College is supposed to be hard. But college isn’t supposed to be that hard. Rather, it’s not supposed to be hard in that way—not hard enough to mentally break 20-year-old kids. And the more I hear about the unreasonably difficult experiences of some students, ironically referred to as “the real Duke difference,” the more jaded I become about Duke’s flaws—those that I was never aware of as a kid.
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This week, Duke University announced it will be accepting Snapchat stories, Instagram feeds and Facebook timelines in substitute for the Common App form that undergrad applicants usually submit. When pressed for comment, University administrators said that social media accounts are now a more accurate portrayal of applicant success than official test scores or essays about their selfless National Honor Society service.
It is not enough to be outraged whenever another presidential faux pas by Trump seeps into the media headlines. We should also critically examine the ways in which we may also be ignorant or misinformed. Native American history is American history, and these legacies should be included within the national mainstream.
Because conduct is about consequences—whereas codes are about community.
God forbid a disgruntled woman inconvenience anyone with what might be perceived as shrill whining.
White Americans are never called “European Americans.”
If this phenomenon taking place in Alabama spreads to other states, the tools which candidates use and the tools which constituents use to talk about and then act upon these sorts of issues will have to be reconstructed.
With the current political climate, it is more imperative than ever for our media, from the Times to the Chronicle, to contextualize our reporting within a nationally-conscious moral compass that avoids normalizing dangerously un-American ideologies such as Nazism.
The male gaze upon male gays holds muscular, masculine, fatless, white bodies as beautiful. These bodies are the ones to be desired. These bodies are the ones to emulate.
Most of us have never experienced an internet that isn’t an open, virtual library. While indefinitely loading web pages and buffering videos are common, we haven’t faced these inconveniences because our internet service providers had a stake in our usage. If this proposal is passed, the internet could look like a vastly different place.
Brick-and-mortar retail stores should not be panicking. If large department stores want to survive and prosper, they need to innovate and restructure the ways they compete. This online revolution may be beneficial to productivity. Sales can still grow while store traffic decreases.
For university students, the allure of well-publicized research and opportunities to travel abroad should not distract from the greater purpose of these endeavors.
“If the Starbucks cup does not vividly and upsettingly display Mary giving birth to Christ I will throw my Keurig Machine into traffic.”
In the aftermath of these allegations against some of popular culture’s most iconic figures, it is important that we as consumers critically examine their work in a more nuanced light beyond just simply boycotting them outright.
Our country needs be led by the voices we haven’t heard and the multitudes of identities that have never been president.
History isn’t the story of individuals so much as a vast battleground of economic, social and technological forces occasionally figurehead-ed by an individual.
No matter how bright the day seems, we must face the beasts that will come at night. And this is the their greatest terror: we do not know their purpose.
How Duke chooses to respond to the allegations against Rose will be indicative of how committed the administration truly is to creating a safe and inclusive campus, even if it means speaking out against alumni.
If we are truly concerned about issues such as raising wages, ensuring access to affordable health care, and improving educational opportunities, then we all must participate in the political process.
