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On housing fairness at Duke
By Sabriyya Pate | May 17, 2019We need radical change in Duke’s culture, and we needed it yesterday.
Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.
We need radical change in Duke’s culture, and we needed it yesterday.
Don’t stress the little stuff. Focus on people. Relationships will always matter more.
“I could never get into Duke."
Empathy is a test of character, but it is also a test of strength, effectiveness and capacity for good. Global leaders need the emotional intelligence and ability to work in diverse teams in order address the challenges that lay ahead.
Focusing on a limited, highly privileged understanding of menstrual equity is an injustice in itself for it alienates and curtails issues relinquished to the periphery, at a time where human respect and public health needs are already overlooked.
I am one generation removed from poverty. The patriarchal gender roles that define women as assets kept by patriarchs with several wives, each to produce children who are seemingly destined to an impoverished life, still creep at my ankles.
For university students, the allure of well-publicized research and opportunities to travel abroad should not distract from the greater purpose of these endeavors.
The recipe for an antidote is simple: we need genuine women who sincerely support their fellow women.
If people are able to build long-lasting friendships in their first-year dorms, there is no reason why such an environment cannot be recreated in upperclassman dorms.
There is a difference between not knowing what you want to do with your major, and not knowing why you are completing your major.