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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.
Duman, a global health and biology major, plans to pursue graduate study in medical anthropology.
The starkly different outcomes for DKU’s international students have been exacerbated by border closures, visa logistics and the challenge of paying for college amidst the pandemic.
On Sept. 13, third-year law student Andrea Guzman, second-year law student Kate Weaver and Shane Ellison, a lecturing fellow in the Law School and supervising attorney for the clinic, travelled to Fort Pickett, Va. There, thousands of Afghan refugees sleep on barrock cots or in trailers in a makeshift village.
This year, SOFC is taking a decidedly different approach to its job, with more goodwill towards student groups and committee-wide reforms.
Look around Durham today, and you’ll see neighborhoods like Walltown, Trinity Heights and Hickstown, as well as the Durham Freeway that cuts diagonally through the city. These houses and highways have existed for decades, but few know the full story behind them.