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‘Reverse discrimination’ activist files Title IX complaint against Baldwin Scholars program

By Audrey Wang | September 18, 2023

Mark Perry, an emeritus professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the University of Michigan–Flint, has been filing federal civil rights complaints against U.S. colleges and universities alleging “reverse discrimination” under Title IX and Title VI for seven years. 

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Class of 2027 elects first-year DSG representatives

By Audrey Wang | September 15, 2023

More first-years will enter the Senate through the at-large process, decided by interviews with a selection committee rather than elections.

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How Duke’s two emergency responses to UNC’s lockdowns compare

By Audrey Wang | September 13, 2023

Alert Carolina’s first announcement on Wednesday was at 12:54 p.m., and the first DukeAlert was sent 44 minutes later at 1:38 p.m. The Wednesday DukeAlert was delivered nearly two hours faster than the DukeAlert responding to the Aug. 28 shooting at UNC, which came almost three hours after the initial Alert Carolina.

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Price responds to New York Times article describing Duke as among ‘least economically diverse’ elite colleges

By Adway S. Wadekar and Audrey Wang | September 10, 2023

The article states that Duke is one of the “least economically diverse” colleges and an “exception to the exception” among elite higher education institutions.

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A look into Duke’s emergency response to the UNC shooting

By Jothi Gupta and Audrey Wang | September 3, 2023

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.

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Dean of Students John Blackshear to leave Duke in January

By Jazper Lu and Audrey Wang | August 28, 2023

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. 

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Graduate students vote in favor of unionization

By Audrey Wang | August 22, 2023

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. 

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Duke professor files discrimination lawsuit alleging unequal pay, subsequent retaliation

By Jazper Lu and Audrey Wang | August 16, 2023

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. 

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Cultural affinity spaces to return to bottom floor of Bryan Center, concerns about moves linger

By Audrey Wang | July 25, 2023

In a May meeting, the Space Advisory Committee, a group of student representatives dedicated to working with administrators to assess space allocation, recommended a move back to the bottom floor, according to an email to The Chronicle from Student Affairs. However, specifics about the move are still unclear, to the confusion of some affinity group leaders.

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NLRB rejects Duke’s challenge against Graduate Students Union, approves petition for official election

By Audrey Wang | July 10, 2023

Lisa Henderson, regional director for Region 10 of the NLRB, wrote in her decision that the facts of the case have not “changed significantly” since the Region’s initial finding in 2017, when the DGSU held its first unionization drive. In doing so, Henderson rejected the University’s challenge against a 2016 NLRB decision affirming that doctoral candidates were employees with the right to unionize. 

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