It feels like the coronavirus is something that we ordinary people can’t do much to impact besides washing our hands diligently and staying home. Passing the days by in quarantine can make us feel like passive, if not powerless, observers—or perhaps hostages.
Last week, for the first time in my life, my parents warned me that my identity might put me in danger and urged me to be careful in public.
Do not forget each other, do not let the bonds of comradery and familiarity wane, do not allow our campus culture to be shattered by this virus.
So you’ve regressed into a vegetative state watching TikTok in bed as you pretend not to hear your mother calling.
At first I thought I might use this time to get in shape, maybe pick up running. But it is currently 30 degrees in Vermont and there is still snow on the ground, so that might have to wait a couple weeks.
It’s easy for Duke students to believe that our lives are exceptions from the rest of the population and that our time is the most valuable thing on Earth. But maybe it isn’t.
Look. You live here. You’re breathing.
Campus is immaculate in a way that is only possible in human places devoid of people.
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.
Perhaps the hardest part of this pandemic is surviving in quarantine. Toilet Paper is at an all-time low. Please consider using both Tar Heel Shirts and your old midterms to wipe your ass.
They are happy to claim us when touting their status as #1 “Best Colleges for Food in America.”
Of course I’m an outsider. And I do feel privileged to attend a university that respects my rights. But the force of a critique cannot be deflected just by pointing out that its origins are external to the subject’s immediate context.
These are meanings you construct on top of the black soil of nihilism, moving past the room you could easily sit and mope in.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez learned from Faulkner, Caryl Phillips draws on Wuthering Heights and Shakespeare is omnipresent. Without a proper understanding of the history of past literature we have no foundation to understand the literature of now.
The Mi Gente 2019-2020 Council unanimously decided to endorse Valeria Silombria for Duke Student Government President because of her commitment to engaging with historically underrepresented groups on campus and in the Durham community.
We believe that Valeria is an excellent advocate for a variety of Duke students.
There is no feeling in the world like chanting “Our house” in Cameron with a thousand other Crazies. Stomping, clapping and yelling so forcefully that my joints ache, my fingers sting and my throat burns, feeling the vibrations coming through the air and bleachers, resonating throughout my whole body.
The longer I worked at Larkin Street, the more I understood that the solution to this problem is fairly simple. To get rid of homelessness, provide everyone with a home.
I’m afraid that the Poles, while certainly nice people with a rich culture and history, are too inaccessible for most voters.
For now, to strategically play within the rules of the system, registering as a North Carolina resident is the best option.
