Gino Nuzzolillo

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Who is Duke changing for?

By Gino Nuzzolillo | October 3, 2019

Duke does not love us. Perhaps it’s time we reciprocate.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

“We’re going to have to do it ourselves”: The radical vision of Fannie Lou Hamer

By Gino Nuzzolillo | September 19, 2019

Given the violent contestations over land and economic power endemic to the post-Civil War United States, Hamer’s efforts were nothing short of radical. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Old ghosts and the question of reparations

By Gino Nuzzolillo | September 5, 2019

Every day we sanitize our institution’s history we compound the consequences that will surely become its legacy.

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Surviving Duke one relationship at a time

By Gino Nuzzolillo | April 8, 2019

I’ve recently been the unwilling participant in a (not-so) mysterious game against myself. The game, which has lasted a few weeks now, is simple: at every moment I am equally as likely to sob as I am to emit a (loud) cross between a chuckle and a cackle.

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Off the rails: Duke and Durham’s disconnect

By Gino Nuzzolillo | March 8, 2019

Last Wednesday, Duke notified GoTriangle that it refused to sign on to one of Durham’s largest-ever mass transit infrastructure projects, the Durham-Orange light rail. 

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

You should take an ethnic studies course

By Gino Nuzzolillo and Trey Walk | January 16, 2019

On February 13th, 1969, tear gas hung thick in the air outside of the Allen Building. More than one hundred local police officers and National Guard troops had been called in to bring order to the protest; dozens of white students stood nearby to support their classmates.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Beyond the box

By Leah Abrams , Gino Nuzzolillo , Trey Walk and Uwa Ihionkhan | October 15, 2018

As volunteer advocates at the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), a nonprofit that works with individuals toward goals of financial independence, we often work alongside justice-involved community members (those who have come into contact with any part of the criminal justice system) who routinely confront a society that continues to punish them long after they leave detention in the criminal-legal system.

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Doing the difficult work

By Gino Nuzzolillo and Trey Walk | November 14, 2017

We are the beneficiaries of this inequality. We are implicated in its persistence.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

What is the DRA?

By Gino Nuzzolillo and Akanksha Ray | November 18, 2016

The Durham and Regional Affairs Committee of Duke Student Government realizes you live in Durham—but we want to make it your home.

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