Zoe Spicer is a Trinity senior and an enterprise editor of The Chronicle's 120th volume.
Every day at 5 p.m., rich melodies roll over the lawns of West Campus, washing over the masses typing on laptops at tables in the Bryan Center plaza all the way to students tossing frisbees in the Duke Gardens.
Sponsored by the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, the Duke Centennial and the political science department, the talk was a part of the AGS Ambassador Dave & Kay Phillips Family International Lecture Series.
Duke students and faculty have previously expressed concerns about the prioritization of STEM over the humanities, pointing to declining enrollment in the humanities over the past decade and the fact that none of the University’s top five majors in 2022 belonged in the field.
The Chronicle spoke to five tour guides about what they are encouraged — and discouraged — from talking about on tours. Here’s what they had to say:
The election will decide the Republican and Democratic candidates, who will advance to the Nov. 5 general election. The Chronicle has you covered with a guide on the candidates and the main issues at the forefront of voters’ minds.
The Chronicle asked students to reflect on how they've changed since coming to college, and despite the differences in their times at Duke, their responses followed similar threads.
North Carolina saw success in its other locales as well. Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and Winston-Salem were ranked at No. 27, No. 28, No. 43 and No. 44, respectively.
The suit states that “voting in the region is also highly polarized along racial lines — Black voters there are politically cohesive, but white voters vote sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat minority candidates of choice.”
On Nov. 7, Durhamites will vote to elect a new mayor to serve for a two-year term. A primary election on Oct. 10 will narrow the field to the top two candidates.
In town for the Fourth of July? The Chronicle has you covered. From fireworks to pig pickin’s, here are some ways to celebrate Independence Day in the Triangle.
