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(03/15/21 4:00am)
The night my aunt died, another group of students in my building threw a party.
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The night my aunt died, another group of students in my building threw a party.
If you’ve seen one romantic comedy, you’ve seen them all. The genre’s tropes are well-known: There’s the misunderstood brooding male love interest, the quirky yet loveable female heroine we can’t help but root for, the dowdy best friend whose main plot point is to encourage the heroine until she gives in to the hero’s strange quirks and learns to love him anyway. We get so wrapped up in the romance of the plot — usually the classic “will they/won’t they” — that we don’t stop to question whether these tropes are good or healthy.
Faced with the prospect of what she considered xenophobia and hate in the Oval Office, Vietnamese refugee and Duke alum Kathy Tran knew she had to take a stand.
Kathy Tran, Trinity '00, attracted attention as part of a blue wave in Virginia in 2017, when Democrats flipped 15 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates. A refugee who arrived in the United States from Vietnam when she was two years old, Tran got her bachelor's degree in history at Duke and worked for 12 years in the Department of Labor.
Sazón, Duke's first Latin-American inspired restaurant in the Brodhead Center, makes its dining hall debut with long lines, high praise, questionable authenticity and anticipation for more to come.