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The multivariable life

(09/21/18 4:00am)

One of my favorite childhood stories was about a ruthless innkeeper on a deserted island. Whenever sea-folks sojourn in his hotel, he would bind them to a chair and measure their heights. Those he thinks to be too tall he would cut and butcher, and of those he thinks to be too short he would pry their joints apart until all his guests fit into a certain height that the innkeeper considers to be ideal. The moral of the tale is simple: we cannot expect everyone to be the same, whether physically or psychologically, and it is immoral to twist people into what they are not to satisfy our own standard.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/09/the-multivariable-life

Racism? Blame anything—except Duke

(09/07/18 2:00pm)

Duke is a hot spot in this September—not because of the temperature (which tends to make people chill, by the way)—but because of pressing controversies. Racist epithets written on the wall. The case to rename Carr. For students armed with a firm sense of social justice, these events are more than capable of riling up the hardest nerves. Hosts of upperclassmen descend upon the site to deliver a grand protest to the befuddled freshmen, demanding that Carr be renamed. Activists bombard the admin with letters of complaints about the epithets. As voices of protest grow louder, the claim that “Duke is racist” for allegedly failing to fully satisfy the activists’ demands becomes more and more visible. Unfortunately, they have the wrong guy.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/09/180907-cao