We tend to forget that Civil Rights have had a monumental impact on the South Asian American communities, not to mention several other marginalized identity groups as well.
While this may all seem trivial, the investigation explains that it is all part of a highly concerted effort to sow unhappiness in university students and make us all into communists.
The NC Education Lottery is arguably a regressive tax on the state’s geographically marginalized, functioning as a wolf clothed in the wool of potential financial freedom.
I hope that you may rediscover the love you might have neglected and to cherish those that genuinely cherish you.
Besides ruining my morning, WebMD’s app malfunction is indicative of a greater gender gap in our healthcare system, one that permeates all aspects of medical care provided to women.
Next, we will slowly remove all allergens from the dining halls until the only foods left are plain chicken, white rice and unseasoned broccoli (J.B.’s will make a killing)
When we got to the ski school, they made us sign a waiver that had “DEATH” in capital letters on it. This seemed like a promising start.
Before you ask the Black community your burning questions, there are so many resources here at Duke that exist to shine a light on African American history and culture.
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.
Two small words from an unlikely person in an unlikely place—a sacred surprise.
it all coalesces into an unerring message: as you are, you are not enough.
I must have a place where I can ground the love that only I can guarantee to myself.
We have sunken into a mindset where youth is our prime, and if we don’t achieve success during our prime, then we have missed our one critical chance to “peak” in life.
I remain conflicted because, of course, I want to personally sound as smart as possible…but, in modifying the way I talk to fit the norm, I’m further reinforcing the dichotomy between the way the “educated” and “noneducated” speak.
The distorted societal, economic, and political perceptions are artificial but pervasive in nature, creating barriers to the liberal arts. Reevaluation of the social classes' role in forming and sustaining their perceptions is crucial when we advocate for liberal arts educational accessibility.
If neuroscience can’t prevent a downward spiral, can it at least remind me to bring a parachute? Or an antidepressant?
When we try to slip back into these previous patterns of existence, we jut out like misfitting puzzle pieces. Our lives are split into two halves, and somewhere along the way, there emerges two of us.
Some things are truly just out of our hands and fighting to end a policy that strives to even the playing field is not the way to regain control.
There’s something special about seeing places that are usually hustling and bustling completely devoid of energy, the helter-skelter nature of a teeming thoroughfare transformed into silence and quiet.
The challenge we have as Dukies—or really as human beings—is how to belong but not divide.
