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Sex and genders: are there more than two?

(10/22/15 5:09am)

The one-celled, slipper-shaped animal we know as Paramecium can live alone, dividing into two when it is time to reproduce. When opportunity allows, a Paramecium will pair with another Paramecium and mate, trading substance of their selves. But pairing is not haphazard. There are over half a dozen different “mating types” of paramecia, and only certain pairings are possible. Sex, in paramecia, comes in more than two distinct forms. Are we humans more like paramecia than we thought?

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/10/sex-and-genders-are-there-more-than-two

Letter: Affirmative action a moral, not a legal question

(03/26/03 5:00am)

When I first arrived at Duke in the summer of l958, African-American students were not part of the University community. Only after some years of agitation did their exclusion end, the chair of the Trustees having earlier announced that Duke would neither be the first nor the last institution to integrate. Educational apartheid was the rule in many of this country's schools at that time, a point overlooked by James B. Duke professor of psycholical and brain sciences John Staddon in his March 21 essay in the Daily Dialogue.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/03/letter-affirmative-action-moral-not-legal-question

Military, not University, selects ROTC instructors

(03/20/02 5:00am)

Tuesday's eloquent defense of on-campus ROTC programs and the criticism of the Ivy League schools that have banned them does overlook one significant point: The faculty who direct the military program are, unlike others of us, subjects of an external authority and are only secondarily answerable to the university. I would not challenge the view that many of the ROTC's officers are competent scholars, whose specialized knowledge makes them treasured teachers and valuable colleagues. I do challenge the view, however, that sees nothing amiss with having faculty appointed from without, whether the appointing body be the military or any other extra-university organization. Faculty governance--including the control of course content--has long been viewed as the essential element in free universities, and the appointment of our colleagues in ROTC--who, while subject to University approval, are nonetheless chosen by the military--runs counter to this important tradition.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2002/03/military-not-university-selects-rotc-instructors

Learn history of union before condemning it

(04/23/98 4:00am)

It was 30 years ago this month, that hundreds of University students and many faculty, too, gathered on the rain-sodden grass in front of the chapel. The immediate stimulus for the gathering was the death of Martin Luther King, but the event itself had been planned long before as a show of support for the (mostly black) service employees who were struggling to have their association recognized as a bargaining partner with the University. The lengthy battle of these employees for a reasonable wage and, more significantly, recognition as employees with contractual protections, has been chronicled by Erik Ludwig in his Senior Honors Thesis. It is a thesis his fellow-students would do well to read, in this third decade after the employees' struggle for union representation. The tale the thesis relates has direct relevance to the current controversy over the "privatization" of food services at the University.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1998/04/learn-history-union-condemning-it

Statistics fail to solve grading contrasts

(04/07/97 4:00am)

Students in my fall course generally get the same (high) grade, though they and the quality of their work differ considerably, one from the other. If you infer from this-as the proponents of Achievement Index evidently do-that I lack standards and give "soft" grades, consider this: The grade in my course depends upon the quality of a research paper that is based upon an original idea that leads to an appropriate research design and data collection.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1997/04/statistics-fail-solve-grading-contrasts

Affirmative action gives needed redress

(02/10/97 5:00am)

My colleague John Staddon is correct: Race and gender have nothing to do with competence in chemistry or cell biology. What he fails to recall in his continuing campaign against affirmative action is that this truth was ignored for much of this university's history, which is a tale of several decades of exclusion, segregation and exploitation of minorities. I lived through the days of struggle that led to change and thus can appreciate the desire of those victimized by those practices to see redress. Affirmative action is intended as that: It does not substitute race or gender for intellectual qualifications, but it does, I believe properly, give special consideration to the children of the victims.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1997/02/affirmative-action-gives-needed-redress