The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives the state a C- for its gun laws, noting that the state does not have universal background check requirements, extreme risk protection orders and minimum age restrictions.
The service initially went offline on Aug. 31, when students were faced with a blank screen on the service’s mobile application and a description citing “technical issues” with the app.
The Chronicle looked into some of these officials' voting and campaign funding histories related to gun control policy. Here’s what it found.
After the National Labor Relations Board approved DGSU’s petition for an election, Duke doctoral students overwhelmingly voted to become an officially recognized union in August. The DGSU’s Tuesday rally was the union’s first since the election was certified.
Robertson Scholars, who regularly travel between the campuses of UNC and Duke, are enrolled as undergraduate students at both schools.
Other parents said that their insurance policies were denied for similar reasons, taking to both informal and moderated Duke parent Facebook groups to share their concerns throughout July and August.
Some doctoral students at Duke’s peer institutions are unionized, while others are not. Here’s how their benefits currently compare.
The first DukeAlert was released over three hours after the initial Alert Carolina announcement. Meanwhile, Duke students planned to make the trip to Chapel Hill in the time it took for the DukeAlert to be sent out.
Some Duke students, including the dual-campus Robertson Scholars, also take classes at UNC and regularly travel between campuses.
The Duke Student Voter ID Card is a “physical card, separate from the electronic or physical Duke Card,” which can be obtained by students for free.
“We really wanted to ground ourselves in something this year that was going to be all-inclusive and in the spirit of inclusivity,” Hamilton said as he declared inclusion as the overall goal for DSG this academic year.
Coastal North Carolina, including the Duke Marine Lab, is currently under a tropical storm watch and expected to face stronger rain and winds. The lab is “monitoring conditions, taking precautions and making preparations.”
UNC Police Chief Brian James added that "this was the only fatality, and no other injuries were reported."
Blackshear is set to begin his new position in January 2024, wrote Mary McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, in an email to Duke students. He will continue his responsibilities as Dean of Students throughout fall 2023.
Members are no longer allowed to move in early and must rehearse while classes are in session. Rehearsals can take up to eight hours per day.
The timeline for negotiations is unclear, and the DGSU says the process can “take weeks, months, or years.” It takes 465 days on average for unions to negotiate their first contracts.
The vote marks the union as the first officially recognized graduate student union at a private university in the South and one of the largest unions in North Carolina.
“We will not penalize graduate students in any way for engaging in unionizing efforts nor will we endorse any disciplinary measures directed at graduate students who have participated in such efforts or against those who have not,” the statement read.
The University of Chicago became the first of 16 top schools, including Duke, to settle claims that the schools illegally colluded to limit financial aid disbursement. So far, they are the only school to have said that they will settle the claims.
In 2020, Rachel Lance, assistant consulting professor in the department of anesthesiology, was allegedly assigned additional work without an increase in pay by Joseph Mathew, her immediate supervisor and chairman of her department. After initially raising “multiple internal complaints” to several University offices, Lance also began expressing concerns about a potential pay gap between herself and other male colleagues in her department. Lance says that after the complaints were filed, Mathew and other Duke employees created a “hostile work environment” through retaliatory comments and actions, including repeated attempts to pressure Lance into “dropping” her complaints.
