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The other day, I finished giving a campus tour and stood around on Abele Quad to answer any last remaining questions that the visitors had. One mother came up to me and said, “So you’re graduating soon—”
The rich and imperialist powers of the globe are marching us to our deaths: how will we answer?
Last Friday morning, I sat in a room of my non-one percenter peers and attempted to decipher what, exactly, was being said to me about the debt I took on as part of the ever-rising cost of a Duke education.
A recent piece by the editorial board attempts to navigate the crowded field of 2020 Democratic candidates in a wandering diatribe that feels more bitter towards democratic voters interested in securing victories than substantive in insights.
As 59 Resident Assistants, we write to urge that residential housekeeping staff return to their original schedules.
Amidst this digital beauty patient that has become the race to be Ms. Democratic Candidate 2020, we should look beyond the metaphorical bathing suits and hackneyed “world peace!” responses among the many generic candidates in a crowded field.
You walk into class on the day of the midterm and slide into your usual seat.
Every day on my walk to class, I stroll past the stunning Duke Chapel that towers above me. Sometimes I stop to stretch my head up and take in the glorious architecture.
Yet, with this new laptop ban in place, DSG as an institutional body (hopefully) can concentrate more on pressing issues at hand instead of scrolling through the memes page in the middle of SOFC budgeting.
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to never stay up late for an assignment. It was a pretty unrealistic goal, especially for me.
In North Carolina, as in California, the arbitrary nature by which the death penalty is applied comes at the detriment of people of color.
After reading two fellow columnists’ articles concerning affiliation at Duke, I was disheartened.
Every morning, as I rush out for my 8:30 class, I’m greeted by Tim and Martha, the housekeepers for my dorm.
Not only do the Resident Assistants fired for tenting deserve to be reinstated, RA’s deserve a union and the collective security to make sure they can continue to serve the Duke community to the best of their abilities.
It has come to my attention that there are those who regard the titling scheme I follow for many of my columns as “clickbait.”
I have read with increased incredulity the spate of letters to the Chronicle about Duke’s supposed last minute refusal to support an environmentally nonsensical light rail stop at Duke Hospital North.
I ask because since September of last year, Duke’s residential housekeeping staff have been required to work weekends.
Duke students care too much about themselves, and not enough about Duke’s community.
“Give them their roses while they can still smell them.”
The reality is that white supremacists aren’t as far removed as we’d like to believe. The individuals that attended that mosque were stripped of their futures and ripped from their families; these tragedies will continue to happen unless we confront the ideological roots wherever they are.Thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. We have the right to feel grief and heartbreak, but we also have a moral obligation to defeat white supremacy.
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