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Holding the stakes: archetypes of the Duke community

By Nicholas Chrapliwy | April 2, 2021

Duke is composed of several categories of people who hold a stake in the university and care about what it does and what happens to it. Like an urban mural or a ceiling fresco, I want you to picture them all arranged in a close group how they’re normally not pictured: right next to each other, sitting around a table, talking in earnest about the place they all love.

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What’s in the box?

By Jessica Luan | March 31, 2021

I strongly prefer sweet to savory, so when I saw people walk out of the Brodhead Center carrying white cardboard boxes, my first instinct was that the academic deans were doing another Insomnia Cookies event, or that CaFe was selling cookies by the dozen.

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Good enough for Fauci, good enough for Duke

By Joseph Touma | March 29, 2021

Graduation is a momentous occasion, maybe most of all for the families and loved ones who have invested so much in their students. They deserve an invite, just as they have received at peer institutions.

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If it wasn’t for the women

By Luke A. Powery | March 29, 2021

If it wasn’t for the women—their voices, their courage, their strength, their wisdom, their ingenuity, their expertise, their love, their care and concern—where would we be?

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It's past time to support Asian communities

By Community Editorial Board | March 29, 2021

It shouldn’t have taken a mass shooting to garner attention towards the rampant discrimination that Asian Americans face.

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Duke's future: Less fun, more woke, more careerist

By Reiss Becker | March 26, 2021

If the “work hard, play hard” Duke is ending then what will take its place? In its place will be the independent’s conception of Duke, a school where students work hard, pause for online moral preening and then work harder.

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Duke needs to prioritize arts education

By Lily Levin | March 26, 2021

As I continued to expand my political understanding and envision a more just world, I found what I had taken for granted all along: the arts.

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...But what about the women?

By Tatayana Richardson | March 23, 2021

Women deserve to be seen for the strong, beautiful, magical beings that we are. Our bodies deserve to be treated as holy, hallowed and revered dwellings, not just when men find them “attractive” for their own use, but in our autonomy and individual existence.

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The bus ride: A scene for the breadth of knowing

By Nicholas Chrapliwy | March 23, 2021

Remember that your world at Duke is full of very deep thinkers besides yourself, and consider often the benefit of entering into others’ ways of knowing.

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Why do we think that debate is worthwhile?

By Dan Reznichenko | March 23, 2021

What we need to realize, collectively, is that nobody who is genuinely interested in your perspective is going to challenge you to a debate. If they wanted to understand you, they’d ask you to explain your beliefs—they would have a discussion.

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On Greek life and community

By Community Editorial Board | March 22, 2021

We are almost through this bizarre year. Almost. We must put our individual needs aside and value the good of the entire Duke community during the final weeks of this semester.

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12-hour primal scream

By Lily Levin | March 19, 2021

Honestly, we’re just sick of listing campus resources when students express concerns about their mental health.

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Boycott and save Georgia

By Anthony Salgado | March 19, 2021

We can’t let the voters who just saved America once again become silenced by these racist pieces of legislation.

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Finding gay friendship in college

By Nathan Heffernan | March 18, 2021

When I go out somewhere with a group of gays, I know people might laugh at us or give a side-eye. To be fair, we probably look a little bit ridiculous or over-dressed. But at least now, I’m not alone in my experience. We’re in on the joke together.

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How to eat more protein at the Brodhead Center

By Jessica Luan | March 17, 2021

There will always be more than eleven options at the Brodhead Center, so long as you use your imagination.

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There’s no such thing as a ‘good’ action

By Dan Reznichenko | March 16, 2021

Developing some ethical code, and a willingness to engage with the context of a moral dilemma, are the best way to resolve contradictions when we face them.

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Why I spoke up for people I oppose

By Ivan Petropoulos | March 16, 2021

If we want to establish a precedent for unity in politics and American life, we must first establish this precedent at Duke.

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Duke basketball season ends after they all just kind of stop feeling like playing

By Monday Monday | March 15, 2021

“Playing basketball is, like, really hard,” said player Michael Savarino. “It’s like...sheesh! Y’know?”

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The cost of healing

By Luke A. Powery | March 15, 2021

The newness and change of healing come with costs.

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I am not feeling 22

By Nathan Heffernan | March 11, 2021

Even though I do not feel twenty-two, or quite how I expected twenty-two year olds to feel, I think I have a better idea of what being an adult will be like.