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By Shruthi Narayanan | 2 hours agoAre you listening, or just waiting to speak? What if your superpower isn't your voice, but your ears?
Are you listening, or just waiting to speak? What if your superpower isn't your voice, but your ears?
North Carolina’ Senate has passed Senate Bill 50, allowing permitless concealed carry for individuals over 18. This legislation eliminates background checks and training requirements, a shift that data suggests will lead to increased gun violence. Drawing on my personal experiences from Michigan, a state that has endured fatal school shootings, I reflect on the broader implications of policy that prioritizes deregulation over public safety.
Administrators held an emergency meeting, and a brand new initiative was born. Now, the incoming freshmen will be used as labor to build their future campus. To ease freshmen into this unprecedented position, the president abolished all orientation programs, even the existing P-Build, to start a fresh program: P-Construction.
When a majority-white institution, such as a student living group (SLG), organizes a cultural event (as Wayne made explicit through their Holi banner) that is primarily celebrated by people of color, they incur the risk of diminishing the event’s cultural significance.
The Ivy League and other premier institutions are making their commitments to empower students regardless of financial status, but the silence from Duke is deafening.
As college students, writing is a tool we use everyday. But how can we use writing as a form of expression to improve the intentionality and clarity of our own lives?
For a little more than ten years, Duke Chapel has held a Jazz Vespers worship service once a semester. This service — a collaboration between Duke Chapel and the Duke Jazz Program — combines the ancient form of evening vespers with the musical improvisation of jazz.
My name is Joe Asamoah-Boadu and as the president of the Black Student Alliance (BSA), I would like to place my organization’s endorsement of Tara Singh for Duke Student Government president.
The Small Town Rural Student Coalition is thrilled to see such an impressive array of candidates running for DSG presidency this year, and we are sure that each one will do their best to support and advocate for all whom they represent if elected.
Duke Engineering Student Government (ESG) is pleased to endorse Tara Singh for Duke Student Government (DSG) president.
There’s this unspoken hierarchy at schools like Duke. Some paths are easier to explain to your parents, your peers, to strangers at a dinner table. Certain majors command respect the moment you name them and seem to carry more weight. Others require a follow-up explanation, a second sentence, a little smile to suggest you’re self-aware.
I know how you think of yourself — an unbendable soldier. But you don’t always have to prove yourself. Once the toast hits the floor — jam-side-down — you can start lending yourself some grace.
On behalf of The Backpack Project Durham, a Duke student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit and SOFC-recognized service organization, we proudly endorse Tara Singh for Duke Student Government (DSG) president for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Mi Gente’s Executive Council reviewed the platforms and election materials of all Duke Student Government presidential candidates on March 23. After careful deliberation, the Council endorsed Tara Singh by a vote of 14-3, with four members abstaining.
The conservative hijacking of free speech is as much a political failure of the left as a con job of the right. Over the last few years, liberals in America have turned away from their rich historical tradition of defending free speech, which up until recently had been a cornerstone of classical liberal thought and progressive movements for centuries.
I can think of nothing greater than surviving some of the hardest working conditions, escaping, and somehow, against all odds, building a life for yourself and your family. That is courage. That is perseverance. That is a kind of success no résumé bullet point will ever capture.
This piece explores how a recent transition in style was a deeper reflection of adjustment to the competitive pre-professional culture at Duke. Parting with a particular fashion choice can feel as though you are losing part of your identity, but can also be a symbol of acceptance and maturity.
Duke is an elite university, and all that prestige means that Duke should be more resilient to the Trump administration’s threats to higher education. But it’s not.
Russia’s war against Ukraine, the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating climate issues and biodiversity losses — we live in a world of interconnected crises: a polycrisis.
In an increasingly digital world, our interactions with our physical surroundings still have a profound impact on who we are.