OPINION
Navigating chaos
By Editorial Board | January 18, 2013There are points in one’s Duke career when it is easy to feel lost, and this time of year is definitely one of them.
There are points in one’s Duke career when it is easy to feel lost, and this time of year is definitely one of them.
The number of AP and IB courses students take probably matters much less than they think.
We particularly applaud the initiative for its focus on language, which we agree can needlessly foster hostile attitudes that have no place on our campus.
With details of the program yet to be hammered out, we would like to raise a few important concerns during the program’s initiation and development phases.
Duke IDEAS is a natural culmination of recent conversations about the University’s curriculum, namely a desire for integrative learning and a hope for interdisciplinarity to be pursued with care.
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy, heavy attention has been placed on the debate surrounding stricter gun control regulations.
The humiliation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill continues.
The coming year will confront the University with challenges that are just as earth-shaking, at least in a less literal sense.
The expansion of Program II has been discussed as a possible avenue to achieve the interdisciplinary goals that Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton has outlined for Trinity College.
The last day of classes means little in the way of relief for most Duke students before a finals week consisting of stress, an unhealthy amount of caffeine and a K-Ville dry run in Perkins.
Talking about sex makes for better and healthier sex. This is especially true when attempting to obtain consent, which is often defined as the informed willingness to engage in sexual activity.
Have you ever found yourself in a class that spends weeks recapping material that you learned last semester?
In Monday’s editorial, we argued that there are three general stages in any student’s undergraduate education.
Last Wednesday, Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton outlined her vision for the Duke undergraduate liberal arts education.
Renovations to the Bryan Center have begun and are expected to pick up.
Next May, Duke graduates will be sent off with words of wisdom from one of their own.
Royster’s sentencing is a culmination of a tragedy that illustrates the need for an immediate shift in attitudes.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is only ten miles away from Duke, but it’s about to seem a little further away.
Before DSG and the larger student body go up in arms, both sides of this complicated policy issue must be considered.
Between April 1, 2012 and Nov. 1 2012, the West Union Building Renovation Working Group solicited proposals for additions to the new student union.