Having made the journey back to Duke for the first time since 1986, I took my son to see a plaque in the Bryan Center that had several names on it, among them my late father.
Duke leadership has been working for years with Wuhan University to create a liberal arts research university in China.
"You are traveling through another dimension—a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.
I like to consider myself a connoisseur of exceptional and eclectic playlists. Every so often, I become engrossed in certain genres, spending days and even weeks exploring the depths of Spotify for hidden gems and long-time favorites.
The Mary Duke Biddle Music Building (MDB) is my favorite building on East Campus. Built in 1971 by American architect Edward Durrell Stone, it has housed the music department of Duke University since it opened.
As leaves swirl across stone sidewalks and the wind nips at our noses, campus welcomes students back for the next chapter of their Duke experiences.
I spent most of Saturday sitting inside my bedroom closet unable to move. For most of the week I had been trying to run away from my life and had ended up in my closet looking for my back-up plan—pills I had saved when I was sick over summer—to finally end my life.
Ah, the final Monday Monday of the semester: much like an acceptance speech, except that at the end of it, instead of an award, you get a dubious reputation as a writer. Monday Monday turned 37 years old this October. Originally founded to be a kind of light take on the week’s news, it eventually morphed into a character-based satire in which the authors used their alter-egos to skewer various aspects of life at Duke.
Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence One of the first things I was told as a new columnist was “don’t read the comments section.” But, like most writers, that long stream of crudely constructed commentary was all too tempting to pass up.
In the famous viral opening of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” protagonist Will McAvoy gives a speech in which he explains how America is no longer the greatest country on Earth. In the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, that ended fourteen lives, I once again feel like our country is so very far from being first among nations.
“No your black life does not matter.” –November 13, Duke University On Friday, November 13, President Brodhead held an open conversation in response to various racial injustices happening on campus and at institutions of higher education across the nation.
I’ve spent the last year studying oppressive language. My honors thesis in Public Policy (which I submitted on Friday!) explored how the language surrounding racial profiling, stop-and-frisk and use of force in the New York Police Department offers strategic policymaking insight.
“Ain’t it like most people? I’m no different. We love to talk on things we don’t know about.” I have learned a lot over the past fifteen months of writing columns for The Chronicle, but perhaps nothing more important than the fact that you don’t know how much you don’t know until you open up your ideas for public comment. With that in mind, I tread very carefully over what I am about to say. Like most students on campus, I have stayed quiet over the last many weeks as racial tensions have percolated and boiled over.
We on The Chronicle’s Independent Editorial Board have noticed a decline in our readership this semester, so we’ve decided to makes moves to boost our clicks and page views.
After the sheer exhaustion of completing my final run of midterms and papers, I should have been absolutely ecstatic to return home for Thanksgiving break.
Writing a column is tricky business. I decided to apply for a spot with The Chronicleon a whim.
Full disclosure: this is really more of a rallying cry than a satire so don’t come in here expecting jokes.
If given the choice between doing something fun with friends that doesn’t involve alcohol or going out, over 85 percent of Duke’s freshman class responded that they would prefer the option that doesn’t include alcohol.
On November 18, members of the Black Justice League at Princeton University occupied the office of the university’s president as part of a wave of college protests against racism last month.
I took the time this past week to twice review the Community Forum on Race hosted by President Brodhead, Provost Kornbluth and Dean Ashby, as well as the subsequent “Demands of Black Voices” follow-up. The battle between students behind the demands and Duke administration has been a total embarrassment and betrayal to the University.
