It’s been over a year, and a long and weird year it was, but today the lax charges were dropped in full. Hate-mail, as well as other expressions of “jubliance,” is still pouring in, mainly from outside the Duke community, or so I’m told. There are trolls still calling for Richard Brodhead’s, well, head. And so on.
This is a good day, though.
I’ve talked to a lot of people on this typical spring afternoon, with the Chapel etched into the canvas of a sweetly, naively cloudless sky, and I feel like campus can move on. Not only that, I feel like campus can evolve. I don’t think it will ever totally conform to a vision that any of the sides (and there are many more than two, I feel) in the ensuing debate have expressed, and I don’t think it’s realistic for anyone to expect that – but there are lessons to be learned regardless.
I haven’t got anything remotely witty to say, and it is, for once, a good feeling.
Natalia A. 