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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.
Unfortunately, Duke’s selective nature doesn’t end when you get into Duke.
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.
By refusing to acknowledge how racism manifests into these incidents, the administration ultimately emboldens perpetrators to continue terrorizing communities of color on campus.
It shouldn’t have taken a mass shooting to garner attention towards the rampant discrimination that Asian Americans face.
We are almost through this bizarre year. Almost. We must put our individual needs aside and value the good of the entire Duke community during the final weeks of this semester.
We believe that Carlos Diaz is the Duke Student Government (DSG) presidential candidate with the vision and the gusto to rise to the occasion.
Going forward, we should re-envision universities with students as the architects of their education—not departments and majors.
Discussing selective living systems is inevitable in the conversation about housing at Duke.
