In an email to the student body, President Richard Brodhead announced on Tuesday that West Campus’s main quadrangle would be named after Julian Abele.
Yesterday, we scrutinized the procedural failures of administration’s investigations of EVP Tallman Trask’s 2014 hit-and-run incident as well as what allowed Parking and Transportation Services hostile and discriminatory work environment to persist.
On Monday, the Duke community learned the shocking story of a criminal(?) incident involving Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Before a basketball game in 2014, Trask hit a game-day parking attendant with his car and allegedly called out a racial slur as he abruptly left the scene.
As Duke students vote today and tomorrow for the next leaders of DSG, voters across the nation are participating in this year’s Super Tuesday primary races.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, students will elect the next president and executive vice president of Duke Student Government, along with the next chairperson of the Student Organization Funding Committee.
In two short weeks, major declarations will be due for those in their fourth semesters.
At the beginning of this semester, the Imagining the Duke Curriculum Committee proposed a conceptual framework for reworking Duke’s undergraduate curriculum.
On the to-do list carried around by each Duke student, the pursuit of a summer internship accompanies a litany of classwork and extracurricular engagements to which students are obligated.
In yesterday’s editorial, we offered advice for activists who protested a Greek mixer last Friday and for the students looking onwards and listening.
Throughout this year, we have lamented the growing violence of disagreement on campus and the seeming endlessness of the increase in volume required to be heard in “debates” that have become more like shouting matches on both local and national stages.
Just five weeks into the spring semester students have begun to feel the mounting pressures of midterms, applications for summer experiences and the general demands of Duke’s busy campus.
Forecast for the next two weeks? Flyers, profile pictures and platforms galore. In this round of Duke Student Government elections, Annie Adair, Tara Bansal and John Guarco have entered their names as our three presidential hopefuls. Two others are vying for Executive Vice President and three for chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee.
The latest round of Duke’s very own Me Too Monologues wraps up on campus this week with Thursday’s monologues for contingent faculty.
Last week, we wrote about the importance of writing purposefully—putting quality over quantity and producing thoughtful, well-planned pieces instead of empty commentaries.
United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who had served on the bench of the nation’s highest court for the past 30 years passed away this weekend. Justice Scalia was famous for his controversial but airtight dissenting opinions that helped focus Supreme Court debates on interpretation of the original meaning of the constitution.
With Grace’s Café set to close at the end of the semester due to expensive kitchen renovation costs, Duke Dining and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee again enter student conversations.
Last month the public because aware of a student’s Title IX complaint filed against Duke. The opened federal investigation will “review handling of sexual misconduct and harassment complaints involving students, faculty and staff.” While reports of the opened investigation relate three high profile cases of sexual assault at Duke in the past year, there is no way to surmise what case, known or unknown, generated the complaint. We need to take this investigation seriously rather than dismissing it as perfunctory.
It’s not often that an English major, M.D./Ph.D. student, East Campus resident assistant and Bollywood dance team captain gather to debate vociferously.
Though Duke has been affected across campus by seemingly endless construction, no project has been planned, approved and executed as quickly or painlessly as the interfaith prayer room in Keohane 4B, which had its grand opening last week.
Undergraduates write all the time. We write to fulfill assignments in our classes, to communicate our research, to contribute to The Chronicle and other campus publications and to facilitate their extracurricular organizations through by-laws and communiques.
