Duke Student Government votes down attempts to restructure Senate
(09/15/16 4:47am)
At its Wednesday meeting, the Duke Student Government Senate failed to pass another attempt at restructuring and decreasing its size.
Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of The Chronicle's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query. You can also try a Basic search
1000 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
At its Wednesday meeting, the Duke Student Government Senate failed to pass another attempt at restructuring and decreasing its size.
Duke Student Government debated, but did not pass, proposals to restructure the Senate at its meeting Wednesday.
I exclusively wear Hawaiian shirts. Really, I do. It’s a trend that began earlier this summer when I spontaneously walked into a thrift shop in my home town and bought two oversized, underpriced works of textile artistry. These short-sleeved, floral button-downs are the duct tape of apparel in their universal utility: casual yet formal, unassuming yet expressive, collared yet comfortable. They can make the worst of bad hair days look like a flash of stylistic genius.
Senior Annie Adair resigned as DSG attorney general this summer.
Duke Student Government has started the year off with resignations and a "hit on morale."
Executive Vice President Ilana Weisman noted that the new statute is designed to prevent coercion in elections.
Duke Student Government amended the election rules for freshmen elections this Fall to explicitly prohibit “coercion” in campaigning at its Wednesday meeting.
Two weeks ago, Duke Student Government president Tara Bansal addressed first-years as part of Convocation. Standing at the podium, she offered them a piece of advice: “Whatever you do, never allow yourself to get comfortable.” As the 2016-17 school year begins, we, in turn, would like to offer that advice to the whole of DSG. It is our sincerest hope that by focusing on improving communication, restructuring internally and returning to its fundamental purposes, DSG can turn the tides of student apathy and remove the grounds many have had for perennial criticisms of it.
Tara Bansal served as the DSG vice president of academic affairs before being elected president in March.
The controversial Peer Advocacy for Sexual Health Center is slated to open to the student body in October.
As the semester begins, The Chronicle’s Claire Ballentine spoke with senior Tara Bansal, Duke Student Government president, about what DSG hopes to accomplish this year and how it plans to combat misperceptions of student government.
Everyone knows about men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski and President Richard Brodhead, but what about the other important figures on Duke's campus? The Chronicle compiled a list of important people to know as the 2016-17 academic year begins, spanning administrators to athletic figures and student leaders.
Whether you’ve been off saving the developing world or retreating to your own this summer, you quite literally must have been living under a rock for the past three months (or maybe just a palm tree in St. Bart’s) if you haven’t been keeping pace with the explosion of social division in our country as of late. Although we must unite in support of our country’s most accomplished athletes in less than a week’s time, and gear up to show the world, once again, the convenient correlation between wealth and victory (because World Wars I and II just weren’t enough), we continue to pick fights with each other over pantsuits and hairdos.
Although religious groups are popular on campus, some say they experience difficulties in conducting their activities.
It is a custom within the United States for each state government to adopt a Latin motto to express their dedication to the citizens that created them. I am particularly fond of our own North Carolina’s choice: Esse quam videri. It means, “to be, rather than to seem.” Putting aside whether the motto is suitable for a state which passed HB2, I think there exists real wisdom in the phrase. For the purpose of this column, however, I will be turning to the moment when I first encountered the phrase and how it applies to Duke.
Last year, Duke saw the addition of a new pre-orientation program to its long-standing repertoire of Projects BUILD, WILD, Waves, Change and Search: Project Arts, or pArts.
Joining a Greek organization may not only give you “sisters for life” but also a ticket to a successful Duke Student Government campaign.
Student groups’ push for the designation of more gender-neutral bathrooms in campus buildings has resulted in a University initiative to relabel many single-stall restrooms.