Duke Crux

BY ANNA NORTHUP Hurricane Florence’s devastating rip through the Carolinas has only sliced open the wound humanity has nursed for millennia: “Why?” We don’t talk about it often, at least not in a public context. Behind doors, maybe, with family or doctors or clinicians. These things just happen. Everyone suffers. Next, please. We find support groups,…

BY KRISTI GAMBUTI “Abolish Slavery Everywhere, Forever.” These are the words that pulsed from the wall each day I walked into the A21 office this summer. These four words, big and bold, were the very first thing I saw entering the room and the last thing I saw exiting it. The more days I spent…

BY SARAH PROCTOR When spring break rolled around it came as a sigh of relief after the breakneck pace of life at Duke. I was going to the beach with some of my closest friends. I resolved not to bring anything that resembled schoolwork. I was going to actually get a decent amount of sleep.…

BY JUAN LASSO VELASCO The power to overcome all obstacles through fortitude and determination. The ability to lead your life and forge your destiny by the strength of human willpower. These are qualities that people of our time value and seek with pride, and they are the tenets that my father held onto during his…

BY SAGE GARCIA Ambition. Control. Power. Prestige. Self-worth. These are the things that I so often grasp onto, or rather, try to grasp onto. It is my deeply held belief that all Duke students can be characterized by the trait of ambition. Ambition is a unique character trait, precisely because of its ability to act…

BY ANNA SAVELYEVA “Good Christians are supposed to love their family no matter what, aren’t they?” After a tough few days of fighting with my parents and exhaustively talking through my feelings with my friends, one of my friends suddenly asked this question. To be honest,

BY SARAH PROCTOR As a small child I spent most of my time trying to wrap my head around things that were bigger than me. Most of my questions––how do massive metal ships not sink? Where do ocean waves start? Why don’t suspension bridges snap? ––were answered as I grew up and took more science…