A few days ago, a well-intentioned university administrator sent an email to students advising them to self-censor their choice of language in public in order to maintain future opportunities.
While I agree completely that the statue of Lee—and really all monuments honoring slavery and those who fought for it—should be removed, if we as a community choose to remove Lee, we must not stop there.
Is it morally permissible to kill an animal for food? I’m not asking about extreme situations where it’s me and a chicken alone on an island, and only one of us can survive until help arrives.
Instead of using natural gas, the proposed plant will instead directly burn up Duke students’ tuition.
Healthcare is complicated, and it’s probably wise to ignore anyone who boils the issues down to one or two basic problems.
It’s a credit to Duke University that one of our own Blue Devils, out of all the professional athletes of the NBA, was both perceptive enough to see past the illusion and brave enough to speak truth to power.
I would argue, unlike most sources of carbon dioxide emissions (and perhaps even natural gas use), animal agriculture, at least at its current scale, is virtually completely unnecessary if not harmful to humanity’s well-being.
Since every “bridge” is used exactly once, by the end of the tour you’ll have seen nearly all of West Campus without boring your guest with the same views over and over.
The Pareto distribution, and the related Zipf distribution, often arise from systems where habits or patterns are self-reinforcing, such as criminal convictions or health issues.
Sophomore Eidan Jacob details how the Iran nuclear deal would allow Iran to continue funding terrorism in part two of this week's five-part series opposing the deal.
