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Preetha Ramachandran is a Trinity junior and senior editor of The Chronicle's 117th volume.
For the fifth year in a row, The Chronicle surveyed members of Duke's first-year class. Read an overview of the class, including demographic data; paths to Duke and plans upon arriving; and the use of campus resources and amenities.
The Chronicle asked first-years about their knowledge and usage of Duke’s amenities and academic, health and wellness, mental health and identity and cultural groups/spaces.
In an open letter from the UNC Residence Hall Association, the executive board condemned the university’s opening plans, calling them “extremely reckless and disheartening.”
From hometowns to opinions on QuadEx, The Chronicle wants to get to know the Class of 2025.
Though I understand little of the scoring and game play, I blend into the crowd, booing when the Redbirds (infrequently) score and cheering madly when Dalton Kelly and Josh Lowe hit home runs back to back.
“Duke fails time and time again to ensure its students of color and minority students are institutionally included in all academic and social settings,” said junior Miriam Shams-Rainey, who emceed the event.
Quinton Smith, associate director of the Mary Lou, reenacted a long-standing tradition at the Center, where students touch the statue of a Sankofa bird first as a new student, then in their senior year during final honors.
Some who tested positive were told they had to stay in their dorm rooms for the night because Student Health was too busy.
The basketball courts in the Wilson Recreation Center and Card Gym will close indefinitely starting Aug. 28.
The email noted that there has been a surge of COVID-19 cases at Duke, locally and nationally.
Professors John Aldrich (top left), Judith Kelley (top center), Bill Adair (bottom center) and Guy-Uriel Charles (bottom right) discussed the ongoing presidential election at an event moderated by Mac McCorkle (top right) and Deondra Rose (bottom left).
Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, updated faculty on the Trinity Committee on Anti-Racism during her fall update to the Arts and Sciences Council.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, deputy chief of staff for policy in the Obama administration and architect of the Affordable Care Act, spoke to students Sept. 16.
