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Leah Boyd is a Pratt junior and editor-in-chief of The Chronicle's 117th volume.
“It’s pretty wild how much he’s shaped our culture,” junior Daniel Marshall wrote. “Two of the most common words on campus are probably ‘K-ville’ and ‘tenting,’ all thanks to Mike Krzyzewski.”
In 2020, we titled our send-home paper Resilient, and we were right. Sure, times are unprecedented, but the ability of the Duke community to adapt, to graduate, to triumph, to come together, to be resilient, no matter the circumstances—that is precedented.
But we now have the power to reach audiences beyond what we could have imagined 10 years ago. To be anything but ordinary.
President Vincent Price invited members of the Class of 2020 to a graduation celebration on campus the weekend of Sept. 24 to 26.
Duke will continue to suspend Duke-supported international travel unless considered “essential” and consider requests for domestic travel that is “necessary and reasonable."
Vincent Price took office at Duke in 2017 as the University’s 10th president. He has guided Duke through a difficult year during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as the University prepares for some semblance of normality, many are wondering: where do we go from here?
Duke faculty are calling the University to step up after Nikole Hannah-Jones was not approved for tenure at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
The Council approved a proposal to allow students in Trinity to voluntarily convert any course they take from a letter-grade grading basis to satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading without instructor permission.
“Class of 2021, I would have never wanted to paint my face white and blue, make it through the 1 p.m. lunch rush in [the Brodhead Center] or stick white plastic Q-tips up my nose every week with anyone else but you.”
“Class of 2021, when we live with this kind of love, when we lead with this kind of love, one day, one day, when glory comes—it will be ours, it will be ours—one day, when the war is won—we will be sure, we will be sure—oh, glory—oh, glory.”
The Bryan Center plaza was packed Saturday night.
The line at the Lobby Shop was out the door as students flocked to buy food in advance of Duke's announcement of a "stay-in-place" directive, although the final directive said students could leave their rooms or come to campus to buy food.
Clockwise from top left: Thomas Williams, senior lecturing fellow at the School of Law, moderated a Thursday panel on racism in health care with Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care physician; Khiara Bridges, a law professor at UC Berkeley; and Sylvia Perry, an assistant professor of social psychology at Northwestern.
