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At midnight, 25 applicants were offered columns—21 of them biweekly and 4 of them weekly—and four applicants were offered blogs at The Chronicle. This means that roughly 42 percent of columnist applicants were offered positions. In addition, a waitlist was created to anticipate any vacated spots in the future. We will be posting a breakdown of these columnists later this week.
Of the 68 columnist applications we received:
Applications for columnists, cartoonists and bloggers for Spring 2009 were due before midnight yesterday (i.e. 34 minutes ago). The following are the preliminary raw numbers on the applications we've received:
The opinion pages—featuring editorials, letters to the editor, guest commentaries, cartoons and columns—are often referred to as the backpages because of where we can be found in the print edition of The Chronicle: at the very end of the paper.
On Jan. 14, The Chronicle ran my guest commentary, “From a DukeEngage dropout,” concerning my experiences with the DukeEngage Trinidad and Tobago program in the summer of 2009. A month has passed and I have yet to receive any response, private or public, from either DukeEngage Director Eric Mlyn or Fuqua Professor Lucy Reuben. I am eager to hear their perspectives, but their silence speaks volumes as well.
On June 1, 2009, I boarded a plane to Trinidad and Tobago as part of a DukeEngage program under the direction of Fuqua Professor Lucy Reuben. On July 13, 2009, I returned to North Carolina, almost four weeks shy of the program’s official end date. I paid back DukeEngage $752 and I paid the travel agency $324 to secure an earlier return date.
In the battle of the coffee beans, Starbucks is losing ground at Duke.
The fresh aroma of food, the friendly chatter of students and a few menu changes greeted customers at The Loop when they returned for the fall semester.
