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Students lugged futon mattresses and crates of school supplies, rolled boxes of clothing and personal affects into the corridors of their college houses in the morning hours of Aug. 27, 2003. It was moving-in day at Yale and anxious first-years with their parents crowded the campus, along with some 700 disgruntled union workers and well-known activist Jesse Jackson.
When Richard Brodhead, Dean of Yale College, sits in his office--a place that oozes Ivy League tradition--it is difficult to imagine him as president of Duke.
Diversity may be the biggest buzzword at Duke right now, but at Yale University, where Richard Brodhead, Duke's future president, has spent the last 40 years, students report that at times it is difficult to grab the administration's attention about minority issues.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The loud music could be heard down the block and students carried red Solo cups as they mingled in a grassy courtyard. Inside, students huddled around three lukewarm kegs in the corner, the alcohol at the bar already gone. It was a typical Friday night in a dorm room in one of the residential colleges at Yale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - It turns out that Richard Brodhead, the soon-to-be president of Duke, is not just a Yalie or a son of Eli. He's a Branfordian.
Minutes before President of MSNBC Rick Kaplan's lecture was set to begin, a flutter of foreign tongues filled the air in the room at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Kaplan had attracted an international audience of professional journalists and students to the Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Communications.
Junior Tameeka Norton is the first in her family to attend college, but Norton doesn't intend to stop her studies there. Instead, the political science and African American studies major plans to earn a doctorate in political science, crediting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship as a key factor in her decision to pursue a post-graduate degree.
The national presidential election is more than eight months away, but less than two weeks from today the undergraduate student body will already have selected its leadership for next academic year.
Three rising seniors--Aaron Dinin, Pasha Majdi and Anthony Vitarelli--have thrown their hats into the upcoming race for the Duke Student Government president. While the official ballot for the DSG executive election will not be certified until Tuesday afternoon, all three candidates confirmed their candidacies for the March 30 contest.
The inside of the Great Hall's kitchen is a mess. Thawing gray vegetables and slabs of uncooked, pink ground beef litter the countertops and a pale yellow splatter from cream of broccoli soup stains a section of the floor. It's a place that most Duke students do not confront--or even consider--but this was a part of Candace Tingen's world. She sneaks into the back door and service entrances of some of the academics buildings where she has class. She never visits some of her friends. Hers is a world that few students or administrators will ever experience.
It was a night of high expectations for Duke Student Government, a night scheduled to bring fruitful debate and restructuring of the student organization. Instead, anticipation fell flat as the governing body postponed voting on its proposed bylaw changes following poor attendance by senators.
The Duke Student Government will tackle restructuring and election reform issues at its meeting tonight, voting on changes that, if passed, will alter the organization's constitution more radically than any other set of amendments since the body's inception in 1993.
A bylaw amendment to change the funding of The Chanticleer failed to pass in the Duke Student Government Wednesday night.
Duke Student Government sent an assertive message to ARAMARK Corp. Wednesday night by voting "no confidence" in the company and its food service on campus.
The Duke Student Government will hear at its meeting tonight a number of proposed changes as part of a recstructuring of the governing body to be decided by a vote March 2. Most notably, legislators offered constitutional and bylaw amendments proposing radical alterations to the method of executive and senatorial elections.
In closed-door meetings late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, two student representative groups--East Campus Council and the Student Affairs Committee of Duke Student Government--considered recommendations regarding the future of the University's dining services. Their discussions came in light of DSG's planned vote of confidence Wednesday night for ARAMARK Corp., which manages many of the University's dining facilities--including the Great Hall, the Marketplace and Cambridge Inn.
The Wednesday night meeting of the Duke Student Government was marked by heated discussion over a proposed bylaw amendment to change the funding regulations for The Chanticleer, the University's annual student-run yearbook.
Amid an ARAMARK taste test with platters of sliced turkey, rolls of roast beef and mounds of pink colored honey ham, the Duke Student Government and the Intercommunity Council selected Katie Laidlaw, a senior from Katy, Texas, as young trustee Wednesday night. "Katie from Katy" will serve a three-year term on the University's Board of Trustees.
This is the third of a three-part series profiling this year's finalists for undergraduate young trustee. The Duke Student Government will vote tonight to elect a young trustee.
This story is part two of a three-part series profiling the finalists for the undergraduate young trustee position, which will be selected by a vote of the Duke Student Government Wednesday night.
