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Following reported, misinformed concerns from students about rising crime rates in Durham, Duke announced plans to destroy the running paths along the perimeter of the campus and replace them with a moat. To exit East Campus, students will now be required to leap or swim.
In an email to the Duke community Tuesday afternoon, President Vincent Price announced that the Duke Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name the East Union Building the George and George-Frank Wall Center for Student Life.
Well, ready or not, here we are again at the start of a new academic year. Graduation may seem a long way away — and it is if you consider all that you will learn and all the friendships you will make between now and then — but I have been working on college campuses for long enough to tell you that your time at Duke will also be short.
Despite being an elite university, Duke sure knows how to treat its students like children. The university mandates a longer housing requirement than its peer institutions, forcing us to live on campus for three years. This requirement infuriates me because Duke removes my power over where to live. Even though as a junior I can choose which dorm to live in, I am prevented from living off-campus in the name of creating a thriving campus community. This requirement traps us in a pseudo-boarding school environment. Duke takes care of our every need on campus, from dining to exercising to studying. Like boarding school students, we migrate between classes, the dining hall (WU), and our dorm rooms. In this, Duke’s ideal scenario, we never need to go off campus and instead rely on Duke for everything we need. There is even a campus pharmacy, after all!
More than 100 students, staff and supporters gathered in front of the Duke Chapel Monday as the Duke Graduate Student Union called for increased stipends.
The Class of 2022’s first year saw the renaming of an infamous building, a collection of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.
On January 14, a Duke University (DUPD) Police Officer killed a patient at Duke University Hospital. The civilian had gained control of a Durham police officer’s firearm and fired multiple shots in the emergency room. A DUPD officer, after seeing the patient’s gun raised toward the Durham Officer, responded by shooting the patient, who later died from bullet injuries.
When I lived in Massachusetts last year, I went to the gas station every Sunday morning.
Daniel Joseph Watt was everything to me. He was my partner, my best friend and the apex of my every day. He was so loved. I remember our exact conversation when he was offered the Residence Coordinator position at Duke University. He was so happy and beyond thrilled to join the Duke community. When he moved into Kilgo, he fell in love with his office and decorated it as soon as possible. He wanted his staff to be able to come in and feel welcomed. He wanted to cultivate a space where people felt like they belonged. Values he would bring with him when he moved to Edens.
For the Class of 2021, sophomore year saw the renaming of an infamous building, a collection of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.
One morning in the Chronicle office, after pulling an all-nighter to finish a PubPol memo, I saw a squirrel in front of me.
Duke service workers delivered a petition to Duke this month demanding hazard pay, back pay and more transparent communication from management about COVID-19 details and protocol.
5/5 Blue Devils
While many members of the Duke community are beginning to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, the distribution timelines of Duke’s peer institutions are widely varied.
The remainder of Duke’s faculty and staff in Group 3 can register for the COVID-19 vaccine, and college students in congregate housing are projected to be eligible beginning April 7—though the exact date remains unclear and depends on the state government.
Student Affairs is undergoing changes in leadership and structure, particularly within Housing and Residence Life, with the former head of HRL now working on pandemic planning.
Duke’s surveillance testing program has not yet expanded to include contract workers, which the former president of the union representing Duke employees said shows a lack of care for those workers on the part of the University.
“You won’t believe where we’re living,” my blockmate tells me, helping me with my luggage as we walk across the humid quad.
As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University transition online after COVID-19 clusters and rising cases, Duke is using both employees and students to encourage safe behavior on and off campus.
Two men, both wearing protective masks, stood atop the East Campus bridge Monday morning and unfurled a banner announcing workers’ demands as the University prepares for students to return to campus in the Fall.
