Editorial Board

The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Tuition-pocalypse

If Duke wants to continue its arms race with other top universities, it must continue to push the envelope on the academic talent, services and opportunities available to students.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Punish hazing justly

Four groups at Duke are currently under investigation for allegations of hazing infractions and, of those four groups, only one—Delta Tau Delta Fraternity—has been identified.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

The cost of leadership

When it comes to students working on campus, there is often a choice between being employed and being intensively involved in a student organization.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

On Marketplace alone

Many Duke students may complain about the quality or variety of food at the Marketplace, but most everyone agrees that the first-year dining plan is an integral part of community building during...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Grounds for dismissal

The Anil Potti affair took a new turn this Sunday when Joseph Nevins, Barbara Levine professor of cancer genomics and former mentor to Potti, stated publicly on the television program “60 Minutes”...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Seeing through the haze

The number of reported incidents of hazing at Duke has more than doubled from the previous year, and this is no coincidence: The administration increased its hazing prevention efforts this academic...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

To discipline, and baffle

This Fall, the Office of Student Conduct met with righteous opposition when it tried to introduce a new student group leader accountability policy—a policy that held group leaders accountable for...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Mudville gets a life

For more than a decade, Duke students have done the impossible: maintained our famed obsession with men’s basketball while strengthening our academic commitments year-by-year.