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One of the peculiar features of undergraduate life is that we can draw knowledge from an ocean of personal experience without ever turning attention to the life experience of the adults who inhabit our community: the administrators, staff and faculty. I was guilty of the same thing during my undergraduate days, but I felt especially remiss when I read about the recent passing of Dr. John Hope Franklin.
I took special notice when I learned that Abhijit Mahato, a graduate student at Duke University, was murdered in late January. I graduated from Duke last year, and though I didn't know Abhijit during my time there, his death made an impression in the way that these stories do when the landscape of your life touches someone else's.
I won't mince words, Paul Slattery: you've got a very tough act to follow. But don't let it scare you. Consider it instead a golden opportunity. You inherit a stronger, more productive, more respected office than any of your predecessors. And, if you've paid a sliver of attention to the actions of the office's current occupant, then your cup runneth over.
Very rarely is a university given the chance to cure so many ills with a single project. But if the Central Campus overhaul represents anything, it's that one golden opportunity to pause, furrow our collective brow and ponder the Duke that could be. With that in mind, here are some personal suggestions:
A year ago, on a C-2 bus, I met a mother and son visiting Duke for the first time. She leaned over to ask the location of a particular building, and we soon started chatting about the University, why I chose it, what I liked about it.
What kind of student should Duke graduate?
To: Provost Lange and Academic Deans of Trinity and Pratt
I'm SFC Armstrong, the US Army Station Commander responsible for recruiting at Duke University. I received your contact information from the University. Under the 'Solomon Amendment,' colleges and universities must give Armed Forces recruiters access to their campuses and provide them with lists containing 'student recruiting information.' Army Recruiters have the right to contact you by mail, phone or e-mail." - October 19, 2005
Early on the morning of April 18, 1985, Mike came into the world with misplaced vessels and a hole in his heart.
We are a university tapped out on tragedy. After furious fundraising for the tsunami and hurried help for hurricane victims, there was little to no student response to an earthquake in Pakistan that claimed the lives of nearly 75,000 and left between 2 and 4 million homeless. As the region succumbs to winter storms, the resulting deep freeze will kill thousands. With the exception of a few scattered fundraising efforts, no sustained, coordinated campaign has surfaced for one of the year's most horrifying tragedies.
In 1926, the staff of the Harvard Crimson published The Confidential Guide of College Courses. A group of intrepid newspaper writers critiqued 40 or so courses and compiled a small guidebook for their fellow students. The reception was overwhelmingly positive, but the editors soon realized that publishing their personal thoughts about courses was short-sighted and time-consuming. So they reached out to their classmates and called for independent evaluations of professors, written by students, for students.
As part of the Duke Community Standard, every student pledges: "I will not lie, cheat, or steal in my academic endeavors, nor will I accept the actions of those who do." The latter half of this affirmation is known as the "non-toleration" clause. The Community Standard, with its pledge, is a statement of principles and expectations. The policies that flow from it provide a credible framework for action.
In February 2004, facebook.com creator Mark Zuckerberg launched a mini-revolution from his Harvard dorm room. He couldn't have known then that his project would take on a life of its own. It has become our vehicle for virtual meet-and-greet; our universal dating aid; our favorite way to pass time; and even a verb unto itself.
It was Gang Violence 101.
Whenever a politician vies for a third term, we Americans naturally raise our eyebrows. Chalk it up to George Washington graciously stepping down after two terms, or to our instinctive mistrust of executive power, or to Wendell Wilkie's "Two Times is Enough for Any Man" campaign buttons, but something about serving thrice rubs us the wrong way.
The city of Durham occupies a curious place in modern America. It is a city advancing urban renewal while still retaining the charm of times past; it is a city that unifies and animates its citizens around common causes, though it is cleaved by racial differences. And throughout its history, it has embraced bold ideas and even bolder people.
IN THOMAS FRIEDMAN’S latest book, The World is Flat, the New York Times columnist charts the globalizing forces that have radically reshaped international relationships. In characteristic Friedman form, he is both in awe of and, at times, afraid of what globalization has done to the world. He asks, for example, how his daughters and other Americans can possibly compete with a worldwide workforce that is “so serious, so eager for work?”
Uncle Sam wants you… to learn Arabic and join the intelligence community! An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education details a new scholarship program created by Senator Bob Graham. D-Fla., and modeled after the military’s ROTC program. Set to begin in 2006, it provides educational funding in return for service to the CIA, FBI, State Department and other such agencies after graduation. Paid for by the Defense Department and organized by the director of national intelligence, these scholarships seek to increase the number of students proficient in the language and culture of the Middle East. The “Intelligence Community Scholarship Program” was conceived, planned and approved on the heels of the Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks—a bipartisan investigation that found that, among other things, the CIA and other intelligence agencies lacked essential Arabic skills.
Facing allegations of human rights abuse from Amnesty International and a score of organizations in weeks past, both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney could muster little more than childish responses. Vice President Cheney called the allegations “absurd,” while the President contended that these reports were sensationalized by organizations “that hate America.” Unfortunately, name calling does not soothe the raw wounds that still remain from abuses at Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay—stories intensified by an Arab media with a voracious appetite for American injustice.
Want to go to Indonesia on a Dean’s Research Fellowship? Not anymore. How about using Duke support to go to Burundi or Somalia? Sorry. A recent change prohibits the use of Duke funds for travel to countries with a State Department Travel Advisory. Duke undergraduate research will now have to meet the government’s benchmark for safety.
