Focusing on a limited, highly privileged understanding of menstrual equity is an injustice in itself for it alienates and curtails issues relinquished to the periphery, at a time where human respect and public health needs are already overlooked.
“But X-rays show that over the past two generations administration officials have miraculously evolved to survive despite losing every single vertebra in their spines."
Practically every day, I feel like I find out about someone who, whether through their scholarship, service, involvement or personality, is making an indelible impact on this complex and dynamic place.
You will spend large parts of the next few years within an all-male community with little outside input, running the risk of locking yourself into a hyper-masculine, alcohol-filled echo chamber. Pretty soon you’ll be so deep in this culture that calling out a brother for casual racism or sexism, or admitting you have a mental health issue that you try to treat with alcohol, will become impossible.
What seems to be at the root of these bureaucratic debacles is that such tasks, while important, tend to fall wayside for many DSG members because they don’t have the same potential for self-aggrandizing glory as other initiatives do.
We don’t have to sit in a room for ten minutes everyday and ponder life, but we should be able to walk from class to class without scrolling through our phones, or be able to sit and enjoy ourselves without feeling obligated to anything or anyone.
If we could start from scratch and design a housing model for Duke, would anyone propose the system we have now?
The stubborn truth of complicity is that it involves action and inaction alike. Some people do the wrong thing, while others do little to stop them. The result is the same.
But then it hit me: I was supposed to read all five acts of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that Friday. And I didn’t. Because I was busy seeing John Mulaney.
The American people do not require an abstract vision of a Camelot II going into 2020, but rather desperately need a politician and party willing to concretely embody and defend the values of diversity, human rights and freedom from a policy-based perspective.
In a “data brief” dated Sept. 21, 2017, Duke’s Office of Student Affairs found that only 56 percent of Duke students graduating in 2017 agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “Duke houses provide a sense of community and sense of belonging.”
President Trump is using the power of stories to manipulate the head and the heart, proffering a fictitious and dangerous narrative of immigration. I have a different story to tell the president.
For those of you who haven’t taken a Yale tour in the past 7 years, please take a moment of your time to watch this video. 17 minutes of cringe can be too much for some so please view at your own discretion (three minutes or so should do the trick).
While the first year of the Trump administration has felt like a drawn-out one, we still can’t be sure of how much long term damage will be done by policies like these that are enacted for the xenophobes within his base. Time will only tell how this administration will change the course of history for the worse.
If all my connections are really just one big circle at Duke that is derived from homogeneity in socioeconomic status, race, nationality, sexuality, cultural identity, etc., then how many people outside of my circle will I never be exposed to? Duke is an institution that remains proud of its diversity, which is a major reason I chose Duke in the first place. But I cannot help but wonder if I am truly making the most of my experience by remaining familiar only with the people I already know.
Duke has enough money to fund separate gaming consoles for Galactica, Deer Hunter and Pacman, but not enough to render itself accessible to every socioeconomic sector of the population.
Professor Davis’ upcoming visit necessitates the contrast between a powerless activist’s crime-less punishment and a powerful administrator's punishment-less crime.
The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2018 Young Trustee elections from Monday, Feb. 5 to Sunday, Feb. 11. No endorsements will be published after Sunday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m.
Miller’s positions make a lot of sense to a sizable portion of the American populace, who voted for Trump in large part because they aligned with the campaign’s stance on immigration. A significant portion of the American populace believes that less immigration and more comprehensive border control measures are the right path for the United States, and they need to be heard within the discourse.
Essentially, the app removes the whole step of actually having to meet people—it lets the existing members judge rushees’ appearances and personalities from afar.
