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I can’t forget the Sandy Hook shooting
By Viktoria Wulff-Andersen | December 2, 2022They worried that our school would be next.
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Deciphering another code
By Valerie Tan | December 1, 2022There are times when I worry that my genuine interest in a language that is so inextricably intertwined with popular culture might be disdained and misconstrued as the fanatical obsession of a “Koreaboo”, so much so that I shy away from opportunities to practice it with others.
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Expecting the unexpected
By Luke A. Powery | November 29, 2022Unmet expectations are a part of life no matter how old you are.
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No man is an island.
By Heidi Smith | November 29, 2022It makes sense to make personally beneficial choices but moving through life without considering others not only harms others but will also come back to bite us in the butt when others don’t feel the need to be accountable to us.
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White lies
By Chloe Decker | November 28, 2022We would all face immeasurable loss if the ivory gates of elite universities–like the one we ourselves attend–are once again distanced from students who have historically been barred from reaping their benefits.
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How low can you go before your head will blow?
By Monika Narain | November 28, 2022This condition, coined by Duke researcher Peter B. Bennett, is called high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), and it’s a serious threat to recreational and professional divers.
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Small town holiday: undoing prevailing myths about small town America
By Advikaa Anand | November 28, 2022Our conceptions of small towns ooze through filters percolating for idealism, signaling a place so untouched by external corruption that we always wish to return.
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Create a personal ecology this finals season
By Pilar Kelly | November 22, 2022The change we will make in the future is too important for us to be burnt out at 21.
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(Don't) do it for the resume
By Heidi Smith | November 15, 2022We commodify pre-professional experiences because we think of them as tangible, resume-able activities that you can pick and choose as easily as filling out a form or two.
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Thank You, Niko
By Luke A. Powery | November 14, 2022What can creatures teach you about life?
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An EXPOsé
By Monika Narain | November 14, 2022But with these EXPO markers being such an effective tool for understanding and communication, should we be worried about their excessive use in schools?
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Speak up: striving for gender equity in the classroom
By Advikaa Anand | November 10, 2022I have been warned to choose between being loud and assertive or being a woman.
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The changing of Duke's guard
By Nathan Luzum | November 10, 2022Duke is a constant. But just like the students who grace its paths for a few short years before moving on, administrators also make a graceful—or occasionally ungraceful—exit when their time is done.
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Let’s throw our garbage in the trash, not our morals
By Linda Cao | November 10, 2022I’m ignorantly unaware that I just made someone else’s life a little harder.
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Thoughts on changing the world
By Pilar Kelly | November 10, 2022Solutions for real change take sacrifice, reorganization of priorities and hierarchies, and rethinking of our current institutions. And the next global leaders need to have the skills to garner support for these kinds of reforms and set them in motion. We will need to be bold, but not in the way Duke imagines.
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Classical music matters at Duke
By Sophie Ju | November 8, 2022Even though classical music, to some extent, seems to be dying publicly in the modern world, it still pulsates with life and remains capable of changing lives. We shouldn’t be embarrassed to embrace this belief.
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Gunsmoke: the breath of the underclass
By Abdel Shehata | November 8, 2022I am a product of the framing of the gunsmoke by people in power.
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You're On Your Own, Kid (3am Edition)
By Spencer Chang | November 6, 2022So don’t strive for perfection, strive for mistakes, and strive to let that inner kid know how proud they are of you, because they know all the trauma and pain you’ve suffered, and how every mistake has brought you closer to what you could be.
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Towards a better disability discourse at Duke
By Billy Cao | November 4, 2022It is not my responsibility to identify accessibility issues, the thinking goes, because unlike disabled students I am independent, capable, and ultimately complete— illusions that we so desperately cling to within the culture of thriving and overachieving.
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Oh, and it was all yellow
By Valerie Tan | November 2, 2022Sophomore year is a strange, awkward and uncomfortable phase to be in, one in which the rhythm of college I settled into as a freshman has been plunged into utter chaos.