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It makes sense to make personally beneficial choices but moving through life without considering others not only harms others but will also come back to bite us in the butt when others don’t feel the need to be accountable to us.
We would all face immeasurable loss if the ivory gates of elite universities–like the one we ourselves attend–are once again distanced from students who have historically been barred from reaping their benefits.
Our conceptions of small towns ooze through filters percolating for idealism, signaling a place so untouched by external corruption that we always wish to return.
This condition, coined by Duke researcher Peter B. Bennett, is called high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), and it’s a serious threat to recreational and professional divers.
Two things are crystal clear from these reports — one, southern families from racial minority groups have suffered disproportionately at the hands of COVID, and two, the suffering has targeted multiple facets of their lives simultaneously.
The change we will make in the future is too important for us to be burnt out at 21.
As a senior thesis (with Dr. Bridgette Hard in Psychology & Neuroscience), I asked Duke students to define success in their own words.
Upon arriving at Duke as a freshman in August 2021, I had the eye-opening realization that Mizrahi Jews are far underrepresented on campus.
As a former campus police chief and now Sheriff, I have always advocated for responsible gun ownership throughout my career as a law enforcement leader.
We commodify pre-professional experiences because we think of them as tangible, resume-able activities that you can pick and choose as easily as filling out a form or two.
But with these EXPO markers being such an effective tool for understanding and communication, should we be worried about their excessive use in schools?
Mandatory attendance policies may be well-intentioned, but they rely on the natural distrust of the student, the ableism-coded “laziness” of the individual.
Through its novelty, poetry shatters the conventions of everyday language to goad at something much deeper.
What can creatures teach you about life?
Solutions 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.
I’m ignorantly unaware that I just made someone else’s life a little harder.
Duke 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.
I have been warned to choose between being loud and assertive or being a woman.
I am a product of the framing of the gunsmoke by people in power.
Even 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.
