulates his fallacy by saying, “If I were gay or trans-gendered [sic]... I would want to know all of the relevant consequences in order to make an informed decision.” Being LGBT is not a choice.
Pearce Godwin’s January 20th guest column laid out a commendably balanced view of the division in America’s gun control debate.
13/11. This date means little to Americans, but Parisians have it scorched on their minds. On November 13, 2015, France experienced the deadliest terrorist attack on its mainland in French history.
Over five decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tugged on the heartstrings of Americans at the March on Washington, compelling them to act by describing the “fierce urgency of now.” Social change—whether significant or small—is enacted when people demand it and when doing so is a necessity rather than a luxury or preference.
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.
Earlier this week, Mi Gente published a letter in The Chronicle announcing their decision to cease working with the Admissions Office on Latino Student Recruitment Weekend.
Originally I had hoped to open this column with a joke riffing on alternative ways the above title could be read.
I am an American, Ashkenazi Jew. This identity is fairly common here at Duke, yet utterly underdeveloped in campus conversation.
Last Wednesday, the Duke Open Campus Coalition published an open letter to President Brodhead in The Chronicle, requesting a meeting with administration to “reaffirm the Duke community’s commitment to preserving ideals of reason, debate and intellectualism at Duke.” Though we appreciate and value intellectual debate and the need to have open dialogue and conversation, we find a number of fatal flaws in their arguments and reasoning. The first point that the coalition makes is that Duke is not implicated as an institution by the acts of bigotry on campus.
Last week, Duke Open Campus Coalition published an open letter to President Brodhead expressing concerns over perceived censorship and a campus climate that threatened academic freedom.
Whenever I think I understand the world, I’m due for a rude awakening. Consider the recent events in Cologne.
With seniors on the verge of graduation and freshman finally easing into Duke life, it is safe to say that second semester is upon us.
The independence declared by the United States on July 4, 1776, was not just political; it was also ideological.
Ask most Duke first-years what they plan to major in, and pat come the replies, BME, pre-health, CS, with an assurance that betrays their being new to college.
