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(04/01/14 8:03am)
Duke students certainly have their values. We emphasize the importance of a strong work ethic, we highlight our progressivism by continuously looking for new ways to fix our campus and we prioritize unity through our esteemed team spirit (well, for the male sports teams at least). While these form just a few of the stepping-stones that help us to traverse Duke culture, certain social stigmas also exist that tend to hold us back, both as individuals and as a cohesive student body. Students cannot easily talk to one another about their shockingly existent imperfections, for example, since doing so is often perceived as “hypersensitive.” The trend to delegitimize others’ experiences and opinions due to so-called hypersensitivity is disturbing and detrimental to the ability of Duke students to understand one another fully.
(03/18/14 5:46am)
There is something special about spending a week away from the “real world.” Having just returned from Spring Break in Pisgah National Forest for my second P-Wild outing at Duke, I find myself already longing for the complicatedly simple life that the wild offers. While backpacking, I was able to fleetingly forget about an upcoming plethora of common Duke concerns (exams, summer plans, an oddly loathed LDOC lineup) to instead focus my energy on living in the moment. Though a cliché, disconnecting from routine Duke culture can be incredibly reinvigorating.
(06/24/15 5:34pm)
There is something special about spending a week away from the “real world.” Having just returned from Spring Break in Pisgah National Forest for my second P-Wild outing at Duke, I find myself already longing for the complicatedly simple life that the wild offers. While backpacking, I was able to fleetingly forget about an upcoming plethora of common Duke concerns (exams, summer plans, an oddly loathed LDOC lineup) to instead focus my energy on living in the moment. Though a cliché, disconnecting from routine Duke culture can be incredibly reinvigorating.
(06/24/15 5:34pm)
There is something special about spending a week away from the “real world.” Having just returned from Spring Break in Pisgah National Forest for my second P-Wild outing at Duke, I find myself already longing for the complicatedly simple life that the wild offers. While backpacking, I was able to fleetingly forget about an upcoming plethora of common Duke concerns (exams, summer plans, an oddly loathed LDOC lineup) to instead focus my energy on living in the moment. Though a cliché, disconnecting from routine Duke culture can be incredibly reinvigorating.
(03/04/14 10:00am)
I just returned from Common Ground. For me, the four-day retreat simultaneously felt like the best and worst experience I’ve had at Duke. While I felt united with other participants who had the courage to talk about their experiences within and outside of Duke, I also felt disturbance at how my own subconscious words and actions have negatively affected my peers. Now that I’m back inside my own comfortable Duke bubble, I want to traverse the student body and fight against the effects of unknown privilege, heterosexism and patriarchy—but I know doing so isn’t easy.
(02/18/14 9:00am)
Nobody is right about everything, but everybody thinks they are. Take our elected representatives in D.C., who have shown an increasing willingness over recent years to put meaningful legislation on hold in favor of partisan gridlock. On both sides of congressional debate, constituents hold their representatives to the standard of moral absolutism, which is the undeniable assurance that there is a wholly correct answer to every ethical dilemma. This moral arrogance transcends our legislators. People hate to acknowledge that others are right, especially at the expense of their own beliefs.
(02/04/14 6:57am)
I watched the Super Bowl this year for three reasons: to see the trailers for upcoming superhero movies, to dance to Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and to watch the commercials for some killer conversation starters the next morning. Super Bowl XVLIII offered fans an unusually one-sided game in which the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8, but while fans of opposing teams were driven apart as the game progressed, the commercials between plays ostensibly brought them back together.
(01/21/14 11:52am)
This past holiday season, I was treated to a four-hour drive home to South Carolina, where I was greeted by purring cats, a new Beyoncé album and a binge watching of House of Cards. Being a resident of South Carolina certainly has its benefits—for instance, if I weren’t a ginger I probably would have been able to tan over the break—but it also means that whenever I travel back to that beaming corner of the Bible Belt, I know I will be exposed to strict social standards that are far different from my own.
