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Sana Pashankar is a Trinity senior and a staff reporter of The Chronicle's 118th volume.
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.
“Most people, when they talk about Durham’s Black Wall Street, they only talk about the financial district, the businesses, but it was also what we call the Hayti community. ... It was literally a community that helped the business sector to thrive and survive,” said Jim Harper, chair and professor of history at North Carolina Central University.
How has the population of Durham County been affected by these developments? To answer this question, The Chronicle investigated changes in Durham’s population and income over the last 10 years using 2020 U.S. Census Data.
The local police ruled Eduardo Tirella’s death an “unfortunate accident.” Duke was found negligent in the death of Eduardo Tirella and escaped the trial without any criminal liability. For decades, this official narrative remained untouched, despite rumors of murder. But new evidence now challenges that account.
![City Council Ward III candidate AJ Williams hopes to bring community members and leaders together with the goal of “holistically [changing] the way we think about public safety.”](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dtc/edc6fd87-af10-467c-bd56-ed1a6fdf932e.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format&dpr=1.5)
Williams, a Durham native, said that his platform is “going to take the buy-in of community leaders, of faith leaders, of elected officials, community organizers, families.”
