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Hi, sorry, do I know you?

By Linda Cao | Yesterday

Of all the people you know, how many truly know you? My answer: NONE.

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Abolish weekends?

By Dan Reznichenko | 2 days ago

Something tells me that I could work every day of the year, and be happy about it, if we stopped treating productivity like a lifestyle which we adopt for the weekday.

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Never forgetting what I cannot remember

By Jocelyn Chin | 2 days ago

I, too, am seeing the city now. I see its wide streets, hear its wild voices, feel its wet heartbeat on a Saturday night. May I recognize the hidden and historical heartaches as well.

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So you want to be darker?

By Naima Turbes | 3 days ago

What I so desperately wanted to add would have made people more uncomfortable, but it is the plain truth—non-white people’s aversion to tanning and getting darker is rooted in white supremacy.

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Hunting for bearhugs

By Sara Kate Baudhuin | 4 days ago

I’m watching this scene unfold below me, muttering oh my, caretaking in action, and one of my first thoughts is—I wonder where I might see something like this at Duke.

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Shifting LGBTQ+ identities are not attention-seeking but a necessary step to self-discovery

By Viktoria Wulff-Andersen | 4 days ago

While critics may insist that such people are attention-seekers and snowflakes (a harmful label connotated by fragility and entitlement), the reality is that people don't choose to change their identity for recognition or fame. In fact, people don't choose a new identification at all.

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Still Online?: Feeling invisible in the social media age

By James Gao | 6 days ago

Too often, we correlate the size of one’s social network with their social net worth.

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A year is just 365 days

By Valerie Tan | 6 days ago

If I could go back in time, I would absolutely make the same decision to defer, even if it meant starting college later than everyone else— because I owed it to myself to ensure that I came into college in the pink of mental health.

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Tales from the cadaver lab

By Nathan Luzum | September 10, 2021

"As a personal rule, I tend to spend very little time in rooms filled with dead bodies, and the only thing I’ve ever dissected is a cat in my high school anatomy course."

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Culture is not a game

By Michelle Si | September 8, 2021

Problems arise when, like Nestlé in Japan, we “analyze” their culture, realize it doesn’t contain what we need to sell some products, and then proceed to insert Western ideas for the sole purpose of making a profit.

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Somewhere in the middle

By Heidi Smith | September 8, 2021

Nevertheless, ever since I arrived at Duke, I can’t help but to feel financially underprivileged—and then guilty for having such a feeling, considering how advantaged I am in practically any other context.

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Good grief

By Kennon Walton | September 7, 2021

The horn became louder and didn’t stop. I turned to my left and saw a train coming toward me. I waited. Then I changed my mind and scrambled onto the rocks beside the tracks… I checked my watch and went to class.

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In search of pearls

By Luke A. Powery | September 6, 2021

Let’s be careful this year not to center all of our attention on what hurts, the friction or on what stings. Don’t forget to look for pearls. They’re being birthed all around us through oysters and other people.

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Quotes from Bridging the Gap Episode 5: Analyzing Representation and Coverage in The Chronicle

By Nadia Bey | September 2, 2021

This episode explores the history of The Chronicle, particularly in terms of its failures to adequately cover marginalized groups and its representation among staff. Here are some quotes from the episode, featuring reflections from previous editors-in-chief about events during their tenure.

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U.S. visa services must re-open and prioritize international students

By Alice Chen | May 27, 2021

We continue to pay the same tuition as domestic students ($50,000 or more) while taking already taxing online classes in different time zones than our domestic peers. If we don’t, guess what? We lose our visa.

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Stories around a four-year-long campfire

By Chen Chen | April 26, 2021

Stories. The last four years of Duke and Zoom University can be summed up in this one word that always has and always will drive my love for people, places, the unpredictability of life and everything in between.

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If I have learned anything at Duke, I have learned to love

By Victoria Priester | April 26, 2021

If you have love, perfection is overrated anyways.