Each year, we highlight graduation photos in celebration of commencement. Submit them by email to audrey.s.wang@duke.edu by Sunday, May 7 at 5 p.m. You can do this by uploading the photos to Google Drive or Duke Box and pasting the link in an email.
The Chronicle has compiled a list of resources and events available to students through reading period and finals week before final exams officially start Monday.
The C1 doors opened to a bright yellow LDOC sign surrounded by a crowd of students posing for pictures. Friends strolled about with LocoPops and tote bags. In front of Few Quad, black “Duke University” banners added the final touches to the LDOC concert stage.
The Chronicle’s Volume 116 made a commitment to promote racial justice within both the Duke community and our internal organization. This volume, 118, has sought to continue and build upon these efforts.
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Some chapters from these Duke-affiliated councils noted financial support and programming convenience as being the main reasons they remain affiliated. They also mentioned that they serve a different role for Duke students than the disaffiliated Greek chapters. At the same time, some haven’t felt that Duke administrators are as enthusiastic about working with them under QuadEx as they claim.
Duke Student Government senators swore in new DSG members and recognized senators and members of the University community for their contributions this year at their last Wednesday meeting of the 2023-24 academic year.
One student said that the success of the Quad Arches in building quad identities “depends on how excited students get about QuadEx.”
The Duke Campus Center Pharmacy offers Narcan for all Duke students with no prescription required.
On Thursday evening, nearly 150 students gathered at the West Campus bus stop as the afternoon light gave way to dusk. Buses passed by, but no one got on. Here, they stood ready to walk for the next hour in the humid air.
The office received 676 reports with an average of 56 reports per month, including a peak of 82 reports received in February 2022.
This change is effective May 11, when the federal Public Health Emergency ends, and is consistent with Duke’s peer universities, according to the email. Duke will continue to offer the primary and booster vaccinations free of charge to all students, faculty and staff.
All residence halls and apartments will close on May 8 at 12 p.m.
Three bills filed in the North Carolina General Assembly last week would bar transgender athletes from playing on girls' high school and middle school sports teams.
The responsibility of recognizing new student groups will shift from SOFC to the Student Involvement and Leadership team in the Office of Student Affairs.
Hosting one Multicultural Graduation Ceremony was more inclusive of students who identify with multiple identities, and was “institutionally more sustainable and feasible” for staff members.
The submitted rezoning request consisted of adding up to 1,382 apartment units, a 200-room hotel and 300,000 square feet of office space. These new additions could grow the mall to 3.3 million square feet while it currently sits at 1.3 million square feet.
The annual Last Day of Classes concert will be on April 26.
Young Trustees spend two- or three-year terms on the Board of Trustees. They spend a year as nonvoting observers and then are voting members for the rest of their terms.
Here’s what’s changed since last time, and how a new decision might affect the Duke Graduate Students Union and graduate students nationwide.
