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Junior Year: 2020-2021
By Staff Reports | May 2, 2022The Class of 2022’s junior year saw activism, a disappointing basketball season and adjustment to a new normal.
The Class of 2022’s junior year saw activism, a disappointing basketball season and adjustment to a new normal.
While the Class of 2022’s second year on campus will forever be infamous for the University’s transition to empty quads and online courses, the year was also remarkable thanks to student activism, campus renovations and basketball games for the ages.
The Class of 2022’s first year saw the renaming of an infamous building, a collection of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.
Under the newly drawn congressional map, District 4 includes four universities and three community colleges, including Duke and UNC, making the student vote a key piece for candidates.
The Council started by voting to approve the new health policy certificate proposal, which will be a joint venture between the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Despite faculty raising concerns about the proposal in the Council’s previous meeting, the vote to approve it passed with an overwhelming majority.
Local nonprofit Don’t Waste Durham and the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic discussed research about their single-use bag fee proposal and a Durham litter survey in a Wednesday talk at the Durham Bottling Co. The proposal would implement a 10 cent fee on paper and plastic bags in hopes of reducing disposable bag usage.
Project SERV is an initiative created by the U.S. Department of Education to provide immediate funding to educational institutions that have their environment of learning severely disrupted due to a “violent or traumatic incident.”
The student was seeking protection from a male student for alleged sexual contact without consent and stalking. She sought the no-contact order after she had two encounters with the student in his dorm room in October.
Graduates, we want to see your faces! Each year, we highlight graduation photos in celebration of commencement. Submit yours via email by Saturday, April 30 by 5 p.m.
Sunlight reflected off a "concaved mirror" in the resident’s room and “caused items in that student’s duffle bag to smolder,” wrote Christopher Rossi, assistant vice president of student affairs in an email to The Chronicle.
The Chronicle is seeking nominations for individuals at Duke who are making a difference, creating change, inspiring others, discovering something ground-breaking or simply leading their lives with service and integrity.
Executive Vice President Daniel Ennis and Vice President for Finance Rachel Satterfield presented the financial interactions between the University and DUHS. They also answered questions about facing rising inflation and cost escalation, including raising employees’ salaries with the inflation rate.
On April 28, registered voters in North Carolina will be able to cast the first in-person ballots in the 2022 statewide primary elections. The voting period, which lasts until Election Day on Tuesday, May 17, follows a two-month delay issued by the North Carolina Supreme Court last December.
Duke will still continue requiring masks on its buses and vans following Monday’s suspension of the federal mask mandate for public transportation.
“[Vaupel] was an extraordinary person,” said one of Vaupel's first colleagues at Duke. “Not just because of his brilliance, but also his ability to apply that brilliance to one interesting problem after another, as well as his versatility and creativity, which continued right into the end.”
The GVPI will allow The Division of Student Affairs to significantly expand Duke’s prevention and intervention efforts and improve transparency and accessibility of supports for all graduate, professional and undergraduate students, according to the email. A search for the GVPI program director is underway.
O'Neal reflected on Durham’s previous year and shared her plans for the year ahead, focusing on the topics of safe neighborhoods, shared economic prosperity, public health and inclusivity.
On Friday, Duke filed a joint motion to dismiss the antitrust case against the 568 Presidents Group, a group of elite universities accused in January of colluding to keep financial aid awards down.
The proposed “Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals” model sets entry-level salaries for teachers with bachelor’s degrees from $38,000 to $45,000 depending on eligibility.
The award, organized by the Office of the President in partnership with Duke Human Resources, honored those who demonstrated a commitment to Duke’s values and helped shape Duke through the pandemic.