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By Effective Altruism Duke | March 1, 2019Duke has a culture of philanthropy—and that’s awesome.
Duke has a culture of philanthropy—and that’s awesome.
Let’s cut the crap: I don’t know a thing about trains and you probably don’t either, but I’ll be damned if the prospect of a luscious locomotive cruising through Durham’s downtown doesn’t get me hot under the collar.
“Finance bros,” “sell outs,” and “snakes”—these colloquial terms have found homes in our vocabulary, and we regularly make memes of these stereotypes in mockery.
We are Jews—members of synagogues, Jewish Life at Duke attendees and secular folks alike—and many of us are members of the Duke community.
Meeting new people usually starts the same way: after the hello, how are you and the what’s your name? people dive into slightly more personal questions such as, Where are you from? Where do you go to school? What are you studying?
An inscrutable mass of p-froshes descended upon Duke’s campus several weekends ago for the Early Decision Blue Devil Days.
I used to think that I wore makeup to make myself feel good. But when I realized I was afraid to leave my dorm room with a bare face, I had to admit there was something else going on.
Rates of sexual assault that are this high at a school that purportedly prides itself on representing a safe, diverse community, speak volumes about how poorly we reconcile our own complicit involvement on the matter.
There is no such thing as dialogue at Duke University. There exist only monologues in parallel.
If anyone were to ask what singular skill I am most proud of acquiring at Duke, I would respond that it is dealing with rejection.
It’s a tale as old as time: you enter a movie theater with the intention of escaping reality—at least for the duration of the film.
As chair of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, which coordinates transportation planning in the western Triangle, I have the privilege of working with leaders of Durham and other local governments to plan the region’s transportation investments.
President Price, for seven months now, our residential housekeepers have been unnecessarily working on weekends.
We, the undersigned Duke organizations, faculty, staff and alumni, appreciate that Duke University has worked with GoTriangle to discuss its concerns regarding the Durham-Orange Light Rail transit project (DOLRT).
The fact that current and past administrators are unsure of Duke’s ability managing an increase in both financial aid and tuition should merit concern.
Tenting has been a phenomenon on Duke’s campus for over 30 years.
Centuries from now, history will likely associate 2018 with the birth of the first genome-edited babies. This event, disclosed in November by Dr. He Jiankui from China, dragged humanity further into a murky ethical quagmire surrounding human embryonic germline editing.
While chugging down a handle of Aristocrat on a Saturday night, it is easy to feel somewhat grateful that, unlike Malia Obama, for the ordinary Duke student, documentation of their Shooter’s bathroom blackout will most likely be limited to snapchats among class friends, and not the Daily Mail.
When I was a kid, I was always excited by the chance to visit Duke’s campus. The reason? The prospect of riding the PRT.
Duke-UNC is the big game. It’s one of the most storied rivalries in all of sports.