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Sana Pashankar is a Trinity senior and a staff reporter of The Chronicle's 118th volume.
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We asked the Class of 2026 to tell us about their beliefs, lifestyle and choices — from religion to drug use to whether they have sought mental health treatment before.
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The survey asked the Class of 2026 if they applied Early Decision, whether Duke was their first choice, whether they have legacy status, the type of high school they came from, whether they took a gap year and why they chose Duke.
If race-conscious admissions practices are ruled unconstitutional, perhaps the most immediate change at Duke would be the difference in racial composition of new undergraduate classes admitted to the University.
Jones began her speech by presenting a series of historical “unsung heroes” of Black resistance in America.
President and founder Sejal Mayer-Patel, a junior, created AMP@D to address a lack of community space for multiracial, multicultural or multiethnic students on campus.
After the impact of the pandemic, a national movement to abolish Greek life and the loss of on-campus housing for these organizations at Duke, past estimates of one-third Greek, one-third SLG, and one-third independent likely no longer accurately reflect the makeup of Duke’s social scene.
Under Uniting for Ukraine, Ukrainians are granted humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay in the country temporarily due to urgent humanitarian reasons. These are the stories of two Ukrainian women, Lyudmyla Skorlupina, 43, and Yulia Sytnyk, 36, who both fled Ukraine with their young children and now reside in Durham through this federal program.
The Chronicle conducted an in-depth data analysis using reports from 2017 to 2022 to understand how Duke’s crime statistics compare to peer institutions, finding that most of the University's crime rates fall in the middle of those of other schools, and how the recently released 2021 data correlates to existing crime trends on Duke’s campus.
Students in the course conduct projects for real-world clients, most of whom are on campus.
A suspension of ties means that all formal communication, activities, exchanges, and visits between Durham and Kostroma will cease.