Prescribing things I could’ve done differently is really just rolling the dice again with the possibility of worse outcomes.
I encourage you to take hold of existing in the world and to not put a hold on existing.
It was a difficult reality to accept — that, as obvious as it sounds, my writing was being read, unraveled and picked apart by classmates, parents and strangers on the Internet.
Trying to balance who I wanted to be as a person with what I wanted to do as editor was a scale that I never quite leveled.
To a vision of community, to student journalism at its bravest and to the organization I hope we can become.
Each story was an opportunity for me to both learn something about Duke and the vibrant communities within it and share what I learned with a broader community.
Sometimes I hear from students about hierarchies and inequalities in their campus communities. Duke professors, too, find themselves arrayed along a socio-economic hierarchy that feels significantly more rigid than in years past.
The recent SB 20 abortion restriction is the latest wave of a legal culture that enforces a medical reality in which Black communities lose mothers and infants at disproportionately high rates.
I desire a healthcare landscape where my blackness, and that of others, is not a factor that diminishes my worthiness of care from any doctor. I aspire to a healthcare system where Black women are not restricted from the abortion care they need.
As a reproductive-aged rising OBGYN, the consequences of the Dobbs decision on safe reproductive care are as personal as they are professional.
Perhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.
Religion is meant to be a supplement to your faith; it is not meant to be a replacement.
Rejected from The Fluke twice, chronic bench napper, DSG expat: My name is Zoe Tishaev (sometimes known as my mobile order name, “Candice Nutzfitinyomouf”), and it has been an honor to serve as your Monday Monday.
Writing my OP-Eds has been a means of deep self-reflection, and that’s what I’ve gotten from my time as a columnist.
Critics of affirmative action argue that universities reduce people down to their race. By eliminating the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, Duke has proved them right.
But while we often trumpet what’s gained with efficiency, we fail to consider what’s lost. Sometimes we have difficulty parsing the tasks requiring efficiency from those that offer opportunity for discovery, enjoyment and whimsy.
May I make clear that I do not ask that any of you compromise on your own views. I simply request that you recognize that disagreement is more often rooted in a difference in values and circumstance than it is in ignorance and/or unintelligence.
If we don’t question, we embrace the status quo and lose out on an opportunity to shape the future.
This broken relationship between the ivory tower and the much larger rest of the world furthers distrust in evidence-based research and all of science as a whole.
Your advisor urged you to explore intellectually! Expand your mind! Try something new! You saw their lips moving but heard no sound.
