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Being a woman in leadership, especially in a male-dominated industry, is often a gunfight you were given a knife for.
So perhaps the measure of our devotion — to a piece of writing, to an institution, to an industry — is our belief in its potential. When you stand still and look around, what do you see in the negative space?
American Sign Language should be formally taught at Duke because it is practical, increases accessibility, and contains a rich history and diverse community that students would benefit to learn from.
As long as Chronicle Sports exists, some immensely talented handful of friends will always be walking across the quad at some obscenely early hour in the morning. And the sun will always rise over Abele Quad.
In reality, moments, they are beautiful and fleeting and raw, but they say nothing, really. It is our job to bring them to life.
Family is behind every great story in sports, from San Francisco to Philadelphia to Durham. It’s behind my story, too.
It's a gift to take a step back with a columnist, to help them look at that puffy, wet wisp of an idea and condense it until it becomes water.
When the clock strikes midnight, the realization that my tenure has come to an end will slowly sink in, and I’ll reflect with certainty on how taking that leap of faith was the best decision I have ever made.
The work of student journalism is never done; it only changes hands again, again, and again. One-hundred-and-eighteen times to be exact.
At twenty, I am confident and lost, and at twenty, my mother got married.
Each of us must find our way of living and loving attentively — our own way of spotting the many pennies of this world.
Thanks to The Chronicle, I got a front-row seat, many times literally, to witness and document all of this and more.
Nowhere else will you so readily be equipped to do so much.
All I really have to say is that I'm thankful for the opportunities I had here.
I hate to break it to everyone, but all y’all Duke students are so exceptional.
AI wrote this column and is now coming to steal your girlfriend. Humans are causing a mass extinction event. The world is burning. Boo. Whatever. No one reads The Chronicle. No one reads the anonymous satirist.
It is not possible to do this by accident. To experience everything takes at least ninety minutes.
In between all the talk about the latest news coming out of Duke athletics, I was able to form lasting friendships, friendships that will continue well after graduation.
"Why not," I said. I never did go to any other department meetings.
I’ve, without a doubt, enjoyed my time writing for the Duke Chronicle. Despite this, after I graduate, I’ll probably never write another music review again.