Tag: Duke University

Duke Asks Its Crazed Basketball Fans to Heckle Responsibly

The fervent basketball fans at Duke University, hundreds of whom are camping in a tent village to get prime seats for Saturday’s rivalry game against the University of North Carolina, have been a target of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts this year. The student section of Blue Devils fans, called “Cameron Crazies” for the energy […]

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Resolved: The U.S. Should Stop Growing Tobacco

According to a WHO report, “More than 90 percent of the world’s tobacco is grown in low- and middle-income countries, mostly by smallholder farmers who need to use unpaid family labor to make ends meet, leading to child labor.” As the market penetration of cigarettes continues to shrink among adults worldwide, the big tobacco companies […]

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In the ‘Graduation Gap Bowl,’ Black College Athletes and Students Lose

  No matter who wins tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship game between the University of Washington Huskies and the University of Michigan Wolverines, nearly all the schools that were vying for the championship trophy are losers in my annual Graduation Gap Bowl. How To Wrap Your Straightened Hair Without Pins Off English I do […]

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Can U.S.-China Student Exchanges Survive Geopolitics?

On a cool Saturday morning, in a hotel basement in Beijing, throngs of young Chinese gathered to do what millions had done before them: dream of an American education. At a college fair organized by the United States Embassy, the students and their parents hovered over rows of booths advertising American universities. As a mascot […]

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Museum Curators Evaluate A.I. Threat by Giving It the Reins

Marshall Price was joking when he told employees at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art that artificial intelligence could organize their next exhibition. As its chief curator, he was short-staffed and facing a surprise gap in his fall programming schedule; the comment was supposed to cut the tension of a difficult meeting. But members of […]

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