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The new social contract that permeates Duke student life

By Zubin Rekhi | September 13, 2024

As the university went from being a neutral facilitator, taking a hands-off approach to all student actions clearing the low bar of safety, to an active participant with veto power over student choices, it also used its expanded powers — in ways intentional or not — to extend benefits to students. But college students are adults and we should make our choices, even in the midst of an evolving and enlarging university apparatus.

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Why you should read below your reading level

By Anna Garziera | September 13, 2024

Few of us have kept up the daily 30 minutes of independent reading since middle school. And no wonder. There’s no surefire way of letting go of the habit of reading than forcibly plowing through a book you don’t like. 

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Staying back: On first semester junior year

By Advikaa Anand | September 11, 2024

I searched the multitude of people scattered around the quad on the first day of class, hoping for a glimpse of recognition. All I saw, however, was a sea of strangers, and a hollow emptiness developed in the pit of my stomach. Where was I? Who were these people? What had happened to the place I’d called home for the last two years?

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Your first learning assignment: College roommates

By Sarah Gaither | September 10, 2024

I walked into my room and my roommate wasn’t there, but her things were all moved in — an organized desk, a neatly made bed with monogrammed blankets, a full-sized Texas state flag hung on the wall and a framed family photo of her with former President George Bush.

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The courage to be curious

By Luke A. Powery | September 9, 2024

Engaging in research at a major university like Duke is a key mechanism for discovery. Having to do research implies that one doesn’t have all of the information but desires to learn more. The practice of research in any field is a way of saying, “I don’t know, but I want to know.” 

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Have the news media learned to cover a female presidential candidate? Democracy’s future may depend on the answer

By Philip M. Napoli and Talia Goodman | September 3, 2024

As Kamala Harris takes her next steps as the Democratic nominee, the news media's ability to provide unbiased coverage will be a litmus test for how far we've come — or how far we have yet to go — in achieving gender equality in politics. 

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Listening to flat-earthers

By Nik Narain | August 31, 2024

Why, from such a young age, was I indoctrinated into the ideology that claimed the Earth was round, rather than the true geomorphic tortilla (or tortilloid) on which civilization has flourished for centuries?

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What’s so great about democracy?

By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | August 29, 2024

Plato ranked democracy as the lowest form of ordered government. Hitler gained power through democratic processes. The majority of voters in the United States at one time supported slavery. With this tainted history, why do so many people fear what they call undemocratic? 

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Virtues of democracy: An introductory column

By Brian Hare | August 27, 2024

Will democracy survive? Can it thrive? Will it get better on its own? As a citizen, why should we care and what role can we all play?  

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Don't hesitate to celebrate

By Luke A. Powery | August 26, 2024

Celebrating may seem out of touch with “real life” with the ongoing injustices of war and innocent bloodshed, but a deep wisdom reveals otherwise. 

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Could’ve been worse

By Jazper Lu | April 24, 2024

Prescribing things I could’ve done differently is really just rolling the dice again with the possibility of worse outcomes.

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The Chronicle is my best-kept secret from my parents

By Linda Cao | April 24, 2024

I encourage you to take hold of existing in the world and to not put a hold on existing.

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Writing into the void

By Derek Deng | April 24, 2024

It was a difficult reality to accept — that, as obvious as it sounds, my writing was being read, unraveled and picked apart by classmates, parents and strangers on the Internet.

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Climbing the beanstalk and the sleeping giant I wish I’d slain

By Andrew Long | April 24, 2024

Trying to balance who I wanted to be as a person with what I wanted to do as editor was a scale that I never quite leveled. 

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Meeting the moment

By Anisha Reddy | April 24, 2024

To a vision of community, to student journalism at its bravest and to the organization I hope we can become.

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Listening and learning

By Amy Guan | April 24, 2024

Each story was an opportunity for me to both learn something about Duke and the vibrant communities within it and share what I learned with a broader community. 

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Your invisible professor

By Carol Apollonio | April 24, 2024

Sometimes I hear from students about hierarchies and inequalities in their campus communities. Duke professors, too, find themselves arrayed along a socio-economic hierarchy that feels significantly more rigid than in years past.

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Waiting For May flowers

By Anna Garziera | April 23, 2024

Perhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.

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Faith over religion

By Paul Dilly | April 23, 2024

Religion is meant to be a supplement to your faith; it is not meant to be a replacement.

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‘I’m Just Like Spider-Man,’ says anonymous columnist

By Monday Monday and Zoe Tishaev | April 22, 2024

Rejected from The Fluke twice, chronic bench napper, DSG expat: My name is Zoe Tishaev (sometimes known as my mobile order name, “Candice Nutzfitinyomouf”), and it has been an honor to serve as your Monday Monday.