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(05/01/17 5:24am)
One particularly late night in The Chronicle’s office early in the spring of my junior year, I turned to my friend Amrith—then the editor-in-chief—and asked what him what he thought about balance.He wasn’t caught off guard. This was one of countless questions I asked Amrith over the course of the hundreds of hours we spent together that semester. His answers to my questions about Duke basketball, how to fix the printer and how to navigate InDesign didn’t stick with me. But a lot of his other answers did, and this was one of them.Chuckling a little bit, he looked at me and said something along the lines of, “I don’t think balance really exists.”In the moment, I didn’t accept that response. You have to understand—Amrith has a superhuman dedication to The Chronicle. Truly, it cannot be matched. Having just returned from a semester abroad, I was unwilling to have my dreams about the perfect work-school-fun-sleep balance so easily crushed. Like so many Duke students, I spent the first two years of college fully convinced I could have it all — if only I was organized and efficient enough. Being the news editor that spring showed me that I couldn’t. And that was ok.Because balance, it turns out, can be overrated.Spending 40+ hours of the week working on the newspaper meant I didn’t have as much time to spend with my friends or on my classes (shoutout to Elle and the rest of my group for getting me through Stat 101). But some of my best Duke memories are from that crazy spring, when any sense of the rhythm I’d established in college was lost.Instead of doing my homework, I conducted countless hours worth of interviews. Instead of going out on Wednesdays, I edited articles as I listened to jazz at the Mary Lou Williams Center. Instead of sleeping enough, I saw the Chapel when campus was absurdly, beautifully quiet.It wasn’t always fun, but it was fulfilling, and somewhere along the way, I realized that I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. For a long time—since the fifth grade, to be precise—I’ve said I wanted to be a journalist. But as an underclassman, I was scared to commit too fully to it lest I fail at other things. Then junior spring was like a boot-camp in commitment—and, sometimes, at failing at other things—and I came out on the other side ready to do it again.So this year, I kept writing. I traded in some of my hours at The Chronicle for hours at The Raleigh News & Observer, and left 301 Flowers to travel the Triangle covering Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump’s campaigns—watching and writing about everything from Clinton’s speech in Raleigh on the eve of the election to Trump's on Inauguration Day. Even on the hard days—like the ones when my phone’s GPS was broken and I ended up hopelessly lost on North Carolina’s backroads—I knew there was nothing I would have rather been doing.Over the course of dozens of articles this year—about everything from a refugee family in Cary to gentrification in Durham—I’ve learned more about North Carolina than I did in the three years that preceded it. I’ve loved every second of it. And after graduation, I’ll be lucky to keep doing the journalism that I love in Washington.The point of all this? I’m not exactly sure—I’ll have to live a lot more years to write a great column that delivers advice with any measure of certainty. But what it boils down to, I think, is this: if you’re lucky enough to find something you love, hold onto it. We sometimes receive the message in college that you have to be good (or at least a little good) at everything. But I don't buy that anymore. Amrith is pretty much always right, so take his lesson to heart already and go ahead and embrace the lack of balance.Rachel Chason is a Trinity senior. She served as news editor for The Chronicle's 111th volume and was the co-editor of Towerview, The Chronicle’s magazine, this year. She would like to thank Amrith, who will forever be superhuman in her eyes, Gautam, who was the best co-editor of Towerview she could’ve imagined and who should really quit his cool tech job and be a journalist, and Elle, who was a loyal Chron reader and unofficial member of 301 Flowers. She’d also like to thank The Chronicle’s devoted commenters, who keep the whole office grounded (and laughing).
(04/12/17 4:14am)
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(04/12/17 4:05am)
When President Richard Brodhead arrived on Duke’s campus in 2004, the Nasher Museum of Art was still a construction site.
(03/20/17 11:36pm)
Duke will be taking extra precautions Tuesday night when controversial social scientist Charles Murray comes to speak.
(02/16/17 5:03am)
At the height of the Duke lacrosse case, Stephen Miller made a name for himself on national television defending facts.
(01/31/17 5:09am)
When Charlie Rose asked President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller, Trinity ’07, about the “chaos and turmoil” that followed Trump’s executive order halting immigration, Miller responded with a line that was representative of his entire political career.
(10/26/16 4:03am)
Senior Izzy Marie* was sitting in her final round interview with a top consulting firm when she had a revelation.
(10/19/16 4:40am)
Actors and activists Kal Penn and John Cho, the stars of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," campaigned at colleges across North Carolina Tuesday on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Penn and Cho met with students at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University to discuss the issues at stake in the election and highlight Clinton's New College Compact. The Chronicle spoke with Penn and Cho Tuesday night about their campus visits, their message to voters and what they care most about in the election.
(09/28/16 4:41am)
UPDATE: In light of newly-released audio Friday showing Republican nominee Donald Trump bragging about groping women, several Republicans—including the chair of the national College Republicans organization—have withdrawn their endorsements. The Chronicle followed up with the people mentioned in this article to see if they still maintain their support. Berger, Ferlauto, Siegel and Sridhar all declined to comment. Hough explained in an email that he thought both Trump's and Bill Clinton's attitudes toward women are products of their generation so he was not surprised by Trump's comments. Hough added that he will probably not vote.
(09/23/16 6:47pm)
Former Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis made a passionate appeal on Hillary Clinton’s behalf to Duke Law School students Friday, calling this year's presidential election the most important election of her lifetime.
(09/14/16 4:46am)
Through Hillary Clinton’s college plan, 122,000 North Carolina students would pay no tuition for a four-year degree at public universities, her campaign announced Tuesday.
(09/13/16 11:44pm)
Chelsea Clinton visited Durham Tuesday to celebrate the opening of a campaign office downtown. During her trip to North Carolina, she also spoke at Wake Forest University for a panel on women in leadership. Clinton discussed her mother's education plan during the event at the Beyù Caffè in Durham.
(08/31/16 4:58am)
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence visited Winston-Salem Tuesday evening. Towerview editors Rachel Chason and Gautam Hathi attended his rally and shared some of the highlights.
(07/31/16 2:08pm)
To write the biggest speech of his career, Donald Trump turned to a trusted aide—Duke graduate Stephen Miller.
(04/19/16 6:43am)
A series of recent incidents has raised concerns that protestors and marginalized groups on campus are being threatened.
(04/11/16 4:24am)
The Duke Chapel will reopen May 11 with a day-long celebration.
(04/04/16 4:52am)
Nine students staging a sit-in inside the Allen Building since Friday afternoon were granted amnesty from disciplinary action after a meeting with administrators late Sunday night.
(04/03/16 2:02pm)
Durham City Councilwoman Jillian Johnson, Trinity '03, and Sendolo Diaminah, Durham Public Schools Board of Education member, visited the students sitting in the Allen Building in protest of the treatment of workers at the University Sunday morning at approximately 9:30 a.m.
(04/01/16 10:15pm)
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(03/29/16 5:36am)
Marcus Benning, Trinity '14 and a second-year student at the School of Law, was elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council last week. Benning is the former president of the Black Student Alliance and member of the Duke Student Publishing Company board of directors. The Chronicle's Rachel Chason spoke with Benning about issues on campus and his goals for his term, which officially begins at the end of this academic year.
