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To build a home
By Victoria Wang | 5 days agoI must have a place where I can ground the love that only I can guarantee to myself.
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You’re too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio, but you’re too young to have already “peaked”
By Linda Cao | 5 days agoWe have sunken into a mindset where youth is our prime, and if we don’t achieve success during our prime, then we have missed our one critical chance to “peak” in life.
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A conversation among Duke Thompson Writing Program faculty about ChatGPT
By Sarah Parsons , Hannah Davis , Rene Caputo and Miranda Welsh | January 31, 2023If we view ChatGPT as a tool, rather than a threat, maybe (just maybe) a future world with ChatGPT will be a world with more “good” writers.
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The problem with 'Duke English'
By Heidi Smith | January 30, 2023I remain conflicted because, of course, I want to personally sound as smart as possible…but, in modifying the way I talk to fit the norm, I’m further reinforcing the dichotomy between the way the “educated” and “noneducated” speak.
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A message from Durham County Sheriff Clarence Birkhead
By Clarence Birkhead | January 30, 2023Our nation is, yet again, crying out for justice, equality, reform, and answers – answers to the same question – asking why this happened again.
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When attacks to the liberal arts become increasingly artificial
By Sophie Ju | January 30, 2023The distorted societal, economic, and political perceptions are artificial but pervasive in nature, creating barriers to the liberal arts. Reevaluation of the social classes' role in forming and sustaining their perceptions is crucial when we advocate for liberal arts educational accessibility.
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The selfish whims of an amateur neuroscientist
By Monika Narain | January 27, 2023If neuroscience can’t prevent a downward spiral, can it at least remind me to bring a parachute? Or an antidepressant?
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January musings: a reflection on my first semester of college
By Advikaa Anand | January 26, 2023When we try to slip back into these previous patterns of existence, we jut out like misfitting puzzle pieces. Our lives are split into two halves, and somewhere along the way, there emerges two of us.
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A Black student's thoughts on affirmative action
By Sonia Green | January 25, 2023Some things are truly just out of our hands and fighting to end a policy that strives to even the playing field is not the way to regain control.
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Duke Hospital after dark
By Nathan Luzum | January 25, 2023There’s something special about seeing places that are usually hustling and bustling completely devoid of energy, the helter-skelter nature of a teeming thoroughfare transformed into silence and quiet.
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Letter of thanks
By Randall Keen | January 23, 2023They were exceptional ambassadors of Duke University who showed "outstanding character", exactly the kind of student James B. Duke wanted at the school.
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The pitfalls of belonging
By Luke A. Powery | January 23, 2023The challenge we have as Dukies—or really as human beings—is how to belong but not divide.
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The university in the parking lot
By Aaron Siegle | January 16, 2023Duke has long branded itself “the university in the forest.” But new developments proposed in the Duke 2024 Master Plan shatter this illusion.
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Intellectually undisciplined
By Monika Narain | January 13, 2023Duke prides itself on its commitment to “interdisciplinarity,” but often its approach to doing so can be narrow-minded, and still operates on the mindset of using art to “humanize” or “popularize” STEM endeavors.
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Letter: Tribute to Coach Al Buehler
By Amy Unell | January 10, 2023Arriving at Duke University in 1955, Coach was a beloved friend and mentor to thousands of Blue Devils who adored their enthusiastic professor and fondly remember his aphorisms.
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Letter: John Burness' legacy of education
By David Graham | December 22, 2022As a former editor of the paper, a professional journalist, and a member of the Duke and Durham communities, I deeply mourn his death on Dec. 19.
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A column about arches: how QuadEx has failed upperclassmen
By Heidi Smith | December 14, 2022Here’s the funny thing, though: the housing changes brought about by QuadEx prevented me from continuing to live with this same group of friends I made as a freshman two years ago.