OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

A Panda in a desert of bureaucracy

By Abdel Shehata | September 14, 2022

It is easy to counteract the increase in dining prices through an increase in dining financial aid, subsidizing healthier food options on campus, and expanding the food point system to 9th Street restaurants. However, all those suggestions do is treat a symptom not the disease itself: the bureaucratic and non transparent nature of the Duke administration. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

I'm okay with you being dead

By Linda Cao | September 14, 2022

The idea of living with ambivalent feelings, a place without closure, is peculiarly uncomfortable.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

SLGs or QuadEx? Why not both!

By Pilar Kelly | September 13, 2022

QuadEx should be embraced as an addition, not a substitution, to community at Duke

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

As food rots, so does my heritage

By Ayesham Khan | September 13, 2022

I am fearful of losing it all. Much of it is lost already, the intimacy of knowing the delivery boy, the closeness of picking out your fruit and meat, and the slowness of pickling your own carrots. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

If you must be immoral, be honest about it

By Dan Reznichenko | September 12, 2022

Nobody wants to admit that they’re making a choice that is some shade of gray. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The power of being alone

By Sophie Ju | September 12, 2022

If there’s only one thing I hope to share with my peers in the Class of 2026, it’s that the foundation for us to connect with this new community is to first connect with ourselves.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Transcending sexual consent

By Billy Cao | September 9, 2022

But in order for students to take consent to heart, they must first understand what makes wrongful sex wrong and undesirable sex undesirable, not the other way around. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

It’s easy to be scared

By Sydney Brown | September 9, 2022

What will your life be like if you allow yourself to choose one of them despite your fears? Where will you go? What will you miss out on if you don’t push through? A lot of life is what we make of it, so go do the thing that scares you the most. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How to lose a conversation

By Chi Nghiem | September 9, 2022

In the search for a promptly sparking, effortlessly working romance, we objectify people, and that will in return objectify us. 

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

A love letter to the lonely

By Zoe Spicer | September 8, 2022

I wrote this letter to you in the hopes that it would make you feel a little less lonely.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Experiential orientation proposes an equity issue

By Viktoria Wulff-Andersen | September 8, 2022

Understanding the far reach of accommodating and accounting for 1740 first-year students begged the question of where Duke would fall short.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

On mortality and turning twenty

By Laura Boyle | September 7, 2022

I want you to remember that to be alive is to die one day, and that you should never feel guilty for getting one more chance, one more morning, one more moment to experience, to grow, to regress, to be. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Here I go again

By Valerie Tan | September 7, 2022

This time, no longer shackled by my overthinking tendencies, I will be brutally honest if I must and less afraid to infuse my writing with more personality.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

A neophyte in the hospital

By Nathan Luzum | September 7, 2022

The idea of being in the hospital so soon in your career seems great until you finish the first year and still feel woefully unprepared. But if life’s about anything, it’s about being woefully unprepared in as graceful a manner as possible.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The cost of eating at WU

By Heidi Smith | September 6, 2022

The way Duke’s upperclassman food plan works majorly contributes to a culture of ignoring breakfast, replacing meals with coffee, pushing off eating until work is done, and choosing the cheap option over the more desirable one, behaviors that are not only encouraged but often lauded in that toxic “suffering more than thou” way of bragging.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The Empty Equity Center

By Anthony Salgado | September 6, 2022

At the same time the Career Center was empty, Latinx students sat on the floor of their own space and had to grab chairs from across the Bryan Center.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Duke HRL introduces new TentEx program to address housing shortage

By Monday Monday | September 5, 2022

This new housing option provides a variety of benefits for students, such as being closer to classrooms and libraries, making sure each resident gets plenty of fresh air, and promoting a better sleep schedule by getting rid of the ability to ignore the sun in the morning.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Learning humbly

By Luke A. Powery | September 5, 2022

You have to be strong in order not to seek self-satisfaction, self-gratification or self-promotion.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

SLG response to Duke admin

By Duke SLGs | August 30, 2022

To diminish this source of community at all is disheartening; to diminish it sooner than we had expected is even more so.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

An open letter to Dean Bill Boulding on decency

By Jerry Chen | August 26, 2022

I am writing this letter to challenge your idea of a decency quotient and, more specifically, of recognizing DQ.