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When the Duke Student Government ballot was sent to students April 4, there were no names listed for senior class president.
Junior Daisy Almonte was named a 2019 Truman Scholar Thursday.
Duke Student Government Senate discussed amendments to its annual budget Wednesday night as it goes through the yearly process of doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Next year's class council and Duke Student Government committee vice presidents and senators have been elected. Attorney General John Markis, also a staff reporter for The Chronicle, provided The Chronicle with a list of the election's winners Friday afternoon.
Duke Student Government Senate debated more than $300,000 in funding as its annual budget deliberations Wednesday night.
The Chronicle has been provided with the candidates for Duke Student Government's vice president and senator positions, as well as class council, by Attorney General John Markis, who is also a staff reporter for The Chronicle. Each class gets to elect two senators for each committee, and only one person can hold each class council position.
The Chomicle was suspended Friday night pending the results of a hazing investigation.
Sophomore Aly Diaz, senator of Durham and regional affairs, will serve as the next Duke Student Government president pro tempore after a split vote in the DSG Senate.
Last week, the Duke Student Government (DSG) Senate voted to ban laptop use during their weekly Wednesday night sessions. The new policy, unsurprisingly, was met with mixed responses, notably from Senators Jimmy Xiao and Kyle Melatti, who cited accessibility issues, in speaking out against the ban. Meanwhile, President Kristina Smith, and President pro-tempore Avery Boltwood spoke in favor of the new policy, claiming that it would improve engagement during long, multi-hour DSG sessions. Although not as “scandalous” in comparison to some past DSG controversies, this new policy provides an opportune time to reflect upon our student government’s many shortcomings (and positives).
After reading two fellow columnists’ articles concerning affiliation at Duke, I was disheartened. One columnist detailed his disappointment with his social experiences as an independent, and one columnist justified the exclusive nature of Greek life with the assertion of the exclusivity of life in general. While exclusivity and hierarchy are realities, there is no reason that Duke’s social climate need look like the rest of the world. In fact, I believe we as a student body, especially independents, have the power to make Duke’s campus an inclusive and welcoming place, even building it to be a microcosm of what we want our world to look like.
After finishing an impassioned speech in favor of the use of laptops in Duke Student Government Senate meetings Wednesday night, first-year Senator Jimmy Xiao faced an interrogation from DSG President Kristina Smith, a senior, on his own mobile device usage.
Duke students care too much about themselves, and not enough about Duke’s community. Of course, this sentiment doesn’t apply to every Duke student and isn’t completely true for any single one. But as a whole, the student body at Duke is entirely more concerned with themselves, their friends, and their individual extracurriculars than with the culture and community at this school.
Junior Liv McKinney was elected the 2019-2020 Duke Student Government president by undergraduates this week.
In honor of International Women's Day, senior Kristina Smith, president of Duke Student Government, shared her experiences as a female leader on campus with The Chronicle.
Mi Gente is proud to endorse Daisy Almonte for DSG president. Daisy’s passion and commitment to make Duke and DSG more accessible and transparent to the entire student body is compatible with our mission as Duke’s Latinx student association to promote awareness about Latinx cultural, political, educational, and social issues. However, her platform not only amplifies our mission, but also strives to elevate that of the whole student body.