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Year in review: Ad manager reflects on year like no other

Carissa Haslam | Ad Manager 04/22/2021 If you added it all up, I’ve probably spent a fairly significant amount of my time at Duquesne complaining about College Hall. Back in the days of in-person class, most of my classes took place in College Hall. Plus, I’ve attended countless meetings there and spent far too many hours in the Media Department computer labs dispersed throughout the … Continue reading Year in review: Ad manager reflects on year like no other

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One last bye-line: Features Editor says farewell

Katia Faroun | Features Editor 04/22/2021 Pinned next to my computer in the newsroom is a stack of little green papers, each printed with some sort of superlative or title next to a Clipart image of a gold star with “you tried” written in Comic Sans. These papers are my Duke Awards: sometimes cute and usually sarcastic “awards” the editors give each other at the … Continue reading One last bye-line: Features Editor says farewell

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We’re all stories in the end: editor-in-chief bids adieu

03/19/2020 By Ollie Gratzinger | Editor-in-chief  I’ve found that sometimes — rarely, but sometimes — life falls into place in such a way that makes me wonder if it’s all been predetermined. Sometimes, people and places and things all fit together like puzzle pieces made to be connected, like a fixed point in time, like lines in a poem. At the risk of sounding too … Continue reading We’re all stories in the end: editor-in-chief bids adieu

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It will never be “that time of year again”

03/19/2020 By Hallie Lauer | News Editor Bruce Springsteen, in his Broadway show, said, “there’s nothing like being young and leaving someplace.” And while I have to agree with The Boss, I’ve never been good at goodbyes — particularly goodbyes that come too soon. Whether I want to or not, though, I have to say goodbye. Goodbye to Duquesne, and to College Hall Room 113, … Continue reading It will never be “that time of year again”

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Editor-in-Chief Raymond Arke bids Duke farewell after four years

12/06/2018 By Raymond Arke | Editor-in-Chief There’s an old photo of myself, when I’m probably less than two-years-old, spread out on the kitchen floor with an open newspaper “reading” an article about the Ken Starr investigation. It is an amusing foreshadow to now as I reflect on four incredibly well-spent years at The Duke. What I never could have imagined was how much this weekly … Continue reading Editor-in-Chief Raymond Arke bids Duke farewell after four years

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‘Duke’ Editor-in-Chief Devorak wishes staff good luck

By Leah Devorak | Editor-in-Chief 12/7/17 For 20 minutes, I unsuccessfully wracked my brain for a quote from the first moment I walked into The Duke newsroom, the whole time wondering why I could think of nothing. But then I remembered the actual moment I first arrived, and the reason for the blank was clear: When I first opened that decrepit, creaking white door and … Continue reading ‘Duke’ Editor-in-Chief Devorak wishes staff good luck

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Time for ‘Duke’ assistant photo editor to say “good-Bry”

By Bryanna McDermont | Asst. Photo Editor 12/7/17 I walked into The Duke newsroom my freshman year at Duquesne, wrote a few opinion columns and left. I didn’t feel the sense of family and belonging that the staff that particular year preached about having at their Fall Open House. I loved to write but simply didn’t enjoy it in that environment. See, ever since I … Continue reading Time for ‘Duke’ assistant photo editor to say “good-Bry”

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This isn’t goodbye, this is just for now

Addison Smith | Opinions Editor Goodbye isn’t a friendly word. Goodbye is an ending. When you say “goodbye” to someone or someplace, there’s an underlying connotation that you won’t see that person again and you’ll never return to that place again. It seems final, it seems like a definite end to a friendship, partnership or life occurrence. Goodbye isn’t a nice word, everything it elicits isn’t … Continue reading This isn’t goodbye, this is just for now

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