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How to grieve a time and place

By Liddy Grantland | April 7, 2020

How do you mourn for a moment, a memory?

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Is your professor real?

By Carol Apollonio | April 6, 2020

I’ve always craved glory. My dream is to become a meme, or, better, to have someone make a hologram of me performing a duet with someone unspeakably famous. Like Tupac.

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'I thrive in a high-stress environment' and other lies we tell ourselves

By Nathan Heffernan | April 6, 2020

Sure, there were fleeting moments of personal gratification, but in the Duke environment I was fixated on external indicators of success. I wasn’t asking myself if what I was doing made me fulfilled.

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There’s a quote that I like from Luke Farrell’s Department Of Interview last year. Department Of asks him, “Fill in the blank: You know you’re a Duke student if...” He responds, “Uh, um, you pretend to be an extrovert.”

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Now more than ever, we love Duke

By Reiss Becker | April 3, 2020

It is easy to treat Duke as a brand, as a soulless entity devoid of any personal touch. But if this crisis has proven anything to us, it is that Duke is made up of individuals–wonderful, supportive, and caring people.

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Disordered eating in disordered times

By Rebecca Torrence | April 3, 2020

Contrary to popular belief, eating disorders aren’t about vanity—they’re coping mechanisms. And this crisis has stripped us of much of the control we’re used to having.

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Does quarantining change our focus on the future?

By Carrie Wang | April 3, 2020

I’ve found myself feeling unfulfilled due to the fact that I no longer have anything concrete in the near future to look forward to. Now, I’m left to analyze how we, as a generation, think about the future.

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Cancel culture has gone too far

By Jordan Diamond | April 2, 2020

One minute we oppose a sexual predator, and the next moment we’re all supposed to direct our Twitter accounts and outrage against a private research university in Durham, North Carolina?

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A little bit of God's grace can go a long way in the midst of a pandemic

By Naima Turbes | April 2, 2020

I think that no matter where you come from or are currently quarantined, there is benefit from more love, grace and acceptance. More active recognition of how small we are in an interconnected, beautifully broken world.

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COVID-19 has changed everything—including our sex lives

By PASH | March 31, 2020

It is pretty hard to have sex with someone who's at least six feet away from you.

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I believe Tara Reade

By Liddy Grantland | March 31, 2020

I haven’t watched her interview, but I know what she said. I believe Tara Reade.

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Not a virus, not your model minority

By Hannah Miao | March 30, 2020

Last week, for the first time in my life, my parents warned me that my identity might put me in danger and urged me to be careful in public.

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COVID-19 and demanding the impossible

By Annie Yang | March 30, 2020

It feels like the coronavirus is something that we ordinary people can’t do much to impact besides washing our hands diligently and staying home. Passing the days by in quarantine can make us feel like passive, if not powerless, observers—or perhaps hostages.

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Hobby hunting: A few in review

By Gretchen Wright | March 25, 2020

At first I thought I might use this time to get in shape, maybe pick up running. But it is currently 30 degrees in Vermont and there is still snow on the ground, so that might have to wait a couple weeks.

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How much TikTok is too much TikTok?

By Lena Yannella | March 25, 2020

So you’ve regressed into a vegetative state watching TikTok in bed as you pretend not to hear your mother calling.

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The meaning of goodbye

By Akshaj Turebylu | March 25, 2020

Do not forget each other, do not let the bonds of comradery and familiarity wane, do not allow our campus culture to be shattered by this virus.

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Where we all live

By Liddy Grantland | March 24, 2020

Look. You live here. You’re breathing.

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How to be productive under quarantine

By Nathan Heffernan | March 24, 2020

It’s easy for Duke students to believe that our lives are exceptions from the rest of the population and that our time is the most valuable thing on Earth. But maybe it isn’t.

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Pass me a Corona: How to cure yourself

By Monday Monday | March 23, 2020

Perhaps the hardest part of this pandemic is surviving in quarantine. Toilet Paper is at an all-time low. Please consider using both Tar Heel Shirts and your old midterms to wipe your ass.

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Vulnerability in an age of crisis

By Lily Levin | March 23, 2020

Although COVID-19 has brought death and exacerbated societal inequities and increased feelings of isolation and loneliness, this virus has united humanity in our shared vulnerability.