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Pilar Kelly is a Trinity junior and an opinion columnist for The Chronicle's 118th volume.
When we Duke students leave our big cities and subdivisions behind and then complain about Durham, we reek of the entitlement and prejudice that has soured our relationship with this city and earned Duke names such as New Jersey University.
In a heartless instance of environmental racism, Cop City would tear precious green space from a community that needs it most, replacing sounds of wildlife with the sounds of police gunshots that have historically terrorized them.
BeReal is especially toxic because it is performativity feigning authenticity.
We are the future of the American workforce. We will be the ones writing the rules. Maybe we can write them in a way where fulfillment and financial stability are compatible.
The change we will make in the future is too important for us to be burnt out at 21.
Solutions for real change take sacrifice, reorganization of priorities and hierarchies, and rethinking of our current institutions. And the next global leaders need to have the skills to garner support for these kinds of reforms and set them in motion. We will need to be bold, but not in the way Duke imagines.
There’s nothing worse than hearing “just vote!” after confronting how little progress Congress has made with issues like immigration and gun violence. But voting is, at the very least, a form of harm reduction.
I urge the university to voluntarily recognize DGSU and thus signal a new age in labor relations. Duke has the power to symbolically depart from its part in the story of worker oppression– the beginning of which starts on the same plot of land that graduate students plant their table today.
QuadEx should be embraced as an addition, not a substitution, to community at Duke
After a virtual family weekend in 2020, families had the opportunity this year to visit campus and catch a glimpse of student life. And the following week, there was a negligible difference in the number of COVID-19 cases among students due to majority compliance.