OPINION
Love yourself
By Quinn Baker | October 6, 2015Last month, I attended my very first Pride Parade. It was filled with rainbows, hugs and happy people.
Last month, I attended my very first Pride Parade. It was filled with rainbows, hugs and happy people.
The puck is in the net. As the defending goalie in this marathon team scrimmage, I have the dubious duty of sweeping the puck back out onto the ice.
“If my father had ‘come out’ in his youth, if he had not met and married my mother... where would that leave me?” When I read this sentence of Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home,” my heart expanded and my eyes gaped open.
“My first experience with prison was probably when I was three or four months old. My mom took me to visit my dad, still holding me in her arms.” As I spoke up for the first time my voice quivered, unsure how the men around me would perceive an “outsider’s” presence.
On July 30, 1993, my grandmother died of glioblastoma multiforme, a brain cancer that ended her life shortly before I was born.
This Saturday is game day in Wallace Wade, and as blue devil fans from across the country converge onto campus to cheer on our team, some key differences will be noticeable. Wallace Wade has undergone one of its largest renovation projects since it was built in 1929.
In June 2014, the White House issued a presidential memorandum expressing concern regarding the startling loss of pollinators nationwide, writing “the problem is serious and poses a significant challenge that needs to be addressed to ensure the sustainability of our food production systems, avoid additional economic impacts on the agricultural sector, and protect the health of the environment.” This month, the Obama administration released its National Pollinator Health Strategy (a requirement of the memorandum) aiming to both increase the number of pollinator-friendly plants on federal land, and to conduct more research into the causes of pollinator declines.
The August 21 story in the Duke Chronicle entitled “Freshmen skipping ‘Fun Home’ for moral reasons” begins by stating that “several” incoming Freshmen have chosen to forgo the recommended common reading for the incoming class of 2019 because they objected to the “pornographic” nature of Alison Bechdel’s award winning memoir Fun Home. The Duke Chronicle article has by now circulated well beyond the Duke community, and responses range from people outraged that students would reject a book without reading it first to people lamenting the loss of traditional conservative values at Duke. With around seventeen hundred students in the incoming class, there were bound to be some people who reacted as these abstainers did.
In little less than a week, we will find ourselves moving back into our dorm rooms, apartments and off campus houses, ready to begin another Duke semester.
Trinity sophomore Zachary Faircloth rebuts "A win for terrorism," a column criticizing the Iranian nuclear deal that ran last week.
Sophomore Shivam Dave responds to last week's column series criticizing the Iran nuclear deal.
Sophomore Edward Torgas details how the Iran nuclear deal would decrease stability in the Middle East in the final part of the five-part series opposing the deal.
Part four of the column series criticizing the Iran nuclear deal details how the negotiations led to a deal that will increase instability in the Middle East.
Trinity senior Max Schreiber explains why the Iranian nuclear deal disregards core American values.
Sophomore Eidan Jacob details how the Iran nuclear deal would allow Iran to continue funding terrorism in part two of this week's five-part series opposing the deal.
Participants in DukeEngage Cape Town explore racism in American society in response to June's shooting in South Carolina.
Trinity sophomore Albert Antar explains why the recent nuclear deal with Iran could actually help Iran achieve its long-term nuclear goals.
Introduction to a five-part series on the Iran nuclear deal
Guest columnist Levi Brice gives his assessment of right-wing terrorism in the wake of the Emanuel AME Church shooting in South Carolina.
Trinity senior Imari Smith gives her rebuttal of Jonathan Zhao's recent column.