As leaders throughout the Triangle attempt to woo Amazon, they should move beyond blind support and be more critical of Amazon’s possible presence in North Carolina.
Welcome to Trump’s America, Year One: where the inconceivable is commonplace and the unconscionable is government business.
As of his latest edition, Cook intends to initially say one word every five minutes but will actually update the speech on-the-fly as he delivers it, slowing it down even more to an agonising crawl of one word every thirty minutes.
We blew our chance in 2016 and saw the consequences in 2017. May we fight back stronger than ever in 2018.
While partisan politics weren’t birthed in the Trump administration, this shutdown represents a type of bitterness and frustration that feels particularly concentrated.
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I am one generation removed from poverty. The patriarchal gender roles that define women as assets kept by patriarchs with several wives, each to produce children who are seemingly destined to an impoverished life, still creep at my ankles.
Gerrymandering is undoubtedly contentious and rightfully so. However, an imbalanced political infrastructure does not deserve the entirety of the blame. Often, we disenfranchise ourselves because of our apathy.
SLGs represent an important part of the college experience and the transition toward a residential college system would lead to less fulfilling college experiences for those in SLG life. It would not necessitate more fulfilling college experiences for independents. Amongst the panel, there was a consensus: every Duke student, regardless of affiliation or lack thereof, wants to find a sense of community.
When activities no longer feel like conscious decisions, when the agency you originally exerted to begin them in the first place is gone, the enjoyment goes with them. There is a constant pressure at Duke to avoid free time and to make your day as obligatory as possible. But where exactly is the pleasure in that?
Taking our interest in politics beyond Page Auditorium and social media pages, and to the ballot boxes in local elections that have real consequences for the city we live in, is what we as Duke students should strive for. Rather than being spectators within the Duke bubble, we should seek to be active participants in the democratic process—no matter how “bland” waiting in line to vote may seem.
Duke’s somewhat limiting social scene has been among the hardest of adjustments to make for these displaced students. “Clubs in London always had musical guests, and they wouldn’t make people pay for tickets, so the cover charge would stay the same even when we went to go see Diplo, Travis Scott, Akon or Jason Derulo,” Carolina said. “Maybe they cleaned the saddle on the Shooters bull since we’ve been gone?”
Greitens’ fall from grace illuminates our perceptions of power and the reckless decisions we tacitly accept as means to an end. Given Greitens is the latest on a list of Duke affiliates to make national headlines for alleged or proven improprieties, we attempt to understand what leads some among us to embark on the wrong path to success.
This is a plea to acknowledge that there is often a direct tradeoff between diversity and comfort, a plea that deeply authentic relationships exist at this campus, even if it may not seem that way on the surface.
Any reasonable reader will walk away from the book concluding that its authors believe the president suffers from the psychiatric deficiencies they describe in their respective chapters. Its authors’ formula clearly diverges from the overarching spirit of the Goldwater Rule, which seeks to avoid public hysteria by demanding that such weighty accusations be supported by an actual examination rather than armchair psychiatry from the sidelines.
While ‘progressive’ fraternity parties are thankfully a thing of the past at Duke, the mindset that accompanied them is not.
It is clear that the North Korean threat is complex. It demands nuanced approaches that favor de-escalation, rather than saber-rattling tweets. If our ultimate goal is to prevent any possibility of nuclear annihilation and to instead resolve these fears at their root, we cannot continue down this path of ham-fisted bravado.
Every toothbrush I touch becomes electric. Halloween is named after me. I used a number 4 pencil on the SATs and got a 1570. Elon Musk is my fairy godmother.
Nugget: Right let’s get a few things straight—I didn’t serve two tours in Afghanistan so that I could be harassed and used on a daily basis for some pathetic student’s social media capital—
