Just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the Washington Metro Orange Line from New Carrollton to Vienna was packed like sardines.
If you’ve taken a couple of computer science classes at Duke over the last few years, you’ve probably noticed something surprising.
This past week, nearly 100 freshmen and sophomores spent their spring breaks on campus participating in the inaugural offering of Spring Breakthrough.
We ask the administration to again stand for its students and values of inclusivity by standing against President Trump’s revised executive order issued on Monday.
Duke always garners attention in the media because our student body fascinates the nation. The wealth, the power and the selectivity Duke represents are the makings of any good click-bait title, so I will be giving the world a sneak peak into the secret and mysterious lives of Duke students.
This year, Duke Student Government (DSG) began the Student Leader Steering Committee, in the hopes of harmonizing student priorities with administrator work streams to improve the undergraduate experience.
When you think about the phrase “medical research” the image that probably enters your mind is a white-coated scientist, carefully pipetting chemicals, culturing cells or observing something under a microscope.
Since 2010, I have taken an annual photograph with a dim sum waiter. His name is Peter Chung and, over the years, we have created a rather strange, but nonetheless timeless tradition of picture-taking. As the folklore of my own personal narrative has it, I first met Peter on an auspicious Sunday morning in the eighth grade.
We live in a world in which victory is unpopular. People have gotten into the shameful mental habit of believing that for every winner there must be a loser, and they have become more concerned with not being the loser than with being the winner.
If 2016 was any indication, governments around the world are going to spend an awful lot of time rethinking trade, investment and industrial development policy.
No matter how small the operation, a new trend can be created through a growing appetite and awareness for local, organic food.
The U.S Supreme Court announced earlier this week that it would forego any judicial decision on the Gavin Grimm case and instead send the suit back to the lower courts for further debate.
Through my dancing I felt the pride of my ancestors and the warmth of grandparents I never had the chance to meet.
Last Friday, the Provost’s office held an all-day forum on race, policing and the broader justice system in the United States.
At the very least, it is terrible journalism.
If we want to live in a society where people who become sick with curable ailments can get treatment, then we need to address the pricing of medicine, among many other items.
However, in all of our cultures and traditions, we see a common celebration of peace and love and see harmful acts inflicted upon others as despicable sins.
The exact technologies that have been keeping our population so large have paved the way for many environmental issues that could, in the near future, deplete our world entirely.
I'm still not sure how to process the fact that someone wouldn't want to go to a school because there were too many people who looked like me.
I want to call this resolution a deus ex machina, but surprisingly, I discover that most of my American friends are not in agreement with me.
