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Thank You, Niko
By Luke A. Powery | November 14, 2022What can creatures teach you about life?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Tim Moore versus our voting rights
By Luka Thornton and Woodrow Barlow | November 2, 2022Please, research the court candidates. Vote for the people who want to safekeep all votes.
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The perpetual exhaustion of women in tech
By Heidi Smith | November 1, 2022It shouldn’t feel played out to say things aren’t great for women in technology. The normalization of an issue itself doesn’t solve any problems.
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Don’t overlook undocumented students this election cycle
By Pilar Kelly | October 31, 2022There’s nothing worse than hearing “just vote!” after confronting how little progress Congress has made with issues like immigration and gun violence. But voting is, at the very least, a form of harm reduction.
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Three life lessons from the unknown black bards
By Luke A. Powery | October 31, 2022I urge you to listen to these unknown bards because in hearing them, you are hearing the wisdom of the Holy.
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If we want to be happy, we need to make a lot of mice really sad
By Monika Narain | October 29, 2022The reality is, if we want to study mental illness, we have to make something mentally ill.
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Being a beginner at Duke
By Sonia Green | October 29, 2022Competing against students that attended private schools, come from wealthy backgrounds, have had increased access to opportunities or just possess plain talent means that the average student with nothing but a passion to learn will never be enough.
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When being "informed" is not enough
By James Gao | October 28, 2022If your values are at stake on November 8th, what will you do to stand up for them?
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American exceptionalism: an excuse for American inhumanity
By Advikaa Anand | October 28, 2022Such hypocrisy is indicative of the problematic nature of American exceptionalism—the belief that America, with its foundations rooted in democracy and freedom, occupies a unique mantle in modern history and thus assumes the responsibility to play a distinctive role on the world stage.
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Mediocrity is a ten-letter word for failure
By Linda Cao | October 26, 2022I would rather be unknowing than know failure.
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Let's roll beyond Shoots
By Chloe Decker | October 26, 2022As students attending a university with a privileged position in the local economy and politics, what responsibility falls on us to work towards reparations and dispelling the long-held trope of the ignorant, uncaring Duke student?