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By Linda Cao | 15 hours agoBut if you measure the value of school based on the number of facts you can whip out of your pocket, then I suppose you really didn’t understand the assignment.
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By Abdel Shehata | 15 hours agoThe institutional system is designed to be as inefficient as possible in dealing with human concerns... In other words, the bureaucratic maze is not a fault of the system but the system itself.
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Duke is on the wrong side of labor union history. Here’s its chance to get it right
By Pilar Kelly | YesterdayI urge the university to voluntarily recognize DGSU and thus signal a new age in labor relations. Duke has the power to symbolically depart from its part in the story of worker oppression– the beginning of which starts on the same plot of land that graduate students plant their table today.
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A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
By Sophie Ju | 2 days agoTo many countries, she not only represented the companion of time and space, but also the spiritual bond—an embodiment of history, tradition and values.
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Shana Tova! – Sincerely, Duke University
By Dena Levin | 3 days ago809 is the number of Jewish students who are forced to make the choice: go to class, or go to synagogue.
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Pessimism is easy
By Ooha Reddy | 4 days agoIt felt selfish at points to put myself out there and advocate for an issue that felt like it only concerned me, but the people around me assured me that my own cause is still worth fighting for.
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Who's expected to mourn the queen?
By Sydney Brown | 5 days agoWho's allowed to mourn the queen? How are they allowed to do so?
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Why is GroupMe so terrible? The Windows XP of online communication
By James Gao | 5 days agoOur campus – and all campuses – should have ways of connecting with others that are actually pleasant to use.
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How Duke is failing sexual assault victims
By Billy Cao | 5 days agoThe Duke Today article is a quintessential example of the institution’s infantilization of students, antagonism towards advocates, dismissal of constructive criticism, and to be frank, perpetuation of patriarchal defenses.
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What's so special about peanuts?
By Sonia Green | 6 days agoIf Duke truly wants to be allergen-friendly, we should at least recognize more allergens than just peanuts and tree nuts.
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Duke doesn’t want me. Neither does my home.
By Viktoria Wulff-Andersen | 6 days agoThe thing about being constantly forced to confront your lack of a permanent residence is that you’re also forced to reconcile with the fact that you’re not as important to the trajectory of others as you might think. Life goes on regardless of if you’re there or not.
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All-time empathy is toxic
By Chi Nghiem | 6 days agoEmpathy is now not the pure act of altruism or cherishing but the norms that dictate one’s tie to a group or a person.
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Straddling the fence
By Valerie Tan | September 21, 2022I quietly clung onto the selfish hope that everything could be frozen in time so that leaving could be as simple as hitting pause and returning, as effortless as picking up from where I left off.
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Vote in North Carolina. Pretty please.
By Chloe Decker | September 21, 2022As one of only several North Carolina universities where the majority of the student body does not originate from within the state, Duke holds a unique position to contribute thousands of young, diverse voters to the electorate.
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It's okay to change your mind
By Heidi Smith | September 20, 2022I’ve come to the opinion that most things socially—obviously done in moderation and safely—can be a healthy break from the rigors and stresses of being a college student. This is almost embarrassingly banal, but it’s taken me a long time to get to this point.
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Changing your mind
By Luke A. Powery | September 19, 2022Learning can be an expansion or deconstruction or construction or a deepening or an enlightening—and all of this is change.
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Economics majors hold emergency council to address food point inflation
By Monday Monday | September 19, 2022“What if we made mobile orders into NFTs?”
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The “find your passion” narrative is a scam
By Michelle Ling | September 16, 2022Having a passion is not a requirement to be a valuable and interesting person, and we are not meant to be packaged and labeled into something that other people can decide the worth of.