OPINION
Why you should start bathing in the forest
By Henry Stephens IV | December 8, 2022Breathe and relax. Let your body lead you. Listen to nature’s melodies and inhale the aroma of the Earth.
Breathe and relax. Let your body lead you. Listen to nature’s melodies and inhale the aroma of the Earth.
Two things are crystal clear from these reports — one, southern families from racial minority groups have suffered disproportionately at the hands of COVID, and two, the suffering has targeted multiple facets of their lives simultaneously.
As a senior thesis (with Dr. Bridgette Hard in Psychology & Neuroscience), I asked Duke students to define success in their own words.
Upon arriving at Duke as a freshman in August 2021, I had the eye-opening realization that Mizrahi Jews are far underrepresented on campus.
As a former campus police chief and now Sheriff, I have always advocated for responsible gun ownership throughout my career as a law enforcement leader.
Mandatory attendance policies may be well-intentioned, but they rely on the natural distrust of the student, the ableism-coded “laziness” of the individual.
Through its novelty, poetry shatters the conventions of everyday language to goad at something much deeper.
Please, research the court candidates. Vote for the people who want to safekeep all votes.
Perhaps it is time to stop caring about optics, and start allowing your poor students to sip their Diet Dr. Peppers.
Duke University will be judged by current and future generations in the ways we decide to implement concrete, measurable, and forward thinking goals to ensure that our actions are as bold as our words.
Iranian women are not victims, they will emerge victors over a repressive regime.
Until Duke pledges to total [fossil fuel] divestment, the Climate Commitment will remain a statement of utter hypocrisy.
809 is the number of Jewish students who are forced to make the choice: go to class, or go to synagogue.
I wrote this letter to you in the hopes that it would make you feel a little less lonely.
To diminish this source of community at all is disheartening; to diminish it sooner than we had expected is even more so.
If I still can't get a visa this fall, I will give up the opportunity to study at Duke University.
Duke has once again failed diversity on campus. The Bryan Center must remain a student facing area, promoting equity and inclusivity.
Dean Jackie Looney retires this year. She was a beacon of opportunity for over 30 years for families who have struggled over generations.
Selective social groups, unaffiliated or not, need more transparency in their systems to address racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism and sexual assault.
Duke University and the Global Education Office (GEO) should offer more diverse study abroad programs in Latin America and the Caribbean to better reflect the Latinx/Latine student body instead of overemphasizing Spain.