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Greek life’s time is up

By Community Editorial Board | 3 days ago

It’s time to confront the issue head on: IFC and Panhel’s time is up.

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Seniors, our Duke isn't coming back

By Jake Malone | 3 days ago

The Duke that was the backdrop to our dream senior year isn’t COVID-compatible.

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Morning people are not a hoax

By Jocelyn Chin | 6 days ago

Daunted by my own ability to “work past eleven or twelve” and “seriously nap,” I began to fear that my goal of achieving morning-person status is truly a Sisyphean task.

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Weird but true

By Lily Levin | September 24, 2020

Six sick students, Duke says to us. Six sick students and you all can stay.

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Asheville roomie trip review: Good eats, great hiking and easy to ignore public health guidelines

By Jordan Diamond | September 23, 2020

I popped a Vyvanse to push past the fatigue, and headed out for a midday bar-hopping Tinder date.

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Tik Tok: Considering what the "I" in AI means

By Angela Wu | September 22, 2020

The question then becomes if social media’s focus on the “user” refers to the human, or if the “user” is actually just the algorithm that manipulates us behind the scenes.

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Islands unto ourselves

By PASH | September 22, 2020

Maybe, you will encounter someone who is considering leaving this Earth. And maybe, you will help teach this someone that to stay here with us is not a worse fate than death.

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Criticizing T-reqs? You might be why we need them

By Dan Reznichenko | September 22, 2020

We don't, and we couldn't, come to Duke in order to learn every fact and protocol we'll need in life. Instead, we should be here to learn how to approach life.

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Let's be honest...Christianity stole that

By Tatayana Richardson | September 21, 2020

Christians pretending that there’s a separation of Church and state is par for the course, but Christians choosing to bash other religions in an effort to discredit them while at the same time sensationalizing themselves is particularly wild.

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Il Forno cuts ties with Duke: 'We only serve top 10'

By Monday Monday | September 21, 2020

Our breadsticks are for smart children. Not you.

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The privileged voter is a myth

By Hadeel Hamoud | September 21, 2020

The depiction of abstention as a byproduct of privilege distorts the real reasons why some nonvoters don’t vote.

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Get the damn vaccine

By Community Editorial Board | September 21, 2020

Political disagreements with the Trump administration or ethical questions about vaccine distribution should not stop Duke students from protecting our community by getting vaccinated.

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Why I'm a digital reactionary

By Reiss Becker | September 18, 2020

I was a digital serf, a laborer toiling on the data aggregation farm of the oligarchs in San Francisco. My reward was but a pittance, a small hit of dopamine in exchange for every single marketable fact about my existence.

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Anti-maskers don’t trust science: And it’s science’s fault

By Nathan Heffernan | September 17, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an immense amount of pain, fear, and disappointment in the institutions that many of us trusted at one point in our lives. Instead of mocking this fear and skepticism, we need to look at where it comes from. And for members of academic institutions, we need to examine our own failures in creating lasting trust.

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Facebook is no longer an '04 college networking site. It has to stop trying to be.

By Niharika Vattikonda and Jess Edelson | September 17, 2020

Students in 2020, many of whom do not remember a world without Facebook, are not the same as they were in 2004. We must hold Facebook's new product to higher privacy standards.

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When our lungs can no longer expand

By Lily Levin | September 15, 2020

So when I talk about lungs, I'm working to not automatically think of my own mortality and the crumbling of our organs into ash. Instead, I'm beginning to see the breath and life that I receive and circulate and give—the parts of humanity that are beautiful, immortal, timeless.

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Loving your body

By Luke A. Powery | September 14, 2020

Saying no more, she stood up then and danced with her twisted hip the rest of what her heart had to say while others opened their mouths and gave her the music. Long notes held until the four-part harmony was perfect enough for their deeply loved flesh.