In the midst of a monsoon of midterms and papers, harried Trinity sophomores might have seen an email from the Academic Advising Center on Tuesday reminding them that in two short weeks they would be required to submit major declarations.
If the price hikes come as a result of Duke’s provision of living wage, we feel Duke should shoulder at least an equal burden to that of its students in upholding such a commitment.
When perspectives about sex other than our own are judged before they are understood, they can be misrepresented or oversimplified.
With the release of a new Lifetime movie centering around the dramatized life of Miriam Weeks, better known as the Duke porn actress, Belle Knox, conversation over the 2014 scandal has been stirring on campus.
Although not lawyers, we as a Board find several faults with the conduct of McKenna’s lawyers and the composition of their argument.
Earlier this week, an article published in The Chronicle highlighted a report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the subsequent debates regarding the relevance of American history in college curriculums throughout the country.
It has been more than a thousand days since the residents of Flint, Michigan could drink their tap water without a filter.
Today we argue that allyship must not depend on personal and familiar connections, but must come from a place that is deeper in recognizing the common threads that connect struggles against marginalization.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Editorial Board would like to send our appreciation to a few of the many things that we love about Duke.
He has less experience with the Board than other candidates, but his thoughtful, cohesive and engaged perspective on the University will allow him to learn, grow and flourish in his first year as a non-voting member of the Board.
Earlier this week we tackled the line between legitimate protest and counterproductive violence in the wake of protests at the University of California at Berkeley, which turned violent in objection to speaker Milo Yiannopoulos’s visit.
Nearly a week ago, at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump, in his characteristic speaking style, promised to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment, a perplexing declaration considering the existence of little-to-no mainstream political debate on the amendment.
The Monologues, if effective as a reminder, should jolt students into taking a closer look at people around them and seeking to console those feeling down.
President Brodhead recently co-signed a collaborative statement together with the leaders of 47 other American universities condemning Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration.
Contrary to the expressed feelings of some, it is not a “crazy idea” that the Berkeley Republicans would have sought to bring Yiannopoulos to campus.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an Aesop for the 20th-century, writing more than 60 children’s books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies and made their way into the nighttime readings of countless children around the world.
Sixty years after the brutal murder of Emmett Till, Duke researcher Timothy Tyson surfaced new testimony from the woman—Carolyn Bryant—who sealed the fate of a 14-year-old schoolboy in Mississippi.
If you think that in 2017, journalism is going to the dogs, the newspaper is dying and opinion writing is moldering, there exists an obvious solution. Turn the tides and add your voice to the discussion; join the Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board.
Where are checks and balances in the age of Trump? The answer is that they lie with us—the people.
Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced an executive order to overhaul our nation’s immigration system. It was reprehensible and un-American.
