“Honestly we have no idea how he even got the Prius down there,” began an utterly baffled DUPD sheriff as he opened the most bizarre press conference in Duke’s history.
We were mad at the NSA, which took the odd step to protect our data. So why aren’t we mad at Facebook, which left our data flapping in the breeze?
“I could never get into Duke."
Given the egregious institutional wrongs committed by universities like Duke, some form of reparations program would do well to atone for our role in oppressing people of color.
Maybe I’ve been so hyper-focused on creating a successful person that I don’t actually understand her; that, in many ways, I know the people around me better than I know my own self. That makes sense. If we never spend time alone, how do we know what we want, why we’re here at Duke or what really matters to us?
Being a great leader is about investing, bettering and believing in yourself so much that others begin to believe in you too.
Brown's death is less of a sign of racism fading into the murky shadows of time and more of a reminder that the mantle of justice she carried now rests squarely on the shoulders of the current generation.
My organization would still exist, and could absolutely still be as close, without its sophomore members living in the same space. And if you think that’s untrue for your organization, then ask yourself what that means about the depth of your relationships: if it is absolutely necessary for you all to be in the same physical space in order to be close, then are you really that close in the first place?
Sometimes life, in all its unpredictability, gets in the way, and we can’t transform our expectations into reality; sometimes we are forced to drop the reigns of control.
This type of jingoistic and ultranationalist rhetoric is by no means a stranger to Duke’s hallowed halls and we have a duty to our Muslim peers to confront it whenever it rears its head.
I was huddled under the desk in my room trying to remember how to breathe as panic ravaged me and vivid flashbacks flooded my mind.
I hope that those in power can recognize the dangerous consequences of their proposals and the devastating results if their rhetoric becomes reality.
Why is it that no one listens to B.L.M.’s students of color who are yelling at the top of their lungs until their voices grow raw and hoarse, but when white kids do the same thing, people suddenly care?
At a time of increasingly tense security competition, the aggression that John Bolton has embodied throughout his career only heightens the risk of a conflagration.
At the end of the day, Duke cannot be characterized or stereotyped as a school full of students who are wired to work hard and grind all day, and we should not advocate for students to be wired in such a way.
Instead it is about an ordinary person, broken down by the world, but who found within them that special Duke spirit to pick themselves up and keep going.
At a university where some tent for weeks on end to earn tickets for college basketball’s biggest rivalry, we should question whether the sporting events that bind us together exploit some of our very own classmates.
When my children inherit a family background, genes and appearances of a Chinese individual. But it is up to me, their mother, to decide how much of the culture I wish to instill in them—and at this point in time, I wouldn’t know how to begin.
When we speak or write or sing we aren’t just making vacuous noise. We are slinging around firehoses that yield not water, but instead pure, raw thought.
The Insta Insanity competition will be going on for the next two weeks, so students can track both their NCAA brackets and their Insta brackets.
