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In his guest commentary yesterday, Cliff Satell took issue with my argument on the consequences of individual drug use, making the case that Latin American casualties of the drug war die from "bullets...not weed."
We commend Brandon Locke, Trinity ’13, for his courage in raising the issue of minority recruitment weekends for campus debate, and for doing so in such a personal and public way.
Attention Duke: We have an epidemic.
Duke may be in the Final Four, but according to former professor of hydrology Stuart Rojstaczer, it doesn’t even belong in the Sweet Sixteen.
If you ask students how many times they’ve opened their Chanticleer yearbooks, periodically handed out free on the West Campus Plaza, it’s safe to say a substantial majority will give you a number in the low single digits. For many, that digit will be zero.
Perhaps Duke expects too much of its freshmen.
Based on the decision of Trinity College administrators to review the ill-defined Quantitative Studies requirements, you might make the inference that our T-Reqs are cavity-free save for a few incisors.
What do Martin Luther King, Jr. and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have in common?
You’d think Duke Student Government President Awa Nur, a senior, was expressing common sense when she told me that “students know the difference between choice and non-choice” in their dining options.
What is it about some college students that so naturally inclines them to tantrum-throwing?
If one were to list the distinctive experiences characteristic of Duke undergraduate life, Duke Dining horror stories do not come immediately to mind. Yet, for a striking number of students, the frequency of these bad service experiences has been startlingly consistent over time.
As a conservative, I find few things more tiring than hearing like-minded peers whine about the classroom bias of liberal professors.
By graduation, Duke undergraduates will have paid more than $1,000 in taxes to their Duke Student Government through the student activities fee. All but a handful will have done so without any knowledge of how that money was spent.
When White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel told us to “never allow a crisis to go to waste” last November, it’s unlikely he imagined that he would do just that.
More than three years later, I remain struck by Duke convocation speaker Maya Angelou’s insight that, “Nothing that is human can be alien to me.”
For Duke Student Government president, the Duke College Republicans endorses junior Chelsea Goldstein. Goldstein's extensive and distinguished record of developing ideas for positive campus change and then actually accomplishing those goals is unrivaled by any of her opponents. The one-year Masters of Management Studies and the new Web site for course evaluations are testaments to her persistence and her capacity to be an unceasing advocate for Duke students.
Over the next few months, prospective freshmen will invade and inspect the Duke campus to decide where they want to spend the next four years. But a select group of them will be separated from the rest because of their race. While their peers intermingle and witness the diversity of Duke University in all its vibrancy, black and Latino prospective freshmen will be attending separate recruitment events.
In the Feb. 23 story, "GOP students reflect on political climate," on youth Republicans, a Duke Democrats representative claimed that faculty like political science Professor Peter Feaver contribute to an "overrepresentation of Republicans" on campus. This was certainly news to many.
This election year, Duke students had the privilege of being part of the political process in a battleground state. As the leaders of the Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats, we came away impressed with Duke's capacity for political activism during campaign season. Now, the challenge is to sustain that interest. Whether or not that happens will depend on a dual commitment from the Duke administration and Duke student body to making political education for undergraduates a top priority.
As Americans make their final decisions this Election Day, the stakes could not be higher. The country stands on the precipice of authorizing complete one-party control of government, with a Democratic president and virtually certain large Democratic majorities in Congress. If they reach 60 votes in the Senate, Democrats could overrule the filibuster and ram through legislation on party-line votes.
