Decreasing attendance at games a shame for Duke basketball
(01/27/12 11:00am)
My heart sank to read about the lack of student attendance at Cameron in your Jan. 24 features article.
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My heart sank to read about the lack of student attendance at Cameron in your Jan. 24 features article.
As a student currently studying the Silent Vigil of 1968, a protest whose theme was the improvement of wages and work conditions for the University's predominantly black non-academic staff, I was eager to read the editorial in the Apr. 6 edition of The Chronicle on "Keeping King alive." The editorial asks that we remember what Martin Luther King's assassination "meant here" since many at the University do not know the history of the event. Although The Chronicle calls on the University to take pride in the vigil, an editorial exactly a week before, in the Mar. 30 edition, lauding privatization of Dining Services establishments, clearly illustrates the contradiction in this newspaper's message and perhaps among much of the student body.
In a June 19 article printed in The Chronicle, "Harding incident resulted in suspensions for DUPD officers," a Duke administrator calls events surrounding the incident in which campus police discriminated against, harassed and wrongly accused a Duke student of theft because he was black, "old news." As one of many who remains concerned, angered and saddened by this event, this comment is extremely disturbing and another example of a Duke administration that just doesn't "get it."
After reading the April 15 editorial, "Food for thought," in favor of downsizing Dining Services, I was infuriated by what The Chronicle views as a progressive stance on Duke-Durham relations and the question of "fair" wages. Rather than seeing Local 77 as taking the lead in demanding a "fair" workplace, The Chronicle supports the perpetuation of an unfair system where the working class is forced to struggle for survival from day to day. The editorial board's reasoning is both ignorant and contradictory.
Laurel Scott's damaging remarks about the CI--Li'l Dino's employees in her letter on Jan. 25 are unacceptable. Not-so-hidden within her words are racist, regionalist and classist notions about the "proper" use of language.
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