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To the Duke community:

After hearing from and consulting with a number of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and with the strong support of the Board of Trustees, I authorized the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee from the entrance of Duke Chapel early this morning.

I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university.

The removal also presents an opportunity for us to learn and heal. The statue will be preserved so that students can study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future.

Wednesday night’s act of vandalism made clear that the turmoil and turbulence of recent months do not stop at Duke’s gates. We have a responsibility to come together as a community to determine how we can respond to this unrest in a way that demonstrates our firm commitment to justice, not discrimination; to civil protest, not violence; to authentic dialogue, not rhetoric; and to empathy, not hatred.

As part of this effort, I am creating a commission, to include faculty, students, staff, alumni, trustees and members of the Durham community, to advise on next steps and to assist us in navigating the role of memory and history at Duke. The commission will look at how we memorialize individuals on the Duke campus in buildings and sculpture and recommend principles drawn from Duke’s core values to guide us when questions arise. I will ask this commission to work expeditiously.

In addition, and in concert with Provost Sally Kornbluth, we will use the next year to explore various aspects of Duke's history and ambitions through teaching and scholarship. This will include an exhibition in the Library; a campus conversation about controversy and injustice in Duke’s history; and a forum to explore academic freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly in the university. Further information about these programs will be forthcoming.

As this process moves forward, I welcome your thoughts about how Duke can best address the troubling events of the past few months, learn from a careful and unvarnished understanding of our national and institutional history, and build a stronger, more inclusive future as a university community.

Vincent E. Price
President
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The quotation marks elevate this tweet to all-time great levels. This person does not know what it is, or is alleging the name is fake.
 
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SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:


The quotation marks elevate this tweet to all-time great levels. This person does not know what it is, or is alleging the name is fake.
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ImNotFakeNews
@harpus88
My name is Kathleen #ImNotFakeNewsDonald Trump won the election & is President of the USA
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Robert Mueller's a hit man for the DNC & GOP access of evil
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A little error at the end. I'm pretty sure it's "excess of evil"
 
Anyone else expecting Trump to tweet that the eclipse is fake news? That it's really a huge space ship sent from God to take him and his followers to heaven and that all they have to do is chug the first thing they can grab under the sink and lay down in bed.
Maybe that's just wishful thinking.....
 
I could see this not being satire:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-sun-equally-to-blame-for-blocking-moon

Trump Says Sun Equally to Blame for Blocking Moon

Attacking the media for its “very unfair” coverage of Monday’s solar eclipse, Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that the sun was equally to blame for blocking the moon.

“The fake news is covering the eclipse from the sun’s side instead of the moon’s side, but if you look at it from the moon’s side the sun is blocking the moon’s side,” he said. “There are so many sides you can’t count all the sides.”

Additionally, Trump tore into the sun itself, calling it a “showboat” for its role in the solar eclipse.

“The sun thinks the world revolves around it,” Trump said. “Sad.”

Trump said the sun was a “big problem” that his predecessor, Barack Obama, did nothing to solve, but that that situation was about to change.

“It will be handled—we handle everything,” Trump said, adding that a preëmptive military strike on the sun was “very much on the table.”
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He has his own private security, but as he is a sitting President, taxpayer has to pay for that too.
 
The president is going to speak to us tonight about Afghanistan. And he's going to ask us to "trust him".

This will be much more interesting than the solar eclipse.
 
Wonder if he'll be able to read the teleprompter after looking into the sun during the eclipse today.
 
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