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The main question remains: Is creating new programs the most efficient way to expose students to new fields and educate future leaders? Not necessarily. While we would all like to have hundreds of majors, minors and certificates to choose from, creating efficient programming demands time and funding from Duke’s faculty and administration.
That we’re doing this right now doesn’t make any sense and—by all definitions—is absurd. Yet we’re suspending disbelief, leaning into the bizarre and trying to lift a limo.
What we lost was more than a funded and Instagrammable trip - it was the opportunity to explore global opportunities that may inform the trajectory of the rest of our lives.
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And out we come, crammed to the brim with shiny prizes, our spirits numb or dying.
After all, how can I preserve my family’s French culture and language within my descendants if I can’t even bother to preserve it within myself? And if I lose touch with my culture and language altogether, what does this mean for my relationships with my extended family? With my home away from home? With my own mother?
What frustrates me more than hearing someone call Israel a European colonialist regime is hearing a well-intentioned Jew refuse to criticize Israel because they’re too busy defending its right to exist.
Nationalism, not nations, is the impetus for the world's worst and most destructive atrocities, including the Holocaust, and we can no longer resort to primitive models for transnational liberation.
Rather than waste time debating a veto for SSI recognition, we urge DSG to join the 30 US colleges and universities whose student governments have adopted the International Holocaust Rememberence Allience working definition of antisemitism.
Zionism diminishes our years of abundant survival and persistence and strength to the idea that we cannot have a home without the ethnic cleansing of someone else’s home; that we cannot have strength without someone else having despair; that we cannot have survival without someone else having to die.
Clearly Wang's v eto represents a continuing manifestation of the foundational antisemitism that the 2019 Resolution Agreement was supposed to quell.
Spreading yourself thin and shallowly engaging with a lot of people and activities keeps many doors open, but if you never walk through any of them, you only ever appear to have a great social and personal life.
Duke must condemn targeted harassment impersonating educational student-led organizing.
As we head into finals season, where students will spend long periods of time in the library, a student alone in a personal carrel or study room should not be burdened with a mask requirement.
As a student body, we must demand change from DUMAC and the administration, beginning at the virtual investment forum sponsored by the president’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) at 4 p.m. this Wednesday.
Just a barren wasteland of Keystone Light cans and Kroger brand sod 48 hours before, by Sunday morning, K-Ville was transformed.
Joy is not even necessarily something we have to earn, but it is key to our flourishing.
Is advocating for marginalized communities an interest of yours or necessary for your survival on campus?
You stare at the blank screen, and the blank screen stares back at you. It’s 3 AM on a Monday night and you have a paper due in the morning.
History is a privilege that most minorities aren't afforded; instead, like many other things, they have to fight for it.
The problem I see with forgiveness, however, is that it is always expected.
