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'Working in the States is a dream come true, regardless of the odds that I might not get a working permit to start my career after graduation, I decided to do everything I can to make it happen.'
For the first time, Latinx organizations at Duke have all united to further the interests of the Latinx community. These “demands” serve as accountability for the many times Latinx students tirelessly advocated for a more equitable campus. They are hardly demands, they are a plea for the respect and acknowledgement of marginalized students.
Please also do everything you can to protect survivors. When you go to say their name, say their abuser’s instead. Make sure you aren’t ripping them apart more than they already have been.
It will be the highlight of your day to see the girls you sat with at Marketplace on campus. Ask them to lunch. Actually follow through on it.
Everything we can do to flatten the curve — knowing eventually we will all be infected — we should.
Duke is allowing high-risk activities but then barring until January 18 the main reason students are here on campus – which is to engage in the very low-risk activity of attending in-person class. How does this make sense?
Is the safety of those around you worth standing room at a game?
It is risible that the University asks students to pay over $81,000 per year yet refuses to guarantee basic freedom of expression.
Given that Stuart’s association with Duke later in life was entirely voluntary and unofficial, his physical presence on campus solidified him in our minds as a sort of intellectual par excellence.
The numerous talented students and faculty that spoke at our recent Speak Out event demonstrate the far-reaching relevance and potential of a disability studies and health humanities education, from medicine to engineering to the arts. These collective perspectives cannot be overlooked.
Rather than waste time debating a veto for SSI recognition, we urge DSG to join the 30 US colleges and universities whose student governments have adopted the International Holocaust Rememberence Allience working definition of antisemitism.
Is advocating for marginalized communities an interest of yours or necessary for your survival on campus?
The development of health humanities and disability studies as areas of study is a key step in the process to bridge the gaps set by a strictly scientific, biomedical view of illness, health and disability.
Due to the lack of a Native Studies Program at Duke University, both Native students and the entire student body are barred from fully learning the history of the land that they call home.
After an O-week for the ages, we are now staring at a sobering fall of more social distancing, heavy campus restrictions and likely much more virtual learning.
Duke University has taken little initiative to support Indigenous students.
Let’s spread joy and learning rather than infection and fear. Let’s be better than Sturgis.
I encourage you to contact your school's President and insist they join other school Presidents in putting pressure on Biden and his staff to evacuate academic support employees.
I was so excited for our relationship to evolve from mentor/mentee to friendship. I was so excited to be able to catch up with you in another city many years down the road. I was so excited to see your Facebook updates of a wedding, of kids, of a family.
You could always go to DJ for advice on anything—he always had the bigger picture in mind.