OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES
A word on teaching
By Luke A. Powery | April 1, 2024Anyone can be a teacher by teaching with their life.
Anyone can be a teacher by teaching with their life.
Love is not a divine act. There will be no higher voice compelling you to a person. Instead, love is a choice.
Let’s remind Duke that the best form of waste diversion is avoiding single-use disposables altogether.
In a school as industry-driven as Duke, it is surprising how little we students appreciate certain life skills that are invaluable to our future careers. Writing is one of them.
New kink discovered at Duke: Apparently students love to be degraded.
Extending the number of STINF days, coupled with procedural improvements and enhanced faculty training, recognizes the reality of student life, respects the complexity of health issues and reaffirms Duke’s dedication to the holistic well-being of its students.
While dating apps are generally a positive tool for the broader population, they are especially handy on a university’s campus.
Though political buzzwords can usefully define social movements, they inhibit the discourse needed to sustain long-term, widespread social change through rhetorical alienation.
Like human nature, history is not black and white. Each player is complex, saddled with nuances worthy of both condemnation and redemption.
The myth that we only work six hours a week (and that we get our summers “off’) is a heinous lie. When do you think we learn the things that we’re teaching you?
Silence — as uncomfortable as it can be — could be what we need in our TikTok society full of talking media heads.
My choice to prioritize home is a reminder that sometimes, the greatest joy comes not from being part of the crowd but from embracing the paths that lead us back to where we belong.
While responding to climate change should still be of utmost concern, a net-zero future is not enough to restore ecological balance to our planet.
Despite all the burdens you carry, however, there are still ways in which you can discover pieces of yourself.
I hope we stop throwing away our hours of grinding and that we recognize schoolwork can serve student development and our community at the same time.
If science is the most epic narrative of who we are, how things work and how we got here, what’s more beautiful than connecting your own story within that narrative — especially if it not only helps you remember science but celebrate it?
Between the smallest scale of roommates and the largest scale of the whole 250-to-500-person Quad, there is a fundamental need for a scale of community that is structured around the natural social niche of thirty to sixty people for QuadEx to be successful at building and sustaining real communities within the model.
However, the underlying motivation is clear: Advice-givers are either trying to grow their fan base or their wallet.
There is a correlation — albeit a loose one — between one’s personality and major. But for this article’s sake, let’s pretend like everyone of the same major has the same personality.
Duke announced plans to destroy the running paths along the perimeter of the campus and replace them with a moat. To exit East Campus, students will now be required to leap or swim.