NEW: Over almost 20 years, 16 major U.S. universities, including Duke, have overcharged 170,000 financial aid recipients by “at least hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to a lawsuit filed late Sunday:
JUST IN: Rapper
@YoungDolph
gave $20,000 to the baristas who were fired for playing his song at an on-campus coffee shop, according to a report by Revolt TV:
BREAKING: 304 undergraduates, 45 graduate students and 15 employees tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Masks will now be required indoor and outdoors, indoor group seating for dining will be suspended and faculty may teach remotely for the next two weeks. Story to come.
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Duke announced that it would discontinue the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, a merit scholarship for Black students, in light of legal changes related to race-based admissions:
"[Durham] has given everything to us, and we have taken even more," junior Pilar Kelly writes. "To sit behind these stone walls and disparage it is cowardly, and our disdain is palpable."
EDITORIAL: "Duke Basketball made over $31 million dollars in profit in 2017, and yet NCAA rules make it impossible for student athletes to profit at all from their own accomplishments:"
Duke football won in a 28-7 upset against No. 9 Clemson. Our photography editor,
@AlyssaHTing
, was there to capture the scenes as students stormed the field:
Every year, The Chronicle has a bet with the
@dailytarheel
on the first Duke-UNC game. So here's a sneak peek at our front page for today, but don't worry, the colors will be back to normal Monday. Check out more coverage at .
BREAKING: Duke plans to join amicus briefs in support of Harvard and MIT's lawsuit challenging new restrictions on educational visas, according to Michael Schoenfeld, VP for public affairs and government relations:
Even at age 72, Coach K finds unique ways to connect with his players each season. How the snarl and the smile work together to lead one of college basketball's best programs (from 2017):
Tonight's win against UNC was Grayson Allen's last game in Cameron Indoor. Here's a
#throwback
look at how the senior has stayed at Duke for four years:
Thousands of Duke students were videotaped and put into a public dataset that would eventually be linked to Chinese surveillance of minorities. Duke tried to take down the data quietly:
JUST IN: Duke graduate students voted overwhelmingly in favor of an NLRB-recognized union, with 1,000 votes in favor of unionization and 131 votes against. Story to come.
Robert Coffey, executive director of dining services, told The Chronicle Wednesday morning that Duke Dining will be reopening Krafthouse and Divinity Cafe at the start of the fall semester.
“I thought maybe nobody cared whether I came [to campus] or not because Nugget is gone, but I’ve already had a lot of people ask me to come,” Keith Upchurch said after Nugget’s passing last Thursday:
As of Monday, more people had
cast ballots at Duke's on-campus early voting site at the Karsh Alumni Center (10,419) than fit into Cameron Indoor Stadium (officially 9,314)!
We’ve been waiting for you all summer and we’re so glad you’re finally here!
Divinity Cafe will finally be open Aug. 23, according to Robert Coffey, executive director of dining services.
BREAKING: Durham’s community levels for COVID-19 moved to “high risk” last week.
If Durham remains at “high risk” for two consecutive weeks, Duke will return to mandatory masking in classrooms until the risk level drops, according to an email from administration. Story to come.
BREAKING: Senior Doha Ali and third-year law student Gerardo Párraga were chosen as undergraduate and graduate Young Trustee nominees, respectively. The Board of Trustees will take up their nominations in May:
BREAKING: All of Duke's undergraduate, graduate and professional classes will now be online until Jan. 18. Duke originally planned to only have classes online from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7. Story to come.
We'll be distributing a special Coach K Commemorative Print Edition this Friday (3/4) on our newspaper stands around campus. Pick yours up then.
Want one but not around campus? We'll mail out a copy to you for $10:
Out now - Coach K: The King of Cameron, with historic moments captured by Chronicle staff and reflections from John Feinstein, Jay Bilas, Roy Williams and more! On sale now at Duke Stores.
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Duke will also provide additional aid for Carolinian undergraduates with family incomes at $65,000 or less for housing, meals and other campus expenses, according to a Tuesday morning release:
BREAKING: Duke suspends undergraduate classes until March 23, moves undergraduate and graduate classes to remote instruction until further notice and asks all students not to return to campus:
BREAKING: Effective immediately, North Carolina is lifting all capacity restrictions and social distancing requirements. Masks will continue to be required in certain settings.
NEW: Shooters II will close indefinitely starting Wednesday, Sept. 1, per an announcement from their Instagram.
“During the time of COVID-19, it’s so easily passed from person to person,” the announcement reads.
BREAKING: Duke is hosting a lottery for 700 student tickets to the Final Four game in New Orleans Saturday night, where the Blue Devils will take on North Carolina:
NEW: Michael Avenatti was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He was convicted in February 2020 of attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
Avenatti previously alleged that Nike officials bribed Zion Williamson to play at Duke:
“This country has had its knee on the neck of African Americans for too long,” said first-year Henry Coleman III, a member of the men’s basketball team, at a Thursday protest in K-Ville:
BREAKING: The newly formed Durham IFC held in-person recruitment events that contributed to a spike in COVID-19 cases, administrators told students on Wednesday:
Senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis proposed the Student Loan Accountability Act, which would stop the Department of Education, Justice and the Treasury from canceling or forgiving student loan debt: