White people didn’t do anything to earn racial privilege, but along a similar vein, dependents of upper or middle class families didn’t do anything to earn the economic privilege we were born into as infants.
I chose Duke because I wanted a packed schedule.
For the thousands of Duke students and alumni who have failed to find a sense of community on this campus, it is not a question of whether or not housing reform should happen; rather, it is when and how it will happen.
The fact that legacy admissions, a policy first implemented at Ivy League universities to keep Jewish students out, continues to be used at Duke at the expense of highly qualified non-legacy applicants, reeks of institutionalized racism and classism.
Though the Duke Community Standard does not ask Duke students to control their emotions, go to war for their country, or respect those who are higher than them in the grand scheme of things, the ancient Greeks’ belief in excellence is something we should apply to how we think about honor today.
“I think I saw some of the worst parts of Duke while sitting in a deliberations room.”
The hookup girl, the friend or any sexual assault victim is also someone’s child, girlfriend or sibling. She is not an anonymous face for someone to sleep with, send off and boast about the next day. This is where the unbalanced power dynamic surfaces: when men get to engage in predatory behavior, are not held accountable and fail to understand the pain they cause.
If Haspel does break the glass ceiling as the first female director in the CIA, the shards of her victory will most likely fall upon those disadvantaged all across the world in the name of “intelligence” and “security.”
When we black out, we lose our inhibitions. That is, we lose our “voluntary or involuntary restraint on the direct expression of an instinct.” Simply put, we lose the rational ability to read situations, to reason with others and to recognize our own compromised state of being.
Ideally, in the future, strides being made in graduating diverse legions of new innovators and thinkers will be enough to thrust universities into headlines, but, until then, here’s hoping UMBC will continue to thrive and attract leaders of tomorrow with the added extra boost from the historic UVA game.
It’s a cycle of trite statements and hollow condolences, of thoughts and prayers that culminate into inaction and shun politics.
Over winter break, I decided to worsen my social standing a bit by deleting Instagram off my phone.
I dropped out of Cooper, the most selective SLG on campus, after seeing how degrading the rush process is.
On Friday, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III fed everything depraved in the current administration.
Detach concepts of personal worth from internships and jobs, find solace in loved ones and try to redefine how you think of leisure time.
Last week, we were heartened to read of Duke’s decision to bar incoming students from hand-picking a first-year roommate.
I am a part of Kristina Smith’s campaign for DSG President. I was there when the alleged campaign misconduct occurred. And I am here to tell you that the Board of Elections has a created a controversy where one does not exist.
Even fans of certain players, admirers of certain athletes, will tone-police these same individuals, cautioning them from taking extreme steps outside of their roles as just basketball players. They will present the ultimate question every basketball fan—every sports fan, even—faces: why do you care so much about players you don’t actually know, teams you are not a part of, outcomes that don’t tangibly affect you or a game you can barely play?
In most superhero movies, the world is endangered by the newest imaginary monster or power that would never exist in real life. But in Black Panther, the root of the villainy is systematic oppression and unequal allocation of resources—both in the U.S., and in wealthier Western nations that believe they have no responsibility to help nations with so little.
