Expecting the unexpected
By Luke A. Powery | YesterdayUnmet expectations are a part of life no matter how old you are.
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No man is an island.
By Heidi Smith | YesterdayIt makes sense to make personally beneficial choices but moving through life without considering others not only harms others but will also come back to bite us in the butt when others don’t feel the need to be accountable to us.
White lies
By Chloe Decker | 2 days agoWe would all face immeasurable loss if the ivory gates of elite universities–like the one we ourselves attend–are once again distanced from students who have historically been barred from reaping their benefits.
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Small town holiday: undoing prevailing myths about small town America
By Advikaa Anand | 2 days agoOur conceptions of small towns ooze through filters percolating for idealism, signaling a place so untouched by external corruption that we always wish to return.
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How low can you go before your head will blow?
By Monika Narain | 2 days agoThis condition, coined by Duke researcher Peter B. Bennett, is called high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), and it’s a serious threat to recreational and professional divers.
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Why marginalized families in the South need focused support in a post-COVID world
By John Simpkins | 6 days agoTwo things are crystal clear from these reports — one, southern families from racial minority groups have suffered disproportionately at the hands of COVID, and two, the suffering has targeted multiple facets of their lives simultaneously.
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Create a personal ecology this finals season
By Pilar Kelly | November 22, 2022The change we will make in the future is too important for us to be burnt out at 21.
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What does success mean at Duke? An open letter to freshmen
By Malorie Lipstein and Bridgette Hard | November 22, 2022As a senior thesis (with Dr. Bridgette Hard in Psychology & Neuroscience), I asked Duke students to define success in their own words.
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Mizrahi Heritage Month: An untold story
By Alexandra Ahdoot | November 21, 2022Upon arriving at Duke as a freshman in August 2021, I had the eye-opening realization that Mizrahi Jews are far underrepresented on campus.
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Statement from Durham County Sheriff
By Clarence Birkhead | November 20, 2022As a former campus police chief and now Sheriff, I have always advocated for responsible gun ownership throughout my career as a law enforcement leader.
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(Don't) do it for the resume
By Heidi Smith | November 15, 2022We commodify pre-professional experiences because we think of them as tangible, resume-able activities that you can pick and choose as easily as filling out a form or two.
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An EXPOsé
By Monika Narain | November 14, 2022But with these EXPO markers being such an effective tool for understanding and communication, should we be worried about their excessive use in schools?
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Go to class. Or don’t. It really shouldn’t matter.
By Lily Levin | November 14, 2022Mandatory attendance policies may be well-intentioned, but they rely on the natural distrust of the student, the ableism-coded “laziness” of the individual.
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On poetry: grasping at the ineffable
By Matthew Arakaky | November 14, 2022Through its novelty, poetry shatters the conventions of everyday language to goad at something much deeper.
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Thank You, Niko
By Luke A. Powery | November 14, 2022What can creatures teach you about life?
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Thoughts on changing the world
By Pilar Kelly | November 10, 2022Solutions for real change take sacrifice, reorganization of priorities and hierarchies, and rethinking of our current institutions. And the next global leaders need to have the skills to garner support for these kinds of reforms and set them in motion. We will need to be bold, but not in the way Duke imagines.
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Let’s throw our garbage in the trash, not our morals
By Linda Cao | November 10, 2022I’m ignorantly unaware that I just made someone else’s life a little harder.
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The changing of Duke's guard
By Nathan Luzum | November 10, 2022Duke is a constant. But just like the students who grace its paths for a few short years before moving on, administrators also make a graceful—or occasionally ungraceful—exit when their time is done.
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Speak up: striving for gender equity in the classroom
By Advikaa Anand | November 10, 2022I have been warned to choose between being loud and assertive or being a woman.
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Gunsmoke: the breath of the underclass
By Abdel Shehata | November 8, 2022I am a product of the framing of the gunsmoke by people in power.