As the last week of January approaches, first-years move closer to their final decisions about housing for sophomore year.
As students come back for the spring, many look forward to a semester of change. For some, there are new classes to explore and appreciate, while the gauntlet of tenting in K-Ville will be the highlight for others.
As leaves swirl across stone sidewalks and the wind nips at our noses, campus welcomes students back for the next chapter of their Duke experiences.
We on The Chronicle’s Independent Editorial Board have noticed a decline in our readership this semester, so we’ve decided to makes moves to boost our clicks and page views.
On November 18, members of the Black Justice League at Princeton University occupied the office of the university’s president as part of a wave of college protests against racism last month.
As first-year students begin to consider housing options for next year, they have doubtless heard of the very different residential experiences of those who choose selective living groups versus those who choose independent housing.
Last month, the University’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility hosted a public forum to discuss with students the transparency and management of the University’s endowment.
In a week’s time, hoards of sleep-deprived students will be camped out in Perkins, adding to the ever-growing piles of empty coffee cups and plastic food containers from Vondy.
With recent campus controversies and academic and personal stresses weighing heavily on our minds, it is easy to become disillusioned and fatigued by life at Duke.
Last Friday, a coalition of students organized a second conversation in Page Auditorium to cover a range of issues that included racial and socioeconomic diversity at Duke.
In February, we wrote about the need to “address the student experience on campus” with respect to socioeconomic diversity, and two months later, we discussed normalizing the experience of first generation college students at Duke.
Last week, Dartmouth College joined a growing list of universities in the news for student protests about race.
With next semester’s registration wrapping up, our curriculum and its requirements have been on students’ minds.
Last Friday, President Brodhead held a community forum in Page Auditorium with Provost Sally Kornbluth and Trinity Dean Valerie Ashby.
Tensions flared on Tuesday between student activists and the media on the University of Missouri’s campus.
On Monday, we discussed our campus’s dire need for leadership to step up with helpful solutions or to enact the ones we offered.
Last week, a student and the community of which he is a part were explicitly and violently threatened. The nation over, we find ourselves yet again issuing perfunctory apologies, gathering on symbolic steps and pledging to stand up against hate, only to have another wall defaced, another threat sent to a minority student, another Halloween party where blackface and ethnic identities are paraded as costumes. This rinse and repeat is draining.
It is a toxic time on America’s campuses. It is a toxic time, and we are apathetic. Some are too tired of speaking against echo chambers—where nobody is willing to listen.
An alarm goes off, and you grope in the darkness for your laptop. Your registration window has arrived.
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