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By the class of 2018, English had dropped to the 19th most popular first major, with 21 first majors and 30 total majors.
I could talk about gender violence and homophobia with these people, I realized, without ever getting my tongue around the only healing thing I know.
Alcohol is not an excuse for bad behavior, even though it is often used as such, especially on college campuses. “I was so drunk, I barely remember.” Yeah right, you seriously don’t remember ordering five pounds of boneless spicy barbecue wings and waking up to find 16 missed calls from the Heav Buffs delivery guy.
I am hyper-aware that the 24 hours afforded us each day never feels like enough.
But what form does consent take while dancing on a night out?
Anti-Semitism is dubbed ‘history’s oldest hatred’ for a reason.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes you get a glimpse into an alien world. Admittedly, just about anything is going to seem fresh after decades arguing with Russian writers.
By now, we're all aware that Duke's response to campus sexual assault is inadequate.
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.
But the world is more complicated than that, and the only reliable way I’ve found to learn about that world is to be more immersed in that world.
Bringing a white supremacist to campus as a part of a program that professes to “prepare the next generation of strategists” is, conservatively speaking, a pretty bold statement to make.
John Bolton does not deserve this platform. We have no business legitimizing the blood on Bolton’s hands—and his mustache.
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