Monday Monday's declassified O-Week survival guide
By Monday Monday | August 19, 2019I’m fairly certain there’s a rule in the RA handbook that they legally cannot arrest you for smoking weed in your room if you’re best friends.
I’m fairly certain there’s a rule in the RA handbook that they legally cannot arrest you for smoking weed in your room if you’re best friends.
My time in the hospital, then and now, has taught me that all of us hurt. All of us know someone who is hurting.
Without an intellectual sparring partner to oppose them, liberal arguments become weaker. They are less truthful, less meaningful, and less useful in the pursuit of knowledge. Everyone is harmed by these trends.
Showing up with a group of rainbow-clad straight people is not quite a demonstration of support. That’s just a rave.
Listening to the Original Broadway Cast Recording, I’ve found that the same songs I listened to on CD, then on my iPod Nano, appear in an entirely new light just a decade later, although most of the lyrics are unchanged.
But for now, all I’m asking Duke is: Where did my scholarship go?
The editorial section is not a diary, not like my third-grade notebooks. It should not exist to publish sweeping claims or unfounded ideas.
It’s clean and simple to put out public relations materials, and trust me, this university is overflowing with it. It’s more difficult to do real reporting, but it’s so necessary. In case you haven’t followed, there’s a lot of dirt that Duke just doesn’t want to be dug up.
Please accept this as an attempt to amplify the record, not correct it. Each of us who was there that day had a particular experience. The historical record is not complete without each one of their perspectives too.
Given the wide range of socio-economic backgrounds at Duke, the $7,000 buy-in is a pittance for those at the upper end of the economic ladder and a fortune for those at the bottom.
We need radical change in Duke’s culture, and we needed it yesterday.
If we zoom out beyond our immediate bubble, we can see that we are privileged to even consider success as something beyond survival.
Being part of The Chronicle was one of the greatest investments of my Duke career, because as far as I’m concerned, it made me a part of everything.
In my attempt to critique an entire campus, I really ended up criticizing myself. The Spring 2019 Monday Monday reveal.
Stepping into the ‘real world’ pushes us to consider how the values so emphasized in the academic setting can also be transferable to communities around us.
We can show up and listen to each other. We can let each other in on secrets. We can admit when we don’t know the answer.
So now, as I conclude my finals and pack my boxes, I prepare for my own Homecoming in the hopes that three months in Texas will show me just why I sought Duke out in the first place.
The destruction of this crucial meeting space is regressive and irresponsible, and will affect Baldwins for generations to come.
Have you ever thought about what it takes to get a synthetic uterus through the TSA screening line at the airport?
What I’ve learned at The Chronicle is that accepting you have been “bad” is necessary for you to be better.