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The Monday Monday Rundown: Inside rush 2020

By Monday Monday | 18 hours ago

Treat it like your Facebook feed—scroll through the snippets quickly, accept them as fact and then talk about them in your public policy class as if you’re an expert.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Fighting fire with action

By Elliott Davis | 4 days ago

Sorrow and despair won’t help the people and wildlife being devastated by the Australian bushfires. Instead, we must act.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COMMUNITY EDITORIAL BOARD

Resolutions for a new year

By Community Editorial Board | 4 days ago

 After reading through your Facebook comments and Stumble App Store reviews, we feel ready to offer some of our own thoughts on the previous semester and intentions for the second half of Vol. 115. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Doing the devil's work

By Annie Yang | January 13, 2020

The image of a bumbling, reluctant empire and the United States’ propensity for historical amnesia are especially dangerous in combination with the veneer of plausible deniability offered to universities by programs like AGS and H4D.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

From New York to Israel, no safe spaces for Jews

By Max Cherman and Ezra Loeb | January 13, 2020

Anti-Semitism sees no borders. Regardless of the attack’s location or motivation, anti-Semitic terrorists must face justice and their vile ideology must be rejected. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Misdiagnoses and broken bones: More on Duke Student Health's mishaps

By Rose Wong | December 23, 2019

Student Health has fomented a black-box monopoly wherein dangerous misdiagnoses go unchecked.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: Join me in making change at Duke Energy

By Sarah Adair | December 19, 2019

North Carolina’s clean energy future will continue to be shaped by productive and collaborative work between utilities, customers, communities and other stakeholders seeking to bring about real change. 

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: In memoriam: Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, Duke hero

By Sanders Adu | December 12, 2019

In the fall of 1963, Reuben-Cooke was one of five brave black students who entered the Trinity College of Arts of Sciences. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Palantir is welcome here

By Matthew Noles | December 11, 2019

We should allow members of this student body to make their own decisions rather than preempt them with particular notions of social justice. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The tragedy of the toilets

By Ishaan Ghosh | December 9, 2019

Several of the annoyances of Duke life can be explained by looking at a simple economic principle.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke's market mania

By Christian Sheerer | December 9, 2019

We can easily draw connections between neoliberalism’s obsession with the expansion of market activity and the way Duke repackages and emblemates that mania, just on a smaller scale. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The Duke 'Bubble?' More like the Duke Wall.

By Lily Levin | December 9, 2019

"'Growing up and driving past that wall with my family made the university seem like this magical but inaccessible place...'"

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

I am a writer, not your ethnic guessing game

By Isabelle Doan and Monday Monday | December 9, 2019

You can imagine, therefore, how nice it is to write an anonymous column where no one will look at my face and pass a judgement.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

CE x CEF: How we raise the rich

By Leah Abrams | December 9, 2019

The CE shareholders of today are the billionaires of tomorrow, the ones convinced they are good people because they participate in “corporate social responsibility.”

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Want to be an opinion columnist? Apply here!

By Leah Abrams | December 9, 2019

Have something to say? Want to share it with the world? 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Your mental illness isn't real

By Bisma Suleman | December 9, 2019

I hope there comes a day when we can learn to stop listening to those who continue to doubt whether I and others living with mental illness are truly struggling. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

You do not have to be good

By Liddy Grantland | December 8, 2019

It is strange and fascinating to be in a place that positively reinforces just showing up and being myself.