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Duke must condemn targeted harassment impersonating educational student-led organizing.
As we head into finals season, where students will spend long periods of time in the library, a student alone in a personal carrel or study room should not be burdened with a mask requirement.
As a student body, we must demand change from DUMAC and the administration, beginning at the virtual investment forum sponsored by the president’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) at 4 p.m. this Wednesday.
Just a barren wasteland of Keystone Light cans and Kroger brand sod 48 hours before, by Sunday morning, K-Ville was transformed.
Joy is not even necessarily something we have to earn, but it is key to our flourishing.
Is advocating for marginalized communities an interest of yours or necessary for your survival on campus?
You stare at the blank screen, and the blank screen stares back at you. It’s 3 AM on a Monday night and you have a paper due in the morning.
History is a privilege that most minorities aren't afforded; instead, like many other things, they have to fight for it.
The problem I see with forgiveness, however, is that it is always expected.
With so much of our lifestyle and work being intertwined with technology, a high screen time may be hard to escape. The problem with Gen Z and technology would be better attributed to what content we consume and how we consume it during our time in front of a screen.
Reading brings up a step closer to freedom from ourselves, from our daily walks as citizens, from the thoughts of our own time.
If your unhealthy coping mechanisms are turned inwards—if you suffer those quietly, too—you’re a bona-fide ‘healthy person’ in most people's eyes.
[My probation list] is a safe space where my friendships exist in a state of constant flux, a Goldilocks zone where people can come close but not too close for comfort, a healthy buffer that preserves my sanity in the crucible of college socialization.
The Live Movement is not a force to be reckoned with, nor a student cause to brush under the rug. Rather, the student-led Live Movement is something the Blue Devils can stand to learn from. What the Live Movement and subsequent Blackburn Takeover teaches us is that students are worthy of occupying spaces on campus, and thus the spaces on campus must be worthy enough for the students that occupy them.
Sure, playing a one-woman game of Taboo isn’t going to instantly change any outward objective reality or metaphysically erase the items on my Google Calendar, but truly, truly, something began to change.
Every Monday and Wednesday, we get together to listen to the Dead’s music and discuss their history.
The development of health humanities and disability studies as areas of study is a key step in the process to bridge the gaps set by a strictly scientific, biomedical view of illness, health and disability.
While a common refrain in Phineas and Ferb is “carpe diem,” or “seize the day,” it seems like Duke students would rather seize tomorrow, disregarding short term happiness and mental stability for the possibility of looking impressive and being successful later.
Unfortunately, Duke’s selective nature doesn’t end when you get into Duke.
Reading Olivia Bokesch’s column “No one at Duke knows the Grateful Dead” left a smoking crater of my mind, like being busted for smiling on a cloudy day.