Give teachers a place at the table
By Emily Stout | February 21, 2020My fellow alumni tell me they value my work. I hope that my stories motivate them to encourage policies that do the same.
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My fellow alumni tell me they value my work. I hope that my stories motivate them to encourage policies that do the same.
I can’t be the only one disgusted by this.
What is really being said when someone in our midst feels comfortable enough to premeditatedly bring a brush and paint to a public space in broad daylight to deface a mural with a hate icon?
A swastika is not more powerful than a thriving, collaborative university community.
At first, I thought the response was perhaps a little biased, but it wasn’t until I saw 16 male faces staring back at me that I realized just how representative my experience was of Silicon Valley.
Ultimately, the checks and balances of this industry as well as the direction of impact investing will be decided by our generation of students—students who are exploring the meaning of impact investing at DIIG and similar organizations at schools across the nation.
This semester, seven English originated or cross-listed courses focus exclusively on, or feature multiple, authors of color.
Anti-Semitism sees no borders. Regardless of the attack’s location or motivation, anti-Semitic terrorists must face justice and their vile ideology must be rejected.
We must demand that the University cut ties with this power-hungry company. If we fail to do so, then we are complicit in Duke Energy's continued havoc on both our environment and our democracy.
We need our future teachers, doctors, and politicians to understand the necessity of accessibility and to practice it in their own careers.
They did not realize that there would be people, like Lt. Colonel Vindman, who would put their country first—before party, career, or personal security.
With each use, the brain slowly rewires in such a way that one experience of physiological effects decreases for the same amount of time spent on the social platform.
After all, Duke also breeds Blue Devils.
When you’re at the polls today, consider your options—will you remember Durham’s broken promises?
Her extreme carelessness led to something as laughable as cancer diagnosed as gas pains.
It is the solemn duty of any person of the cloth to condemn any and all acts of malice against God’s creation. Point blank, period.
The supply of housing was simply too small and the demand simply too large. Until that fact changes, landlords will have no incentive to be flexible or understanding with tenants, and tenants will have no ability to stay in Durham when they fall on hard times.
There is no legitimacy to these claims, which contravene every shred of evidence pointing to Livni’s role as a peacemaker, a woman who has spent her career attempting to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
As Foreign Minister of Israel and a member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s security cabinet in December of 2008, Livni “played a key role in the decisions made before and during the three-week offensive” known as Operation Cast Lead, which involved the illegal aerial bombardment, ground invasion, and naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
I find myself vacillating between embracing my Singaporean accent to express myself the way I am, and conveniently adopting a twang or two to sound like my American peers.