OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Antidepressants: My drug of choice

By Rebecca Torrence | October 3, 2019

There’s no reason to feel helpless forever.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Who is Duke changing for?

By Gino Nuzzolillo | October 3, 2019

Duke does not love us. Perhaps it’s time we reciprocate.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: 62 Duke faculty respond to Department of Education directive

By Concerned Faculty | October 3, 2019

The integrity of our University demands an educational climate where free and open inquiry is encouraged and fostered, in and out of the classroom, even on the most controversial subjects.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COMMUNITY EDITORIAL BOARD

Come Stumble with us

By Community Editorial Board | October 3, 2019

 6,000 undergraduate students just returned to campus, nearly 2,000 of them are new faces, and a grand total of 30 of them are avid readers of our edits—so what are you waiting for? 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Laettner links Christianity to white supremacy. She's wrong.

By Reiss Becker | October 2, 2019

Real Christians, real people of various sects, colors, and backgrounds, are implicated and suffer reputational consequences when subjected to careless generalizations that affiliate their faith with evil.

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Duke is not on the forefront of changing healthcare—yet

By Darren Fogarty | October 2, 2019

I am not proud of Duke Health’s failure to leverage its influence to usher in the most effective and measured way to make healthcare affordable in NC.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Change in integrity over time

By Honor Council | October 1, 2019

It is surprising how much you can learn about a peer or professor simply from asking them about how their definition of honor has changed with time.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Confession: I'm addicted to productivity

By Bella Miller | October 1, 2019

“Why do you always need to be achieving something?”

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

A young woman in pain walks into the doctor's office

By Liddy Grantland | September 30, 2019

I knew, even at ten years old, that I had to be seen as “reasonable” to be believed.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

American student loans

By Nikhil Sridhar | September 30, 2019

We need to move towards a higher education market that’s more strongly rooted  in market principles, rather than in utopian faith in the capabilities of the state, that has time and time again failed to achieve its desired goals.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

Drop Palantir, abolish ICE

By Annie Yang | September 30, 2019

If “logic and reason” are used to justify the concentration camps at the border, the deaths of children, and the tearing apart of families, what value do they have? 

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OPINION  |  GUEST COLUMNS

Guest column: DSG resolution ignores Jewish voices

By Dorothy Gheorgiu | September 30, 2019

DSG’s decision to condemn the letter without seemingly acknowledging its cause is yet another unprovoked attack on the Jewish community. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The cost of being needed

By Sana Pashankar | September 27, 2019

Being nurturing is overrated, and forgiveness is overrated sometimes too. 

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter: 'Untitled 1' wasn't the first painting to ruffle feathers

By Bill Ackerman | September 27, 2019

A new art exhibit on campus included a painting of an abstract, but anatomically correct, female nude.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

America's desire for punishment

By David Min | September 26, 2019

Punishment is no longer about a safer society or closure for the victim but an internal, selfish desire to imagine violence against others.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

An astrological approach to Duke Dining

By Gretchen Wright | September 26, 2019

Gemini (May 21-June 20): Vondy. 1. Order your soy iced matcha. 2. Say “so good to see you, let’s get a meal sometime!!” approximately 12-14 times.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

The children's strike against the end of the world

By Alice Dai | September 26, 2019

Posing kids—many of whom who have a simplified understanding of the stakes of their protest—next to the imminent end of the world made the climate strikes last weekend grotesque. 

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COMMUNITY EDITORIAL BOARD

Empire-building 101

By Community Editorial Board | September 26, 2019

For most current undergraduates, and even many graduate students, American invasion and imperialism in the Middle East has been a fact of life.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

How you can act on climate change, today!

By Elliott Davis | September 26, 2019

In recent years, the conversation around climate change has progressed substantially. At first, climate denial was the primary justification for those who resisted action. Then, the focus moved to questioning the extent to which humans are the cause. As the Global Climate Strike has made clear, the crisis of climate change demands action.

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OPINION  |  STUDENT VOICES COLUMNS

My door, your door, our door

By Lena Yannella | September 25, 2019

Does a living group have the right to exclude others from using “their door?” Is there any such thing as “their door” and “our door?” Is there some unwritten rule that you can’t cut through another dormitory?