OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

All Durham needs is love and crosswalks

By Katherine Gallagher | May 2, 2023

What was the Beatles' greatest accomplishment? It was neither selling over 1 billion records worldwide, nor revolutionizing the entire music industry nor becoming a major symbol of the 1960s social and cultural transformation. What people don't realize is that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were actually pioneers of public safety. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The most talented room on campus

By Em Adler | May 1, 2023

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.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Feeling burnt out? Lessons from Latino culture on the politics of rest

By Luna Abadía | May 1, 2023

If you really think about it, the only choice we have is rest.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Duke alumni letter supporting the Duke Graduate Students Union

By Gino Nuzzolillo | April 28, 2023

We pledge to cease our donations and other forms of in-kind support to the University until Duke ends its obstruction of graduate student workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Isn’t it nice?

By Leah Boyd | April 26, 2023

In reality, moments, they are beautiful and fleeting and raw, but they say nothing, really. It is our job to bring them to life.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

One last story to tell

By Jonathan Levitan | April 26, 2023

Family is behind every great story in sports, from San Francisco to Philadelphia to Durham. It’s behind my story, too.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

In the clouds

By Marina Chen | April 26, 2023

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. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

My leap of faith

By Katie Tan | April 26, 2023

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.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Something bigger than ourselves

By Kathryn Thomas | April 26, 2023

The work of student journalism is never done; it only changes hands again, again, and again. One-hundred-and-eighteen times to be exact. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The ballad of twenty

By Ooha Reddy | April 26, 2023

At twenty, I am confident and lost, and at twenty, my mother got married.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The art of seeing

By Chris Kuo | April 24, 2023

Each of us must find our way of living and loving attentively — our own way of spotting the many pennies of this world.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The Chronicle gave me so much

By Jake C. Piazza | April 24, 2023

Thanks to The Chronicle, I got a front-row seat, many times literally, to witness and document all of this and more. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Being part of something that will outlast all of us

By Parker Harris | April 24, 2023

Nowhere else will you so readily be equipped to do so much.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Four years in 700 words

By Alex Jackson | April 24, 2023

All I really have to say is that I'm thankful for the opportunities I had here.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

I’m not going birding (and why I belong here anyways)

By Jonathan Pertile | April 24, 2023

I hate to break it to everyone, but all y’all Duke students are so exceptional.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

No one reads Monday Monday anyway

By Monday Monday and Chase Pellegrini de Paur | April 24, 2023

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. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How did we get here?

By Babu Chatterjee | April 24, 2023

It is not possible to do this by accident. To experience everything takes at least ninety minutes.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Four years of highlights

By Max Rego | April 24, 2023

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.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

I joined Recess by mistake. I’m so glad that I did.

By Ben Smith | April 24, 2023

"Why not," I said. I never did go to any other department meetings.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

That time I reviewed music for two years

By Rhys Banerjee | April 24, 2023

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.