OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Anti-maskers don’t trust science: And it’s science’s fault

By Nathan Heffernan | September 17, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an immense amount of pain, fear, and disappointment in the institutions that many of us trusted at one point in our lives. Instead of mocking this fear and skepticism, we need to look at where it comes from. And for members of academic institutions, we need to examine our own failures in creating lasting trust.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

When our lungs can no longer expand

By Lily Levin | September 15, 2020

So when I talk about lungs, I'm working to not automatically think of my own mortality and the crumbling of our organs into ash. Instead, I'm beginning to see the breath and life that I receive and circulate and give—the parts of humanity that are beautiful, immortal, timeless.  

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

"It wasn't me!"

By Community Editorial Board | September 14, 2020

Being fearful of one another doesn’t drive the virus out. Rather, Duke students and the Durham community should rely on one another to slow the spread of Covid-19 safely and honestly.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Finessing Duke on a dime

By Rez Williamson | September 14, 2020

At Duke, I felt caught between prayer and pretending to be rich, so I kept my jobs and rationed my refund checks. I didn’t always have the cash, checks, credit, connections or concerned parents to keep up with my peers. But I did have the cornrows and the courage to put my best wig on and march through the Blue Devil circus, finessing my finances and cultivating my way out of debt. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Wildlife flourishes on C1s

By Monday Monday | September 14, 2020

Without the disease of students, the C1 buses have quickly become the country’s fifth largest nature reserve.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Loving your body

By Luke A. Powery | September 14, 2020

Saying no more, she stood up then and danced with her twisted hip the rest of what her heart had to say while others opened their mouths and gave her the music. Long notes held until the four-part harmony was perfect enough for their deeply loved flesh.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Tearing it down

By Celine Wei | September 11, 2020

The moral arc of the Universe(ity) bends not towards justice, but rather towards profit at whatever cost. The University was never meant to be survivable. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The impossible task of building community in Blue Light

By Jake Malone | September 11, 2020

As an RA, regardless of where I’m assigned, I’m tasked with fostering a community. But I’ve never felt as unequipped to do so as I do in Blue Light. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

I love char siu; I love you

By Hannah Homma Tong | September 10, 2020

Chinese food is so good that literal empires and dynasties have risen and crumbled, lost to the history books, while delicacies like the humble char siu bun (叉燒包) flourished and capture the hearts and stomachs of people the world over even today. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How to perform a really cool trick

By Jocelyn Chin | September 9, 2020

Well, screw you and your fake magic. Here at Duke, I’m learning what’s real. 

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

We are not content to be used freely. Duke women deserve better

By AOTA | September 9, 2020

It was incredibly inconsiderate that our video was used, very obviously, as the face of Duke’s racial equity initiative, without any notification of such actions or proper credit where credit was due. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Get drunk and walk around

By Jordan Diamond | September 9, 2020

Never before has the Duke community so needed a social outlet for their internalized anxieties, and never before have our campus bars been so inaccessible to so many.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The GOP’s original sin, as told by Charlie Kirk

By Dan Reznichenko | September 8, 2020

This is, in my opinion, the original sin of Kirk brand conservatism: beyond furiously opposing liberals, it is very flexible.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Sports are no longer a panacea for your tough times—why that’s okay

By Angela Wu | September 8, 2020

No matter how big of a basketball fan you are, basketball cannot and will not be the same if these social inequities persist.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Title IX changed, and everyone needs to know about it

By PASH | September 7, 2020

This new Title IX policy fails students in extraordinary ways, a failure only compounded by Duke's utter lack of effort to facilitate an engaging, robust conversation with the student body.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The litany of the condemned

By Tatayana Richardson | September 7, 2020

There is one litany that this nation knows all too well, a litany we often choose to ignore, only paying attention to it when forced. It is one that some may not even know exists, and one that others are all too familiar with.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Okay. Abolish Duke.

By Monday Monday | September 7, 2020

If there’s no Greek life, who’s gonna offer friendship and community? Y’know, other than friends and communities.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Introducing from 'fine' to finesse

By Rez Williamson | September 7, 2020

We sacrifice our sleep schedules, meals, mental health, and more, to maintain the facade of being "fine." We keep faking it to achieve effortless perfection. But we are in effortless shambles. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Abolishing Greek life means abolishing Duke

By Reiss Becker | September 4, 2020

If it's possible to see the good and the bad in Duke, to acknowledge the university’s failings while appreciating its many incredible virtues and accomplishments, then it is possible to do the same for Greek life. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Biden can win for progressives

By Stewart Roeling | September 4, 2020

Joe Biden was not my preferred nominee, and my sentiments are shared by many young people across the United States. But to see him talk in terms of fulfilling the demands of this moment—big, structural change—means that American progressivism might find a willing ally in the most unexpected of places.