Bore-aucracy
(04/05/12 9:38am)
Nobody cares about DSG.
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Nobody cares about DSG.
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Technologist Tran. Technologist Tran …Who? Technologist Trans-vaginal ultrasound. We’re going to need to stick this in now.
How you talk about Israel (or as others would say, Palestine) depends on where you come from, where you have been, who you know and what you have been exposed to. We are products of our pasts.
I just really want the Republican-held North Carolina General Assembly to go away. But before that can happen, we need to stop Amendment One.
I’m bored with the 2012 election already.
I will have spent $360 in birth control co-pays by August, through the Duke Student Health Insurance Plan.
It would be an understatement to say that the past two months in Israel have been exciting. As a student studying abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I’ve had a front-row seat for numerous historic events. Even so, the status quo remains the same, and many would argue that in spite of all the excitement, little will change.
As a woman, a resident, a voter and a student in the state of North Carolina, House Bill 854, which goes into effect today, infuriates me.
In my experience, I’ve found Duke’s political culture lacking. Although the Duke College Republicans provided something for DSG to debate about last year and the Duke Political Union hosted some valuable panels Fall semester (don’t ask about the Spring), interest in politics comes and goes with each election cycle. Sarah Philips, a junior, speculates that Duke students don’t tend to be politically active “because people are just really busy, and because of the Duke bubble where you really have to make an effort to keep up to date on everything that’s going on.” Groups often host interesting speakers, but there’s a very small community of students who actively engage with local Durham politics, let alone those at the state-level or nationally.
I am really, truly privileged.
I had always thought of sexual assault as an abstract concept. I knew it existed at Duke, but as senior Bhumi Purohit wrote in her March 24 column, “More than a statistic,” incidents of sexual violence were just a statistic for me.
College has become sort of like what a beach weekend used to be. Students think, ‘What we do here doesn’t really count in our lives, doesn’t really count in the real world,’ but you can’t live four years like that,” says Kathy Hollingsworth, the director of Counseling and Psychological Services for the past six years who will retire this summer.
My favourite [sic] Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, said “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”
We are writing in response to a point made by Ubong Akpaninyie in his response to the Chronicle editorial “Disallow young trustee write-ins.” This letter has nothing to do with the election process, the legitimacy of Kingland’s write-in candidacy or legislative loopholes, but instead addresses his argument that freshmen shouldn’t serve on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee because they can’t run. All three of us served as freshmen, and found value in being there. The claim that the existence of freshmen on the YTNC is a valid reason to dismiss the legitimacy of the board doesn’t make sense to us for a number of reasons. First, though freshmen can’t run for YT, it is important to have them represented on the committee for their unique perspective. They are, obviously, a quarter of the undergraduate student body and one could argue that they are the most involved in campus life and the future of Duke. We think that freshmen are less likely to have potential biases, as we found we knew fewer of the candidates personally than the upperclassmen on the committee. Finally, we think a good analogy is found in the American presidency. Citizens have to be 35 to run for President but can still vote at the age of 18. All years should be included and exposed to the process, even those freshmen “not well versed in the YT process.”
One of the more fun moments I’ve had this year was driving a bunch of people to the polls on a beautiful fall day, to the tune of “Party (and Bull—) in the USA.”
The American Association for Undergraduate Women and Running Start are bringing the “Elect Her: Campus Women Win” initiative to Duke Feb. 5. The Women’s Center, Office of Student Activities and Facilities, Duke Student Government and the Baldwin Scholars are sponsoring this workshop that aims to provide women with tools to help them successfully run for leadership positions on campus and encourage them to consider public service after college.
There are dangers to writing a column about an article. One is that many of you may not have had a chance to read The Atlantic’s “The Hazards of Duke,” by Caitlin Flanagan while making your way back to icy Durham. Another is that this is too meta already and I’ve lost you.
Minutes after the turkey is polished off and the Black Friday tags are removed, it begins. I’m not talking about putting up dorm room lights, sitting on an AEPi Santa’s lap or drunkenly lighting the Menorah with your Hebrew classmates. I’m talking about internship applications.
The Panhellenic Association held a “Grand Chapter” Monday night to educate the community about issues chapter presidents have discussed this semester. I went in skeptical, and I left both inspired and frustrated.
The media coverage of Duke this semester has gone beyond the pages of The Chronicle. Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, The Huffington Post, The View, Forbes Magazine, Bro Bible and even the New York Times have chimed in on PowerPoint-gate and Fraternity E-mail-gate.