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On face value, nothing huge just happened here. It likely wouldn’t be clear that any words were even exchanged between us. Why do I feel so darn giddy and fulfilled, then? I wonder to myself.
Minorities are always being told they're asking for “too much” while simultaneously never really having their demands met. If Duke Disability Alliance would like a minor, or Asian American students on this campus want faculty support - there should be a department to support them.
The numerous talented students and faculty that spoke at our recent Speak Out event demonstrate the far-reaching relevance and potential of a disability studies and health humanities education, from medicine to engineering to the arts. These collective perspectives cannot be overlooked.
Looking at Barbados, we can decide what kind of nations we will build. It is time for the new generation to outdo its predecessor.
Life online removes the short term joy of real, unmediated life, in exchange for short term satisfaction when using these social media platforms, with no long-term benefits on either side of the screen.
There’s tremendous value in engaging with the world around us, even if the interactions don’t seem particularly profound or meaningful in the moment.
I am still struggling and will likely continue to over the next four years. But if I could do it all over again, I would.
So, as we approach the end of another calendar year and look toward a new year, I invite you to join in this whole-person pursuit of a coherent life.
The main question remains: Is creating new programs the most efficient way to expose students to new fields and educate future leaders? Not necessarily. While we would all like to have hundreds of majors, minors and certificates to choose from, creating efficient programming demands time and funding from Duke’s faculty and administration.
That we’re doing this right now doesn’t make any sense and—by all definitions—is absurd. Yet we’re suspending disbelief, leaning into the bizarre and trying to lift a limo.
What we lost was more than a funded and Instagrammable trip - it was the opportunity to explore global opportunities that may inform the trajectory of the rest of our lives.
And out we come, crammed to the brim with shiny prizes, our spirits numb or dying.
After all, how can I preserve my family’s French culture and language within my descendants if I can’t even bother to preserve it within myself? And if I lose touch with my culture and language altogether, what does this mean for my relationships with my extended family? With my home away from home? With my own mother?
What frustrates me more than hearing someone call Israel a European colonialist regime is hearing a well-intentioned Jew refuse to criticize Israel because they’re too busy defending its right to exist.
Nationalism, not nations, is the impetus for the world's worst and most destructive atrocities, including the Holocaust, and we can no longer resort to primitive models for transnational liberation.
Rather than waste time debating a veto for SSI recognition, we urge DSG to join the 30 US colleges and universities whose student governments have adopted the International Holocaust Rememberence Allience working definition of antisemitism.
Zionism diminishes our years of abundant survival and persistence and strength to the idea that we cannot have a home without the ethnic cleansing of someone else’s home; that we cannot have strength without someone else having despair; that we cannot have survival without someone else having to die.
Clearly Wang's v eto represents a continuing manifestation of the foundational antisemitism that the 2019 Resolution Agreement was supposed to quell.
Spreading yourself thin and shallowly engaging with a lot of people and activities keeps many doors open, but if you never walk through any of them, you only ever appear to have a great social and personal life.