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The institutional system is designed to be as inefficient as possible in dealing with human concerns... In other words, the bureaucratic maze is not a fault of the system but the system itself.
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.
I am not scared by the silence before the storm, but by the silence after sunset.
I am a low income minority student, a label that I am neither proud of or ashamed of. At least, that's what I want to believe, but understandably it’s more complicated than that.
People can only ever get a snapshot of our lives.
History is a privilege that most minorities aren't afforded; instead, like many other things, they have to fight for it.
A million snowflakes can create a snowstorm of change.
Through our academic struggle, we got to know our peer friends' passions and dreams, and our peer friends got to know the same about us
“Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?” They always ask who let the dogs out, but not who takes care of the dogs. Well the answer for both, at least for Durham, is the Animal Protection Society.
Maybe someday I will enter, not as a student seeking help but as a volunteer.