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(02/20/02 5:00am)
A senior Justice Department official has recently admitted that the government is holding 87 foreign detainees, mostly Arab and Muslim, whose cases have already been closed, to make sure they have no connections to terrorism. Many of them have been held over 100 days, despite being ordered to or agreeing to return home. Such blatant racial profiling is unacceptable and only furthers the xenophobic stigma of being a non-citizen in this country.
(02/19/02 5:00am)
College often serves as a place where people mature; unfortunately, recent strife between Duke Student Government and Campus Council suggests some members have a way to go. Throughout the year, these organizations have tried to adjust to the new power Campus Council has over residential life, and DSG's ballot referendum debate--aptly described by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta as a "foolish approach"--has lowered the bar even further.
(02/18/02 5:00am)
In the 25-plus years since Watergate, Washington has become a haven for scandal, abuse and corruption. The first Bush administration was full of donors-turned-ambassadors. The Clinton administration was marked with the selling of the Lincoln bedroom, unparalleled input from the White House in party affairs and the use of soft money and perhaps even the acceptance of campaign money from foreign countries. The Enron scandal has not yet shown that the government did anything improper to save the financially duplicitous firm, but perhaps even more egregiously, we may never know what the government did not do because of Enron's campaign contributions. With over half a billion dollars of soft money spent in the 2000 election, ridding special interest money from the halls of government has been long overdue.
(02/15/02 5:00am)
Within the next several weeks, the Supreme Court will address the vouchers program of Cleveland area public schools. The high court must recognize the delicate separation between church and state that such initiatives would frequently violate. Beyond their dubious constitutionality, school vouchers risk damaging the public education system. At a time when President George W. Bush's budget proposes giving families with students in underachieving public schools a tax credit of up to $2,500, the government cannot proceed with such steps that abandon the public education system.
(02/14/02 5:00am)
In response to the growing number of gays and lesbians adopting children or having their own from donor sperm or female surrogates, the American Academy of Pediatrics has commendably come out in favor of state laws allowing gay parents to adopt their partners' children.
(02/13/02 5:00am)
As administrators consider the future of social space on West Campus, the Bryan Center walkway is by its very nature an important part of the village Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta hopes to create next year.
(02/13/02 5:00am)
Nearly a year ago, a committee studied the allocation of social space on campus and subsequently released a set of recommendations. Unfortunately, few of these suggestions have been implemented, leaving the current predicament much as it was last March.
(02/12/02 5:00am)
In the summer of 2000, the University appointed a committee to study several reports of sexual harassment in the Department of Physics. Although the Bryant Committee's findings are confidential, students and professors have told some shocking tales. One faculty member claimed in 2001 that a professor poked and grabbed her in a violent way; the Office of Institutional Equity cleared the faculty member of those charges. Four years earlier, a graduate student reported that the same man kissed her in her office. In another incident, a professor said a student approached her after being berated for objecting to the distribution of Playboy posters to students at a Christmas party.
(02/11/02 5:00am)
Just like Enron Field's shallow outfield porches inflated hitters' numbers, the stadium's namesake seemed to be exaggerating figures of its own.
(02/08/02 5:00am)
Through its decision to implement a ban on smoking in residential halls, the University has taken a needlessly strict stance based in part on the stance of Campus Council, a group that lacks a sense of legitimacy from the student body.
(02/08/02 5:00am)
When the University announced it would begin enforcing the rule that students live on campus for three years, administrators reneged on earlier promises to students last semester. Nonetheless, the reasoning behind the shift in philosophy is more disheartening than the policy itself.
(02/07/02 5:00am)
The Duke community was shocked to learn last week that a student had been sexually assaulted in her dorm bathroom. As students began coming to grips with this terrible crime, reports of a knife-point mugging in the gardens and an attempted assault in a Perkins Library bathroom emerged.
(02/06/02 5:00am)
At their meeting tonight, Duke Student Government legislators must put aside the basic disregard for fairness that has plagued this year's selection of the undergraduate young trustee. Instead, they must begin restoring credibility to the process when they vote for the final candidate. The young trustee position, which comprises a three-year term on the University's Board of Trustees, offers one undergraduate the unique and important opportunity to present the Board with a young perspective.
(02/05/02 5:00am)
Last semester, the issue of eating disorders came to the forefront of campus discussion, and that momentum has carried over to this year as administrators open a new outpatient clinic and conduct a Triangle-wide survey to get a better grip on the problem. Such official measures are welcome, but members of the community should push themselves further to think about eating disorders at Duke and what they can do to improve the University's image-focused climate.
(02/04/02 5:00am)
Less than a year after University officials wrote a letter to the national office of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity informing it of members' past judicial violations, the chapter has announced it will no longer continue as a selective living group at Duke. SAE leadership, which had mandatorily been in close contact with an alumni commission, said it could not follow rules set by the national organization, namely the requirement that rush events be dry. As a result, the community should welcome the news that yet another group with a history of disrespect for others on campus will no longer occupy prime West Campus housing.
(01/31/02 5:00am)
Student parties and social life have noticeably shifted off campus over the past several years, trading University officials' former problem of on-campus drinking for the negative effects of off-campus drinking, particularly driving under the influence. Fortunately, administrators have moved to alleviate such dangers by setting up weekend bus services to transport students to and from several Durham sites, including Brightleaf Square and Ninth Street. However, the effects of the off-campus shift are still unfolding.
(01/30/02 5:00am)
Tuesday night, President George W. Bush again assured this nation that the government will not back down on its war on terrorism. As he did just nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks, he demonstrated unflagging support for the United States and echoed a speech that boosted the morale of a mourning people. Although such rhetoric is necessary and noble, Bush unfortunately devoted about half his speech to the war on terrorism, unproductively and inaccurately simplifying the terrorist threat as an "axis of evil."
(01/29/02 5:00am)
The process to choose the undergraduate young trustee--one of the most important offices students may hold--has been compromised through a number of violations of the Duke Student Government by-laws governing the procedure.
(01/28/02 5:00am)
It's been a rough year to be a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Far more significant than the men's basketball team's underwhelming record is the escalating cost of tuition facing students.
(01/25/02 5:00am)
Having demonstrated blatant disregard for civil liberties with its proposal to try non-citizen terrorist suspects in military tribunals, the Bush administration has again shown little care for basic human rights in its actions toward over 100 people detained in its campaign against terrorism. Although the public does not know the conditions of prisoners at Camp X-Ray in Cuba, officials have done nothing except make blanket statements without proof to allay cries for more openness and better treatment.
