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Duke Conversations should go beyond faculty to include staff members as the guests of honor.
I will leave quintessential toxic masculinity aside, opting to explore the subtler though no less pervasive aspects of what I think characterizes masculinity here at Duke.
While you’re half-listening to your brunchmates exchange lukewarm takes about Tallman Trask’s retirement, smile to the waiter and whisper the magic words: "caprese platter."
Rather than talking openly about their mental health, Asian Americans are taught to bury their feelings.
More often than not the most memorable columns are the ones you take the most issue with.
Student-athletes should not be pawns for institutional benefits. They deserve to retain the freedom to benefit from their success.
At the end of the day, deficit spending is a government’s way of investing in itself.
For people like me who want to make a difference by cutting meat from their lives but are struggling to quit cold turkey, meat substitutes are life-changing options that enable us to create change.
To the queer students reading this: your identity isn’t contingent on this campus’s awareness of it. You are just as valid if no one knows how you identify as if everyone knows.
I failed to understand that Odysseus wasn’t afraid of the journey to the Underworld. He was afraid of the journey back.
Continuing to push a single, inaccurate narrative about the lack of development in Africa and the exotic adventure of the Middle East leads to pity, not empathy.
In technical terms, the U.S. News and World Report rankings suck.
Polarization is like seventh grade. You are growing up, but now you have acne.
It is clear that Pfizer, the source of Pratt’s endowment, still makes choices that value the image of prosperity over the integrity demanded by true promotion of patient well-being.
Friday’s Diwali ceremony, in all its beauty and oddity, tells us about the nature of religious practice in small faiths and of the experience of being both a part of the mainstream and just outside of it.
Duke should not facilitate Altria’s attempts to make e-cigarettes as ubiquitous as combustible cigarettes once were. Given Duke’s legacy, we should not help them turn Tobacco Road into a four-lane highway.
This University’s mission statement trumpets our “real leadership in all we do,” but if we tackle our ensnarement in fossil combustion gradually, rather than reexamining our fundamental modes of being, there will be nothing left to lead.
The decision to legitimize a company’s actions by signing up to do their bidding may, for some, mean the difference between life and death.
Let me love this good body.
If you’re looking for ways to care about Durham in a meaningful way, vote in the upcoming election and inform yourself of what’s at stake.
