Editorial Board

The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Stay transparent, Duke

Last week, administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill upheld a Christian a cappella group’s dismissal of a gay member for his views about homosexuality.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

IFC is its own best weapon

The Intrafraternity Council’s new recruitment regulations have limited aims: to shorten the recruitment calendar from three to two weeks and to require an IFC recruitment team to attend fraternity...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

QS revisions miss real problem

In an Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday, members of the Quantitative Studies Requirement Review Committee raised the seemingly age-old question of how the QS requirement should be...


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

New strategic plans needed

We are not alone in thinking that campus dialogue-—be it about the social and residential shift promised by the house model or Duke’s international expansion—is just as often groundless than grounded.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

An administrators’ soiree

“Actually, I’m known as kind of a party guy."—Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, to The Chronicle’s independent editorial board at its meeting Sunday, Oct. 2.


The Duke Chronicle
OPINION

Admitting the truth

Though largely unproductive and somewhat obnoxious, the melodrama surrounding Duke’s dip in U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings raises questions about how the University attracts and...