But if you measure the value of school based on the number of facts you can whip out of your pocket, then I suppose you really didn’t understand the assignment.
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.
At an institution like Duke, finding people like you can be hard but you are making a generational path for others by doing so. Your future descendants are thanking you right now, so seize your opportunities and make them proud.
To many countries, she not only represented the companion of time and space, but also the spiritual bond—an embodiment of history, tradition and values.
809 is the number of Jewish students who are forced to make the choice: go to class, or go to synagogue.
It felt selfish at points to put myself out there and advocate for an issue that felt like it only concerned me, but the people around me assured me that my own cause is still worth fighting for.
The Duke Today article is a quintessential example of the institution’s infantilization of students, antagonism towards advocates, dismissal of constructive criticism, and to be frank, perpetuation of patriarchal defenses.
Our campus – and all campuses – should have ways of connecting with others that are actually pleasant to use.
Who's allowed to mourn the queen? How are they allowed to do so?
Empathy is now not the pure act of altruism or cherishing but the norms that dictate one’s tie to a group or a person.
The thing about being constantly forced to confront your lack of a permanent residence is that you’re also forced to reconcile with the fact that you’re not as important to the trajectory of others as you might think. Life goes on regardless of if you’re there or not.
If Duke truly wants to be allergen-friendly, we should at least recognize more allergens than just peanuts and tree nuts.
As one of only several North Carolina universities where the majority of the student body does not originate from within the state, Duke holds a unique position to contribute thousands of young, diverse voters to the electorate.
I quietly clung onto the selfish hope that everything could be frozen in time so that leaving could be as simple as hitting pause and returning, as effortless as picking up from where I left off.
I’ve come to the opinion that most things socially—obviously done in moderation and safely—can be a healthy break from the rigors and stresses of being a college student. This is almost embarrassingly banal, but it’s taken me a long time to get to this point.
“What if we made mobile orders into NFTs?”
Learning can be an expansion or deconstruction or construction or a deepening or an enlightening—and all of this is change.
Wednesday’s webinar droned on about the administration’s mission to create a “less fragmented community” and return students to their “home institution.” But DKU stopped being my home institution a while ago.
Having a passion is not a requirement to be a valuable and interesting person, and we are not meant to be packaged and labeled into something that other people can decide the worth of.
