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What to say (and not to say) to people with chronic pain
By Liddy Grantland | November 11, 2019Try instead: *Silence*
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Whose world are we changing?
By Lily Levin | November 8, 2019Those not specialized in a specific field would be hard-pressed to find any opportunity for which our service in another country–or even in another community–is efficient, useful, and sustainable. An eight-week exploration of Thailand or India or Ghana may satiate our desire to travel to a foreign nation, but it does little more than that.
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What do we lose in stressing 'transferrable skills?'
By Amy Fan | November 7, 2019When entire subcultures of Duke are built around a shared interest in acquiring specific skills and becoming employed, the humanistic aspect of an education seems to be lost and instead become a collective group of hammers looking for a nail.
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Recognizing the entire Duke community—including staff
By Elliott Davis | November 7, 2019Duke Conversations should go beyond faculty to include staff members as the guests of honor.
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Masculinity at Duke
By Austin Smith | November 7, 2019I 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.
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Making the most of Nasher brunch
By Gretchen Wright | November 7, 2019While 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."
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Why don’t Asian Americans talk about their mental health?
By Felicia Chen | November 6, 2019Rather than talking openly about their mental health, Asian Americans are taught to bury their feelings.
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An airing of grievances
By Sami Kirkpatrick | November 6, 2019More often than not the most memorable columns are the ones you take the most issue with.
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The NCAA's welcome policy change
By Naima Turbes | November 6, 2019Student-athletes should not be pawns for institutional benefits. They deserve to retain the freedom to benefit from their success.
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Sides of the coin: Balanced budgets and the 2020 election
By Duke Political Union | November 4, 2019At the end of the day, deficit spending is a government’s way of investing in itself.
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Not-so-impossible burgers
By Alex Frumkin | November 4, 2019For 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.
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Coming out at Duke is harder than you think
By Rebecca Torrence | October 31, 2019To 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.
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The last passenger on the C1
By Michael Cao | October 31, 2019I failed to understand that Odysseus wasn’t afraid of the journey to the Underworld. He was afraid of the journey back.
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Karsh depictions of Africa and the Middle East prove that stories can be dangerous
By Ami Wong | October 31, 2019Continuing 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.
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Who needs numbers?
By Reiss Becker | October 30, 2019In technical terms, the U.S. News and World Report rankings suck.
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Polarization has gotten worse. Everything is going according to plan.
By Ryan Goodman | October 29, 2019Polarization is like seventh grade. You are growing up, but now you have acne.
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A $35 million question of integrity
By Honor Council | October 29, 2019It 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.
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A very special Diwali
By Ishaan Ghosh | October 29, 2019Friday’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.
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Vaping: A Trojan horse
By Lena Yannella | October 29, 2019Duke 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.
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Duke, this moment calls for courage
By Margot Armbruster | October 28, 2019This 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.
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