Candidate column: Rebecca Torrence
By Rebecca Torrence | April 4, 2018I’m running for VP of Services and Sustainability. But my involvement in these projects isn’t contingent on this election.
I’m running for VP of Services and Sustainability. But my involvement in these projects isn’t contingent on this election.
As Senator for Durham and Regional Affairs, I strive to foster unity amongst students and with Durham, progressively bull-ding community.
I’m running for the Vice President of Campus Life because I am challenging us students to reconsider Duke’s current housing model.
Being a great leader is about investing, bettering and believing in yourself so much that others begin to believe in you too.
I dropped out of Cooper, the most selective SLG on campus, after seeing how degrading the rush process is.
It is time for Duke to publicly divest from any company or parent company that in whole or in part manufactures and/or markets weapons of war to the public.
Today, the Duke Faculty Union, the Duke Graduate Student Union and other organizations of workers in higher education are at the leading edge of why new kinds of worker organizing are essential.
Upon stepping through the glass doors, one is greeted by a single word, “black.”—in lower-case, not taunting or privileging any definitive blackness. And yet, the title bears a period; it’s a statement.
The #MeToo movement demands equal respect; it is far past time for women and their work to be treated and valued equally to men.
While drugs and alcohol are at the core of the destruction and incomprehensible demoralization that addicts and alcoholics so profoundly experience, they are not the problem.
The pursuit of justice and equality before the law have been elusive in Durham as in other American communities struggling with criminal justice reform.
Artificial reproductive technology has been key in granting sexual and gender minorities in America with reproductive freedom.
Movements of black agency have been labelled “disruptive” because they challenge the social norm of white supremacy and call attention to the darkest parts of our history.
The first step towards change is understanding, and spreading awareness. Justice can only be brought about after clearly identifying injustice.
We are the beneficiaries of this inequality. We are implicated in its persistence.
Your white face in a crowd means something; it is a form of protest.
For the red-voters joining the traditionally blue anti-pipeline struggle, this violation of property rights is the central concern.
Every time you see the PCRs walking around and feel a wave of stress and anxiety, take five minutes and google random careers.
Jenkins’ work provides a platform for anyone who once thought they were alone in that conversation, for anyone who felt bogged down by clouds of confusion and opposition.
It is liberal movements that are well organized and explicitly characterized that must be loudly supported.