Duke Asian Students Association endorses Heather Raslan for DSG president
By Asian Students Association | 2 days agoThe Duke Asian Students Association has chosen to endorse Heather Raslan for DSG President.
The Duke Asian Students Association has chosen to endorse Heather Raslan for DSG President.
After careful deliberation, the Society of Women Engineers proudly announces its official endorsement of Emily Yagoda for DSG presidency for the 2024-2025 academic year.
In Duke’s 100-year history, only two alumni have gone on to become heads of state. One is ... Ricardo Lagos, a largely overlooked alumnus whose life should inspire Duke students, faculty, staff and alumni throughout the next 100 years.
In this centennial year, we will celebrate James B. Duke and others who have laid the groundwork for the university. But we must also honor the Black students who risked everything to occupy the Allen Building 55 years ago.
It's not simply our lives we protect with prose and protest. It is our way of life itself.
Two years into QuadEx implementation and we are worse than where we started, with nearly zero residential excitement on this campus.
In light of our view that there is no military solution to the Israel-Gaza War, we understand the calls for an immediate cease-fire. What is needed, however, is a fundamentally different discourse — one that recognizes the multiple conflicting truths and complexities that inextricably bind us as Israeli and Diaspora Jews and Palestinians.
We must also honor that we have invisible, moral injuries from how former Duke Football Coach Mike Elko left us.
Foreign language and, more importantly, acquiring the higher-level experiences that are enabled by that facility in the foreign language — study abroad, engagement with intellectual works in the foreign language, etc. — should be an essential part of a liberal arts education.
Participants in the event — spanning a broad swath of political, religious, socio-economic and ethnic divides — called for more spaces at Duke in which to engage in civil discourse with people other people with differing viewpoints.
Duke needs to cut all ties with fossil fuel companies to ensure that it is actively supporting climate action and decarbonization, rather than playing into the interests of big oil.
Atrocities on both ends further emphasize our wish and the emphatic need for everyone — Israelis and Palestinians alike — to be free from Hamas.
I implore my off-campus peers to consider biking or even walking instead of driving to campus.
The program caps not only add stress to the student body but also promote an elitist socioeconomic culture and a Western superiority complex.
Duke Amnesty International is calling upon the Duke University Investment Management Company (DUMAC) to take responsibility for ethical decision-making regarding their investment of the Duke endowment.
Exams create enormous amounts of anxieties that overburden the extraneous and germane aspects of cognitive load.
Trinity's three-semester foreign language requirement is unnecessary, and there are much better ways to achieve its stated purpose of fostering “global understanding,” as Trinity’s website describes.
Duke leadership needs to set goals and take concrete actions to make the resources of Duke University accessible to a much more economically diverse student body.
Widespread public response to recent events has erased the 75-year history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. As such, in this article, we provide heavily-sourced and well-evidenced historical, political and humanitarian context that should preclude any understanding of the current turmoil.
We don’t have the time to let Duke stall. We don’t have time to admire the problem in seminar series discussing Duke’s obligation to invest morally. We need climate action.