This past week, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar and author, Charles Murray, gave two speeches at Duke University and Columbia University, without a violent protest at either campus. This is newsworthy because his previous speech…
Topic: Duke University
Duke University Police Worried about Someone Asking for Reading Lists
From The College Fix: Its IT security office sent a “scam” alert to faculty yesterday, warning them that an internet user identifying himself as law student “Gary Joe” had emailed “a number of Duke professors.” The email…
Duke University Offers Safe Space for ‘Male-Identified’ Students
Um, a safe space for students who self-identify as males? That’s a thing at Duke now: A Duke University feminist group is offering an extensive campus lecture series this fall about “toxic masculinity” which will…
Duke University now has a Safe Space Room
This is not a joke, but something that is actually on their college campus. A safe space room? It’s called the Sanford Safe Space, and it will be a special room on campus where students…
UNC LGBTQ Student Center Director Leaves to Go to Duke in Protest of House Bill 2
To each their own, but it sounds like House Bill 2 is still riling up the vocal minority. The transgender assistant director of an LGBTQ student center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Two Small New York Colleges Won’t Let Basketball Teams Play Duke to Protest House Bill 2
Marist and the University of Albany are not going to let their men’s basketball teams play Duke University in a tournament hosted by Duke, in protest of the House Bill 2 that stirred controversy this year.
Duke Sit-In Protesters Won’t Leave President’s Office
Don’t they have classes to attend? Duke University administrators have flatly rejected calls to continue negotiations with student protesters but the student government passed a resolution in support of the week-long sit-in, calling it a…
Lenin’s Stubborn Facts
Lenin famously said that facts are stubborn things, and they are, no matter how much his fans in academia try to hide them. “Currently the public and academic view of markets is distorted,” Paul Dragos…
The Fight-for-$15 Reaches Duke’s Campus
Some students are occupying an administration building to force the university administration to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. Photo by OZinOH
North Carolina Universities Unhappy with New Law on Bathrooms
Elon, Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill are not really fans of the new North Carolina law, signed by Governor Pat McCrory, which allows people’s privacy will be protected in public bathrooms.