Opinion | Student Voices Columns

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Ecosocialism or bust

By Annie Yang | September 2, 2019

Yes, climate change is driven by human activity—but not just any human activity.

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Toast to the scatterbrains

By Sana Pashankar | August 30, 2019

The bigger mistakes I make stem from the smallest of things: not cleaning my room, not checking my email, or not putting my keys and wallet in the same place every day.

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Hunting for my tradition

By Akshaj Turebylu | August 30, 2019

Learning Indian history revealed where I belong in the world. And my own search has given me something special: a fragment of my traditional culture.

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On flip flops and the male foot

By Sami Kirkpatrick | August 29, 2019

There was a time that I too sported the Adidas slide in any and all informal settings.

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The middle ground between a truth and a lie is still false; just because particular compromises may bring about beneficial outcomes does not suggest in the slightest that moderation is necessarily correct.

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Sippin' on a Kitty Hawk mule this year

By Gretchen Wright | August 29, 2019

I want more ludicrous successes, more feeling like I’m doing it right, more blissful days away from it all, more nights with my friends laughing over ridiculous wins.

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The Duke buffet

By Elliott Davis | August 28, 2019

I'm sure the past couple weeks have felt exciting, exhausting, and overwhelming. As you'll discover, those feelings won't be going away any time soon.

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Sorry first-years, but Duke is not your home

By Felicia Chen | August 28, 2019

It takes time to grow into a life at Duke.

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The Unlicensed Ethicist: Political correctness

By Lena Yannella | August 27, 2019

Because it is so easy to alienate others by being overly self-righteous, confrontation can come off as obnoxious and detract from the cause. The goal should be to persuade and enlighten, not assert moral superiority.

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Finding Duke again

By Alex Frumkin | August 27, 2019

If you had asked me one week ago if I was excited about coming back to Duke, I would have told you I still didn’t plan on coming back—I was clinging to fantasies of job acceptances like they were winning lottery tickets.

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What happened to my attention span?

By Margot Armbruster | August 26, 2019

The memory of my concentration feat now makes me curious about attention spans—how potent mine was as a child, how it’s since frayed, and how I can work on building it back up.

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My weekly 75-minute dilemma

By Veronica Niamba | August 26, 2019

Duke, you need to do more.

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College advice column, hold the pressure

By Leah Abrams | August 20, 2019

As you’re going through it, each moment feels all-consumingly important, unbearably significant. Some of those moments actually are. But in hindsight, at least to me, they all add up to a beautiful blur of lessons.