The music crescendos and suddenly you’re there. You’re standing on a rain-soaked road and the daylight is dead, but you finally feel alive.
The oaks have survived the first hundred years of Duke’s turbulent history. Let’s make sure they’ll be around one hundred years from now.
Not only does hyper grade inflation diminish the value of true achievement, it also shields us from a reality that does not deliberately accommodate our success.
It's not simply our lives we protect with prose and protest. It is our way of life itself.
At the end of the day, it is not our future self that will be asked to work towards that goal, but our current self.
While most pre-professional societies do not have a residential section, Beta Upsilon Mu members creatively promote residential connections by commandeering a new common room to couch-surf in every week.
No matter what type of cuisine it models, adding a restaurant that is trying to serve real food is an unambiguous win in my book.
I’m miles away from identifying with the Republican party, but I can no longer impose false narratives onto their voter base.
If classes continue to fail to provide the value students hope to derive from college, it won’t matter if AI is banned or not. Students will always find a way to cheat.
Two years into QuadEx implementation and we are worse than where we started, with nearly zero residential excitement on this campus.
Mandating service work as a graduation requirement would help diffuse the concentrated tensions around career building and professionalism to a useful cause, skillfully deploying Duke students’ talents in arenas where they can do good.
I am kind of thinking that bitcoins themselves are a cheap form of fiction, but considerably less interesting than a random short story by a mildly talented writer.
Perhaps it’s sad to be in your mid-20s and have a well-honed strategy for getting your money’s worth out of a chain restaurant, but I choose to think of it as one of my charming qualities.
In light of our view that there is no military solution to the Israel-Gaza War, we understand the calls for an immediate cease-fire. What is needed, however, is a fundamentally different discourse — one that recognizes the multiple conflicting truths and complexities that inextricably bind us as Israeli and Diaspora Jews and Palestinians.
In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the prophet Amos, saying, “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I have long considered the capacity to fervently sob to the prelude of ‘Tannhäuser’ as an indicator of virtuous moral character.
We must also honor that we have invisible, moral injuries from how former Duke Football Coach Mike Elko left us.
I can't imagine how difficult it must be for those of you who are facing the prospect of a third coaching staff in your time at Duke and are being asked to trust another group of coaches.
Duke students have lived their whole lives being told they are smarter and more interesting than the average person. Opinion columnists dare to challenge this and say: “Untrue! Our opinions are just as boring as everyone else’s.”
Participants in the event — spanning a broad swath of political, religious, socio-economic and ethnic divides — called for more spaces at Duke in which to engage in civil discourse with people other people with differing viewpoints.
