Opinion | Student Voices

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Bolton's bad, but what about the rest of us?

By Community Editorial Board | 3 days ago

In tandem with calling out the atrocious behaviors of controversial speakers, we are calling on all members of the Duke community to hold the root of the problem accountable.

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Do we really need eight hours?

By Naima Turbes | 4 days ago

I am hyper-aware that the 24 hours afforded us each day never feels like enough.

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Consent, at the club

By PASH | 4 days ago

But what form does consent take while dancing on a night out?

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Attack anti-Semitism at its root: White supremacy

By Lily Levin | 4 days ago

Anti-Semitism is dubbed ‘history’s oldest hatred’ for a reason.

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I don't want your 'mental health awareness'

By Bisma Suleman | February 21, 2020

Even the more “common” mental health struggles like anxiety and depression are downplayed under the guise of Tumblr-esque self-care treatment methods like bubble baths and tea drinking breaks.

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Advice for DSG presidential candidates

By Reiss Becker | February 20, 2020

Throw the cynicism, the belief that DSG is an utterly ineffectual, careerist institution, aside. That outlook is a choice, not a reality. Worse still, it’s also a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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A zeez on a string

By Sami Kirkpatrick | February 20, 2020

My grandpa didn’t know the word beetle, so he referred to them onomatopoetically as “zeez” after the buzzing sound produced as they zipped back and forth, constrained by the string.

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The responsibility asked of preprofessionals

By Akshaj Turebylu | February 19, 2020

The responsibility of choosing a career path that takes into account the damages caused by it is placed firmly on the shoulders of the individual. Each person has the greatest control over their own decisions, not the system they are forced to make them in.

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Rethinking the English major

By Gretchen Wright | February 18, 2020

A student could obtain an English major without reading a single book by a person of color, and maybe only two or three written by women.

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The way we talk about sexual violence is violent

By Liddy Grantland | February 18, 2020

When we limit the focus of our strategies to reporting, we implicitly blame not only one singular person, but all people who experienced sexual assault and did not report it, for the violence that dwells on our campus. That blame is, on its own, a violence.

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It's time for the Divinity School to come out as gay

By Jordan Diamond | February 18, 2020

I don’t intend to “out” the Divinity School, but I hope instead that when the Divinity School discloses its sexuality, we students will have already created the necessary support and outreach system—and that this column can start a larger conversation about how our religious institutions feel at Duke.

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Let the mustachioed speak

By Lena Yannella | February 17, 2020

Vincent Price can do lots of things for the student body, but he can’t build a wall high enough to protect you from John Bolton.

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Applying for things

By Carol Apollonio | February 17, 2020

Sometimes you get a glimpse into an alien world. Admittedly, just about anything is going to seem fresh after decades arguing with Russian writers.

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It takes a village: Lessons in collective action

By Community Editorial Board | February 17, 2020

To exclusively value individual achievement and to dismiss the role that support networks and larger structures have played in that achievement breeds narcissism and minimizes harm.

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The four changes to Duke's gender violence policy we actually need

By Rebecca Torrence | February 14, 2020

By now, we're all aware that Duke's response to campus sexual assault is inadequate.

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House of cows: Our morning with Dean Sue

By Taylor Plett and Margot Armbruster | February 13, 2020

It’s a captivating study—how gregarious women with life under their belts occupy space—and I’m learning, I hope, how to become one of them.

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The virulence of xenophobia

By Community Editorial Board | February 13, 2020

This is not the first time we’ve seen the conflation of diseased bodies with political bodies—HIV/AIDS and Ebola were also racialized diseases that resulted in calls for travel bans.