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After the election, emotions are still raw for many and energies have channeled into fever-pitched cries to “FIX THIS!” I agree that some sober review of our politics is called for.
I'm facing the reality that what matters to me, and many of the people I am surrounded with on a daily basis, is not necessarily what matters to most, and this oversight was a critical fault in my views for the election.
When I applied to Duke as a student who wanted to enter the arts, I thought I would spend the next four years of my life amongst a sea of pre-professionals without an inkling of resources or contacts.
What would you say to a citizen in 1930s Germany who said “I do not agree with systematically persecuting the Jews but I do not want to force that belief on my country”?
The status quo, business-as-usual way of obtaining energy simply will not succeed in a century of urgent global ecological realities.
I fear for the next generation of kids like me, who grow up colorful in lily-white areas.
Today, a majority of my country told me that I am less than human. A majority of Americans decided that my Latin skin denotes inferiority.
Regardless of who wins the election, the Republican Party will have to undergo an autopsy.
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Ours is a nation that still struggles with structural and institutional racism and police brutality, and has contributed in no small part to the climate change that is already wreaking havoc upon the globe.
Dialogue is not meant to be a substitute for action; and indeed, meetings with administrators, designs of new policies and proposals for different programs underway are all concurrent with these conversations.
Humanitarian work is not finished as soon as money is sent.
Given their past behaviors, Clinton and Trump unequivocally diverge from the conventional rapport between the president and the press.
While the editorial was filled with inaccurate information about Teach For America’s program, mission and impact, the most uninformed assertion is that current Duke students would be best served to take their talents elsewhere.
I don’t think that introducing broad-stroke assessments of society from hundred-year-old texts is an optimal or efficient choice.
Sometimes you can make a difference with a click, but the wrong click hurts more than it helps.
Most never critically evaluate the central assumptions and methodology of Economics.
The university’s assertion that emissions associated with electricity production at the CHP plant should not be directly accounted for in the Duke CAP emission calculations is inappropriate.
For women, body image and disordered eating, sexual assault and hook-up culture, and social status and hierarchy proved the most pervasive forms of pressure molding their four-year tenure.
