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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.
First-year Kseniia Kholina, an international student from Moscow, remembers it was Wednesday jazz night at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. At 11 p.m., she left the Flowers Building and arrived at the West Campus bus stop, where she received a text from a friend. “It’s war,” the text read.
The class focuses on the marketing and business components of social media, with ample class time devoted to analytics, growth strategy and reflection.
From performing the Charlie Brown theme song at a nursing home to helping middle schoolers make DNA structures out of clay, Duke is home to many different student service groups in a variety of categories.
The overwhelmingly wealthy nature of Duke's student body can leave low-income students feeling out of place. But the Questbridge Scholars community on campus provides a space where scholars can share their concerns and experiences with each other.
Crystal Dreisbach's idea won runner-up in a contest, which bolstered her confidence that a reusable container system could work. “Someone, somewhere, thinks it's kind of a good idea,” she said.
“Most people, when they talk about Durham’s Black Wall Street, they only talk about the financial district, the businesses, but it was also what we call the Hayti community. ... It was literally a community that helped the business sector to thrive and survive,” said Jim Harper, chair and professor of history at North Carolina Central University.