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“Being an employee does not necessarily make you an employee,” said the provost. “Nugget, the beloved canine who was arguably golden and sometimes appeared to retrieve things, was not necessarily legally a golden retriever."
My plea to Duke students, and really anyone in North Carolina, is to stay vigilant and speak out in support of common sense gun legislation.
We are extending voting time until 2 pm EST this afternoon to account for the time we took to fix and publicize the ballot.
Christ’s refusal to circumvent the question of suffering allows us to suffer well...We can repeat the same phrase back to Him: “Lord, this is my body…broken for You.”
Duke could voluntarily recognize our union, or follow word with substantive action by dropping the NLRB challenge and committing the basic resources needed to hold elections now.
Don’t call me a daughter, or sister, or friend; call me a victim of the NRA and the people who would rather protect their right to own an assault rifle than the lives of their fellow human beings.
The tears being shed in Nashville and the tears cried here on campus...are never wasted because every drop forms a pillow for your heart of love.
When the final curtain is drawn on Phantom in mid-April, it will not be an insignificant moment for Broadway. It is perhaps nostalgic for some, poignant for others and emphatically earth-shattering for a few.
The little voice in my head, engendered by years of wanting to be a lighter version of myself, still screams in repulsion when I spot a hint of hyperpigmentation on my skin.
Unlike in high school, freshmen realize after a couple of months that there’s no point in doing a club unless they’re either genuinely passionate about it, it will help them professionally or they’re applying to graduate school later on.
Duke University is complicit in apartheid. Hosting Zionist leaders is an act of normalization — one that we refuse to let go unprotested.
I support North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s quick veto of Senate Bill 41 which would remove a vital step in keeping guns out of the hands of people who would do harm to themselves or others.
It is Duke’s responsibility to ensure political speeches don’t get masqueraded as academic discourse, which is what we believe occurred this past Wednesday.
To say that comedy has to be funny is like saying visual art has to be pretty, or music has to be melodic.
The pressure that doesn’t come from campus, classes, professors, extracurriculars or parents comes from ourselves, and I believe that is what pushes us to sacrifice so much.
We are asking President Price, Interim Provost Francis and others to comprehensively review what has occurred at CDS over the past 18 months — including the staff that have resigned and been laid off.
We will be attending the event featuring former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett at Duke this Wednesday because we believe that the only way these causes, as well as the imperative of peace, will be served is through meaningful dialogue, engagement and education.
With a young and driven leader like Anderson Clayton at the helm, there has never before been a more exciting time to be a progressive college student in North Carolina.
America’s traumatic past has always been a tough pill for many to swallow, but I guess swallowing one’s pride is even harder.
It is precisely those who suffer, who persevere against injustice, who lack riches—they are somehow closest to God’s blessing.