The Chomicle 2020: The best f**king thing you'll ever read

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Editor's Note - All articles featured in The Chomicle are creative, satirical and/or entirely fictional pieces. They are fully intended as such and should not be taken seriously as news.

Surprise! It's April Fools' Day, which can only mean one thing: The Chronicle's evil, satirical twin, The Chomicle. This is the best reporting we've done all year! 

So, why don't you take some time from not paying attention to your Zoom class and check out this year's crop of Pulitzer-prize winning* stories. What else do you have to do? Prank your dog?

*Note: These stories have not won a Pulitzer prize... yet. The Chomicle does NOT regret the error.

'News'

University to reimburse housing and dining fees with Monopoly money

“Students who are saying Monopoly money is useless are deluding themselves,” McMoney said. “Just wait till you get a hotel on Park Place, and boom, you’re set.” 



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University announces new alcohol policy for Board of Trustees meetings

“Oh yeah, the executive committee meetings are just beer pong,” Trustee Al Coholic said. “Wait, you guys hadn’t figured that out by now?” 



Duke Parking and Ticketing Services hauls in $785 billion in revenue for fiscal year

 “We are thrilled to have achieved our revenue goal once again, fulfilling our mission of stripping broke college students of every last penny and shred of dignity."  



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DSG passes resolution condemning coronavirus

The Duke Sententious Government Senate passed a resolution condemning the coronavirus at its weekly Zoom meeting. 



Homebound gay Duke students excited to act straight again

Many queer students were unable to retrieve their crop tops and flannels, which would be dead giveaways in the painfully homophobic towns they came from. 

'Features'

‘It’s under the thong’: Inside administrators’ search to retrieve students’ essential belongings

At the end of the day, the HRL staffers shipped everyone’s stuff, fish were left for dead and some choice prescription medicines were taken from students’ rooms for administrators to enjoy.



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Diverse fraternity boasts members from all 5 boroughs

“Yeah, it’s been really inspiring actually,” fraternity president Mitchell Bloomberg said. “We hope to really put different cultures into conversation by having one TV on the Mets game and another on the Yankees game."



You can get 50% off at Il Forno if you order in an Italian accent

To drive up lost sales after this disastrous Spring semester, Duke’s iconic Italian restaurant will be offering 50% off to anyone who orders in an Italian accent. 



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On the bubble: A look at the Class of 2024 waitlist

The best of the best, the most well-connected of the well-connected and the richest of the richest are already locks for the Duke Class of 2024. But we here at Waitlist Bubble Watch don't care about them.

'Sports'


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UNC sees record class attendance for basketball players during coronavirus sabbatical

North Carolina finally has a virtual win, which is the best they can hope for from this season’s team. 



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Duke Athletics adds GamePigeon 'Cup Pong' as official varsity sport

Duke Athletics made history this week, becoming the first collegiate program to recognize GamePigeon's Cup Pong as an official varsity sport.  



Duke to increase basketball game attendance by not admitting so many damn nerds

After two hour-long meetings, the task force concluded that there were too many snot-nosed goobers with their heads stuffed in books around campus. 



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What Coach K(ringle) has been up to during quarantine

Just because players are on lockdown doesn’t mean they get a break from practice. “If classes can go online, then we can too,” Kringle said. 

'Recess'


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Central Campus ruins to be next 'Survivor' shooting location

"We'd gotten comfortable in Fiji, but holy shit, I just wanted to see how people survived here,” "Survivor" host Jeff Probe told The Chomicle after seeing 300 Yearby.



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'This shit didn't work': Rubberstein Arts Center to be demolished

Less than two years after the construction of the Rubberstein Arts Center was completed, Duke administrators have decided to call it quits. 



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'Lofi hip hop beats to study to' Spotify playlist to headline virtual LDOC

Students will be encouraged to begin the playlist simultaneously at 5 p.m. on LDOC to foster a faint sense of cohesion and camaraderie among the student body, who will have lost contact with all their peers by that point.

'Opinion'


Peaches

God, I hate Peaches

By Jake Satisky, editor of The Chomicle



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God, I hate Jake Satisky

By Peaches, famous campus cat



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Why my thongs are essential items

By Sia Lamebrams, Class of 2020



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P-Frosh should drink alone to replicate New Devil Days experience

By Rihim Smellamkonda, Class of 2021

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