When I think of “comforting” albums, my mind shoots in several directions. Comfort can mean a lot of things.
All that I’m asking is for us as today’s voters and tomorrow’s leaders to help put the substance and the facts back into our political discussions.
Spending and salary changes are coming to Duke as it tries to counter COVID-19’s financial cost.
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all on-campus events until June 30 have been officially canceled or postponed. Here’s an overview of some popular events that have been canceled due to the pandemic.
The highest bidders in The Patchwork Market’s Instagram auctions win hand-crafted prizes, but founder Morgan Grimm’s hope is that the featured makers come out victorious, too.
We don’t need business-as-usual Duke—we need more flexibility, more grace, more reminders that our academic productivity isn’t more important than our ability to survive.
Numerous programs and activities previously scheduled to be held on campus this summer have been canceled following the recent suspension of residential activities during the summer due to COVID-19
There are 437 students, including many international students, who are still on campus. With safety concerns and embassies and borders closed, many students feel uncertain about the future.
How do you mourn for a moment, a memory?
They may not be experts, but students in many of Duke’s global health courses are some of the first to study the COVID-19 pandemic in an academic course.
Second-year Duke law student Zack Kaplan spent his 27th birthday a bit differently from how he might have envisioned it a few weeks prior: eating a chocolate cupcake in self-isolation.
There’s a quote that I like from Luke Farrell’s Department Of Interview last year. Department Of asks him, “Fill in the blank: You know you’re a Duke student if...” He responds, “Uh, um, you pretend to be an extrovert.”
Sure, there were fleeting moments of personal gratification, but in the Duke environment I was fixated on external indicators of success. I wasn’t asking myself if what I was doing made me fulfilled.
I’ve always craved glory. My dream is to become a meme, or, better, to have someone make a hologram of me performing a duet with someone unspeakably famous. Like Tupac.
In the next coronavirus response bill, Congress must pass a national moratorium on evictions and foreclosures and provide substantial resources for emergency rental assistance.
One group of Duke students, however, started thinking about the virus earlier than most.
"Duke is more secure and better positioned than most to weather the storm, but it will be a difficult time for all colleges—almost certainly worse than the financial crisis of 2008."
The Chronicle spoke to the co-director of Duke’s Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health about how students should stay healthy, keep others safe and support each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I’ve found myself feeling unfulfilled due to the fact that I no longer have anything concrete in the near future to look forward to. Now, I’m left to analyze how we, as a generation, think about the future.
With the students of Duke and Duke Kunshan scattered the world over, there has also arisen the opportunity to find commonalities in unsuspecting places—from waking up at ungodly hours for Zoom discussion groups to gripes about the inconveniences of online assignments, shared experiences do help in creating an almost communal resilience against letting these circumstances affect us.
