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Major madness: Racial and gender equity in computer science

By Amy Fan | June 25, 2020

A discussion on achieving racial equity at Duke will have to include conversations about technology and its role in society.

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Spike Lee and the ethics of looting

By David Min | June 25, 2020

Almost 31 years after its release, Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” remains eerily applicable to understanding and reconciling property damage with anti-Blackness.

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A letter to Black Duke

By Miles Underwood | June 12, 2020

Not only do we as Black people carry the generational trauma of our ancestors, we also carry their generational blessings and gifts. Alive in each of us is strength, love and power that will alter our current reality.

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The price of life as a low-income student: a response letter

By Omolola Sanusi | May 19, 2020

You are less likely to take beneficial economic risks; the kind meant for the secure. You just want to make sure your family has what they need. You are extra attentive to messages from your parents. Usually, it means something is wrong.

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The Class of 2020's senior columns

By Staff Reports | May 13, 2020

At the end of every academic year, the Chronicle invites graduating staff to write a senior column examining their time at 301 Flowers.

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My first and last byline

By Sujal Manohar | May 13, 2020

Though most (read: all) of my contributions to the Chronicle have been photos, I’m glad I had the words to say this.

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Hooked on these feelings

By Winston Lindqwister | May 8, 2020

That was when I got it. I still remember the visceral excitement I felt when writing about what I saw, the vicarious emotion that bled through my recording of the postgame interview.

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Go sit on the quad

By Gretchen Wright | May 8, 2020

For hours and hours as I drove north on I-95, I desperately grasped for memories like a child catching fireflies, trying to chase and hold onto as many as possible.

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It’s all about the climb

By Shagun Vashisth | May 8, 2020

To my Chronicle, thank you for allowing me to cover the Duke community and find one within it, too. Thank you for giving me a home.

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Much more than just articles

By Michael Model | May 7, 2020

While I am technically saying goodbye to The Chronicle, this is not the end.

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Goodbye from under the magnolia

By Gino Nuzzolillo | May 7, 2020

In the main field of Duke Gardens, where the gargantuan stick sculpture used to make its home, there’s a grassy slope under the shade of a magnolia tree.

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Fifth grade dreams

By Riley Pfaff | May 7, 2020

How many young Duke fans get the chance to grow up and sit courtside at a Duke basketball game in Cameron, and then go into the locker room to interview Grayson Allen or Zion Williamson?

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This story has no ending

By Lexi Kadis | May 6, 2020

I hate endings. Whether or not the good times have outweighed the bad, something about the finality of last moments will always make me cry.

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A safe haven

By Ben Leonard | May 6, 2020

After only writing about other people for years, it’s not super comfortable to write about myself, much less about me crying. Here we go.

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A 115-year-old game of telephone

By Nathan Luzum | May 6, 2020

It was my pleasure to participate in this game of telephone for four brief years. So ring ring, V. 116—it’s your time to pick up.

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If I had known senior year would end like this

By Bre Bradham | May 5, 2020

The next time the Class of 2020 is on campus, we won’t be students anymore.

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Re-reading first year me

By Amy Fan | May 5, 2020

Quarantine has forced me to reflect on my Duke experience too much, too soon. That includes reading back on many of my old columns—one of the few constants of my time here.