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Toward holistic career advising

Editorial Board
March 19, 2010

Since he arrived at Duke in August 2008, William Wright-Swadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of career services,  has emphasized a four-year approach to the career advising experience.

Instead of students waiting until their senior year to make their first visit to the Career Center, this philosophy encourages students to carefully consider a variety of career options from the first day they set foot on East Campus.

Remembering Jay Jeffrey

Robert Ryan
March 19, 2010

I would like to express my appreciation for the sensitive and compassionate reporting done by Zachary Tracer and the entire Chronicle staff with regards to the tragic death of Jay Jeffrey. Although I did not know Jay personally, friends of mine who did speak nothing but of his warm heart and genuine care for those around him. I have also had the blessing of taking a class from Jay’s older brother, Justin, and it has to this day been one of my favorite classroom experiences at Duke.

March obviousness

bro's stuff
Ben Brostoff
March 19, 2010

We are living in a progressively stat-oriented time.

How to make it in America

je ne sais quoi
Eliza French
March 19, 2010

One night in New York City during break, my friends and I waited on the N train while a W train groaned down the track. The train passed us by to reveal an advertisement on the tunnel wall for the latest HBO series, “How to Make it in America.” The show chronicles underdogs from Brooklyn trying to make it big.

Behold a new reality

spread the embers
Michael Stauch
March 19, 2010

“A lot of y’all are still soundin’ like last year,”  Drake raps on his critically acclaimed mixtape, So Far Gone, before going on to say that the rap game needs change, and he’s the cashier. So Far Gone, following in the wake of Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreaks, might be the first “post-808s” album. As such, it shares not only its quirky, minimalist beat selection, but many of its lyrical themes.

LGBT recruitment? Fine by us

Editorial Board
March 18, 2010

With undergraduate admissions decisions set to roll out in the coming weeks, the tables have turned. Admissions offices across the country will now make their case to accepted students in hope of luring the best and the brightest to accept an offer for admission and enroll at their university.

A phoenix out of the ashes

Lina Feng
March 18, 2010

Many successful innovations arise out of crises, which create remarkably fertile opportunities for reinvention. Post-Katrina New Orleans is no exception. But unlike the legendary phoenix, which relies upon magical intervention, how does rebirth of a living, breathing city take place?   

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