How does Duke remember its workers? Part 3: Missing voices
(10/04/19 4:00am)
Editor's note: This story is Part 3 in a series of columns by Alicia Sun exploring the history of labor at Duke.
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Editor's note: This story is Part 3 in a series of columns by Alicia Sun exploring the history of labor at Duke.
Editor's note: This story is Part 2 in a series of columns by Alicia Sun exploring the history of labor at Duke. Part 3 will be published in early October.
Editor's note: This story is Part 1 in a series of columns by Alicia Sun exploring the history of labor at Duke. Part 2 will be published in late September.
Duke is often referred to as a bubble, where students live comfortably in a world far removed from the stark reality of the greater Durham community.
Me: “Let’s get dinner this week.”
Public policy majors are required to complete an internship before graduation. After completing the five core courses, students must seek out an internship in a field related to public policy in order to receive their degree. It’s meant to be a way to expose students to apply the skills they have learned and help them find a possible career path. One summer doing policy, for public policy majors. Easy enough, right?
Banners in front of the Brodhead Center scream at passing students to “VOTE EARLY.” My Facebook feed has been flooded with political ads encouraging people to cast their ballots for this candidate or that candidate. Even celebrities, from Amy Schumer to Rihanna to Taylor Swift, have publicly endorsed civic participation at the polls.
This weekend, I attended a screening held by DUU Freewater Presentations and A24 of the movie Eighth Grade. The coming-of-age film, written and directed by Bo Burnham, follows eighth grader Kayla Day as she struggles through her final week of middle school. In an age of social media and phone inseparability, Kayla shows us the challenges teenagers face today—being inundated by carefully curated posts on Instagram, the pressure to be “cool,” not knowing how to interact with the opposite sex—all played out in a way that’s cringingly realistic. When people say middle school sucks, this movie explains why.
200 students eager for jobs. 10 shiny consultants and one recruiter. Only 30 minutes to impress them.
Today, my dad asked me if I remember how I felt exactly two years ago, during my first week of my freshman year.
Everyone wants to be the person who aced their final without studying. The guy who hooks up all the time but doesn’t catch feelings. The girl who you know but who doesn’t know you. It feels like we’re all playing this game of who can care less. Whether it be in our social or academic life, there’s a pervasive attitude on campus that makes it cool not to care.
Maybe it was the fact that Las Vegas is my hometown. Or that it was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Either way, 59 people were dead and over 500 were injured. This time, I thought, something had to change.
In October of last year, President Trump responded to the opioid crisis by declaring a public health emergency. Considered to be America’s deadliest drug overdose crisis, opioids claimed 64,000 lives in 2016 alone, more than the total number of deaths in the Vietnam War. Promising to alleviate Americans from the “scourge of addiction,” Trump told the public that he would to direct resources to the crisis, maybe even “build a wall” to cut off the flow of drugs into the United States.
I’m a sophomore. If you’re unfamiliar with term, it means that I know exactly what I want to do after I graduate, I’m doing well in all of my classes (yes, I’m overloading), and I’ve found my place on campus. Duke fits me like a glove.
I think I speak for many of us when I say that it’s hard to find time to unwind at Duke. We spend all day in class, and between classes we’re catching up with our friends or scrambling to finish the paper that’s due in the next hour. And even when we get a second to catch our breath, with our phones in hand we’re never truly alone, just a tap away from the arguably more hectic world of social media.