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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Duke: Recognize the DUP Workers Union

By Patty Chase and Joshua Gutterman Tranen | 5 days ago

In this time of financial austerity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in light of the broad support from the Press’s authors and editors, we hope that Duke will not prioritize the allocation of resources toward anti-union efforts, and instead engage in productive and collaborative discussions with DUP Workers Union representatives.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The university in their forest

By Nicholas Chrapliwy | 5 days ago

Next time you take a walk around campus, notice the trees that compose the forest our university sits within.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Sex and the mid-sized city

By Nathan Heffernan | 6 days ago

I have learned to let go of expectations for what my future will look like. It makes enjoying my present location more difficult. Often the real future surprises us and we end up making mistakes that disappoint our past selves. But just like TV shows, we must continue to chug along and write a new season or a tired sequel.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Burying fear

By Luke A. Powery | April 12, 2021

Fear will make you shrink back rather than live into the grand future set before you. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Update the community standard now

By Community Editorial Board | April 8, 2021

By refusing to acknowledge how racism manifests into these incidents, the administration ultimately emboldens perpetrators to continue terrorizing communities of color on campus.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

You aren’t detached from your words: A response to ‘Duke’s future’

By Dan Reznichenko | April 7, 2021

This is the general pattern of the column: the author will throw a weak rhetorical punch before running away. In the end, all we come away with is knowledge of the things he dislikes—a boring read made confusing by its lack of purposeful moves.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The problem with abolishing Greek life

By Ivan Petropoulos | April 7, 2021

Greek life does not make sex-offenders out of good people, nor does it make us any more exclusive than we naturally are as humans.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

It's okay to thrive

By Tatayana Richardson | April 5, 2021

But what there is not is a multitude of sermons on what it means to be in happiness, in extended states of peace, or to be okay with thriving and not expecting that suffering will bring an end to every good moment you experience. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

PC

By Anthony Salgado | April 5, 2021

The war against political correctness is a war against accountability.  

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

It is a privilege to put your political differences aside

By Robby Phillips | April 2, 2021

What’s the point of playing a fixed game? Perhaps the answer to that question is that politics are not a game at all, but for many people—particularly those of us who are not cis white men—a matter of life or death. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Holding the stakes: archetypes of the Duke community

By Nicholas Chrapliwy | April 2, 2021

Duke is composed of several categories of people who hold a stake in the university and care about what it does and what happens to it. Like an urban mural or a ceiling fresco, I want you to picture them all arranged in a close group how they’re normally not pictured: right next to each other, sitting around a table, talking in earnest about the place they all love.  

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

10 moments at Duke that I want to remember forever

By Nathan Heffernan | April 2, 2021

I am a month away from graduating and concluding the most transformative four years of my life. It fills me with equal feelings of fear, excitement, and deep sorrow. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

What’s in the box?

By Jessica Luan | March 31, 2021

I strongly prefer sweet to savory, so when I saw people walk out of the Brodhead Center carrying white cardboard boxes, my first instinct was that the academic deans were doing another Insomnia Cookies event, or that CaFe was selling cookies by the dozen.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

It's past time to support Asian communities

By Community Editorial Board | March 29, 2021

It shouldn’t have taken a mass shooting to garner attention towards the rampant discrimination that Asian Americans face.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

If it wasn’t for the women

By Luke A. Powery | March 29, 2021

If it wasn’t for the women—their voices, their courage, their strength, their wisdom, their ingenuity, their expertise, their love, their care and concern—where would we be?

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Good enough for Fauci, good enough for Duke

By Joseph Touma | March 29, 2021

Graduation is a momentous occasion, maybe most of all for the families and loved ones who have invested so much in their students. They deserve an invite, just as they have received at peer institutions.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke needs to prioritize arts education

By Lily Levin | March 26, 2021

As I continued to expand my political understanding and envision a more just world,  I found what I had taken for granted all along: the arts.