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The Class of 2022’s first year saw the renaming of an infamous building, a collection of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.
The Council started by voting to approve the new health policy certificate proposal, which will be a joint venture between the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Despite faculty raising concerns about the proposal in the Council’s previous meeting, the vote to approve it passed with an overwhelming majority.
Sunlight reflected off a "concaved mirror" in the resident’s room and “caused items in that student’s duffle bag to smolder,” wrote Christopher Rossi, assistant vice president of student affairs in an email to The Chronicle.
The Chronicle is seeking nominations for individuals at Duke who are making a difference, creating change, inspiring others, discovering something ground-breaking or simply leading their lives with service and integrity.
Executive Vice President Daniel Ennis and Vice President for Finance Rachel Satterfield presented the financial interactions between the University and DUHS. They also answered questions about facing rising inflation and cost escalation, including raising employees’ salaries with the inflation rate.
Duke will still continue requiring masks on its buses and vans following Monday’s suspension of the federal mask mandate for public transportation.
“[Vaupel] was an extraordinary person,” said one of Vaupel's first colleagues at Duke. “Not just because of his brilliance, but also his ability to apply that brilliance to one interesting problem after another, as well as his versatility and creativity, which continued right into the end.”
The GVPI will allow The Division of Student Affairs to significantly expand Duke’s prevention and intervention efforts and improve transparency and accessibility of supports for all graduate, professional and undergraduate students, according to the email. A search for the GVPI program director is underway.
On Friday, Duke filed a joint motion to dismiss the antitrust case against the 568 Presidents Group, a group of elite universities accused in January of colluding to keep financial aid awards down.
The award, organized by the Office of the President in partnership with Duke Human Resources, honored those who demonstrated a commitment to Duke’s values and helped shape Duke through the pandemic.
Senators nominated people for seven awards during the meeting and subsequently voted on the nominations. Four awards were given to members of DSG, one went to an administrator, another to a staff member and one to a DSG caucus.
“I would prefer not to be charged for these damages. I was not a perpetrator. The vast majority of the students in the building were not perpetrators. I just think it is rather unfair to offload costs like that,” sophomore Rhiannon Eplett said.
The majority of the gift, $8.75 million, will go towards the Sanford School of Public Policy, which is currently celebrating its 50th year.
Current Trinity Dean Valerie Ashby is leaving Duke to become president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Noor will fill Ashby’s role while the national search for her permanent successor takes place.
A$AP Ferg released his debut single “Work” in August 2012, followed by his debut studio album “Trap Lord” in August 2013, which debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200. Since then, he has released two other studio albums, “Always Strive and Prosper,” and “Still Striving.”
“There’s just similar frustration. I don’t think RAs are special students. We share the same concerns as the rest of the student body.”
“That’s what SFK does. She makes the ordinary—not that [Shooters II Saloon] is ordinary—extraordinary. She makes the sidewalk a red carpet. She wears a ballgown to the frat party, and I did that three times.”
Faculty on the Council were skeptical that the new certificate was not all too different from pursuing the public policy major with a focus on health policy, or independently pursuing classes and opportunities related to health policy.
Effective July 1, the minimum wage for general student job postings will increase to $15 per hour, a jump from the $10.50 baseline.
The purpose of the complaint was to call on North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein to investigate potential legal violations associated with Duke’s fossil fuel investments.