Duke University’s move to end full ride scholarship for Black students gets mixed reaction from former scholars
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CNN ^
| April 20, 2024 | Nicquel Terry Ellis and Kaylin C. Blue
Duke University’s decision to end a full ride scholarship program for Black students has received both support and criticism from former recipients of the award. The
university announced earlier this month that the Reginaldo M. Howard Memorial Scholarship would be replaced by the Reginaldo Howard Leadership Program, which “will be open to all Duke undergraduates.” In an announcement published on Duke’s website, the university said it told current scholarship recipients that the transition was necessary “due to the legal landscape related to race-based considerations in higher education.” “We are reimagining the Reginaldo ‘Reggie’ Howard Scholars program to expand the impact...
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Tanks for the memories, Duke: Legacy? Is that really the right word when you’re discussing Dukakis?
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HowieCarrShow.com ^
| April 10, 2024 | Howie Carr
My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. “You
are invited to join the Northeastern community for a special celebration honoring Michael S. Dukakis.” But someone eventually did send it along to me, and tomorrow’s “celebration” will of course be the social event of the season – NOT! M. Stanley Dukakis is 90 years old now, 33 years after his retirement from politics due to ill health – the voters got sick of him. But how can we miss the Duke when he won’t go away? The featured session, as it’s described, is entitled “Succession: Governors’ Reflections on the...
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wade into politics: the Duke and Duchess launch a campaign in the fight against election misinformation
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Tattler ^
| April 9, 2024 | Isaac Bickerstaff
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are ‘working to prepare US voters for a possible deepfake onslaught’ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a campaign in the fight against election misinformation - in their latest move in the world of politics. The
Duchess of Sussex has long faced speculation that she could be entering the political sphere, with the couple hiring Obama’s PR guru to work on their team and speaking out about the US election back in 2020. During the last cycle four years ago, feminist activist Gloria Steinem previously told Access Hollywood that Meghan had joined her...
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Duke University researchers help transgender woman, 50, breastfeed her GRANDCHILD using experimental hormone drugs so she could feel what it's like to be a real mom - but critics call it 'frankly disturbing'
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Daily Mail UK ^
| March 28, 2024 | Alex Ward
A trans woman has been helped to breastfeed her grandchild, in what is thought to be a world first. The
unidentified 50-year-old was helped to express up to 30ml of milk at a time, after a four week course of hormone treatment. Researchers from Duke University reported the woman ‘lactated for a total of two weeks’ and was able to feed the four-month-old baby. The motivation for inducing lactation was to create a ‘bond from breastfeeding that she had not been able to experience with her own five children’. She was moved to tears by the experience, which she said...
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Boycott time! Dylan Mulvaney's insulting new pop video isn't just misogynist - it perversely pushes alcohol, pills and risky sex on young girls. So, demands AMBER DUKE, do woke brands paying this trans influencer endorse such candy-coated obscenity?
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Daily Mail UK ^
| March 17, 2024 | Amber Duke
Hello, dolls! Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has wriggled back into the spotlight to celebrate a second year cosplaying a biological female. The
great brand-destroyer teased 10-million-plus TikTok followers this week with a 'surprise.' But did anyone anticipate the assault on eyes and ears that was about to be unleashed? Titled 'Days of Girlhood,' it was a music video no one asked for, named after the viral TikTok chronicle of Mulvaney's male-to-female gender transition. That social media series hit all of the classic sexist tropes: women are addicted to clothes, cry when they see bugs, regularly frolic in meadows and can't...
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Prince Andrew is reported to police over Epstein files: Calls on both sides of the Atlantic for the Duke of York to face prosecution after unsealed documents make more claims of sexual assault - damaging hope of returning to royal duties
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Daily Mail UK ^
| January 4, 2024 | matthew lodge
Prince Andrew has been reported to the police by an anti-monarchy campaign group after allegations of sexual assault were made against him in unsealed court documents. The
Duke of York, who has always denied any wrongdoing, was reported to the Metropolitan Police by Republic after he was referenced multiple times in files relating to disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. This was matched by similar calls from a US attorney who represented some of Epstein's victims, who said police in Britain have a duty to investigate Andrew as he 'still refuses to fully account for his time' with the paedophile. The...
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Duke Doesn’t Need “Economic Diversity”. Progressive mudslinging misses what college should be for.
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| November 27, 2023 | David Randall
The New York Times is on a tear about “economic diversity.” It’s
got a naughty-and-nice list, defined by the number of students with Pell Grants, and it’s stapled a scarlet A (for Affluent) to Duke University, which hasn’t managed to buy as many Pell mascots as its peers. The Times has sent out the memo: Get on the economic-diversity bandwagon now! The call for “economic diversity” is yet another sign of colleges abandoning the pursuit of educational excellence. But even if you do think colleges should serve an economic purpose—and public universities, at the very least, ought to provide taxpayers...
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Security Breach at (South Carolina) Duke Power Nuclear Plant: Man Rams Gate and Attacks Guards
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| November 3, 2023 | Jim Hoft
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation following a concerning incident at the Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina on Thursday night. At
approximately 8:05 p.m. on Thursday, deputies from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office responded immediately to an emergency call from the Oconee Nuclear Station. An unknown individual had reportedly driven a car through the exit side of the facility’s gate, facing Highway 183, FOX Carolina reported. According to on-site accounts, following the unauthorized entry, the facility’s security systems activated pop-up barricades designed to immobilize intruding vehicles. The rogue driver, however, managed to reverse the vehicle upon encountering...
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Is a New Campus Speech Initiative For Real? Duke has signed on to the Campus Call for Free Expression. What, exactly, does that mean?
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| October 16, 2023 | John Staddon
Thirteen college presidents, including those of Duke, Cornell, and Rutgers, have signed on to the “Campus Call for Free Expression” (CCFE), a project organized by a low-profile Princeton-and-Woodrow-Wilson-related group called the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Though the move has been celebrated in outlets as dissimilar as Inside Higher Ed and Forbes,
I’m afraid it looks like a silly “Well, okay then, I guess I’ll sign on,” limp-wristed, toothless, and redundant exercise rather than a serious effort to get universities back on track. Rutgers for example, contents itself with the claim that … academic freedom—the right of our faculty in...
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‘Money Jungle’: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus And Max Roach’s Revelatory Summit
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Udiscovermusic ^
| September 17, 2023 | Charles Waring
Seen as a face-off between the old and new guards in jazz, Duke Ellington’s ‘Money Jungle’ album proved they were on the same continuum.First released in 1962 via the United Artists label, Duke Ellington’s collaboration with bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach, Money Jungle, was a momentous jazz summit. Though
often seen as the moment where the old guard (Ellington) squared up to jazz music’s young lions (Mingus and Roach), the generational differences between its three participants are often exaggerated. Certainly, Ellington was entering his twilight years – he had just turned 63 – but Mingus, then aged 40,...
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Video caption from October 22, 2000: Yesterday @realDonaldTrump granted Duke Tanner clemency after 16 years in prison. Duke was sentenced to life in prison for a 1st time, non-violent crime because of Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill.
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Twitter ^
| October 22, 2000 | Ivanka Trump
Yesterday @realDonaldTrump granted Duke Tanner clemency after 16 years in prison. Duke
was sentenced to life in prison for a 1st time, non-violent crime because of Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill. We pray that you will do much good with your second chance Duke! God Bless!
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LGBT Individuals Often Switch to Straight Identity, Says Landmark Study in Duke Journal
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christianheadlines.com ^
| June 12, 2023 | Michael Foust
New research in a Duke University academic journal confronts a controversial subject within the LGBT community and comes to an equally controversial conclusion: a significant portion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals switch to a “straight” identity.The landmark research, published in the Duke University Press journal Demography, examined data from the
United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study, which involved interviews with 22,673 people who were interviewed in two waves: first in 2011–2013 and then in 2017–2019.A total of 8.6 percent of people who identified as gay and lesbian in the first wave changed their identity to heterosexual by the second...
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Duke University Condemns North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban in Email to Student Body
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LifeSite News ^
| 6/14/23 | Calvin Freiburger
'If you are one of the few students at Duke who hold an unpopular (pro-life) opinion on this issue or on many others, there is nowhere for you to turn.'DURHAM, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Duke University signaled a bias against pro-life students when it sent out a campus-wide email condemning North Carolina’s
ban on most abortions after 12 weeks, according to a concerned Duke student. Last month, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted Senate Bill 20 over the veto of Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. Effective next month, the bill will ban elective surgical abortions after 12 weeks and chemical abortions after...
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The Duke.
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https :// freedom - demokrasi - and - civilised - humanity . com / ^
| 12th June, 2023, American time | Ozguy1945
The Duke. Duke Wayne died on this date in 1979, 44 years ago. “Talk
low," he said, "talk slow, and don't say too much.” A man's man: "I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either." He dominated cinema by innately knowing what was in American hearts: God Bless John Wayne. God Bless America.
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Department of Education swamps Duke University with civil rights investigations
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Washington examiner ^
| 5/27/23 | Jeremiah Poff
Duke University is facing a fresh federal civil rights investigation for a racially exclusive program at its medical school days after resolving a separate civil rights matter over excluding women. Last
week, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights informed Mark Perry, a senior fellow with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, that Duke University was no longer excluding men from two programs the school had organized, one for high school girls interested in orthopedic surgery and engineering, and another for female medical students. But on Tuesday, in response to a complaint from Perry about a program at...
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Inside Miami’s cutthroat battle for private school seats as billionaires duke it out for coveted spots
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New York Post ^
| May 22, 2023 | Jacquelynn Powers Maurice
Real estate prices are soaring — if you can even find the home you want. Reservations
at pricey Avra and Carbone are hard to score. And private-school admissions have become cutthroat. Miami really is the new New York City. The Florida city’s top private schools — already bursting at the seams from the throngs of New Yorkers and others who have migrated south since the beginning of the pandemic — are now facing an even bigger shortfall as billionaire hedge-funders and private equity titans compete to enroll their kids.
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1521: Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
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ExecutedToday.com ^
| May 17, 2013 | Nancy Bilyeau
On this day in 1521, Edward Stafford, 43, third duke of Buckingham, was beheaded on Tower Hill outside the Tower of London, found guilty of high treason against Henry VIII. In Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII, the king said of Buckingham, “He hath into monstrous habits put the graces that were once his,
and is become as black as if besmear’d in hell.” Today few believe that the duke actively plotted to overthrow his king. But Edward Stafford was guilty nonetheless — of being too noble, too rich and too arrogant to survive in the increasingly paranoid court of Henry VIII,...
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Duke Health’s Antiracist “Pledge” Is Not Guided by Science. A Duke physician pushes back against the racism-as-a-public-health-crisis narrative.
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| May 8, 2023 | Kendall Conger
In May of 2021, the Duke Health System sent a draft “pledge” to the employee community, affirming that the organization “stands against racism, bias, and hate.” This
pledge, since published on the Duke Health website, was signed by four medical doctors and one Ph.D. and included the assurance that the drafters were “guided by science.” Their fundamental reason for writing the pledge, and its fundamental claim, was that “racism is a public health crisis.” That had not been my experience, nor did it fit my observations, so I asked to see the clinical data the authors had used to form...
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Transgender toddlers treated at Duke, UNC, and ECU
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Education First Alliance ^
| 5/2/2023 | Sloan Rachmuth
Top medical schools in the state are now transitioning toddlers and training future primary care doctors on how to engage in the experimental treatment. Duke
Medicine opened its Gender Clinic in 2015 to offer a wide variety of services under one roof. The clinic treats children as young as two for gender dysphoria. Dr. Deanna Adkins, a transgender activist who runs the clinic, said this about her toddler trans patients in an interview with the Charlotte Observer in 2016: “They are not old enough to consciously just choose to do that. … It is not a choice in any of...
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Duke professor calls for $14 trillion in reparations for black Americans
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The College Fix ^
| 04/22/2023 | Staff
A Duke University professor of economics called for $14 trillion in reparations for the descendants of American slavery this past week, which equates to approximately $350,000 per recipient. Appearing
on the “Dr. Phil” show, William Darity said cash reparations should be designed to reduce the wealth gap between white and black Americans, which currently stands “in excess of $840,000 per household,” according to Fox News. As for where that prodigious amount of money would come from, Darity said the feds.“It would be paid by the federal government in the same way in which the federal government has met the expenses...
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