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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.
As long as pro-Palestine groups on campuses continue to treat civilian massacres as an inevitable part of the fight for liberation, Israelis and most American Jews will continue to view its cause as a fundamental threat to the lives of all six million Jews living in Israel.
We write as alumni of Duke University to urge the leadership to set goals that lead to fair and equitable employment practices, sustainable environmental policy and responsible investment strategies.
The Duke Latinx community cannot be buried. Our living histories ensure our presence as fundamental and certain on Duke’s campus.
I’m graduating in less than a year, and I cannot stand the fact that I will likely be leaving having made no impact on Duke’s investment practices despite the years of hard work by Duke Climate Coalition’s (DCC) campaign.
All of us — Duke students, faculty, staff, alumni and administrators — need to make changes for first-generation and low-income students to feel welcome on campus.
Selling simple products like sweatshirts for heinous prices not only signals to low-income to middle-income students that we don’t belong but also enforces the isolated social climates we experience.
We had our first day of classes ripped apart by reports of a shooting less than 30 minutes from campus — a shooting that sent our brothers and sisters at UNC into lockdown.
Increasing legislator pay would not prevent self-serving politicians from running for office, but it would introduce a financial incentive that would both increase the pool of candidates and provide a counterweight to the perverse incentive of special interests.
The roughly 5,000 new first-years at UNC, some dear friends included, experienced their welcome-to-college hurrah running for cover in the basement of their nearest building as they decided whether to text home.
By offering a synopsis of this legislative session, we hope Duke students will recognize how the decisions being made in that building are directly impacting their lives and others around the state.