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Mellgard’s Guide to Endorsements

(03/01/17 10:30am)

It is with great sorrow this year that I cannot engage in one of my favorite Duke traditions—The Mellgard Endorsements. Every year for the past three years, I have endorsed a candidate for Duke Student Government President on Facebook. Every year I have successfully and eventually backed the right candidate. I even boast a better record at endorsing the winning candidate than The Chronicle's Editorial Board. 











How did students help shape the proposed new Trinity curriculum?

(02/27/17 5:25am)

With only two Trinity Arts and Sciences Council meetings left this semester and a vote on the proposed new curriculum pending, The Chronicle is taking a look back at the ways student input has shaped the intellectual blueprint during the course of the curriculum's drafting process—and how students will continue to influence it during the implementation stage.


2017 DSG endorsement policy

(02/27/17 12:07am)

The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2017 Duke Student Government elections from Monday, Feb. 27 to Monday, March 6. The positions of president and executive vice president are available for endorsement. No endorsements will be published Tuesday, March 7 or Wednesday, March 8, the days of the election. The final deadline for endorsements will be 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 5.


Tackling fear of awkward conversation

(02/24/17 5:54am)

Let’s talk about what equity looks like at Duke, and more so, let’s talk about what equity looks like in a land far, far away called the real world. Students come to Duke with varying socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, and, in these politically polarized times, it seems that students from different backgrounds are less able to talk to each other. This leaves students with marginalized identities feeling that their stories are brushed aside.