When a group of students protested in the Allen Building on February 13, 1969, they released 10 requests titled “The Black Demands.” The list of demands was developed by this early generation of activists and it yielded some good results.
At Friday afternoon’s discussion with President Broadhead, I was troubled by one student’s comments about the Duke family.
We often call Duke a “Gothic Wonderland.
White people are not taught to think of their whiteness as a defining part of their identity.
“I don’t think I know enough to vote! How could anybody know about all of this stuff?”
How do you create a place like Duke?
This is what picking our battles means—only choosing to speak up when we’ve actually thought through an issue and formed an opinion, and doing so in a setting that actually has the potential to do...
We are occasionally reminded of the motto at Convocation, Commencement, but I wonder whether we write it off as a vestige of a bygone era.
