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People’s State of the University Demand #9: Create and enforce a standardized set of consequences for acts of hate and bias on campus.
If rapper Young Dolph’s “Get Paid” seems abrasive, crass and cynical, it’s because it is. What choice has our current economic and political system left us? While it is encouraging that Duke has pledged to pay a living wage, $15 an hour by 2019, many workers are left out of this agreement (part-time, contract, graduate student workers, undergraduate workers and some service workers). The latest incident, reported by Katie Jane Fernelius over at Indy Week, serves as an example of why we should keep fighting for a living wage and workplace protections for all members of the Duke community.
I believe this is not an issue of right vs. left, but an opportunity to define civil discourse at Duke.
Graduate student workers do crucial work for the university including acting as instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants. Why aren’t they paid a living wage?
Graduate workers across the country are organizing, and our unions are increasingly successful in winning better working conditions for themselves.
The search for that, and to make it ongoing in life, is a residue, for me, of that time in our lives.
Unlike many of my classmates who seemed to have had superior educations in northeastern suburbs or at east coast prep schools, I arrived at all-male Trinity College from a quintessential southern town, small and more than a little provincial. Our worldview was largely untested.
Little did I know then, as the events of 1968 played out around the world, that the Vigil would prove to be unique in its combination of scale (perhaps 2,000 students at the peak), self-organization, and peacefulness. It was also more successful than many others.
I pretended to be straight for 19 years, repressing my feelings so far back that I actually convinced myself that sexuality was a choice.
The 5 Bs were the 5 topics of conversation off-limits for recruitment: Bibles, bucks, Bush, beer and boys.
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.
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