OPINION
To juul or not to juul?
By Daniela Flamini | February 26, 2018So we may all be dying faster. But damn, we look great doing it...
So we may all be dying faster. But damn, we look great doing it...
I am white, I stand on four legs, but that which I stand for, I shall never attain. What am I?
Ultimately, this proposal is not only a dangerously ill-informed attempt to satiate the interests of the NRA, but also crafted entirely against the wishes of the teachers worried their schools will be the next one to hold candlelight vigils featured on the nightly news.
Being a Duke student involves much more than passively observing Duke’s institutional power at work—we have a responsibility to question, challenge, and criticize.
Durham’s circa 1922 statue was erected in part by an allocation of $5000 in country tax money at a time when black Duhamites were restricted from voting and politically repressed by Jim Crow laws. Meaning they had no say in their tax dollars being funneled to the monument’s initial construction.
The lack of education about how food is metabolized in the body means that most people don’t understand how food will make them feel (and look).
I can’t count how many times I’ve been with one of my parents in the car when a song comes on, and they’ve immediately started dancing and singing along to it. Then they look at me, incredulous that the song we’re both listening to didn’t evoke the same reaction in me. That song transports them back to a happy moment in their life that I wasn’t there to witness.
Throughout Duke’s history, students have had a central role in the preservation of honor and integrity and in creating conversations about issues that need attention.
Public transit is not a zero-sum game; transit investment does not have to equate to citizen displacement. Durham is at a crossroads—it must decide if it truly wants to be an accessible city for all, and act accordingly.
We are not asking others to pity us, but rather suggesting that it is a shame that our world has come to this point of double standards.
For a few months now, I’ve been repeatedly telling my friends about how excited I was to finally turn 21 and be able to order a goddamn beer with my burger at Burger Bach.
Comparing the atmosphere of ‘68 verses ‘18—both years being characterized by a deep distrust in government, crises within American liberalism and deep political divisions—numerous parallels can be noted.
The reasons that Republicans offer for the prevalence of gun violence betray their commitment to do absolutely nothing about this issue going forward. They emphasize the “evil” nature of the shooting and the shooter, knowing full well that we can’t legislate against evil. They claim that no sort of gun laws would prevent a criminal from procuring a gun.
Professor MacLean’s language has no place in this world—not in the mouths of either the right or the left, not at a book talk, and certainly not at Duke University.
“You must define success for yourself.”
Sick of unwanted, mediocre grinding at Shooters (amongst a litany of far more serious offenses), a team of female engineers at Duke began quietly pushing the boundaries of modern science last year with the goal of finding more intelligent and less douchey life somewhere amongst the stars.
Nowhere in the American Dream is there a caveat about having to teach schoolchildren how to dodge bullets sent hurling through their hallways.
My point, and all I know on the issue, is this: we must have the conversation on reforming gun policy, now. This is a national problem, and all of us are tied up in it: lawmakers, activists on both sides, and the gun lobby elite. We must actually come together and determine how to have a Second Amendment without so much slaughter.
Art—specifically, the art of film—is a powerful outlet for emotion. For this reason, I call myself a cinephile. Film can make me experience what I normally wouldn’t, stirring an entire spectrum of emotions within me, from deep despair to unadulterated joy. The emotion I get most from film however, is anger. Pure. Raw. Passionate. Anger.
Empathy is a test of character, but it is also a test of strength, effectiveness and capacity for good. Global leaders need the emotional intelligence and ability to work in diverse teams in order address the challenges that lay ahead.