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Weird but true

By Lily Levin | September 24, 2020

Six sick students, Duke says to us. Six sick students and you all can stay.

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When our lungs can no longer expand

By Lily Levin | September 15, 2020

So when I talk about lungs, I'm working to not automatically think of my own mortality and the crumbling of our organs into ash. Instead, I'm beginning to see the breath and life that I receive and circulate and give—the parts of humanity that are beautiful, immortal, timeless.  

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What would it take to make an A during a global pandemic?

By Lily Levin | April 13, 2020

The past couple of days have been a master class in how to take action without actually listening. 

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Vulnerability in an age of crisis

By Lily Levin | March 23, 2020

Although COVID-19 has brought death and exacerbated societal inequities and increased feelings of isolation and loneliness, this virus has united humanity in our shared vulnerability.

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Attack anti-Semitism at its root: White supremacy

By Lily Levin | February 24, 2020

Anti-Semitism is dubbed ‘history’s oldest hatred’ for a reason.

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Why is a white supremacist coming to Duke?

By Lily Levin | February 11, 2020

Bringing a white supremacist to campus as a part of a program that professes to “prepare the next generation of strategists” is, conservatively speaking, a pretty bold statement to make. 

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We don't need rush. We need therapy.

By Lily Levin | January 27, 2020

We are worried as heck about losing ourselves, about losing our friends, about losing our identity. We are afraid that we aren’t good enough. We are terrified of what others think. I sure am. 

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The Duke 'Bubble?' More like the Duke Wall.

By Lily Levin | December 9, 2019

"'Growing up and driving past that wall with my family made the university seem like this magical but inaccessible place...'"

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Stephen Miller can find love...but I can't?

By Lily Levin | November 22, 2019

And even if I haven’t found my Modern Love-r, my true Tinder match or my college romance; even if I have made mistakes and messed up, I have humanized and given and advocated and fought. I have loved. 

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Whose world are we changing?

By Lily Levin | November 8, 2019

Those not specialized in a specific field would be hard-pressed to find any opportunity for which our service in another country–or even in another community–is efficient, useful, and sustainable. An eight-week exploration of Thailand or India or Ghana may satiate our desire to travel to a foreign nation, but it does little more than that. 

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