As accepted students from the Class of 2020 pour into Durham this month to visit campus, they look to get a taste of campus life with our bus rides, dining halls and residential dorms.
When the sit-in of the Allen building began, Duke Workers and Students in Solidarity issued seven demands of administration.
Last Thursday was a pivotal day for the over 28,000 high school seniors who applied to the Class of 2020.
Last Thursday, DSG rejected a resolution calling for administrative action in response to Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s hit-and-run incident. The resolution noted that Trask’s behavior had violated the Duke Community Standard—an observation that evidently carried little weight with DSG as the discussion turned to unfavorable political impacts and hesitation because DSG is holding elections next week.
Once again, Duke’s campus is embroiled in outraged protest. This current flare up of tensions on campus seems perfectly in rhythm with semesters past.
Over the years, Durham has experienced rapid and significant economic growth that has traded the declining tobacco industries of old in for newly minted tech startups.
The call for an Asian-American Studies program and support for interested students and faculty has increased in volume at Northwestern, Harvard and our very own Duke.
With the start of bookbagging on Monday, yet another semester comes into view. Full of possibilities and marked by the momentary return to blissful academic romanticism wherein we forget about the actual burdens of academic life and envision all the possibilities of a new semester—one replete with new classes, new professors and new material waiting to be explored.
As the perennial flurry of press releases and news articles has trumpeted, Duke accepted a record-low 8.7 percent of Regular Decision applicants for the Class of 2020.
The North Carolina State Legislature held a special session last Wednesday, fast-tracking House Bill 2 through to Governor Pat McCrory, who immediately signed it.
Over spring break, President Obama announced chief judge Merrick Garland from the D.C.
Over the course of the past few years, police departments across the US have been brought under strict public scrutiny for racial profiling, militarization and excessive force that too often resulted in fatal encounters.
Adding to push notifications and breaking news headlines Tuesday morning, students received an email from Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta about a set of terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Students returned to campus this weekend washing the sand from their hair and looking forward—in vain unfortunately—to showing off their tans with short sleeves and shorts.
Many of the Class of 2018 made the long trek a week and a half ago back to East Campus and the Academic Resource Center to declare their majors.
For many Duke students, spring break is a welcome respite, offering a chance for rest, relaxation and sunny beach visits after two long months of classes, job recruitment and rush processes.
There are a few more days to take advantage of the Freeman Center’s early voting site, which runs through this Friday.
In yesterday’s editorial, we discussed the value of designating spaces for cultural identity groups on campus.
Last week, administration announced three new programming spaces for Asian-American, Latinx and Native American student communities in the expanded Center for Multicultural Affairs.
At the end of last year, California saw the deadliest terror attack on American soil since September 11 in the mass shooting and attempted bombing of San Bernardino. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked Apple last month to assist in a brute-force attack on the passcode to gunman Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone.
