OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

QuadEx could be great. Here’s how (Part II)

By Nicholas Chrapliwy | March 6, 2024

Between the smallest scale of roommates and the largest scale of the whole 250-to-500-person Quad, there is a fundamental need for a scale of community that is structured around the natural social niche of thirty to sixty people for QuadEx to be successful at building and sustaining real communities within the model.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Better one safe way

By Anna Garziera | March 6, 2024

However, the underlying motivation is clear: Advice-givers are either trying to grow their fan base or their wallet.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The case for adding a Middle East and North African Studies pathway to the AMES major

By Mariam Gulamhusein and Eleanor Ross | March 6, 2024

As two AMES majors, we have noticed time and time again how the major’s overarching framework sidelines the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) cross-section of language, history, and culture.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Should the Duke Chapel call the adhan?

By Yi-Chyun Wong and Erin Dickerson | March 5, 2024

In choosing to not call the adhan, is the Duke Chapel excluding the Muslim community?

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

What your major says about you

By Alex Berkman | March 5, 2024

There is a correlation — albeit a loose one — between one’s personality and major. But for this article’s sake, let’s pretend like everyone of the same major has the same personality. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke-Durham dividers: East Campus walkways to be replaced with a moat

By Monday Monday | March 4, 2024

Duke announced plans to destroy the running paths along the perimeter of the campus and replace them with a moat. To exit East Campus, students will now be required to leap or swim. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The curriculum isn't the problem

By Heidi Smith | March 4, 2024

The question Duke administrators must answer before overhauling Trinity’s curriculum is whether they want us to graduate as a jack of all trades or a master of a few.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The joy of studying with ChatGPT

By Jessica Luan | March 1, 2024

With ChatGPT's help, I feel less pressure to produce perfect writing from the start, allowing my ideas to flow.  

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

We don't need more safe spaces

By Gabrielle Mollin | February 29, 2024

From my perspective, safe spaces are merely platforms for groupthink, absent of the diversity and disagreement that often leads to intellectual growth.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Why people hate professors

By Carol Apollonio | February 28, 2024

These days, I crave the kind of job where I can hammer nails into things; pick heavy boxes up and move them around; run heavy, loud machinery; and come home after eight hours to a cold six-pack and some TV. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Slow and steady wins the race

By Anna Sorensen | February 27, 2024

In focusing on “getting through” the difficult parts of college, we miss the greater sense of what we’re doing here at all.

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OPINION

Colleagues, students and peers remember Hans Joris Van Miegroet

By Viktoria Wulff-Andersen | February 27, 2024

These tributes to Hans J. Van Miegroet, professor of art and art history at Duke who passed away on Feb. 9, were originally submitted to the department of art, art history and visual studies. The Chronicle has compiled quotes from these tributes with permission from their authors.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Poetry and suffering

By Luke A. Powery | February 26, 2024

Poetry may not stop your individual suffering or the suffering of the world, but it can keep you alive and ensure that you are not consumed by existential chaos.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The grass is as fake as the people who walk on it

By Aaron Siegle | February 23, 2024

Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it’s fake.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

You don’t have to be a helicopter mom, Duke. You can let us go.

By Alex Berkman | February 22, 2024

In rhetoric, sure, the Duke administration has expressed the greatest trust in their student body, composed of some of the brightest young minds in the world. However, their insistence on intervening in the lives of its students suggests the opposite — that Duke has little to no trust in us at all.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Is science only meant for learning?

By Monika Narain | February 22, 2024

It pains me when people say they don’t like science because it’s “boring,” because that’s the only way they’ve ever experienced science: as incremental information overload until it becomes less overwhelming.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

All the world’s a stage

By Anna Garziera | February 21, 2024

If we acted exactly the same around all of our acquaintances, we’d have very few colleagues and even fewer friends.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Words that matter: For Alexei Navalny

By Carol Apollonio | February 21, 2024

In some places, the Word matters. It lives in a tangible physical world where when you speak your truth, you will be exiled; dispossessed; brutally beaten; shot dead on the street ...

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Which would you save: Friend or romantic partner?

By Jess Jiang | February 21, 2024

Love shouldn’t be hierarchical, with romantic love as the pinnacle transcending other types of love.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Happiness is not what you’re looking for

By Paul Dilly | February 20, 2024

We hinge our contentment on what we think we need, rather than what we have. The world doesn’t make us unhappy. We do.