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This new housing option provides a variety of benefits for students, such as being closer to classrooms and libraries, making sure each resident gets plenty of fresh air, and promoting a better sleep schedule by getting rid of the ability to ignore the sun in the morning.
You have to be strong in order not to seek self-satisfaction, self-gratification or self-promotion.
To diminish this source of community at all is disheartening; to diminish it sooner than we had expected is even more so.
I am writing this letter to challenge your idea of a decency quotient and, more specifically, of recognizing DQ.
Peaches the community cat, the placemaker—this is how I will remember her.
As the flags fly low on campus today (Thursday, August 18), please remember her and the great work she did helping to make Duke University what it is.
With only four to six van drivers, though, I anticipate wait times will be through the roof; some students and staff might end up taking the dangerous walk to their car or dorm/apartment late at night.
If I still can't get a visa this fall, I will give up the opportunity to study at Duke University.
Duke has once again failed diversity on campus. The Bryan Center must remain a student facing area, promoting equity and inclusivity.
We are asking you, President Price, and Provost Kornbluth, to conduct an urgent, independent review of Duke Arts and Duke Performances, including talking with past staff so their institutional knowledge can be carried forward.
These people will never take away our Latinx beauty, our resilience, or our bravery.
Similar sentiments have been expressed for decades. Now is not the time for realization but mobilization.
Dean Jackie Looney retires this year. She was a beacon of opportunity for over 30 years for families who have struggled over generations.
"I will miss Nugget, but I will live each day honoring her by remembering what joy an everyday interaction can bring into your life. She taught us how a positive presence can bring so much light into your day," Alex Leo-Guerra, a senior, writes.
I have muddied beliefs on an afterlife, but I know that somewhere out there Nugget is lying on a bench still getting pets from all kinds of people.
Nugget served as a constant reminder that amid all the work you were caught up in, that home, comfort, and community were never too far away.
I thought that someday this summer, I would learn to shake her hand. I thought she might be there to see me graduate next spring. I thought we would always have more time.
Selective social groups, unaffiliated or not, need more transparency in their systems to address racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism and sexual assault.
A review of Parkash's published stories for The Chronicle found no evidence of plagiarism.
This statement was sent to The Chronicle on behalf of Parkash by Dave Quast, senior vice president of Red Banyan, a crisis public relations firm.
