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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Say their names. Don't erase their disability

By Dakota Douglas | August 3, 2020

If we demand justice and equality for all Black lives, we must examine our meaning of the word “all” and affirm its inclusivity.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Don’t pay tuition: why you should go on strike this fall

By Andrew Parker | July 31, 2020

To ensure that the administration follows through on their promise of transformative justice, we have to force their hand. And to do that, we have to keep from them what matters the most: our money.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Duke’s decision to reopen could cost lives

By Chris Huebner | July 28, 2020

I wonder about the people in charge who are acting with such nonchalance about our health and safety. I wonder whether their mother calls them to ask them how they’re breathing today.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Who pays for racial equity?

By Theodore D. Segal | July 24, 2020

Although calling for manifold actions across the university, Price’s far-reaching anti-racism commitments shared one thing in common: each would cost real money.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: Being gay in Greek life

By AJ Whitney | July 21, 2020

The current movement to abolish the Greek life system at Duke fails to consider people like me.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Don’t distort the present in reckoning with the past

By Jed E. Rose | July 13, 2020

Just as the auto industry of the 1960s resisted making safety improvements such as seat belts, but eventually was instrumental in developing technologies to improve auto safety, so must tobacco companies now play an active role in developing technologies that reduce the harms of cigarette smoking.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Facebook is the new tobacco

By Alex Hoffman | July 13, 2020

Facebook is potentially as detrimental to humanity as Big Tobacco ever was. It has certainly used the same corporate playbook.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What the new ICE policy really means for international students

By Francesca Maglione | July 10, 2020

It feels nearly impossible to find a sense of belonging in a place that negatively highlights your differences and denies your entry.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke must protect international students from ICE

By Duke Graduate Students Union | July 10, 2020

Duke University is defined and strengthened by the thousands of international undergraduate and graduate students in our community.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In solidarity with international students

By Ebehiremhen Anita Izokun and James Mbuthia | July 8, 2020

We as DukeAfrica executive members demand Duke release a statement of action regarding the recent news from the U.S Immigration and Customs.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

The more things change...

By Theodore D. Segal | July 8, 2020

Over fifty years after the tumultuous events of 1969, one still must ask: Is change really coming?

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Who trusts a tobacco-stained university in a pandemic?

By Caroline Petronis and Eli Meyerhoff | July 3, 2020

Considering the university’s long, profitable history of entanglement with the tobacco industry, why should we see Duke’s leaders as trustworthy defenders of public health?

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Spike Lee and the ethics of looting

By David Min | June 25, 2020

Almost 31 years after its release, Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” remains eerily applicable to understanding and reconciling property damage with anti-Blackness.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Major madness: Racial and gender equity in computer science

By Amy Fan | June 25, 2020

A discussion on achieving racial equity at Duke will have to include conversations about technology and its role in society.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

C'mon, Vince

By David Henderson | June 22, 2020

C’mon, Vince, you think we don’t know how hollow your words are? We’re Duke people.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Juneteenth: An open letter to Duke

By The Hurston-James Society | June 19, 2020

We are only as strong as the weakest among us. And you, Duke, have failed.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

I wouldn’t exist without Black activism

By Albert Sun | June 17, 2020

As a second child of Chinese immigrants, I uniquely owe my birth to the Black efforts that pushed for non-discriminatory policies.