Mind the margins in books, buildings, sports, subways and our wider society. It’s the margins, the borders, that tell us what kind of society we really live in.
The responsibility to do better not only falls on Apple’s shoulders but ours as well.
Yes, our food is good. But is it worth $13 a meal?
Duke football may never surpass basketball in popularity, but we can become a school that supports our football team better.
Even Duke launched a Center for Integrated Psychedelic Science in 2022 to explore the therapeutic effects of hallucinogens, ketamine, and MDMA.
Never have I seen Abele Quad in such a state — goalposts in the grass abutting the Social Sciences Building, jury-rigged wires and camera equipment on buildings, a big old TV set in the middle of the West Campus bus stop.
It’s true that you can change yourself to some extent. But there’s no reason for anyone, including you, to treat you only as what you can’t control.
It is contradictory and discriminatory in itself to prioritize one group over another.
We see careers as linear — where each job must lead perfectly to the next. So, understandably, we think what we pick for our first role in the professional world is crucial, forever closing and opening doors.
You cannot choose to live as colorblind in a world that clearly isn’t.
A more overarching predicament that afflicts the academic milieu at Duke University is the tendency toward an excessive degree of coddling.
For me, tech is the epitome of the contemporary American dream and while we love to pretend that it’s a perfect meritocracy, so much of achieving upward mobility is built on luck.
My measure of self-worth was always my talent; at that moment, I felt like summer had ripped it away from me.
Something has made me believe that I’m not allowed to enjoy life if I don’t look good while doing it. And it’s BS.
As Duke may yet again be kingmaker in future Triangle transportation initiatives, Duke students today should be aware of this history and grasp the unrealized power that lies in their collective voice.
We owe it to ourselves to let art fill our souls. To let conversations with other people make us see the world in new ways. To listen to music and look at an artwork and to watch a film from decades ago and know that people have felt happiness and sadness and anger and love and pain and loneliness the way we do, all along.
Living in abundance, then, is living with peace of mind. Only by defying the scarcity mindset — by sharing our knowledge with others, by helping one-another and by letting go of feelings of jealousy and remorse — can our Duke community live in harmony.
We devote a lot of attention to our athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs on campus, but it’s about time we offered the same respect to our musicians.
This is an unprecedented time for the state of our world. We are in an existential crisis. So we are going to Climate Commit, and we are going to do it hard. Harder than ever before.
Eating this dish feels like bathing in a health-and-wellness ocean of chlorophyll and vitamin C.
