I was Co-President of Mi Gente during the 2007-2008 year, and I came up with the idea for and executed the Latin Chic Library Party (yes, I made library parties "a thing"). I was saddened to read "Duke without Mi Gente." To be frank, the tone of the letter struck me as militant and entitled.
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.
Dear Editor Dr. Monday, I just came back to campus for the first time in like 30 years, and boy, have you guys ruined the place.
In a recent letter to the editor from Paul Mees T'86, Duke’s LGBTQ+ community and its allies were reminded of just how far we have come.
One in five women report being sexually assaulted while in college.
How did the draft-dodging, Hillary-donating, China-trade-warring, quadruple-bankrupting, never-office-holding Donald J.
Ladies and Gentlemen: (Is this okay to say?) The guest column from the Duke Open Campus Coalition published January 20 brought back memories of my skirmishing with the nascent politically correct/multicultural radical scholars in the early 1980s as editor and publisher of Spectator Weekly.
Last semester, we surveyed the Imagining the Duke Curriculum committee’s first year of reflection.
Most of the time, we speak and write without fully considering the motivation for our speech or the origins of our words.
Crazy. Radical. Feminazis. These are all words my family used to describe the work that I do for Duke’s Women’s Center.
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.
Today is the day you go back to the convention center for the second half of recruitment. The past week hasn’t been easy.
Bennett Carpenter, the young author of a column published on January 19, has bought into the defeatist and, ultimately, racist notion that something called “white privilege” is enough to keep the black population in metaphorical chains.
Today is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that has long been celebrated by many of my friends and peers.
As the last week of January approaches, first-years move closer to their final decisions about housing for sophomore year.
Happy springtime, Duke humans. It’s that time of year again: time to rush into your niche.
Iran has officially joined the likes of the U.K., France, China and Germany. This is, of course, in a “field of peaceful users [of nuclear energy],” according to a statement made by European Union Foreign Affairs Chief, Federica Mogherini.
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.
Politicians talk about it. Social scientists analyze it. Dean Gerald Wilson has a course about it.
I am a die hard Duke fan, class of '71. I attend basketball games regularly and love all the drama.
