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Letter: Publish surveillance testing results daily

(01/13/22 6:28pm)

The Chronicle is reporting on Twitter that VP Kyle Cavanaugh has informed them that in-person classes are set to resume on January 18. Clearly, it is within the purview of the Duke administration to make this decision, and I assume that the decision was made in consultation with the appropriate faculty governance committees. I also assume that the administration is aware that this decision will likely lead to significant concerns for faculty, staff and students who are (or caring for individuals who are) at high-risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and/or who have young children who are ineligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine.  

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/01/01132022-kasibhatla-publish-surveillance-testing-results-daily-omicron

Letter: Duke must make COVID-19 data more transparent

(08/26/21 6:13pm)

The start of the new academic year has once again forced universities across the country to grapple with difficult questions related to campus life in the face of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. One issue that is central to the mission of any university and that intersects with both student and faculty concerns relates to the risk of COVID-19 infection associated with in-person classes. Duke has sensibly managed this risk over the last year and a half thanks to strict masking protocols, de-densifying classrooms and robust surveillance testing and contact tracing. As a result, there has not been a single confirmed case of transmission in a classroom at Duke over the course of the pandemic. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2021/08/08262021-kasibhatla-pan

​Response to the Duke CHP overview document

(10/20/16 4:58am)

The Duke CHP planning document posits that the proposed CHP plant will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 46,000 MTCO2e/year (i.e. metric tons CO2-equivalents per year) relative to the baseline Duke Climate Action Plan (CAP) emissions of 261,000 MTCO2e/year (pages 16-17). This estimated 18 percent reduction accrues from the reduction in natural gas use at the existing Duke University steam plants due to the purchase of steam generated from waste heat at the CHP plant. Since there will be no change in electricity purchased from the grid and since the single CHP plant will have an insignificant impact on the carbon intensity of the Duke Energy electricity generation fleet, emissions from the CHP plant are not directly taken into account in calculating the reduction in CAP emissions in the CHP planning document.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/10/response-to-the-duke-chp-overview-document

Professor supports Connor as `Person of the Year'

(12/06/99 5:00am)

I wonder if I am one of the "researchers working on cutting-edge technology" or "professors who push the envelope of academic endeavors" referred to by STONE COLD and Priya Bharadwaj. If so, let me just say that Kelly Bowling and LaShawn Williams are absolutely right -someone like Diane Connor is far more deserving of the recognition by Towerview than someone like me.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/12/professor-supports-connor-person-year

Burness, Szoka miss the point on Hindi debate

(09/10/99 4:00am)

I am writing in response to the comments made by Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations John Burness in the Sept. 8 issue of The Chronicle. Burness makes the statement, "One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to know that culture in that area of the world is as rich as anything here, but that argument was never made." In a similar vein, Trinity sophomore Berin Szoka makes the statement, "This is not a question of continuing a debate, it is a question of starting one."

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/09/burness-szoka-miss-point-hindi-debate

All cultures have both strengths and weaknesses

(05/27/99 4:00am)

The May 20, 1999 issue of The Chronicle published a letter by Professor Edwin Locke from the University of Maryland, who was weighing in on the recent controversy at Duke regarding the possible addition of a Hindi major. Although it may be true that a Hindi major should not be added at Duke, the debate has evolved into a large one on the supposed superiority of one civilization.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/05/all-cultures-have-both-strengths-and-weaknesses

Letter reflects writer's own ethnocentric values

(04/19/99 4:00am)

I write in reference to Jay Strader's letter written in the April 15 edition of The Chronicle giving his opinion on the possible addition of the Hindi major. I am deeply disturbed by his assertion that Hindi is not a very important subject for many students because it "is a language spoken in a Third World country overwrought by disease and poverty."

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/04/letter-reflects-writers-own-ethnocentric-values