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Jothi Gupta is a Trinity sophomore and a university news editor of The Chronicle's 119th volume.
Laffer is best known for developing the Laffer curve, which illustrates the theoretical relationship between the tax rate and the total tax revenue.
The group, founded in August 2021 by Duke graduate student, Israel Golden, began amid slow post-pandemic openings to help reconnect members of the Duke community.
With two candidates in the running for mayor and five City Council hopefuls, The Chronicle profiled each of the candidates, outlining their experience and priorities.
Peter Kahn, Trinity ‘76, introduced the panel and mentioned that Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag was invited to the talk but declined, “noting that it is premature for him to talk about these issues in a public setting.”
With the main stage at the West Campus bus stop circle and Abele Quad covered with Geico, DoorDash and Dunkin’ sponsor tents, the Centennial construction that interrupted students’ first month back on campus was nowhere to be seen.
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.
Three at-large seats on the Durham City Council are up for election. An October primary election will narrow the field to the top six choices.
The grant will be spent over five years, aiming to address physical activity, nutrition and food access in Durham through community engagement, data collection and food equity education.
A lawsuit brought against the law by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Beverly Gray, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke, largely failed after many potential issues with the law were resolved by last-minute changes signed by Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday.
Initially, it saw success. Within its first year, DMA distributed $46,546.07 to its community. After a series of forced closures starting in 2021, the group announced that it would go on an indefinite hiatus in October 2022, two years after its founding in 2020.