‘Duke Houses’ process gets mixed response
By Arden Kreeger | March 14, 2012The release of next year’s housing assignments Monday yielded mixed responses as students adjust to the new house model.
The release of next year’s housing assignments Monday yielded mixed responses as students adjust to the new house model.
After failing to fill the majority of their allotted sections, the new Social Justice House and Latino Cultural House will not have housing in the Fall under the new house model.
As students registered for housing last week, advocates for an expansion of Duke’s gender-neutral housing program were unsuccessful in their cause.
Student feedback to a recent Duke Student Government survey reveals a lack of support for a proposed change to the house model set to begin Fall 2012.
Duke housekeepers mistreatment by their supervisor are urging administrators to take action.
For juniors returning from studying abroad in the Fall, housing worries have finally been eased.
Although the new residents of Keohane 4E Quadrangle moved in before the start of classes, the new residence hall celebrated its grand opening Thursday afternoon.
After the housing lottery, some selective living groups were in the market for better housing.
Some living groups bypassed the typical route in determining housing sections for next year.
The approval of three cultural houses for next year’s house model has stirred conversation about the potential for self-segregation.
About a third of the 111 juniors who applied for off-campus housing this Fall will be able to live off campus in the Spring.
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At the housing lottery tonight, here's what selective living groups went where.
The house model lottery was not without drama Wednesday night, as sororities, fraternities and non-greek selective living groups learned where they will live under the house model beginning Fall 2012.
In July 1959, Duke’s Board of Trustees closed the Panhellenic meeting space on East Campus.
More selective living groups than anticipated have applied for a physical stake in next year’s house model.
Proponents of the housing model believe each house will form a distinct culture—but now those cultures may be racially defined.
Under the new housing system, an increased number of selective living groups—including fraternities—will be located on Central Campus, according to the menu published on the Duke House Model...
Later this month, nine sororities will be applying for individual houses—or sections—under the new house model, which will begin Fall 2012.
As the house model takes a more tangible shape, so does the model’s physical counterpart—Keohane 4E.