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Duke joins several other top-14 law schools in withdrawing from the U.S. News’ rankings within the last week. Yale Law School was first to announce its decision to withdraw on Wednesday.
With break just around the corner, here is how Duke facilities will be operating from Wednesday through next Monday.
Black Caucus is a space where Black students can talk about their experiences at Duke, what they want to change, and how both they and Duke can improve the Black student experience.
This story was updated Thursday night after Student Affairs and the Office of Undergraduate Education sent an email to the undergraduate student body acknowledging the tragedies and providing mental health resources.
During their presentation, academic deans from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering and Duke Kunshan University highlighted their role as advocates for students.
The inclusion of male students in Few FF “emphasized our dedication to all-gender housing,” wrote Dean for Residence Life Deb LoBiondo in an email to The Chronicle. Under the QuadEx residential system, male-identifying students were allowed to select unfilled rooms in Baldwin’s section.
Among the public health challenges posed by climate change, war, COVID-19 and monkeypox, Beyrer believes that Duke and other academic institutions can play a central role in addressing these challenges. In particular, Beyrer hopes that the University can work toward creating sustainable solutions that prioritize the needs of specific populations.
In its 15th year, the deer herd reduction program began this year on Sep. 26 and will conclude on Dec. 16. By permitting entry only to certified hunters, the program manages the forest’s health by controlling the population of white-tailed deer, specifically allowing hunters to target does.
The scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Students both over and under 21 years old expressed varying opinions about Duke’s new alcohol policies, which aim to increase on-campus social gatherings.
Students said that a common frustration was the little student input Duke considered when developing goals for the Climate Commitment.
The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture announced Stacia Solomon as its interim director.
A tornado warning issued for Duke’s campus ended at 10:15 a.m..
“The initial goal was to bring these amazing faculty voices to alumni during the pandemic,” Chambers said. “The pandemic sort of provided this opportunity for us to rethink the way we did our programming and start something fresh and new because we had to. What we had done before wasn't going to work.”
The faculty Bliwise profiled reflected on the challenges and opportunities of teaching during the pandemic and the continued impact that the lockdown had on students.
Duke is rolling out new guidelines for on-campus social events involving alcohol, a part of QuadEx’s new initiative called Fun @ Duke. Here’s how the University’s new rules stack up against those of peer institutions.
Despite the lack of a dual-chamber Republican supermajority, one professor said that abortion rights in North Carolina are still up in the air. Every single Democratic congressperson would have to back Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto and they would find no sympathy in a newly Republican-controlled judiciary, he said.
Duke is rolling out new policies aimed at increasing on-campus social gatherings, including funding alcohol for student group events. Students can also reserve campus and residential spaces for social events, including those with alcohol.
DSG President Lana Gesinsky said that the policy isn’t meant to promote that social events require alcohol. Rather, the legislation seeks to solve an equity issue.
Durham Drives, a grassroots non-profit founded by senior Hannah McKnight in 2020, is an organization that provides “free, safe, and well-organized personal transportation to and from voting locations throughout Early Voting and Election Day.”
