Some students are calling for an "open conversation about student’s expectations and experiences within the foreign language department.” Here's why they feel it's biased towards upper-income students and Eurocentric languages.
On the night of Oct. 13, students in the Duke Immerse: Imagining the Future of Food course stopped in Oakland, Calif. to eat dinner and get ice cream. They left their backpacks and suitcases inside two vans. When they returned, they found the vans’ back windows shattered.
“When this award came along, it was essentially designed for what I had already been doing over the course of my career, but I never expected to be rewarded for it in a million years,” Rudin wrote.
October brings plenty of reasons to be scared. Midterm season seems endless at Duke. Yet at some sites around the Triangle, legend tells of terrors more supernatural in nature.
DSG passed a resolution addressing a lack of adequate campus space for marginalized communities, prompted by the University’s decision to move the Career Center into the Bryan Center.
The team of researchers from Duke and other universities aims to “make a material that can be super-soft and super-elastic (so that you can reversibly stretch it 100-fold) but also super-tough and hard to break."
Instead of serving as optional enrichment before the start of orientation week, pre-orientation programs will potentially be a mandatory event in the middle of O-week for all first-year students. The new format will be called “Orientation Experiences” or “Immersive Experiences.”
Architects have planned for a covered outdoor terrace, naturally-lit study spaces, and, most popularly, a brand new cafe about the size of von der Heyden Pavilion.
Identity group leaders are frustrated that plans for an office space on the entry floor of the Bryan Center were made without sufficient student input.
Nearly 300 leaders from the Latino community on Monday met with Durham municipal election candidates to discuss the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organization’s common agenda on housing and public safety.
The incidents occurred near apartments near Morreene Road Tuesday afternoon.
After a virtual family weekend in 2020, families had the opportunity this year to visit campus and catch a glimpse of student life. And the following week, there was a negligible difference in the number of COVID-19 cases among students due to majority compliance.
“Architecturally, the ATC expansion will carefully and imaginatively fit with the historic look of the original American Tobacco campus while embracing the amenities, efficiencies and innovations of new builds,” the project's website reads.
From vintage Disneyland posters to burger artifacts, here's how some Duke students have spruced up their dorm rooms.
Reporter Gautam Sirdeshmukh breaks down the endowment’s big jump. Vice President of Adminstration Kyle Cavanaugh joins us to talk about how COVID is trending at Duke. Reporter Ayra Charania shares with us what she heard at a candidates forum for Durham’s Nov. 2 municipal election.
“She just rolls with the punches, so she’s ready to get back to some normalcy. She loves school and she loves riding the bus; she is ready to get back on the school bus.”
Launching a startup as a student is hard enough, but creating an organization that helps students launch companies is an even greater feat.
A student was met with an unpleasant surprise when he sat on a couch on the second floor of Perkins Library and encountered what he believed to be a bed bug infestation.
“She had a tremendous gift for friendship, more so than anybody I have ever known, in a truly just inspiring fashion. She would build bridges.”
Other events included a dance class with local Latin folklore dance group Takiri Folclor Latino, a painting and wellness night with DuWell in the Arts Annex and movie screenings of “In the Heights,” “Under the Same Moon,” and “Vivo.”
