In trying to bring clarity to the debate over campus speech, Bennett Carpenter's column on January 19 makes several mistakes and omissions about the First Amendment. Carpenter says he cannot imagine how student activists could violate anyone's First Amendment rights.
Since at least 2006, the Career Center, Computer Science Department and Pratt School of Engineering have hosted TechConnect, an event that brings together students and employers to promote engineering and technical careers on campus.
President Obama has announced new executive orders to increase gun control in the wake of mass shooting tragedies across America.
Dear President Brodhead, With this letter, we—a group of Duke University’s student leaders—come together in forming the Duke Open Campus Coalition.
In last week’s State of the Union Address, President Obama used his strongest rhetoric yet, describing ISIS as a “direct threat to our people,” a noted contrast from his muted tone in last month’s Oval Office speech.
As I wait for the bus in Salvador, Brazil, for the final time before going back to the United States, I take my last deep inhale of acaraje (little bean patties fried in Dende oil, typical street food), feel the rays of sun mixing with the salty breeze soaking into my skin and hear the sounds of samba music blasting from a car as it whizzes by.
As students come back for the spring, many look forward to a semester of change. For some, there are new classes to explore and appreciate, while the gauntlet of tenting in K-Ville will be the highlight for others.
Dear Mr. Mees, As an alumnus of a beloved university like Duke nearing his five-year reunion, I share in the nostalgia you must have felt upon returning to campus.
In October 2014, Duke announced plans for a new Student Health and Wellness Center.
“I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again.
As I write my first column, I am thinking a lot about speech. I am thinking about how an urgent and overdue conversation about racism—on our campus and across our country—has been derailed by a diversionary and duplicitous obsession with the First Amendment. I am thinking about how quickly the conversation has shifted from white supremacy to white fragility—and how this shift is itself an expression of white supremacy.
The Duke community experienced its first snowfall on Sunday morning, but the snow “didn’t stick” to the ground. (I have no idea what that means.
Duke basketball has the best fans in the world, bar none. Or at least we used to have the best fans in the world.
Welcome back, Duke-bags! I know, you barely have time to read newspapers anymore between hours of staring in the mirror practicing how exactly to intonate “it’s basically the ivy of the south” and weekends spent volunteering in East Guatemala.
Two months ago, I wrote a column for Campaign Stop 2016 about my vision and hope for what good Republican leadership would look like: facing the issues head on, applying traditional Republican values instead of religious conservatism and showing a willingness to engage in bipartisan conversation.
I woke up Tuesday morning a Rams fan. By the time I went to bed, they belonged to my roommate, a Santa Monica native and lifelong fantasy football aficionado.
Last semester, racial tensions shook campuses across the nation, including our own, leading to forums and task forces convened to tackle the inequities stratifying our shared experiences.
As the internet has already told us, Donald Trump’s proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” is outrageous.
This past August, I rummaged through a box of childhood keepsakes to find a crumpled envelope containing a letter I had written in sixth grade to my future self.
We don't know anyone, really. Our perceptions and ideas of others are often times false, based on snippets of half-listened to conversation, what others might have said about this or that person or what they may have said about themselves but that we misinterpret.
