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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.
Rising sophomores and the incoming class of first-years will instead be provided with in-person academic opportunities via customized DKU Global Sites for fall 2022.
“And the 12 Divinity students are not taking care of the four core residents and our daughter. They’re friends, and that’s a magnificent thing.”
The Rofhiwa Book Café first opened in February 2021 as an online book retailer, then later in May as a physical storefront. Owner Beverley Boitumelo Makhubele and curator Naledi Yaziyo dreamed of creating a space for the Durham community to experience Black literature.
Over the years, the position has grown with the basketball program’s reputation. The line monitors play a crucial role in nurturing the revered tradition of tenting before UNC-Duke matchups in Cameron.
The human element of choosing songs and playing them live is a way of “honoring events of Duke, of our community, of our nation, of the world in sound and music."
When it’s my turn to view, I peek into the telescope and let out an audible gasp. I see a ball of gas surrounded by large, gray elliptical rings. Though I’ve seen pictures of Saturn countless times, seeing it for real is an otherworldly experience.
The first time Lydia Greene saw sifaka lemurs in the wild in Madagascar, it was a “very emotional” moment for her. She had studied sifakas at the Duke Lemur Center for all of her undergraduate and graduate career.
Recent controversy over a North Carolina bill reflects a larger national debate over how the country’s classrooms should reckon with the past.