Students, look out for an incoming email for the next round of the Duke Senior Giving Challenge, where we ask you to donate to upholding the gate shields at our partner institution Shooters. If we can't see it, it technically doesn't go against our Covid policies!
Make sure to sign up for this course in the spring titled "Cancel culture does not exist for rich white men" taught by Tallman Trask, Chris Roy, and Larry Moneta!
"I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time." We love when our students get to travel the globe during a pandemic. #Dukedifference
To the students throwing parties during o-week, you are no longer welcome on campus. 😤 We heard that Berkshire had a couple of openings though, so please move these parties to that location, as we do not want to be embarrassed. Thoughts and prayers to Durham though 🙏🏽
We can't believe students on financial aid are complaining about not receiving their fin-aid packages even though school starts in four days. Just make it work luv, you're not gonna like it when you see it either. 😘
Duke cares about the global community first and foremost. We asked you to come back to Durham so that when we send all of you home in a week, we will spread the disease all over the world. Be blessed. 🙏
"Come as you are" is the phrase of the day. Unless you can't come because we cancelled the financial aid program and you can't afford off-campus housing. I hope you all find solace in these stressful times that we tried our best to exacerbate.
Before we hand out financial aid packages this year (do y'all really need that?), we must first figure out how much our grass maintenance will cost us. Since you will all be gone/quarantined in your dorm, we will reduce our maintenance schedule to just three times a day.
Our number one priority is the health of our students. That's why we have decided to open Wilson Gym to residents this fall, so you can get the disease while getting jacked.
If you thought we weren't bold enough to do this to our seniors and also ask them to donate throughout the year, you are wrong. Our 8 billion endowment isn't enough and we are poor.
We are concerned and upset that the constant leaks of our incompetence forced us to be more competent than we wanted to be. It made more sense to us to ruin your lives tomorrow rather than today. But alas
We care deeply about the health and safety of our students. ❤️ However, this does not apply to our student-athletes. We need the free labor this year more than ever. Do you know how many people are going to be watching sports from home???
We heard your concerns about how an optional pass/fail grading system caused unnecessary stress to our students, especially those on low-income. Thus, we changed the grading system back to normal. If you don't have wifi, unfortunately that is not our problem.
Here at Duke, we believe in consistency. So when we displaced all of our students with two week notice back in March, we decided it would be best to do it again. You're welcome.
Yes, we did lease two whole apartments for our students that could have been used by the Durham community. Yes we are no longer housing anybody in those buildings. Both can be true. Stop bullying us.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will no longer be offering financial assistance to need-based students. We are not suffering financially ourselves, we just hate you.