The Chronicle visited K-Ville to hear the stories of this year’s tenters, both seasoned veterans and first-time Crazies, on their strategies for surviving and thriving this tenting season.
Duke offers 63 majors, 61 minors and 23 certificates, and undergraduates have the option to pursue up to three of these courses of study during their time at Duke. This results in over 430,000 possible academic combinations for undergraduate students. For some Duke students, however, 430,000 is not enough.
The event centered mainly on attendees’ experiences with free speech and self-censorship, with additional time spent on institutional neutrality and concerns around the University’s Pickets, Protests and Demonstrations (PPD) policy.
Duke Student Government senators approved Student Organization Funding Committee funding as well as new election bylaws, rules and procedures and heard a closed-session presentation during its Wednesday meeting — its first since Nov. 20.
While some students embraced the challenge, continuing snowfall made the race more difficult for others to navigate campus. The Chronicle confirmed at least one on-campus car crash resulting in a student suffering a concussion.
The order, announced in an Office of Management and Budget memo Monday evening, directed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”
The facility, called “N.C. Children’s,” was characterized as a “decade-long goal” for both institutions and is expected to lessen the strain on other regional facilities amid increased demand for care.
In the Pratt School of Engineering’s revamped introductory computing course EGR 105L, Computing for Engineers, students are focusing less on the “what” and more on the “how” of programming.
When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the jazz world, having earned monikers like “The First Lady of Jazz” and “The Lady Who Swings the Band.”
Students with a score of four or five on the AP Biology exam could bypass the department’s introductory courses and fulfill the gateway requirement for the biology major with just one class, giving them the flexibility to begin taking electives of their choice earlier.
For 50 years, J. Samuel “Sam” Hammond served as the University’s carillonneur, playing the carillon, a pitched percussion instrument, in the Duke Chapel every evening to serenade students with the familiar sound of 50 ringing bells.
Prominent political journalists convened Saturday in Penn Pavilion to discuss the implications of a second Trump administration and changing political and media landscapes at the 2025 Zeidman Colloquium on Politics and the Press.
At a briefing in the Asheville area, the president suggested he may sign an executive order to “begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA.”
The blaze was first reported in the B5 lot at 12:44 p.m. and was contained by 1:15 p.m. Several fire trucks and police cars were seen responding to the incident. No community members were injured.
The marriage pact is an age-old custom: If two friends can’t find love years into the future, they agree to be one another’s “Plan B.” Today, some Duke students are embracing this strategy in search of their lifelong partner, just in case traditional dating doesn’t pan out.
The Presidential Award is one of Duke’s highest honors for staff and faculty, recognizing those who “demonstrate the values that define and shape Duke as an institution.”
The Chronicle broke down some of the biggest questions surrounding ACIR’s response to Duke Divestment Coalition's divestment proposal, including what it says and why it matters.
On behalf of herself and other former employees, Joy Franklin sued Duke and its retirement board in 2023, claiming that the University used an outdated formula to calculate pension benefits — which allegedly shortchanged them by millions of dollars.
Mehen, 54, died Dec. 29 at his home in Chapel Hill. He is remembered as a "brilliant theoretical physicist" and a "great teacher [and] mentor."
At the meeting, council members also passed an economic development incentive agreement and addressed recent events, including President Donald Trump’s inauguration and the ceasefire in Gaza.
