OPINION
Duke students care too much about themselves
By Andrew Elcock | March 20, 2019Duke students care too much about themselves, and not enough about Duke’s community.
Duke students care too much about themselves, and not enough about Duke’s community.
In the fall of my junior year, I found my legs dangling from the exam table of a doctor’s office explaining symptoms of nausea that wouldn’t go away.
The rules of the game have always been unfair and the legal parameters around what moves are acceptable are rather meaningless when you were never meant to win in the first place.
As a Duke student, getting flooded with emails is something I’m familiar with.
Duke is riddled with contradictions.
Last Wednesday, Duke notified GoTriangle that it refused to sign on to one of Durham’s largest-ever mass transit infrastructure projects, the Durham-Orange light rail.
In a recent article in the Chronicle, the results of a survey given to Duke undergraduates in 2018 showed that almost 48 percent of women respondents at Duke were sexually assaulted, a number which does not include coerced sexual contact and sexual harassment.
“Are you the shy one or the talkative one?”
In my previous column, I highlighted some areas of improvement in the curriculum, including the BME Design Fellows, a great step in developing skills which could be used in the engineering industry, an area which was previously lacking.
Mi Gente is proud to endorse Daisy Almonte for DSG president.
In almost any conversation about future plans with my fellow students at Duke, I catch myself wondering how anyone is so sure about what they want to do with their lives.
This Thursday, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Daisy Almonte first when choosing the next DSG president.
Do you ever wonder if members of the Board of Trustees read the Chronicle?
The Black Men’s Union executive board recently had the pleasure of meeting with three candidates for President.
Imagine this: Coach K sets his rules for the upcoming game—everyone must be at practice. Every day, on time, no exceptions. One afternoon, all of the team’s starters decided to show up an hour late to practice.
As a senior biomedical engineering (BME) and electrical and computer (ECE) double major, Duke BME was quite the experience.
A week or so ago, Duke fans across the nation sat down to watch our team, and you in particular, beat the Tar out of the Heels.
“Hey, how are you?” “Good, how are you?” “Good, thanks.” How frequently do you have this conversation each day? I’m guessing at least a dozen times.
Duke is partaking in a national crisis, and it’s only getting worse. It’s contributing to the enormous cost crisis engulfing the higher education system.
The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2019 Duke Student Government elections from Sunday, March 3 to Wednesday, March 6 at 11:59 p.m.