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Over the years, Duke has had a number of situations where it put pressure on companies that have ties to the University. I can recall a time when Students Against Sweatshops had demonstrations out in front of the chapel. Now, the Duke University Stores is pretty particular about where the garments they sell are made and the conditions of the workers who make them (OK, maybe not the Nike ones, but you get my point).
There are problems on all sides when it comes to the issue of how we structure and carry out a plan to heal our ailing economy. Because it is such a large problem with so many interconnected issues, mapping out a solution to help the entire system is difficult at best. Reducing a complex system to a series of isolated yes or no questions will not help anyone.
If you build it, they won't come. I cannot understand the clearly flawed logic of dumping money into a Wallace Wade renovation. It subscribes to the fiction in Field Of Dreams. I love the movie, but Kevin Costner is not on the Board of Trustees, nor is he running our Athletic Department.
When I arrived at Duke back in the fall of 1998, I was told that the area around East Campus was not safe. Years later, as a graduate student I bought a house in Walltown. I now am wiser about the area, but Duke University and the students who attend it are not.
I am writing on behalf of a friend of mine who is running for DSG president, Trinity junior Amir Rashid-Farokhi. Being a freshman I have not been at the University that long, and being a disabled student I have gone through my share of problems since coming to Duke. But one thing I can tell you is that Amir has a real commitment to making things better for the student body. I have spoken to him many times about the Americans with Disabilities Act compliance problems that exist at the University. He has done extensive research in this area in order to try and devise a plan or propose a change to the University's policy concerning the compliance for the campus's facilities and management of the facilities.
