Advice for the future CEB

Duke staff are human too

Students are unaware of the administrators that have considerable influence on their daily lives, and as a result, workers are forced to face student concerns. 

Defining free speech: DSG’s role in funding speakers

It is time for our student government to enact reasonable guidelines that establish sound definitions of free speech and outline appropriate funding standards for speakers.  

Rewriting the narrative on Duke’s basketball season

Take time to find comfort in the communities that have been built and strengthened throughout the year. 

Go to class*

Students come to Duke because of the peer connections, interdisciplinary studies and school culture, not only for the classes. 

Fix the fixed Young Trustee process

The Duke Administration already feels that we students are too unqualified and biased to select the next Young Trustee by coming together, so let’s prove them wrong by uniting against injustice and unfairness when we see it. 

Administrative bureaucracy threatens a student-oriented university

Administrators should consult those affected by their decisions – namely Duke students. 

The Community Editorial Board endorses Lana Gesinsky for DSG president

Where are you, Duke? The consequences of neglecting local politics

It is more important than ever to mobilize the student body to engage in their communities with the same ferocity with which they post on social media. 

Duke must take advantage of its new virtual infrastructure

Instead of framing new technologies solely as tools to get through the pandemic, Duke can apply these new strategies to make education more accessible to its student body. 

Anxieties and ambiguities: Duke’s 2022 COVID-19 policies

Combining two contradictory policies undermines both approaches in the process. Moving forward, it is up to administrative forces to decide which COVID-19 policies are considered effective, and how resources can be used to best support the Durham community and academic life here at Duke. 

We have lost our way in the liberal arts

The main question remains: Is creating new programs the most efficient way to expose students to new fields and educate future leaders? Not necessarily. While we would all like to have hundreds of majors, minors and certificates to choose from, creating efficient programming demands time and funding from Duke’s faculty and administration. 

Which quad did you live in?

While QuadEx will work to build new long lasting communities, we cannot allow it to limit our ability to form friendships and bonds outside of our quad.  

Black lives matter

Black lives matter.

Vote Val for DSG President

Valeria has demonstrated an ambitious and expansive vision in which she deeply desires a connection with a diverse range of student groups across campus and proactive initiatives. 

Bolton's bad, but what about the rest of us?

In tandem with calling out the atrocious behaviors of controversial speakers, we are calling on all members of the Duke community to hold the root of the problem accountable. 

It takes a village: Lessons in collective action

To exclusively value individual achievement and to dismiss the role that support networks and larger structures have played in that achievement breeds narcissism and minimizes harm.

The virulence of xenophobia

This is not the first time we’ve seen the conflation of diseased bodies with political bodies—HIV/AIDS and Ebola were also racialized diseases that resulted in calls for travel bans.