Focusing on a limited, highly privileged understanding of menstrual equity is an injustice in itself for it alienates and curtails issues relinquished to the periphery, at a time where human respect and public health needs are already overlooked.
“But X-rays show that over the past two generations administration officials have miraculously evolved to survive despite losing every single vertebra in their spines."
You will spend large parts of the next few years within an all-male community with little outside input, running the risk of locking yourself into a hyper-masculine, alcohol-filled echo chamber. Pretty soon you’ll be so deep in this culture that calling out a brother for casual racism or sexism, or admitting you have a mental health issue that you try to treat with alcohol, will become impossible.
We don’t have to sit in a room for ten minutes everyday and ponder life, but we should be able to walk from class to class without scrolling through our phones, or be able to sit and enjoy ourselves without feeling obligated to anything or anyone.
If we could start from scratch and design a housing model for Duke, would anyone propose the system we have now?
The stubborn truth of complicity is that it involves action and inaction alike. Some people do the wrong thing, while others do little to stop them. The result is the same.
But then it hit me: I was supposed to read all five acts of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that Friday. And I didn’t. Because I was busy seeing John Mulaney.
In a “data brief” dated Sept. 21, 2017, Duke’s Office of Student Affairs found that only 56 percent of Duke students graduating in 2017 agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “Duke houses provide a sense of community and sense of belonging.”
President Trump is using the power of stories to manipulate the head and the heart, proffering a fictitious and dangerous narrative of immigration. I have a different story to tell the president.
For those of you who haven’t taken a Yale tour in the past 7 years, please take a moment of your time to watch this video. 17 minutes of cringe can be too much for some so please view at your own discretion (three minutes or so should do the trick).
If all my connections are really just one big circle at Duke that is derived from homogeneity in socioeconomic status, race, nationality, sexuality, cultural identity, etc., then how many people outside of my circle will I never be exposed to? Duke is an institution that remains proud of its diversity, which is a major reason I chose Duke in the first place. But I cannot help but wonder if I am truly making the most of my experience by remaining familiar only with the people I already know.
Duke has enough money to fund separate gaming consoles for Galactica, Deer Hunter and Pacman, but not enough to render itself accessible to every socioeconomic sector of the population.
Miller’s positions make a lot of sense to a sizable portion of the American populace, who voted for Trump in large part because they aligned with the campaign’s stance on immigration. A significant portion of the American populace believes that less immigration and more comprehensive border control measures are the right path for the United States, and they need to be heard within the discourse.
Essentially, the app removes the whole step of actually having to meet people—it lets the existing members judge rushees’ appearances and personalities from afar.
I met many Duke students from schools like Durham Academy and North Carolina School of Science and Math, but few who graduated from the Durham Public School system. I actually met a Marketplace employee who attended Riverside High School long before I met a Duke student who walked those halls.
Accountability and consequence for sexual misconduct on college campuses is long overdue, especially when a lack thereof means the threat of violence and retraumatization for all those who must share the offender’s space. But, if expulsion and other sanctions listed in Duke’s sexual misconduct policy were to be viewed through a restorative justice lens, I think they’d fail to meet the core tenets of reparation, reunion and transformation that the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation outlines as crucial in the restoration process.
Female beauty ideals are difficult enough to deal with as is. But as an Asian-American woman, I feel caught between two opposing standards of beauty. Too often, it feels as if I do not fulfill enough of either ideal to which I am compared. Either way, I feel inadequate.
“Wow… you went by yourself? That’s cool, I guess.”
“Underwood Under the Hood”; “Of My Car”; “Think White Rappers Can’t Use Racial Slurs?”; “Hold My Beer”, “Lyin’ to the Papers”; “ Gadzooks! They’ve Occupied the Allen Building”, “How Low Can You Lay?”; “Nuisance Value”; and “God DAMN I Love Being a Wealthy White Guy with Lawyers”.
It does make me sad and a bit concerned that I am losing a sharpness with numbers I once possessed; in high school, I was often top of my math classes.
