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Professors describe exhaustion, issues with personal connection during virtual learning.
Ever since becoming student development coordinator at the Center for Muslim Life in April 2019, Maryam Arain, alongside Director and Chaplain Joshua Salaam, has striven to reach out to marginalized Muslim students. However, after the onset of COVID-19, it became difficult to reach out to queer members of the community because it was harder to have organic interactions.
Spanning from Nov. 24 to Jan. 20, this year’s winter break is over twice as long as previous years’.
With registration for spring 2021 classes beginning this week, The Chronicle has compiled a list of interesting courses across a range of disciplines that are offered in the upcoming semester.
Some students said various factors—including the unusual academic calendar and the disruption of regular social interaction—have affected their mental health this semester.
Duke Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention and Education filled Duke Student Government senators in on its mission at the Senate’s Wednesday meeting.
Groups of students gathered outside of Gilbert-Addoms dorm on East Campus the night of Aug. 12, chatting and partying less than six feet apart. First-year Angela Torrejon felt that a lack of adult supervision potentially caused these gatherings and that not much was put in place to prevent them.
Duke Student Government senators heard from Duke SHAPE, which aims to combat sexual assault and harassment, at their Wednesday meeting.
