Cameron Beach is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.
Maybe I’ve been so hyper-focused on creating a successful person that I don’t actually understand her; that, in many ways, I know the people around me better than I know my own self. That makes sense. If we never spend time alone, how do we know what we want, why we’re here at Duke or what really matters to us?
While it’s not wrong that Duke is known to be an intellectually demanding place, there’s something problematic that seems to accompany this notion: smarter students and harder classwork means Duke is better, we are better, and smarter is better. The “better” I’m talking about isn’t better job prospects, and it isn’t better resumes. It’s a vast, shadowy sense of superiority—never spoken, always implied—that becomes clear when you take a step back and look at campus as an outsider.
President Trump is using the power of stories to manipulate the head and the heart, proffering a fictitious and dangerous narrative of immigration. I have a different story to tell the president.
The email was sent on Dec. 29, 2008.
There was my little sister, weeks after Hillary’s defeat, beating five boys in her fourth grade class elections.
Duke is a wonderland of resources, but by far the biggest resource is the students that populate this place.
If I feel this alienated by the medical system, who else feels that way? What if I spoke limited English and was trying to get help? What if I had no entrance the system other than urgent care? What if I didn’t have a car to get to the doctor’s office, and what if I couldn’t pay my copays? What if I didn’t have insurance? I realized that my panicked feeling of helplessness when I had finally exhausted my options might not be a transient feeling for others.
We didn’t create these situations in our city, but we’re lucky enough to be in a place where we can do something about them.
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy will bring Boston Globe reporter Matt Carroll in addition to a special screening of the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight.” “Spotlight,” a drama following The Boston Globe’s eponymous investigative reporting team, highlights the group’s exposure of pervasive child sex abuse within the Boston Catholic Church.
Some students have voiced concerns about the high prices for food in West Union, causing them to run out of food points more quickly than in past years.
