At first blush, it’s hard to see how the Black Student Alliance’s Black Culture Initiative—a list of demands literally hand-delivered to the Allen Building’s doorstep—has a leg to stand on.
At Duke and elsewhere, the delicate balance between academic freedom and intellectual property ownership shapes the content and character of original research and creation.
At the outset of this semester, a slew of tents appeared on the ground outside Cameron Indoor Stadium to form Krzyzewskiville, Duke’s perennial tent city.
The Panhellenic Association sororities’ annual recruitment is underway, which makes now just the time to critically assess recruitment practices employed by Panhel.
When digging in against cuts to the National Institute of Health budget, Duke should be careful where it turns for support.
As with so much at Duke, a small spark is all it takes to ignite cross-campus outrage.
Curriculum 2000 shares at least one quality with George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
Fears about waning civility in the American public sphere are never in short supply, and the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement bore these fears out Tuesday, when it...
December 2003, Peter and Ginny Nicholas made a pledge to donate $72 million to the University.
The term “campus culture” was discussed heavily last semester by students and administrators, at public forums and in The Chronicle’s opinion pages.
Chair’s note: The editorial board failed to reach quorum this Sunday, so we have opted to publish our editorial template instead.
The Board of Trustees allots a seat every year to a sole undergraduate Young Trustee.
Duke almost made it through Fall 2011 without winding up in an online tabloid.
Today, we argue that one crucial constraint on DukeEngage’s size should be its ability to audit partner nongovernmental organizations.
DukeEngage, established only four short years ago in 2007, has experienced an almost unprecedented rise to prominence.
Last month, two students were robbed within a week of one another.
At the end of the 2008-2009 academic year, President Richard Brodhead gave a baccalaureate address aimed to calm the spirits of a graduating class entering the worst job market in recent history.
Duke, like many top universities, sometimes operates much like a factory: it inputs smart and well-intentioned kids, and churns out instruments for the Wall Street machine.
Housing lottery exemptions for four University-sponsored selective living groups stand in direct contrast to the underlying pillar of equity intended to define the house model allocation process.
The Harvard-Yale football game is one of the most storied matchups of all time.
