It is contradictory and discriminatory in itself to prioritize one group over another.
We see careers as linear — where each job must lead perfectly to the next. So, understandably, we think what we pick for our first role in the professional world is crucial, forever closing and opening doors.
You cannot choose to live as colorblind in a world that clearly isn’t.
My measure of self-worth was always my talent; at that moment, I felt like summer had ripped it away from me.
For me, tech is the epitome of the contemporary American dream and while we love to pretend that it’s a perfect meritocracy, so much of achieving upward mobility is built on luck.
I’m graduating in less than a year, and I cannot stand the fact that I will likely be leaving having made no impact on Duke’s investment practices despite the years of hard work by Duke Climate Coalition’s (DCC) campaign.
A more overarching predicament that afflicts the academic milieu at Duke University is the tendency toward an excessive degree of coddling.
Something has made me believe that I’m not allowed to enjoy life if I don’t look good while doing it. And it’s BS.
As Duke may yet again be kingmaker in future Triangle transportation initiatives, Duke students today should be aware of this history and grasp the unrealized power that lies in their collective voice.
We owe it to ourselves to let art fill our souls. To let conversations with other people make us see the world in new ways. To listen to music and look at an artwork and to watch a film from decades ago and know that people have felt happiness and sadness and anger and love and pain and loneliness the way we do, all along.
Living in abundance, then, is living with peace of mind. Only by defying the scarcity mindset — by sharing our knowledge with others, by helping one-another and by letting go of feelings of jealousy and remorse — can our Duke community live in harmony.
We devote a lot of attention to our athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs on campus, but it’s about time we offered the same respect to our musicians.
This is an unprecedented time for the state of our world. We are in an existential crisis. So we are going to Climate Commit, and we are going to do it hard. Harder than ever before.
Eating this dish feels like bathing in a health-and-wellness ocean of chlorophyll and vitamin C.
I am stunned and appalled by “men’s rights” activist Mark Perry’s federal complaint against Duke University’s Alice M. Baldwin Scholars program.
Pursue a passion and paradoxically, you’ll live.
As my infinitely wise psychiatrist told me, instead of thinking of all the ways something could go wrong, think about how it could go incredibly right.
Diversifying Duke is an issue of and not or. Striving for economic diversity does not mean we shouldn't also strive to make campus racially diverse as well.
To come to Duke as a first-generation student is to come to a foreign country not knowing the language or customs and to struggle daily to understand.
In simple terms, DEI in the college process essentially attaches a certain “value” to our race, which backtracks the progress made by civil rights activists decades ago.
