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Righteous pursuit

(12/03/12 10:35am)

The fall semester is quickly coming to a close. By now most of the senior class is either safe for employment or frantically applying to grad schools and jobs. Some of us are still trying to figure out what we want to do for a living. We have reached a critical point in our lives; the next steps we take can dramatically alter our personal journeys. The feeling of urgency lies mostly with seniors, but undergraduates of all classes are discerning what they should do after Duke. Put more deeply, they are discerning who they want to become. I cannot answer these questions for you, but I can impart a little senior experience to frame them.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/12/righteous-pursuit

The break we need

(11/19/12 10:15am)

Man, the Monday slot makes for excellent timing—FDOC, the day before Election Day and now just a couple days before Thanksgiving break. I could serve up the usual “here’s what I’m thankful for” article, but such an article wouldn’t fit my style and would be completely devoid of potshots. … So I came up with something else. I am writing about why this break always seems to roll around at just the right time.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/11/break-we-need

Live free

(11/05/12 7:47am)

Tomorrow is Election Day, a day on which the United States voting public elects our nation’s president as well as many other state and local officials. The choices we make now can have wonderful or disastrous consequences not only in the next four years, but also for generations to come.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/11/live-free

Town hall troubles

(10/22/12 7:00am)

I chose not to watch the first presidential debate. I did so because I was angry that no third-party candidates would even be given a shot despite Phillips and the YWCA pulling out from sponsorship. I missed the vice-presidential debate because I was busy and cannot multitask to save my life. I had assumed the debates were largely unproductive and mostly about pandering, but I felt bad making this assumption without even seeing a debate. To that end, I watched the second presidential debate, in all of its town hall glory.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/10/town-hall-troubles

Economic patriotism

(10/08/12 7:44am)

At a post-debate Denver rally, President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of 12,000 people. He made a few jokes about Mitt Romney’s record, talked about parts of his record omitted from the debate and claimed that during the debate he was talking about … some term I hadn’t previously heard. He claimed that he was talking about “economic patriotism.” He used the term in reference to using economic or government power to achieve ends that he believes are beneficial to the people of the United States.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/10/economic-patriotism

Skin in the game

(09/10/12 6:23am)

In the early years of the United States, the only people who were allowed to vote were white, male property owners. Today, this notion seems absurd for obvious reasons. “White” because people of any race or ethnicity ought to have the right to vote. “Male” because women do just as much for this nation as men do and also ought to be allowed to vote. The criterion I will choose to focus on is the last: property owners. On its face, the idea seems classist and generally absurd. What about employed people who live in apartments but are nonetheless productive members of society? What about college students? Or seniors who live in retirement homes?

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/09/skin-game

A note on discourse

(08/27/12 7:12am)

Since I have the dubious honor of writing a column for the very first day of classes, I’ve decided that simply writing a column advocating my own point of view would be way less interesting than writing something a little more … meta. Looking back on my undergraduate experience, I’ve thought about many of the elements common to Duke’s brand of dialogue and social activism that really bother me. I’ve thought about everything from tone to substance (or lack thereof), and decided to offer some words of wisdom to address said elements. With a presidential election not far off, this is probably a good time to bring it up. I’ll start with humor.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2012/08/note-discourse