I am going to sit at the West Campus bus stop for an hour and a half every week this semester.

No, it’s not just because I’m that creepy senior RA who still lives on East and uses the C-1. Nor am I tabling for any club. But I will have a table. And a sign. It will read, “Talk to me.”

In a certain sense I suppose I’m tabling for you, if you’ll have me. Three years at this University have shown me that many students don’t feel like they have a way to voice their opinions. Whether these are concerns or kudos, there is no clear place for us to go when we have something on our minds.

This isn’t meant to imply that we aren’t supported—we are. We have a lot of amazing resources at this school: Counseling and Psychological Services, hundreds of different student groups, and the massage chairs at the Oasis... I guess. This University offers us more support than a new mattress, and for that we should be thankful. However, when we as students need to express our opinions, it is easy to feel unheard.

That’s where this bus stop escapade comes in. I believe that everyone has a story, and I’d be honored to hear yours. That’s why I will be sitting at the West Campus bus stop on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. I will have the table and the sign. (And some candy.)

I want to hear your stories, I want to hear what you like about Duke, I want to hear ways you think we could make Duke a better place: I want to give you the chance to speak your mind. Comments will be kept anonymous, and will be presented as the opinions of the individual, not of the entire Duke student body. The thoughts and issues I hear from you will be used as the material for the next edition of this column.

Originality and diversity of thought are vital for this great buscapade. (Yea, I made that up myself.) No one wants to read the same perspectives about repeated topics, even if they are presented in such an awesome and engaging way as sitting at a bus stop with a chair I dragged from the West Campus Plaza. So I need clever people. And a lot of them.

But that’s the beauty of the bus stop. You have to go there. It’s possibly the single most frequented part of campus by every major and every year. Besides my bed—kidding. The bus stop is one of the best places to find interesting conversation, if nothing else because it has one of the highest concentrations of diversity on campus. Plus, there’s not much else to do while you’re waiting for a bus, so why not discuss?

We have the who (you), the what (issues on campus), the where (bus stop), the when (Thursday) and the how (people talking). But why am I doing this? To put it in a nice euphemism, the answer is “evolving.” The objective in asking for opinions is not to solve all our problems on campus. Nor is it to discover some unknown truth. For now, I know that sitting at the bus stop will at least give everyone an equal opportunity to have their voice heard. And I know those voices are worth listening to, because they are ours.

I’m not entirely sure what to expect. People may come in by the droves, or I may have just gotten an extra hour and a half for personal reading. In some ways this is an experiment, and you are my y-axis. What we talk about and how much we talk about it is completely up to you. I’m going to say thanks ahead of time; both for humoring me, and for becoming part of a larger conversation on campus.

This is as much an invitation as it is a column. Come with your ideas. There will be candy.

Kousha Navidar is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.