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Letter: Columnist guilty of perpetuating racial stereotypes

(02/05/03 5:00am)

For a columnist supposedly concerned with racial issues, Nikyatu Jusu showed surprising inconsistency in her Friday column. In the process of describing how victimized she is by racially oriented body image stereotypes, she refers to her own rear end as a "medium-sized Asian-girl booty," thereby accepting and perpetuating a stereotype identical to the one she spends the rest of her column decrying.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/02/letter-columnist-guilty-perpetuating-racial-stereotypes

The cost of losing our honor

(08/28/02 4:00am)

Last year, an introductory economics class had a midterm exam, worth a large part of the final grade, with an extensive take-home portion. Under the Honor Code, the students were asked to complete the exam within time restraints and not to consult certain materials or other students. After the test was graded, the professor discovered that cheating on this portion of the exam had been so widespread the he had to disregard the results entirely.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2002/08/cost-losing-our-honor