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I contend that oftentimes our criticisms of cultural appropriation begin from both a privileged position and internal insecurity of our own identity, particularly for Asian-Americans like me.
I have been caught up in remembering my previous Duke Thanksgivings. They have always just felt like a comma, a brief pause in the long stretch of the fall semester that strikes just before the end.
With the wind snapping at my heels as I rush across Wannamaker Drive, there’s only one thought racing through my mind: why is it so damn cold?
The people don’t want to be informed, they want to be entertained.
Despite time constraints or fear of divisiveness, we have a moral obligation as voters and citizens to be informed. Read the news, it does you and the world good.
To feel like I belong here at Duke, I’d have to feel like I was more than just a consumer.
It’s much too easy for the stressed organic chemistry student to grab a glass of chocolate milk to feel better about an upcoming midterm; our natural tendency is to search for these comfort foods. When they are spread out for the taking, how often will we be able to resist?
Student Health’s misdiagnosis delayed Matson from receiving necessary treatment and medication, negatively impacting her academic, social and emotional well-being.
Don’t fall for the re-branding attempt to brainwash you. Boxed water isn't better, it is just rebranded water.
We should lament that our rules are imperfect and unjust, and then seek to reform them in a spirit of good-will by speaking the Truth, by loving one another—even our enemy—as our neighbor equal in worth and dignity.
The biggest takeaway: don’t sell-out to the sell-out culture.
That’s right, we are going through a spinal health crisis, and I think it has something to do with the oversized, Santa-approved sacks we haul around (better known as backpacks).
While most students probably apply to the program motivated by the ideal of doing good for others, learning from the local community, and engaging with the culture, often, the program does not offer that possibility because it frames the students as privileged outsiders.
Often minimized, if not lost, in this conversation is the moral argument for educational justice—incarcerated people are, like the rest of us, entitled to free public education.
At present, DSG is a tin-pot democracy. Its grand delusions of popular representation butt heads with the reality of its inadequacy.
If there is anything that all Duke students can collectively get behind, it’s that Duke Parking & Transportation is the worst.
To all the other Indian-Americans in the room, I ask only one thing: own that hyphen. Don’t let the American Desi be written off as “confused.”
In the end, a willingness to pay the prescribed penalty does not excuse outrageous violations of rule and law.
To fight this mentality, we have to develop the understanding that even if we are not the star player, we are still on the team, and to preserve the integrity of the team, we should strive to contribute the most.
Duke should minimize its interference in the freedom of its students and employees to make choices related to their personal health.
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