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Duke Student Government elections are finally over, and to celebrate, we have engaged in a little prognostication for the upcoming year. What will the University look like in the future? Let's take a peek:
Much of the recent debate about the Achievement Index has centered on its new amendments. Certainly, the amendments should be scrutinized carefully, but doing so must not obscure the reason why they came about in the first place: The amendments are an attempt to alleviate the wide-spread, strong opposition to the AI coming from much of the University community.
The designers of the Achievement Index proposal amended their plan yesterday to address some of the concerns voiced about it during the past few months. Unfortunately, the changes don't go far enough and, as a result, members of the Arts and Sciences Council should still reject the proposal tomorrow when they vote on it at their meeting.
Something's wrong at the White House. Every day seems to offer a new revelation about financial misconduct from the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton-Gore '96 campaign, government workers or high public officials. The claim that campaign finance laws are the problem should be considered. But the scandal is growing larger, and those who have committed crimes must be held accountable.
If the administration has its way, freshmen won't be the only ones moving off of East Campus this spring.
The American Medical Association-the United States' largest and most influential organization of doctors-claim to be a group of "physicians dedicated to the health of America." With their recent policy announcements regarding the supply of doctors, however, one can questions whether the health of America is truly what they seek.
Democracy has one crucial hinge-it requires the participation of its citizens.
Rarely do students have the opportunity to vote for a candidate who is hands-down the best qualified for the position. This Thursday, students have such an opportunity when they vote for Duke Student Government president. There is no one near as qualified for the office as Chris Lam.
This Thursday, students will choose the Duke Student Government executive cabinet to lead them through the next year. While the field of candidates is strong, The Chronicle is confident that the following students will do the best job of representing student concerns on upcoming issues such as the curriculum review and capital campaign.
For all their strengths, fair and democratic elections have at least one drawback-they are very difficult to execute well. We are constantly reminded of this fact on the national level as more alarming allegations about the wrong doings of the Clinton campaign continue to surface. But we needn't venture so far, there are also problems right here at the University in the on-going Duke Student Government elections.
It's one thing to tell people that students are unhappy; it's another to back it up with concrete analysis of the issues.
Sometimes words and symbols can hurt. But America's heralded ideal of freedom of speech often must supercede the pain that some forms of "speech" may engender.
A driver's license is a rite of passage for millions of teens around the nation. In North Carolina, they'll have to wait just a while longer.
Truth is stranger than fiction. Especially when the truth involves the cloning of sheep.
History has an unsettling habit of repeating itself.
The biggest dilemma that historians face is the knowledge that history-whether it comes from the writings of Herodotus or the recordings of Nixon-is not absolute. Historical witnesses invariably allow their own knowledge, emotion and political views to cloud their descriptions of historical events.
Who is qualified to be Durham's new superintendent?
Tonight, the Duke Student Government legislature will make arguably its most important decision of the year-they will select this year's young trustee.
What can a president do when the nation is threatened with economic disaster because of a dispute between one of his primary constituencies and big business, and only he has the power to intervene? This past weekend, President Clinton was faced with such an unwelcome situation, and he did what he should have done: He put the interests of the nation first and made the tough decision to end the strike of the American Airlines pilots.
University students want choices and, it appears, they want consistency within those choices.
