We should all sympathize with those affected directly by the mass shootings. However, we cannot continue to feed the false narrative that tragedy makes people policy experts.
Somewhere along the line I decided that, unless I do declare it, nothing I do is goddamn sexual. I am in charge of my sexuality, and my choice to involve others in it would be something of a gift.
Don’t let the game of not caring consume you.
Duke College Republicans organized this event for the purpose of reinforcing the view of American Muslims as mysterious, and possibly dangerous, wild cards.
“Honestly we have no idea how he even got the Prius down there,” began an utterly baffled DUPD sheriff as he opened the most bizarre press conference in Duke’s history.
We were mad at the NSA, which took the odd step to protect our data. So why aren’t we mad at Facebook, which left our data flapping in the breeze?
“I could never get into Duke."
Maybe I’ve been so hyper-focused on creating a successful person that I don’t actually understand her; that, in many ways, I know the people around me better than I know my own self. That makes sense. If we never spend time alone, how do we know what we want, why we’re here at Duke or what really matters to us?
My organization would still exist, and could absolutely still be as close, without its sophomore members living in the same space. And if you think that’s untrue for your organization, then ask yourself what that means about the depth of your relationships: if it is absolutely necessary for you all to be in the same physical space in order to be close, then are you really that close in the first place?
Sometimes life, in all its unpredictability, gets in the way, and we can’t transform our expectations into reality; sometimes we are forced to drop the reigns of control.
I was huddled under the desk in my room trying to remember how to breathe as panic ravaged me and vivid flashbacks flooded my mind.
I hope that those in power can recognize the dangerous consequences of their proposals and the devastating results if their rhetoric becomes reality.
Why is it that no one listens to B.L.M.’s students of color who are yelling at the top of their lungs until their voices grow raw and hoarse, but when white kids do the same thing, people suddenly care?
Instead it is about an ordinary person, broken down by the world, but who found within them that special Duke spirit to pick themselves up and keep going.
When my children inherit a family background, genes and appearances of a Chinese individual. But it is up to me, their mother, to decide how much of the culture I wish to instill in them—and at this point in time, I wouldn’t know how to begin.
When we speak or write or sing we aren’t just making vacuous noise. We are slinging around firehoses that yield not water, but instead pure, raw thought.
The Insta Insanity competition will be going on for the next two weeks, so students can track both their NCAA brackets and their Insta brackets.
White people didn’t do anything to earn racial privilege, but along a similar vein, dependents of upper or middle class families didn’t do anything to earn the economic privilege we were born into as infants.
I chose Duke because I wanted a packed schedule.
Though the Duke Community Standard does not ask Duke students to control their emotions, go to war for their country, or respect those who are higher than them in the grand scheme of things, the ancient Greeks’ belief in excellence is something we should apply to how we think about honor today.
