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My time at Duke is almost over. I turned in my thesis last Friday and spent the weekend packing up to move to New York next month. Like any school experience, mine has had its ups and downs, but overall, it has been amazing.
Last week, members of the men's lacrosse team were asked to submit to DNA tests to determine whether any of them had been involved in the rape of a woman at a party March 13 at a residence shared by three members of the team. I happened to be at the Duke Women's Center the day the team members were called in by police, so I helped field questions from reporters, some of whom also brought up the recent rape and murder of an NYU graduate student.
I should know better than to watch prime-time television. One show Friday night bothered my more feminist sensibilities-on Ghost Whisperer, a dead boy was haunting his mother and baby sister. The father had disappeared after the boy's death, never to be seen in this episode.
Pursuing a graduate or professional degree can be a great stage of life. This is an opportunity to develop as a leader in a chosen field and to develop as a person. Students can attend informative lectures, learn about different cultures through new friendships and diverse student groups and meet lifelong friends. For better or for worse, this is also the time of life when many students start families.
Some of the best life lessons I've learned at Duke have come from the man who polices the chapel traffic circle every morning. Along with jewelry made of bike parts, Chance always dispenses inspiration.
What will you do during next Monday's holiday? Catch up on homework or reading? Work? Sleep? I've always seen holidays as an opportunity for uninterrupted data collection myself. But this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is different.
I was reminded of these words and the reasons for the Faces of Feminism project at a Monday night reception for those involved. These events always energize and inspire me even, as they remind me that feminism and actions based on feminist views are still very much needed in our society.
Like almost all graduate students, I have gone through times when I thought that I was not cut out for grad school. Completing a graduate or professional degree is hard. It is challenging academically, and it can be a real blow to the ego.
Graduate school isn't much use to those who cannot reach the campus on a daily basis for classes, research or teaching. Parking is critical, but unfortunately, it hasn't been as much of a priority for Duke University as most students would like it to be.
This week, the Graduate and Professional Student Council announced that Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School, has committed to providing funding for health insurance for all Ph.D. students, beginning next year. This represents one milestone in a longer road for GPSC, which has worked on health insurance issues in a number of ways, from lobbying for such funding to working on the search for the best plan each year to communicating health information to students to help bring down costs.
We tend to think of everyone as being exactly what we expect, given the heterosexual majority,-that is, identifying as either male or female and attracted to the opposite gender. In the past two weeks, I have had the opportunity to learn more about those who bend the rules of the majority.
Got funding? Well, maybe more than four years ago, but not enough-especially considering what Duke spends on its undergraduates.
Fall 2000-It was a rainy Friday going into a very wet weekend, and I was in a tent in a muddy field on campus. I had exams coming up in an intense molecular neurobiology course the following Monday. I was new at Duke and just getting used to a school and a life very different from that at Caltech. So what the heck was I doing sitting in puddles all weekend?
I am just coming to realize how small the world actually is. Less than one week after returning from my first trip to Europe, I had the pleasure of helping during international student orientation with International House. Before traveling, I didn’t realize how different cultures can be and how difficult it can be to adjust or even to return to your hotel when you don’t understand the public transportation or speak the language. Language barriers can make the simple task of purchasing a needed item difficult. This came up more than once in a two-week trip to Europe, which has languages and cultures similar to those in the United States. I can only imagine the difficulties in adjusting to culture in which I were a minority in terms of race, beliefs or values.
New graduate and professional students, welcome to Duke! You have chosen to come here for a higher degree in graduate, medical, law, business, nursing, divinity, public policy or environmental school. Congratulations on your choice, both in deciding to pursue your degree and in coming to Duke. In today’s world, earning a higher degree is critical to many careers, and, as you know, there are many benefits of higher education—monetary, health and even quality of life.
