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Former students thanked Fleishman for his contributions to their careers or the connections he helped them forge. Others praised him for his detailed feedback on their papers, quick to comment on his hatred of split infinitives.
“[KAjok] really stemmed from our personal experiences,” said Sebin Jeon, Trinity ‘23, co-founder and former co-president of KAjok. “There [were] so many Korean Americans scattered across Duke’s campus … but [we didn’t have] the opportunity to actually engage with them about our Korean American identity.”
Initially, it saw success. Within its first year, DMA distributed $46,546.07 to its community. After a series of forced closures starting in 2021, the group announced that it would go on an indefinite hiatus in October 2022, two years after its founding in 2020.
The C1 doors opened to a bright yellow LDOC sign surrounded by a crowd of students posing for pictures. Friends strolled about with LocoPops and tote bags. In front of Few Quad, black “Duke University” banners added the final touches to the LDOC concert stage.
Some chapters from these Duke-affiliated councils noted financial support and programming convenience as being the main reasons they remain affiliated. They also mentioned that they serve a different role for Duke students than the disaffiliated Greek chapters. At the same time, some haven’t felt that Duke administrators are as enthusiastic about working with them under QuadEx as they claim.
"[The provost] is just a multifaceted, really complex leadership opportunity. And that appeals to me. That seems like the next stage, the next challenge of my career to sort of elevate to that level. And it's wonderful," Gallimore said.
Each school’s challenges, traditions and student reception — from the fanfare of Harvard’s Housing Day to dorm t-shirts made by a Yale student — provide a glimpse into what QuadEx could look like at Duke in four, 30 and 60 years down the line.
Over the last year and a half, most of the work at the Center for Documentary Studies, a nonprofit affiliate of Duke that is nationally renowned, has come to a halt. Now the future of the center remains uncertain as Duke administrators consider, among other things, what the “appropriate relationship” should be between the University and the center moving forward.
The Chronicle returned to the students who shared their initial reactions to the new residential living system with us in 2021.
Even the most critical of first-years agreed that’s how residential dorms’ common spaces created both intra- and inter-dorm communities, but several pointed out that the impact of QuadEx depended more on dorms’ spaces and their utilities, not their proximity.
The center currently does not have a permanent director, even though the search for one began last spring. It has no office on Duke’s campus and communication about it has been sparse. Students have expressed uncertainty about how to access it.
A staff photographer at Duke Athletics for almost six years, Nat’s finger is on the pulse of all 27 Duke teams.
An organization that funds microgrants to Durham residents for projects benefiting the Durham community, Durham SOUP was inspired by the SOUP model created by InCUBATE, “a research group founded in Chicago focused on exploring new approaches to arts funding.”
Data compiled by the Academic Advising Center reveals sharp declines over the last decade in the number of Duke students majoring in subjects like history, English and political science, following national trends. Meanwhile, that of computer science, Duke’s fastest-growing major, has soared.
The data is like a time capsule, showcasing both my habits and how Duke Dining has evolved over the years.
At Duke, Zora was a fourth-year doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology and had been conducting research in Hatay Province, Turkey, when the Feb. 6 earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria.
Now an M.D. candidate at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Polascik is the founder and current president of the school’s Respectacle chapter.
From the Union Institute Academy, to Trinity College, to what we now call Duke University, the history of Duke lives within its buildings and the names that they carry.
Housing just under one million pressed, dried and labeled plant specimens, the Duke Herbarium is tied with Cornell’s as the sixth-largest university herbarium in the United States.
The “Duke is for Lovers” mural is one of four murals in the library that were made for the same event, a library party in 2007.