Senate finalizes YT reform
After almost a month of debate, Duke Student Government senators passed a bylaw Monday night that will allow the student body to elect the Young Trustee.
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After almost a month of debate, Duke Student Government senators passed a bylaw Monday night that will allow the student body to elect the Young Trustee.
James Citrin, an author who studies leadership, has interviewed more than 3,000 top business executives in addition to athletes, politicians and musicians—including Lance Armstrong and Bono.
After debating for almost two hours on the Young Trustee selection process at Duke Student Government’s meeting Wednesday night, DSG members will meet later in the semester to continue the discussion.
Over the weekend, Duke Student Government President Awa Nur, a senior, vetoed a bylaw that would allow the student body to ultimately select the Young Trustee. The bylaw was passed with a two-thirds majority by the DSG Senate Nov. 11.
In what is perhaps Duke Student Government’s most significant move of the year, Senators approved a Young Trustee bylaw that will open the final selection of the Young Trustee to the undergraduate student body.
The Duke University Police Department has started its internal investigation of officer Webster Simmons’s actions at Duke.
Every week, UNC freshman Zealan Hoover stares at his computer for one of his Spanish 101 sections.
Amanda Turner, special secretary for the Young Trustee process, has little more than one week to create a proposal for this year’s Young Trustee selection process.
On Tuesday afternoon, in a corner room of the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy that is regularly filled with students, a group of Chinese government officials were participating in a mock debate.
If Washington Duke—one of the famous tobacco giants during the late 1800s and a large benefactor of then-named Trinity College—were alive today, something about Duke’s progress might make him take a smoke break.
Burundi, a small country located in the center of Africa, is among the poorest countries in the world. But the country’s economic woes are not the only issues it faces—about 300,000 people died there during a civil war that lingered for much of the 1990s.
For the past seven months, students walking in and out of the Friedl building might have met something unexpected—images of inmates being lynched, sitting in electric chairs and awaiting their ultimate deaths.
For most Duke students, Sept. 2 was just another day spent walking to class, studying in the library and preparing for the second half of the week. But for Joseph Abbitt, that Wednesday was no ordinary day—after spending 14 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Abbitt walked out of the Forsyth County Detention Center a free man.