The lack of education about how food is metabolized in the body means that most people don’t understand how food will make them feel (and look).
I can’t count how many times I’ve been with one of my parents in the car when a song comes on, and they’ve immediately started dancing and singing along to it. Then they look at me, incredulous that the song we’re both listening to didn’t evoke the same reaction in me. That song transports them back to a happy moment in their life that I wasn’t there to witness.
Throughout Duke’s history, students have had a central role in the preservation of honor and integrity and in creating conversations about issues that need attention.
We are not asking others to pity us, but rather suggesting that it is a shame that our world has come to this point of double standards.
For a few months now, I’ve been repeatedly telling my friends about how excited I was to finally turn 21 and be able to order a goddamn beer with my burger at Burger Bach.
The reasons that Republicans offer for the prevalence of gun violence betray their commitment to do absolutely nothing about this issue going forward. They emphasize the “evil” nature of the shooting and the shooter, knowing full well that we can’t legislate against evil. They claim that no sort of gun laws would prevent a criminal from procuring a gun.
“You must define success for yourself.”
Sick of unwanted, mediocre grinding at Shooters (amongst a litany of far more serious offenses), a team of female engineers at Duke began quietly pushing the boundaries of modern science last year with the goal of finding more intelligent and less douchey life somewhere amongst the stars.
My point, and all I know on the issue, is this: we must have the conversation on reforming gun policy, now. This is a national problem, and all of us are tied up in it: lawmakers, activists on both sides, and the gun lobby elite. We must actually come together and determine how to have a Second Amendment without so much slaughter.
Art—specifically, the art of film—is a powerful outlet for emotion. For this reason, I call myself a cinephile. Film can make me experience what I normally wouldn’t, stirring an entire spectrum of emotions within me, from deep despair to unadulterated joy. The emotion I get most from film however, is anger. Pure. Raw. Passionate. Anger.
Empathy is a test of character, but it is also a test of strength, effectiveness and capacity for good. Global leaders need the emotional intelligence and ability to work in diverse teams in order address the challenges that lay ahead.
Two lovers alone at Shooters on a Thursday night. Prince Andrei finds his Natasha. But alas it is not meant to be. Natasha has fallen in love before and she will fall in love again.
While the actual role of the Young Trustee may remain shrouded in mystery, and probably old cloaks that are worn only during a full moon, Duke now indeed knows who will fill the position.
While it’s not wrong that Duke is known to be an intellectually demanding place, there’s something problematic that seems to accompany this notion: smarter students and harder classwork means Duke is better, we are better, and smarter is better. The “better” I’m talking about isn’t better job prospects, and it isn’t better resumes. It’s a vast, shadowy sense of superiority—never spoken, always implied—that becomes clear when you take a step back and look at campus as an outsider.
When we live in an echo chamber, we never get the opportunity to understand the other side or to defend our own. We’re never pushed to substantiate not just what we believe, but also why we believe it. We’re never forced to test how our theories hold in challenging real-life scenarios.
In interacting with those who look, sound and act differently from ourselves, we are forced to understand that our experience is not the universal experience.
In these moments—when the waves of stress beat against our minds and threaten to pull us to sea—it’s helpful to remember that life is random; opportunities often arise by coincidence and are missed by pure chance.
Duke Students for Housing Reform has extended an invitation, not a threat, to members of selective residential organizations of all kinds—fraternities, sororities, SLGs, even academic- or scholarship-based living situations—to reflect on their experiences of housing, to defend their individual ideas and values regarding housing and, most importantly, to listen to other people’s residential experiences.
Duke University officials noted that if students are frustrated with the model, they are free to leave the school and return back to their local charter school.
While jokes about Trump’s hands easily frustrate him and can entertain an audience, their use validates his insecurity and reinforces harmful ideas connecting the penis with masculinity, and masculinity with power. Associating masculinity with male genitalia implies that those with male genitalia must be masculine, and those without male genitalia cannot be.
