After almost failing to meet quorum, Duke Student Government votes on awards
The Duke Student Government Senate nearly failed to reach quorum at its Wednesday meeting.
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The Duke Student Government Senate nearly failed to reach quorum at its Wednesday meeting.
Ganguly said she wants more independent students to be involved in DSG.
Junior Riyanka Ganguly was elected Duke Student Government's next president in March. The Chronicle spoke with Ganguly about her plans for next year, including her ideas about student conduct, diversity and the surplus fund. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
As students complain of mold on Central Campus, a new West Campus dorm called The Hollows may provide a solution.
Twenty-three percent of eligible Duke undergraduates voted in the recent Duke Student Government election for vice presidents, senators and class council leadership. But what does that number really mean?
Bansal said that DSG has worked to increase its communication with the student body through a new website and email blast.
With Easter rapidly approaching, the newly formed Holy Alliance has been busy. In between daily masses, the Crusaders train in secret to reclaim control of the Three Campuses. However, Bill Brooney realizes that he cannot do it alone; he simply does not have the numbers. As a result, Brooney seeks temporary allies. He first tries to parlay with Greek organizations he thinks may be sympathetic. A Holy Alliance emissary is sent to every organization not deemed too reprehensible, but only the Frayed-Tee Bros of Craven Quad respond. However, when Brooney arrives to negotiate the formation of a coalition, he finds only the ruins of what had once been the Frayed-Tee Bros section. It appears that the Women’s Housing Option had finally driven these propagators of male privilege into the ground.
With senior Tara Bansal's tenure as president of the Duke Student Government drawing to a close, The Chronicle spoke with Bansal and asked her to reflect on the past year's DSG projects, low voter turnout and the organization's demographics.
Duke Student Government's Research Unit told the Senate at a Wednesday meeting that buses only operate at 58 percent of their potential capacity.
This past Friday I received a phone call around 3 p.m. I had lost in my DSG election for a committee’s vice president. Though disappointing, this news was not at all surprising. Duke Student Government inherently favors affiliated students. I ran as an independent. This is my experience.
Undergraduates selected next year's class council presidents and vice presidents and Duke Student Government committee vice presidents and senators Thursday and Friday.
Life as a Duke student can feel surreal—from morning rock climbs and lunches with Nobel laureates to nights cheering on the most storied basketball program in college sports, capped off with twilights in Perkins. With the surplus of opportunities on our campus far outpacing the number of hours in a day, many students are told early on to “pick two”: school, sleep, and social life. Forget about every achieving all three. As a result, personal health and wellbeing often take a backseat on campus, as students race between scholastic and social extremes.
Seven groups appealed their annual budget recommendations this year, which is less than last year.
The Duke Student Government Senate unanimously passed its annual budget with little debate at its Wednesday meeting.
Later this week, undergraduates will cast votes for the newly-restructured Duke Student Government.
The university’s Board of Trustees, in a secret meeting with Duke Climate Coalition, Duke Seize the Grid, and Duke Green Devils last Saturday at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, has reached a historic compromise regarding the proposal by Duke Energy to build a new natural gas plant on campus.