When I was in eighth grade, I had an English teacher named Mrs. Johnson. During the last period of the school day, I would sit in the back corner of her classroom and listen while she led recitations of “Julius Caesar”or discussions of film scenes from “Amadeus.” Everyone in the class loved her.
“Didn’t you say that you only had a sister,” asked my confused friend, Ben, when I told him that I visited my brother. “Yes, and he is now my brother,” I replied, a little guarded. Coming out to tell the world that you are transgender is hard.
It was 1988 when Edward Said said that “for the present... the wall-to-wall nonsense about terrorism can inflict grave damage.” Unfortunately for Dr. Said, may he rest in peace, very little has changed.
To any Duke student, the October 8th article about excessive fire alarm activations seemed incredibly predictable because it has happened to everyone at least once.
Today, there is no shortage of American pundits who love to denounce the PC culture and discuss the death of free speech on college campuses.
Hurricane Joaquin is behind us, but its aftermath can still be felt. Here in Durham, we were merely deluged with cold rain, but in the central Bahamas, a massive storm surge flooded streets and enveloped houses.
What do Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Bernie Sanders have in common? For one, they’re all performing strongly in the polls.
Yesterday’s first Democratic primary debate provided a stark contrast to the previous two Republican debates.
I am a big fan of John Steinbeck, and I am getting ready to read his book “Travels with Charley” (in which he travels the country trying to rediscover the American Dream). In a departure this week from healthcare, I want to include excerpts from two letters I wrote home last summer shortly after driving from Oakland to Denver.
For most of us at Duke, the past two weeks have been hell week, filled with misery, copious amounts of work and long nights at the library.
Sherwood, Windsor, Farquaad — what do all of these names have in common? They are all Independent Houses under Duke University’s new housing model.
Trigger warnings have come under fire this year. In the Atlantic’s article, The Coddling of the American Mind, which takes on collegiate political correctness and “vindictive protectiveness,” trigger warnings are said to catastrophize educationally valuable content.
In the wake of the tragic shooting that claimed nine lives one week ago today, President Obama observed that our reactions to mass shootings have become routine, even numb. At least in my experience, he is not wrong. I will never forget where I was when I found out about the Sandy Hook shooting — headquartered in Perkins and stupidly consumed with anxiety about an impending calculus final.
I have written about my personal experiences with depression before. In fact, I wrote about it in this very paper just last year.
Duke in the fall is my favorite time of the year. The temperature has finally cooled down, the leaves are turning and there’s Duke football every Saturday.
In mid-September, Duke United Students Against Sweatshops presented a petition to President Brodhead’s office asking that administration remain neutral as contingent faculty unionize for better salaries and job security.
Since the start of Israeli statehood in 1948, the country has been in constant conflict with its Arab neighbors and the Palestinian population living within and immediately outside her borders.
Environmentalism sometimes seems like an effort of words: we’re experts at the buzzword battle-cry, green war paint streaking our cheeks.
Tomorrow is Duke’s celebration of National Coming Out Day. Celebrated with a plaza party and the famous “Love = Love” shirts, tomorrow is the day for celebrating “Coming Out” and publically assuming my sexual orientation and gender identity.
I disagree with Duke Political Union’s September 30th column, “Welfare and the federal government,” on several points.
