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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Not home for the holidays

By Gretchen Wright | 16 hours ago

I have been caught up in remembering my previous Duke Thanksgivings. They have always just felt like a comma, a brief pause in the long stretch of the fall semester that strikes just before the end.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Honestly, this cold weather just really sucks

By Felicia Chen | Yesterday

With the wind snapping at my heels as I rush across Wannamaker Drive, there’s only one thought racing through my mind: why is it so damn cold?

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How to improve The Chronicle

By Sami Kirkpatrick | Yesterday

The people don’t want to be informed, they want to be entertained.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Read the news

By Naima Turbes | 2 days ago

Despite time constraints or fear of divisiveness, we have a moral obligation as voters and citizens to be informed. Read the news, it does you and the world good.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Consuming Duke

By Austin Smith | 2 days ago

To feel like I belong here at Duke, I’d have to feel like I was more than just a consumer.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke's unyielding sugar rush

By Akshaj Turebylu | 3 days ago

It’s much too easy for the stressed organic chemistry student to grab a glass of chocolate milk to feel better about an upcoming midterm; our natural tendency is to search for these comfort foods. When they are spread out for the taking, how often will we be able to resist?

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke Student Health: Gaslighting patients and exacerbating conditions

By Rose Wong | 3 days ago

Student Health’s misdiagnosis delayed Matson from receiving necessary treatment and medication, negatively impacting her academic, social and emotional well-being. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Good riddance, Boxed Water

By Sophie Laettner | 3 days ago

Don’t fall for the re-branding attempt to brainwash you. Boxed water isn't better, it is just rebranded water. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The case for good-willed women (and men)

By Lizzie Bond | 3 days ago

We should lament that our rules are imperfect and unjust, and then seek to reform them in a spirit of good-will by speaking the Truth, by loving one another—even our enemy—as our neighbor equal in worth and dignity. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Money, memes & Maslow: the truth about the Duke sell-out culture

By Catherine McMillan | 6 days ago

The biggest takeaway: don’t sell-out to the sell-out culture. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Lighten your load

By Michael Cao | 6 days ago

That’s right, we are going through a spinal health crisis, and I think it has something to do with the oversized, Santa-approved sacks we haul around (better known as backpacks).

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

DukeEngage: Performative altruism

By Ami Wong | 6 days ago

While most students probably apply to the program motivated by the ideal of doing good for others, learning from the local community, and engaging with the culture, often, the program does not offer that possibility because it frames the students as privileged outsiders.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: Alum calls on Divinity School to support LGBTQ+ students

By Jack Lipphardt | 6 days ago

To say that gay students are welcome and are to be supported without calling for a clear path for them to be ordained as they are called by God to serve as pastors is to say “We will take your money and offer education but we will not give voice to opening the path for you to use the education for which you paid.”

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Lyle May and the necessity of higher education in prison

By Gino Nuzzolillo | November 14, 2019

Often minimized, if not lost, in this conversation is the moral argument for educational justice—incarcerated people are, like the rest of us, entitled to free public education. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COMMUNITY EDITORIAL BOARD

Let the games begin

By Community Editorial Board | November 14, 2019

While this decision strides toward righting a historic inequity between student-athletes and the NCAA, it leaves in place structural inequities that permeate college sports writ large.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How to improve DSG: Duke's tin-pot democracy

By Reiss Becker | November 14, 2019

At present, DSG is a tin-pot democracy. Its grand delusions of popular representation butt heads with the reality of its inadequacy.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Are we all social media addicts?

By Sara Mehta | November 14, 2019

With each use, the brain slowly rewires in such a way that one experience of physiological effects decreases for the same amount of time spent on the social platform.