Lucas Lin

2 weeks ago | dukechronicle.com | Lucas Lin

Editor’s Note: The Chronicle is committed to maintaining journalistic standards and credibility in our coverage. The Chronicle has elected to grant anonymity to the two Chinese international students interviewed — referred to by the pseudonyms “Wang” and “Chen” — due to fears of retaliation. While the class year and school are accurate, the pseudonyms do not necessarily reflect the students’ gender identities.

3 weeks ago | dukechronicle.com | Lucas Lin

A growing list of Duke community members are demanding President Vincent Price and top administrators take a voluntary 25% pay cut as part of the University’s ongoing cost-cutting efforts. Two dozen groups across the Triangle have signed a “Duke, Don’t DOGE!” letter urging “an immediate halt” to the University’s layoff measures, and more than 120 community members have signed a petition calling for salary cuts among highest-paid administrators.

1 month ago | dukechronicle.com | Lucas Lin

Undergraduate student Ian Hyun Kim is remembered for his intellectual brilliance, compassion and dedication to supporting those around him. Kim, a sophomore in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences pursuing double majors in physics and math, died unexpectedly overnight May 1. The University announced his death in an email to undergraduate students the same day. His cause of death has not been released.

1 month ago | dukechronicle.com | Lucas Lin

The chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees urged Duke to end its partnership with Wuhan University, claiming it promotes Chinese military and technological interests and jeopardizes national security through its joint campus Duke Kunshan University. In a letter addressed to President Vincent Price, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep.

1 month ago | dukechronicle.com | Lucas Lin

More than 130 faculty members have signed a petition calling on Duke to revise its Pickets, Protests and Demonstrations (PPD) policy, arguing its registration requirement undermines the nature of protest and its ban on “disruptive or disorderly conduct” lacks clarity.  The petition, which faculty began circulating in early March, urges the University to uphold freedom of speech on campus and foster discussion between administrators and faculty to amend the policy.