Today I woke up late. Ambulances at the hospital across the street from my host family’s home had cried out at least until 2 a.m., at which point I had put in earbuds.
Last week, Dartmouth College joined a growing list of universities in the news for student protests about race.
The world is watching Paris with a heavy heart, drumming a beat that is at once weary with fatigue and quick with panic.
As the fall semester winds down, Thanksgiving provides a welcome respite. The break allows us to catch up with friends and family, enjoy a great meal and bask in the nostalgia of old times at home. But Thanksgiving Day is—or at least was—meant to be more.
The Paris Terror Attacks of November 13, 2015, were an abomination that have left much of the world in tears.
Matthew, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at Duke, has to cobble together odd jobs in order to pay the bills.
With next semester’s registration wrapping up, our curriculum and its requirements have been on students’ minds.
There has been a great deal of discourse and dialogue on campus lately. Between President Brodhead’s forum, the defacement of the Black Lives Matter poster, racial events unfolding on campuses across the United States, the death threat towards a LGBTQ+ student and the painting of “Black Lives Matter” on the James B.
A week after the Iraq War began in 2003, “The Onion” published this piece. At the time, it was a not so satirical point-counterpoint from an all too comical source.
The past few weeks have seen a wave of student activism across the country, with scandals at University of Missouri, Yale and others making national headlines.
All eyes were on President Brodhead and Provost Kornbluth last Friday as they took the stage in Page Auditorium to address the racism and homophobia on campus.
Dear Duke Community, I left the conversation Friday feeling angry, sad, concerned and conflicted.
I am an 18-year-old freshman girl currently living on the second floor of Giles. In case you hadn’t heard, there was an incident in Giles on Saturday night in which a fire extinguisher was placed in an active oven and left to burn.
Dear President Brodhead, My name is Elizabeth Kim, the Korean American student who encountered hateful racial slurs.
I wanted to share some thoughts I had in response to Tyler Fredericks’ November 12th column, “Safe words and violent spaces.” His column makes it clear that the “safe space” movement on campus ironically has made campus unsafe for the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority to conduct its philanthropy, unsafe for Brian Grasso (who refused to read “Fun Home”) to maintain his religious principles and unsafe for the Chronicle’s Editorial Page Editor Jonathan Zhao to express his political beliefs.
Last Friday, President Brodhead held a community forum in Page Auditorium with Provost Sally Kornbluth and Trinity Dean Valerie Ashby.
Sinking deeper and deeper into the perils of unproductivity, I pen this letter. I have not done much homework since Tuesday afternoon, when I received an obscure, four-line email telling of a “community conversation” in which members of the Duke collective would have an opportunity to “reflect on our aspirations as a community.” The e-mail, which came the day after the President of The University of Missouri’s resignation amid racial tensions on that college campus, also declared that this “community conversation” was to be held on Friday at noon, when most Duke students would be in class.
All right, people. We all know full well what we’re here to discuss. Over the past semester, a disturbing trend has begun to develop: with startling regularity, every few weeks a column will be published in The Chronicle that triggers a huge outpouring of anger, disbelief and rebuttal.
The first time I heard that 52 percent of Duke students pay less than the sticker price of over $65,000 to attend this university, all I could think is that somehow 48 percent of the student population is paying full price. Even when you attempt to control for those students on the fringe between receiving financial aid and not, the reality is that a significant portion of the student population—or, more precisely, their families—are able to afford education that annually is over $10,000 greater than the median income of Durham, N.C. Over the past couple weeks, as administrators have been forced to grapple with the realities of bias, homophobia and racism that exist in the fabric of the institution and the Duke community, little has been made of the connection between those issue and the policies that have entrenched wealth and more specifically socio-economic inequality at Duke. A few years ago, the administration and Board of Trustees endeavored to create a new model for housing at Duke, instituting a house model that afforded sections of housing to Greek and selective organizations while forming a swathe of randomized independent houses.
The First Amendment has seen better days. Last week, protesters at the University of Missouri, themselves exercising their First Amendment rights of assembly and speech, verbally harassed a student photographer trying to document the protests.
