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(04/25/16 5:08am)
Perception is a powerful thing.
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Perception is a powerful thing.
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Almost every time I tell a friend or professor I hope to one day serve in elected office, the typical response is skepticism.
Regardless of who you choose to vote for this week, vote “No” on the referendum included in your ballot Tuesday.Very early Thursday morning after a four-plus-hour meeting that began Wednesday evening, we voted at the close of the Duke Student Government Senate meeting to put a referendum on the ballot for Tuesday’s Presidential election. After hours of debate on restructuring the composition and makeup of DSG Senate, we could not settle on a single plan. Procedural issues, conflicts of interest involving a variety of people in the room, and the dual vices of ego and the necessity to get to Perkins to do homework abounded.The constitutional amendment is a simple one – allowing DSG Senate to complete reform of the size, makeup of elected vs. non-elected senators, and committees that compose the Senate without mandating a vote of approval by the entire student body—but the implications of such a change are far too unethical and troubling to not warrant public comment.
Duke has bludgeoned, not coddled me. I believe I am not alone when I say this.
Donald Trump might finally have some competition for his ability to control the attention and narrative of the media. They’re both running for Young Trustee.
The last time I managed to go a day without food and water, I ended up spending most of the day in bed.
The first time I heard that 52 percent of Duke students pay less than the sticker price of over $65,000 to attend this university, all I could think is that somehow 48 percent of the student population is paying full price.
On Tuesday, we vote not for the fate of the nation but for the fate of our city.
Anytime I mention I attend Duke, the first question I typically receive has to do with basketball. I’m quite certain that this experience is common to pretty much every Duke student living in the United States.
When Pope Francis visited America last week, all anyone could talk about in the media was his progressivism—his views on climate change, poverty and immigration. As a Christian with deep Catholic roots, such a change in the discourse around Christianity was a welcome one.
There is more to the world than consulting or finance.
Trigger warning: sexual assault
The 2016 election, despite what mainstream media and a cacophony of candidates giving stump speeches will indicate, is still more than 14 months away. Yet anything anyone can bother to talk about is Donald Trump’s desire to build a wall with a door in it or Hillary Clinton’s emails. With the rapid influx of money into politics and an electorate still frustrated with the direction where the country is headed both on the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum, 2016 is shaping up to be a unique election cycle.
To first-years and more likely the parents who picked this up amidst a bevy of move-in materials,
When you sit in the front seat, the conversations are so much better.
Life at Duke revolves around cycles.
It is my firm belief that we, as a collective student community, have the capacity and power to create widespread institutional change. Faced with the reemergence of racism at Duke, something that has become a semester-ly occurrence, an inept student government and a general apathy amongst the student body for a multitude of local and campus-wide issues, maintaining this belief may just be in vain. After all, we’ll only ever do something if Yale or Stanford has already done it.
From their final resting place, you can see the waves of the English Channel softly break onto the shores. There, over 70 years ago the invasion of Normandy and the decisive campaign to liberate Europe began. There, men many as old as we are defined a generation of Americans and forged a new world order. There, this past week I stood and looked out upon those hallowed shores struggling to figure out where in this great lineage we will come to be remembered.
I wasn’t able to figure out why I was feeling so somber this weekend. It was not the fact that I was single on Valentine’s Day—this fact hasn’t changed since I was born—nor that Duke necessarily had me down.