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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.

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Let it soften you

By Liddy Grantland | May 5, 2020

When you put up defenses against the discomfort of a broken world, you also cheat yourself out of the opportunity to see its beauty.

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(Wo)man’s search for meaning

By Leah Abrams | May 4, 2020

It’s crushing that we’ll miss those final moments. No Myrtle Beach. No final glances at the Chapel’s towering spires.

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Monday Monday reveal

By Monday Monday and Maxwell Silverstein | May 4, 2020

As an expert reporter for The Chronicle, I’ve been assigned to hand in my pen, but I’m not ready to do that.

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The quarantined lives of Duke celebs

By Monday Monday | April 27, 2020

As an expert reporter for the Chronicle, I was assigned to write this stupid ass puff piece for my last satirical article as Monday Monday.

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A time for reflection

By Akshaj Turebylu | April 27, 2020

Now that our worlds are undergoing seismic shifts, we should reevaluate how we have been living life up to this point. What is working and what is not?

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An open letter to miss rona

By PASH | April 27, 2020

Whether you are in person or online, at home or outside, consent remains a basic human right that is necessary for every sexual activity from all parties involved.

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DIY LDOC

By Gretchen Wright | April 22, 2020

I intend to start with a mimosa precisely at 9:00 a.m. so I have time for a full day of despondent moping before crying myself to sleep looking at photos from previous LDOCs.

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A year after I learned I'd be in pain forever

By Liddy Grantland | April 21, 2020

I wouldn’t tell myself a year ago that it would be the hardest year of her life. But I would tell her this: one day, you will wake up and go for a run, and it will feel like a miracle.

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Will Duke ship students their drugs?

By Nathan Heffernan | April 20, 2020

The primary issue with this situation is a lack of open discussion about recreational drug use on our campus.

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Coronavirus civics

By Reiss Becker | April 20, 2020

Duke students must live up to the standards placed on us. We must concentrate our collective talent, ingenuity and ambition towards contributing to those in need.

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Thinking inside the box

By Carol Apollonio | April 20, 2020

Unlike the majority of this column’s readers, I remember the first Earth Day.

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Duke reveals plans for "Marking the Moment" ceremony

By Monday Monday | April 20, 2020

My RA swore I had to follow the dry campus policy, but I could smell the alcohol on their breath through the Oculus’s 5-sense features.