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NC General Assembly overrides veto, bars trans women and girls from competing in sports ‘designated for females’

(08/16/23 11:02pm)

Transgender women and girls in North Carolina will no longer be able to compete on most middle, high school and college-level sports teams corresponding with their gender identities, under a new ban enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly. 



Duke Centennial infrastructure projects to limit Chapel Drive vehicle access

(08/15/23 12:11am)

In order to “promote safety during ongoing construction,” vehicle access on Chapel Drive between the roundabout and the Chapel will be temporarily restricted, according to an Aug. 10 release and a Monday email sent from Vice President of Operations Russel Thompson to all Duke students.


Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball guard Taina Mair

(08/11/23 11:31pm)

After exceeding expectations a season ago, Duke women's basketball is bringing in an elite group of talent from the recruiting trail and the transfer portal. The Blue Zone will analyze film on each of the newcomers for the 2023-24 season. We've already seen Camilla Emsbo, Jadyn Donovan, Delaney Thomas, Oluchi Okananwa and Jordan Wood. Next up is Taina Mair. 



Breaking down our ACC preseason football ballots

(08/11/23 2:04am)

With football season just a few weeks away, the ACC released its All-ACC Preseason Team and Preseason Poll last week, featuring three Duke players and a joint-sixth place finish with Pittsburgh. Two of The Chronicle’s beat writers, Ranjan Jindal and Caleb Dudley, were present in Charlotte for July’s ACC Kickoff and voted on both the team and poll, and are here to break down their ballots. 




Here’s what you need to know about Biden’s new student debt programs as payments resume in October

(08/08/23 12:12am)

The Department of Education’s student loan suspension program is set to expire in the coming months, meaning interest and repayments on federal student loans will resume for the first time in over three years. Interest will begin accumulating on federal student loans on Sept. 1, while payments are set to restart in October. 


Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball forward Jordan Wood

(08/07/23 2:26pm)

 After exceeding expectations a season ago, Duke women's basketball is bringing in an elite group of talent from the recruiting trail and the transfer portal. The Blue Zone will analyze film on each of the newcomers for the 2023-24 season. We've already seen Camilla Emsbo, Jadyn Donovan, Delaney Thomas and Oluchi Okananwa. Next up is Jordan Wood. 



Duke football offensive line coach Adam Cushing implicated in Northwestern hazing lawsuit

(08/02/23 6:31pm)

On Wednesday, former Northwestern offensive lineman Ramon Diaz announced that he was filing a lawsuit against the university, alleging hazing and racial mistreatment while he was in the program. He implicates current Duke offensive line coach and run game coordinator Adam Cushing — the tight ends coach in Evanston, Ill., when Diaz was a player — for being aware of the incidents but not publicly acting against them.




Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball guard Oluchi Okananwa

(08/01/23 9:00pm)

After exceeding expectations a season ago, Duke women's basketball is bringing in an elite group of talent from the recruiting trail and the transfer portal. The Blue Zone will analyze film on each of the newcomers for the 2023-24 season. We've already seen Camilla Emsbo, Jadyn Donovan and Delaney Thomas. Next up is Oluchi Okananwa:




'In the End It Always Does' captures self-shattering desire

(07/31/23 3:40am)

The big secret about sex, Leo Bersani writes in his 1987 essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” is that most people don’t like it. And this is true, he says, even for those who seem most capable of embracing their own sexual impulses, including, say, the most enthusiastic proponents of polysexuality with multiple sex partners. In saying this, Bersani intimates that there is nothing more disorienting and boundary-breaking to our selves than the truth of our sexual desire. Or we can say with Bersani that desire disrupts and dissolves the coherence of any stable identity, causing the “shattering of the psychic structures themselves.”