Students express cynicism at DSG
(03/06/00 5:00am)
Although this year's Duke Student Government election complaints cannot compare to last year's stuffed ballot boxes, the result is the same: a second election.
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Although this year's Duke Student Government election complaints cannot compare to last year's stuffed ballot boxes, the result is the same: a second election.
When the stakes are high and individuals' minds are so uniquely wired, it may even take some studying to discover the perfect place to study.
Vik Devisetty likes being first. This year, he was the first student ever to be a member of Campus Council, Quad Council and Duke Student Government in the same year. Next year, Devisetty hopes to be the first junior to serve as DSG president.
"If it bothers you that one man has more money than the poorest 20 percent of this country combined, it's because you don't belong here," said Christian leader Bart Campolo, explaining that Christians should be revolted by the world's evil because they belong to God's kingdom.
After complaints from students last year who "dropped the ball" despite an aggressive advertising campaign, the Housing Assignments office killed the online housing survey and has resurrected it as the HOUSe process.
The last 10 years have shown that the prime ministry of Russia may not be the most secure job for promising young academics and politicians.
There is one on every hall in every freshman year dormitory-the odd couple. Two roommates so different, such polar opposites, that everyone who meets them winds up wondering, "How on earth did these two wind up together?" Although the end result is often cryptic, the system is surprisingly simple.
After a year of delays and deliberations in selecting an architect to build the University's new art museum, officials have expanded the pool of firms they are considering.
As countless millennium clocks fall below 60 days, confidence has never been higher that Duke's year 2000 problem has been solved.
Random selection does not necessarily create a perfect balance.
The University's $30,000-plus Bursar's bill gets a student into classes and dormitories, but social activities often make students dig deeper into their pockets.
I'd like to imagine, for a second, life in a land where all drugs are legal and easily accessible. Under these circumstances, many people would choose to medicate themselves for economic reasons, without the assistance and advice of a qualified doctor. If this were the case, there would be mayhem in the medical industry. Powerful drugs on the open market would result in horrible, and potentially fatal, misapplications of chemicals. The first step toward this reality is the legalization of recreational drugs.
Hurricane Floyd may have spared the University, but it did force faculty to contemplate how they would compensate for missed class time.
A panel of five influential North Carolinians gathered Monday afternoon in Baldwin Auditorium to review the many social changes in the state during the last 75 years and to assess the Duke Endowment's involvement in these changes.
The Divinity School has received $1.2 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to finance The Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation.
Some Trent Dormitory residents have learned not to take a steady flow of electricity for granted. Worn out circuit breakers and insufficient load capacities are causing power disruptions in some rooms, said John Duncan, facilities manager for West Campus II.
"Knowledge is power," said Kristina Johnson, dean of the engineering school. "That's why I went to school." Johnson and three other panelists discussed the complex notions of absolute truth and uncertainty yesterday as apart of a discussion entitled, "What is Knowledge?"
Although many students might expect relations between fraternity members and independents living side-by-side to be strained, many of this year's living arrangements seem to indicate otherwise.
Time is of the essence for cleaners and maintenance workers who scramble to prevent students from moving into grimy Central Campus apartments in the fall. But with only eight days between summer session move-out and fall semester move-in to inspect, clean, repair and reinspect 200 to 250 apartments, some apartments slip through the cracks.
In pursuit of placating the fickle college student's appetite, Dining Services has made quite a few changes to the Great Hall over the summer. But some diners maintain that their old complaints are still valid.