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Amid the typical bustle, Gesinsky sat at one of the few dry tables to make good on her campaign promise of creating Pulse Checks, a way for students to informally ask questions in-person and give feedback to DSG.
Upchurch remembered the impact Nugget had on the Duke community. It was his “calling” to get another golden retriever, he said.
“It's like what you see in the movies [about college] came true.”
Administrators have hailed the redesign as the most significant change in Duke’s new student programming since 1995.
The campus icon befriended countless members of the Duke community and went on many on-and-off campus adventures until her death Wednesday.
“You don’t go to college and say, ‘Oh, I think I want to be a chief external affairs officer for a major university,'” Schoenfeld said. “I didn’t know it at the time, but it was sparked at Duke.”
The Chronicle asked three members of the Class of 2022 to share what they learned from their Duke experiences. Here’s what they said.
As Duke emerges from the pandemic, Brauer believes “it’s a perfect time to really go all in” with programming “to try and bring back a big sense of Duke spirit, Duke energy, Duke fun.”
Gesinsky, a senior, has ambitions to implement a “cultural reset” to bring DSG closer to the rest of the undergraduate population.
To most of the Duke population, Stratton Thomas, Trinity ‘22, and Cate Schick, Trinity ‘22, are ordinary students: they take classes, participate in clubs and, like many at Duke, are diehard Duke basketball fans. But when Thomas and Schick mysteriously disappear during various sporting events, people are bound to ask: where do they go?
Valerie Ashby, dean of Duke's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the daughter of two high school teachers, was seemingly destined to be an educator. Now, after a seven-year tenure at Duke, Ashby has a wealth of memories, accomplishments and advice under her belt.
Following public outcry, Planned Parenthood organized nationwide “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies to unite against the Justices’ decision. On Saturday, May 14, demonstrations took place across the United States. From coast to coast, people of diverse walks of life gathered outside courthouses to protest and share their stories.
“Sometimes I can make it through part of the day and sort of push it out of my mind for a few minutes, but it always comes back,” Upchurch said. “It’s slightly better each day, but only slightly.”
With Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural commencement ceremony approaching, seniors from DKU’s first-ever graduating class looked back on their four years attending Duke’s joint venture program.
With Chapel climbs at dawn, silent disco on the Bryan Center plaza and last-minute cram sessions in the library, here’s how Duke students spent the morning of the last day of the school year.
Seemingly everyone has come outdoors on April 12, a Tuesday, and the Bryan Center plaza is the beating heart of it all.
It’s late on a warm and drowsy Sunday evening, and in just the past hour, I have learned about Japanese martial arts, been psychoanalyzed by a therapist-in-training, discussed my plans for the future with complete strangers and tried my first cup of Kava.
Under Duke Kunshan University’s new COVID-19 testing policy, two to three missed surveillance tests can lead to academic suspension, demotion from leadership positions and a permanent note on students’ records.
“It was a matter of getting all of the Panhellenic sororities to agree that they wanted housing, and then they would approach administration in a unified way to say ‘we now wish to have housing that is comparable to what the fraternities have.'"
When selective living is phased out at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, it will have been nearly a century since the practice began—a tradition older than Duke.