Understanding the far reach of accommodating and accounting for 1740 first-year students begged the question of where Duke would fall short.
I want you to remember that to be alive is to die one day, and that you should never feel guilty for getting one more chance, one more morning, one more moment to experience, to grow, to regress, to be.
This time, no longer shackled by my overthinking tendencies, I will be brutally honest if I must and less afraid to infuse my writing with more personality.
The idea of being in the hospital so soon in your career seems great until you finish the first year and still feel woefully unprepared. But if life’s about anything, it’s about being woefully unprepared in as graceful a manner as possible.
The way Duke’s upperclassman food plan works majorly contributes to a culture of ignoring breakfast, replacing meals with coffee, pushing off eating until work is done, and choosing the cheap option over the more desirable one, behaviors that are not only encouraged but often lauded in that toxic “suffering more than thou” way of bragging.
At the same time the Career Center was empty, Latinx students sat on the floor of their own space and had to grab chairs from across the Bryan Center.
This new housing option provides a variety of benefits for students, such as being closer to classrooms and libraries, making sure each resident gets plenty of fresh air, and promoting a better sleep schedule by getting rid of the ability to ignore the sun in the morning.
You have to be strong in order not to seek self-satisfaction, self-gratification or self-promotion.
To diminish this source of community at all is disheartening; to diminish it sooner than we had expected is even more so.
I am writing this letter to challenge your idea of a decency quotient and, more specifically, of recognizing DQ.
Peaches the community cat, the placemaker—this is how I will remember her.
As the flags fly low on campus today (Thursday, August 18), please remember her and the great work she did helping to make Duke University what it is.
With only four to six van drivers, though, I anticipate wait times will be through the roof; some students and staff might end up taking the dangerous walk to their car or dorm/apartment late at night.
If I still can't get a visa this fall, I will give up the opportunity to study at Duke University.
Duke has once again failed diversity on campus. The Bryan Center must remain a student facing area, promoting equity and inclusivity.
We are asking you, President Price, and Provost Kornbluth, to conduct an urgent, independent review of Duke Arts and Duke Performances, including talking with past staff so their institutional knowledge can be carried forward.
These people will never take away our Latinx beauty, our resilience, or our bravery.
Similar sentiments have been expressed for decades. Now is not the time for realization but mobilization.
Dean Jackie Looney retires this year. She was a beacon of opportunity for over 30 years for families who have struggled over generations.
"I will miss Nugget, but I will live each day honoring her by remembering what joy an everyday interaction can bring into your life. She taught us how a positive presence can bring so much light into your day," Alex Leo-Guerra, a senior, writes.
