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Goodfellas Poster, 2009-2010
Over the years, basketball has helped define Duke as a top-tier institution for collegiate athletics. Since 1959, Duke has produced basketball team posters to depict the season’s player lineup and defining season motto. Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) assumed the role of head coach in 1980, and Carol "Mickie" Krzyzewski, Coach K’s wife, started the tradition of directing themed posters for each team. -
One Basketball Poster, 2010-2011
Over the years, basketball has helped define Duke as a top-tier institution for collegiate athletics. Since 1959, Duke has produced basketball team posters to depict the season’s player lineup and defining season motto. Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) assumed the role of head coach in 1980, and Carol "Mickie" Krzyzewski, Coach K’s wife, started the tradition of directing themed posters for each team. -
Central Campus, 2018
In 1964, Duke purchased forty-three acres of land that previously belonged to Erwin Mills. Between 1970 and 1972, the residents of the 160 houses on the land were displaced and the houses were replaced with small apartment buildings. As the campus aged, several ideas about how to renovate Central Campus were considered but not adopted. In 2019, the university closed the apartments as residences and tore down many of the structures. The future use of most of Central Campus is unclear. -
Central Campus, Jam!
In 1964, Duke purchased forty-three acres of land that previously belonged to Erwin Mills. Between 1970 and 1972, the residents of the 160 houses on the land were displaced and the houses were replaced with small apartment buildings. As the campus aged, several ideas about how to renovate Central Campus were considered but not adopted. In 2019, the university closed the apartments as residences and tore down many of the structures. The future use of most of Central Campus is unclear. -
Blue Book
The Blue Book is a freshman’s guide to starting their new life at Duke and is usually sent out to students in May before matriculation. Now an online resource, this Blue Book includes information about the history of Duke, class registration, dining, housing, financial information, and programs such as the first semester FOCUS and pre-orientation programs. -
Design for a Duchess Zine
Rachel Rubin (T'19) created a zine that spoofs "Design for a Duchess," criticizing unrealistic standards placed on Duke women and providing advice about life at an elite university. The zine addresses the “effortless perfection” myth, a term coined by the 2003 Duke Women’s Initiative report that describes the pressure on undergraduate women to appear effortlessly flawless in all areas. The author encourages students to resist this pressure and instead to seek the joy that comes from a self-defined Duke experience. -
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
On March 12, 1944, the Duke University Medical School basketball team traveled to play North Carolina Central University (NCCU), then called the North Carolina College for Negroes, for Duke’s first integrated basketball game. NCCU, Duke’s Durham neighbor, was founded in 1909 as a historically Black college. Duke was still segregated and years away from playing its first integrated varsity game. There were no spectators and only one reporter from the Carolina Times (who agreed not to write about the game). The NCCU Eagles, coached by John McClendon, beat the Medical Center squad 88-44. Scott Ellsworth (T’77, Ph.D.’82) first wrote a New York Times article in 1996 documenting this game after interviewing NCCU coach John McClendon. -
Duke's "Light Rail"
The Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit (DOLRT) project was a planned light rail conceived in the 1990s to connect Durham with Chapel Hill. After 20 years of studies and negotiations, Duke announced in 2019 they would not support DOLRT, citing concerns of electromagnetic interference with research devices. The project collapsed soon after. -
NAISA Bridge Photograph, 2019
The Native American/Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) was founded in 1992 by Dana Chavis (Lumbee) as the Native American Student Coalition. Leaders and members of NAISA have been activists and advocates for Native students at Duke. Their work has led to their own affinity space in the Bryan Center and the hiring of Native professors. NAISA regularly holds gatherings for its members throughout the year, including the annual powwow and Native American Heritage Month events. On November 5, 2022, NAISA and the Nu Chapter of Alpha Pi Omega, Duke’s indigenous sorority, hosted Duke’s first Indigenous Arts Showcase & Gala to celebrate Native culture and art. -
"Picture a better Duke" in frame
Duke Students & Workers in Solidarity (DSWS) formed in 2016 in response to grievances from employees in the Parking and Transportation Services department. Students partnered with staff and issued demands, staging “A-Ville” outside the Allen Building, and occupying the administrative building for a week. About their employment experience at Duke, one staff member said, “Although I have managed to survive, many of my beautiful brown coworkers have not.” DSWS’s activism is part of a history of student-employee coalitions around worker issues at Duke. -
Duke Students & Workers in Solidarity Facebook Photos
Duke Students & Workers in Solidarity (DSWS) formed in 2016 in response to grievances from employees in the Parking and Transportation Services department. Students partnered with staff and issued demands, staging “A-Ville” outside the Allen Building, and occupying the administrative building for a week. About their employment experience at Duke, one staff member said, “Although I have managed to survive, many of my beautiful brown coworkers have not.” DSWS’s activism is part of a history of student-employee coalitions around worker issues at Duke. -
Trans 101 Training Booklet
Although the first LGBTQIA+ institution at Duke wasn’t created until 1994, LGBTQIA+ student organizations such as the Duke Gay Alliance have existed on campus since 1972. In 1991, President H. Keith H. Brodie established the Task Force on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Matters, partly to combat HIV/AIDS stigma on campus. The Task Force’s work led to the creation of what is now the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (CSGD). This booklet, which provides resources on gender diversity such as proper terminology, disparities, and action items, is just one of many ways the CSGD educates Duke and supports the LGBTQIA+ community. -
Muslim Students Association Brochure
The Muslim Students Association has been providing social and religious events to Muslim students on campus since its founding in 1960. In 1998, the first Muslim Chaplain, Imam Abdul Hafeez Waheed, volunteered to organize Islamic religious services and advocate for a prayer space for Muslim students. The Center for Muslim Life was established in 2009 and was originally housed on Swift Avenue; the Center moved to Few Quadrangle in 2022. -
Mi Gente photographs
Mi Gente was established in 1992 to foster a strong Latinx community at Duke and address the needs of Latinx students as shown through these two photographs. This group photograph of Mi Gente’s first office space in 2014 depicts the trajectory of the group’s student activism, as demands for a more visible space for Latinx groups eventually led to the establishment of Mi Gente’s current identity space La Casa in 2016. The current space works toward providing an inclusive environment for all students. -
Gaga fern illustrations
In 2012, biology researchers from Duke’s Pryer & Windham Labs made headlines when they discovered a new genus of ferns—and named it after Lady Gaga. The ferns’ gametophytes resemble a costume Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards, and their DNA sequences also spell out G-A-G-A. Professor Kathleen Pryer, the leader of the study and the director of the Duke Herbarium, explained that "[w]e wanted to name this genus for Lady Gaga because of her fervent defense of equality and individual expression.” -
Gaga Fern
In 2012, biology researchers from Duke’s Pryer & Windham Labs made headlines when they discovered a new genus of ferns—and named it after Lady Gaga. The ferns’ gametophytes resemble a costume Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards, and their DNA sequences also spell out G-A-G-A. Professor Kathleen Pryer, the leader of the study and the director of the Duke Herbarium, explained that "[w]e wanted to name this genus for Lady Gaga because of her fervent defense of equality and individual expression.” -
Duke Graduate Students Union Brochure
Organized labor has had a place on Duke’s campus since the late 1960s, as staff and students campaigned for improved working conditions and wages. Among the unions that represent Duke staff are the American Federation of State, Council, and Municipal Employees Local 77 in the 1960s, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 465 in the 1970s, and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1328 organized in the 1990s. Other unions have been established relatively recently, such as one for Duke University Press staff, another for non-regular rank faculty, and one for graduate students. As of August 2023, graduate students overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionization, following students and workers from Duke’s past. -
Duke Doesn't Teach Me Photo Campaign
The “Duke Doesn’t Teach Me” photo campaign was produced by the Asian American Studies Working Group (AASWG) to draw attention to the lack of Asian American Studies on campus. While AASWG was founded in 2015-2016, Asian American students at Duke began teaching house courses on Asian American identity in 1982 and have been advocating for an Asian American Studies program since 2002. In 2018, Duke established the Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program and introduced a minor in 2022.
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