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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

Jazz as a way of life

By Luke A. Powery | March 31, 2025

For a little more than ten years, Duke Chapel has held a Jazz Vespers worship service once a semester. This service — a collaboration between Duke Chapel and the Duke Jazz Program — combines the ancient form of evening vespers with the musical improvisation of jazz.

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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

Degrees of fiction

By Barbara Cardenas | March 30, 2025

There’s this unspoken hierarchy at schools like Duke. Some paths are easier to explain to your parents, your peers, to strangers at a dinner table. Certain majors command respect the moment you name them and seem to carry more weight. Others require a follow-up explanation, a second sentence, a little smile to suggest you’re self-aware.

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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

The final countdown

By Anna Garziera | March 30, 2025

I know how you think of yourself — an unbendable soldier. But you don’t always have to prove yourself. Once the toast hits the floor — jam-side-down — you can start lending yourself some grace.

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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

It’s time for the left to reclaim free speech

By Leo Goldberg | March 28, 2025

The conservative hijacking of free speech is as much a political failure of the left as a con job of the right. Over the last few years, liberals in America have turned away from their rich historical tradition of defending free speech, which up until recently had been a cornerstone of classical liberal thought and progressive movements for centuries.

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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

The privilege to care about your CV

By Annie Ming Kowalik | March 27, 2025

I can think of nothing greater than surviving some of the hardest working conditions, escaping, and somehow, against all odds, building a life for yourself and your family. That is courage. That is perseverance. That is a kind of success no résumé bullet point will ever capture.

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OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES

Where have all the backpacks gone?

By Juliette Workman | March 26, 2025

This piece explores how a recent transition in style was a deeper reflection of adjustment to the competitive pre-professional culture at Duke. Parting with a particular fashion choice can feel as though you are losing part of your identity, but can also be a symbol of acceptance and maturity.

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