In short, Grey's Anatomy has done its research and has included in the show-making process the voices of those it seeks to accurately represent, creating episodes that challenge its viewers to think critically and empathetically. Easily digestible for a mainstream audience, its thoughtful portrayals of social issues have the potential to change more minds and impact more lives.
I met many Duke students from schools like Durham Academy and North Carolina School of Science and Math, but few who graduated from the Durham Public School system. I actually met a Marketplace employee who attended Riverside High School long before I met a Duke student who walked those halls.
Accountability and consequence for sexual misconduct on college campuses is long overdue, especially when a lack thereof means the threat of violence and retraumatization for all those who must share the offender’s space. But, if expulsion and other sanctions listed in Duke’s sexual misconduct policy were to be viewed through a restorative justice lens, I think they’d fail to meet the core tenets of reparation, reunion and transformation that the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation outlines as crucial in the restoration process.
Female beauty ideals are difficult enough to deal with as is. But as an Asian-American woman, I feel caught between two opposing standards of beauty. Too often, it feels as if I do not fulfill enough of either ideal to which I am compared. Either way, I feel inadequate.
“Wow… you went by yourself? That’s cool, I guess.”
More than the “restaurant with waiters to main West” and a “resort style outdoor swimming pool” recommended by Miller in “Making Duke perfect”, the small steps that we can take to create a more open, tolerant community will undoubtedly make Duke into a better institution.
“Underwood Under the Hood”; “Of My Car”; “Think White Rappers Can’t Use Racial Slurs?”; “Hold My Beer”, “Lyin’ to the Papers”; “ Gadzooks! They’ve Occupied the Allen Building”, “How Low Can You Lay?”; “Nuisance Value”; and “God DAMN I Love Being a Wealthy White Guy with Lawyers”.
It does make me sad and a bit concerned that I am losing a sharpness with numbers I once possessed; in high school, I was often top of my math classes.
Politics and sports function in tandem. To assert that anyone should leave politics out of the discussion engages in a distorted reality in which entertainment is absent of any real-life influences and social consequences. Duke students should consider this when attending their next basketball game.
I think I’m going to talk to you about trees for a while.
The Chronicle got the inside scoop on these massively athletic 17 year olds’ decisions to play for Duke. Turns out, the factor that sealed the deal is surprisingly obvious. When asked why he chose Duke, Williamson answered, “Oh easy. The grass. The impeccably kept lawn.”
This piece alone stands little chance of altering Duke’s political culture overnight, but it remains our responsibility as Duke students to bring these issues to the forefront. Normalizing conversations over political issues outside of the current zero-sum paradigm dampens the fear of open discourse and facilitates greater understanding.
Greek life has personally helped me grow intellectually, spiritually and as a citizen of the Duke community.
In an ideal world, I would have rushed sororities. One of the personal characteristics that I pride myself on is being able to become friends with almost anyone.
In the era of fake news and partisan mistruths, fine-tuning the direction of our moral compasses is an experience we should wholeheartedly engage in.
Under the guise of strengthening so called “religious freedoms,” the HHS and the Trump administration are stripping away the fundamental rights of those who seek proper healthcare to do so without the fear of prejudice or rejection.
In order to undo poisonous socializations that often lead to pervasive unwanted sexual experiences, we must stress the importance of restorative justice and critical unlearning processes.
The humanities extend other ways for digesting the beauty and horror that comprises every human’s short stint on earth. STEM is a very necessary part of our society, but the humanities deserve equal weight. When America is so entrenched in furthering technology at the sake of entire worldviews, it is evident that such areas of study and work are not currently as valued as science and math are.
While drugs and alcohol are at the core of the destruction and incomprehensible demoralization that addicts and alcoholics so profoundly experience, they are not the problem.
I have written about President Trump’s pathological lying. While there is not an equivalence between Trump’s untruths and Sanders’ oversimplifications, both signify the troubling popularity of demagogues who offer facile and unrealistic solutions to complex problems and disregard inconvenient truths.
