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By Cara O'Malley | October 12, 2018Figuring out the next step in your career feels like one of the quintessential struggles of a college student.
Figuring out the next step in your career feels like one of the quintessential struggles of a college student.
Though these injustices are being committed thousands of miles away, to consider the human condition in places where our university has a stake, where our peers study abroad, should concern every member of the Duke community.
A cowardly engraving of a swastika was found on the door of a bathroom stall in the Language building on Duke’s West Campus. Although this might seem inconsequential, this anti-Semitic drawing is in line with a global wave of anti-Semitism that has found its way on to many college campuses.
Last spring, we realized it was time to kill the walk up line. Now, six months later, we’re here to tell you that the Carolina Walk Up Line is dead.
One of the most important parts of leaving home is how our place in our worlds change.
If you’ve never experienced palpable stress, try going into an organic chemistry help room at 4 p.m. the day before the first midterm of the semester.
The confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh marked a new low point in modern American politics. The fault for this can be found on both sides of the aisle, however, it is Kavanaugh’s opponents on the left, with their sanctimonious halo-polishing, who should be particularly ashamed of themselves.
Here at Duke, there should be no reason to bash one another just because one is a “hard science” major verses a humanities major.
“Don’t boo. Vote.” President Barack Obama spoke those words to a heady crowd at the 2016 Democratic national convention.
The vast majority of Asian Americans historically have and continue to support affirmative action, a policy extending crucial access to higher education for marginalized groups who have been historically barred from attending colleges and universities.
We've all seen it. The Duke student that goes abroad to a low-resource setting, does something mildly humanitarian for two months, comes back acting like they saved the world, and then posts problematic pictures to prove it.
Duke students are lucky enough to have a fall break. This year, students are going to the mountains, going home or staying at Duke.
There’s one coming-out story that has come to be known as the singular gay experience.
Regardless of how you ultimately decide to spend your time, Editorial Board wishes everyone a happy Fall Break and looks forward to a much deserved vacation from leering down at the university from our pedestal.
In the Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, one word was mentioned more than others.
With no clues yet as to the findings of the FBI’s probe into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh and what its subsequent outcomes may be, we only have last Thursday’s testimony to look to for answers.
This past weekend, I experienced arguably the wildest cultural event of my life by attending Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
For the first fall break in three years, I will not be on the Common Ground retreat.
How often do you see an acquaintance walking by on the quad and instinctively answer their obligatory “how are you?” with “I’m soooo tired.”
From a structure of authority that engages in the perpetual murder of black men and a lack of regulation that exists for private security contractors to a government and University administration that have remained steadfast in promoting their own self-interests: DeAndre has been the victim of a heinous injustice at the hands of powers that we can only hope to change.