Consuming Duke
By Austin Smith | November 19, 2019To feel like I belong here at Duke, I’d have to feel like I was more than just a consumer.
To feel like I belong here at Duke, I’d have to feel like I was more than just a consumer.
Despite time constraints or fear of divisiveness, we have a moral obligation as voters and citizens to be informed. Read the news, it does you and the world good.
We should lament that our rules are imperfect and unjust, and then seek to reform them in a spirit of good-will by speaking the Truth, by loving one another—even our enemy—as our neighbor equal in worth and dignity.
Don’t fall for the re-branding attempt to brainwash you. Boxed water isn't better, it is just rebranded water.
Student Health’s misdiagnosis delayed Matson from receiving necessary treatment and medication, negatively impacting her academic, social and emotional well-being.
It’s much too easy for the stressed organic chemistry student to grab a glass of chocolate milk to feel better about an upcoming midterm; our natural tendency is to search for these comfort foods. When they are spread out for the taking, how often will we be able to resist?
The biggest takeaway: don’t sell-out to the sell-out culture.
To say that gay students are welcome and are to be supported without calling for a clear path for them to be ordained as they are called by God to serve as pastors is to say “We will take your money and offer education but we will not give voice to opening the path for you to use the education for which you paid.”
While most students probably apply to the program motivated by the ideal of doing good for others, learning from the local community, and engaging with the culture, often, the program does not offer that possibility because it frames the students as privileged outsiders.
That’s right, we are going through a spinal health crisis, and I think it has something to do with the oversized, Santa-approved sacks we haul around (better known as backpacks).
With each use, the brain slowly rewires in such a way that one experience of physiological effects decreases for the same amount of time spent on the social platform.
At present, DSG is a tin-pot democracy. Its grand delusions of popular representation butt heads with the reality of its inadequacy.
While this decision strides toward righting a historic inequity between student-athletes and the NCAA, it leaves in place structural inequities that permeate college sports writ large.
Often minimized, if not lost, in this conversation is the moral argument for educational justice—incarcerated people are, like the rest of us, entitled to free public education.
If there is anything that all Duke students can collectively get behind, it’s that Duke Parking & Transportation is the worst.
It seems to me that students should have a seat at the table rather than merely being solicited for input by a body in which they have no part.
To fight this mentality, we have to develop the understanding that even if we are not the star player, we are still on the team, and to preserve the integrity of the team, we should strive to contribute the most.
In the end, a willingness to pay the prescribed penalty does not excuse outrageous violations of rule and law.
To all the other Indian-Americans in the room, I ask only one thing: own that hyphen. Don’t let the American Desi be written off as “confused.”
Try instead: *Silence*