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The 'La La Land' phenomenon
By Robin Wang | February 7, 2017After a series of gorgeous dance-and-song numbers, the movie is conventionally over.
After a series of gorgeous dance-and-song numbers, the movie is conventionally over.
Instead of insisting that people begin believing the "right" thing, we should change the circumstances that shape the narrative.
Duke’s Native American Student Alliance (NASA) is proud to announce we will be hosting our Annual Powwow on Abele Quad (West Campus) in April, after a two-year absence.
Since 1972, the Duke University Board of Trustees has benefited from having recent or current students serve as Young Trustees.
The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2017 Young Trustee elections from Tuesday, Feb. 7 to Monday, Feb. 13. No endorsements will be published Tuesday, Feb. 14 or Wednesday, Feb. 15, the days of the election. The final deadline for endorsements will be 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.
As employees, teaching and research assistants want what every worker wants: some control over their working conditions and a say in the remuneration they receive for their labor.
Candidates are regular celebrities, and we’ve elected one.
Contrary to the expressed feelings of some, it is not a “crazy idea” that the Berkeley Republicans would have sought to bring Yiannopoulos to campus.
When we talk about improving service on campus, too often conversation devolves into unhelpful vagaries.
Despite multiple instances of tripping opponents and getting caught up in kerfuffles on his way to the bench, Allen is reportedly a “stand-up guy.”
As graduate student employees at Duke prepare for union elections, their university is pushing back.
My hope is that with no thought of a riposte, we can finally hear each other, and realize that America, when you listen carefully, sounds purple.
Social events become more restrictive as they transform into intimate mixers, leaving unaffiliated students with few options besides Shooters if they want to go out.
I looked up at the crowd of people last Sunday waving American flags in the air. We were standing outside of RDU, the gateway of the Triangle, chanting and holding signs.
When I look out my door, I can see three far more expensive routers and still not get Wi-Fi. It would comically absurd if it were funny, but it’s not—it’s just absurd.
Usually people just talk about the cool clubs they went to, or the sights they saw after they return from abroad; however, I only want to know how to stop cuffing my jeans.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an Aesop for the 20th-century, writing more than 60 children’s books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies and made their way into the nighttime readings of countless children around the world.
Last spring, I spent my semester at USC through Duke in LA. While there, I became familiar with the clear and present homelessness problem in which, for example, an entire neighborhood has turned into blocks and blocks of homeless tenters stacked almost on top of each other.
Sixty years after the brutal murder of Emmett Till, Duke researcher Timothy Tyson surfaced new testimony from the woman—Carolyn Bryant—who sealed the fate of a 14-year-old schoolboy in Mississippi.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” This quote of South African social rights activist Desmond Tutu has been everywhere on social media as of late.