Kicking and screaming: Inside the lives of Duke women's soccer's 3 assistant coaches
(11/09/16 6:19am)
Even in a fluid sport like soccer, there are plays to draw up, tapes to analyze and referees to challenge.
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Even in a fluid sport like soccer, there are plays to draw up, tapes to analyze and referees to challenge.
“What? You’re going to live in a dorm room?”
Penn Pavilion workers will take on new roles at the University when the revamped West Union opens later this year.
Last week, the voices of those who do not or cannot speak were upheld and preserved; the Supreme Court denied a challenge against “one person, one vote.”
Living wages and impartial arbitration of grievances—those were the key demands of Duke service workers and allies in 1968, and those are our core demands today.
Knowledge in the service of society is our mission.
This week, contingent faculty at Duke took the historic step of filing for a union election. The decision comes in response to the administration's ongoing attempts to replace stable, full-time, tenure track jobs with part-time, precarious, low-wage positions. Predictably, the burden of these policies is distributed unevenly across race and gender lines; while roughly 40 percent of Duke's teaching staff are now contingent, more than 50 percent of faculty of color—and more than 60 percent of female faculty—labor off the tenure track. As our faculty take a stand for long-term contracts, health care and fair pay, it seems an opportune moment to look back at the history of wage suppression and union-busting here at Duke, which has been chronicled by Erik Ludwig.
Now let me say immediately that I already know what your first reaction to the above title is, typical Chronicle commenter! You’re thinking “here goes this beta-male again with that oversensitive, safe-space-seeking, bedwetting, lib-tard political correctness so typical of Duke’s cry-baby culture.” You may also have followed that thought up by quoting a passage from the Constitution.
If given the choice between doing something fun with friends that doesn’t involve alcohol or going out, over 85 percent of Duke’s freshman class responded that they would prefer the option that doesn’t include alcohol. Surprising, isn’t it, at a school that had four alcohol-related EMS calls during O-week this year?
A panel of Duke community members illustrated the daunting day-to-day work and social environment navigated by black and Latino people on campus at an event Tuesday night.
I’ve been researching my career options for hours at this point, flipping back and forth through numerous descriptions and outfits. I wish I had a few more options, but at this point I just need to pick something.
Durham refugee agencies are encouraged by the Obama administration’s decision to allow more refugees into the U.S. but are also pressing for more expansive measures.
Nine pieces of camera equipment were stolen from The Chronicle’s office during the summer, said Chrissy Beck, general manager of The Chronicle.
Duke University employs over 250 staff who are hired as housekeepers for the maintenance of the community spaces on a weekly bases. These housekeepers are in charge of keeping campus functioning behind the scenes, although, sometimes we seem to forget that these staff are just like any other Duke employee, simply with a unique role. Their hard work contributes to the reason that Duke continues to add to its billions of dollars of endowment every year.
“Duke is a progressive, equality-driven institution.”
Lana and Andy Wachowski’s new film Jupiter Ascending follows their emerging pattern of reaching for a broad, sweeping vision of the future. Like the Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas and The Matrix before it, the movie seeks to blow our minds both visually and thematically. However, like Icarus and his winged hubris, the Wachowski’s trend set by their earlier successes comes crashing down with Jupiter Ascending, proving the age-old adage that, if you fly too high, you’re bound to get burned. And, as Jupiter Ascending unfolds tragically on the big screen, we’re reminded of another potent maxim: the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Beginning in July, the minimum wage for regular employees of the University will increase from $10.91 to $12.00, boosting the hourly wage of roughly 400 regular employees. The benefits of setting and increasing a minimum wage for employees at Duke are numerous. On one hand, regulating a minimum pay ensures that workers are not exploited by their employers with low wages in tight employment markets. Furthermore, it works towards a livable salary that allows for a higher standard of living for those integral to campus’ flourishing. To this end, we applaud the increase in the minimum wage at Duke as a step toward a fair pay approach to employment. However, there remain several gulfs to bridge.
Duke will increase its minimum wage from $10.91 per hour to $12 per hour beginning in July, affecting approximately 400 employees of the University and Duke University Health System.
Although the wage increase does not apply to Duke's contacted employees—including those who work at campus eateries and those who work as housekeepers—the University has a history of requesting that contractors abide by the same minimum wage,
Every Thanksgiving brings about the laundry list of items to be thankful for, and we as Duke students have, as usual, more than most. As this time of year comes around, there is something to be said for thinking about the ins and outs of being a college student in a new light. Recast yourself not as a student, or a consumer, of a Duke education, but as a human being. We live very different lives than others around us in society—spending all day wandering around an architectural oddity, congregating with especially intelligent peers and faculty. Spend twenty minutes in Von der Heyden café, and it becomes clear that the conversations around you are far different than those that might take place at your average coffee shop. Never again will you be surrounded with people whose interests are, at once, as similar and as divergent as yours—people who, at any hour of the day, are willing to converse, socialize, speculate and pontificate with you.