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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.
Whether you’re frolicing under a cherry blossom tree in D.C. next spring or another country entirely, don’t let the fear of missing out on what’s happening on campus hold you back from leaving Duke’s gothic gates.
The NC Education Lottery is arguably a regressive tax on the state’s geographically marginalized, functioning as a wolf clothed in the wool of potential financial freedom.
We would all face immeasurable loss if the ivory gates of elite universities–like the one we ourselves attend–are once again distanced from students who have historically been barred from reaping their benefits.
As students attending a university with a privileged position in the local economy and politics, what responsibility falls on us to work towards reparations and dispelling the long-held trope of the ignorant, uncaring Duke student?
As one of only several North Carolina universities where the majority of the student body does not originate from within the state, Duke holds a unique position to contribute thousands of young, diverse voters to the electorate.