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Pro-CCI, Pro-Duke

(03/01/07 5:00am)

Jan. 18-"It has become beyond trite to claim that we are at a turning point in the history of our University," wrote senior Joe Fore, executive vice president of Duke Student Government. "It is, perhaps, not since the Allen Building takeover in 1969 that students have been able to take such a direct and active role in plotting the course that Duke will take." On The Chronicle's editorial pages, Fore highlighted structures in place to meet this moment, announcing the Duke Story Project and extolling the ongoing Campus Culture Initiative.


Cost of your signature

(02/15/07 5:00am)

More than 800 students thus far have pledged their signatures to "The Real Social Disaster," an appeal authored by senior Stephen Miller, executive director of the Duke Conservative Union. The petitioners "DEMAND AN APOLOGY FROM THE GROUP OF 88" for "the original 'Social Disaster' advertisement" of last April and urge President Richard Brodhead "TO FINALLY STAND UP FOR HIS STUDENTS" in view of "the assaults launched by his own faculty."


88 defenders

(02/01/07 5:00am)

Last week, on FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly's opening segment criticized 88 now-infamous Duke professors for last spring's widely fustigated "We Are Listening" ad and reigned in criticisms from Duke senior Stephen Miller. After O'Reilly dismissed President Richard Brodhead as a "coward," Miller characterized this rarified moment in Duke's history as a time when he, a self-proclaimed "conservative," and "liberal" students are united by one aberrant commonality-their disapproval of the "Group of 88."



Black like me

(11/16/06 5:00am)

April 25, Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College and vice provost for undergraduate education, launched the work of the Campus Culture Initiative. The steering committee meeting that day focused on the events of last March, but the small group began a process to answer the question, as DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, once framed it, "So, what do you want Duke to be?"