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With a new name and strategy, a made-over Race Day-called Race Perspectives this time around-returned to campus last Thursday and Friday for its first appearance since its highly-attended original in 1997.
At its meeting last night, the Duke Student Government Legislature voted to support University efforts to find a long-term campus space for religious groups that now lack permanent places to worship.
Numbers were the story of last night's Duke Student Government meeting, resulting first in Executive Vice President Drew Ensign casting a tie-breaking vote that supported the University decision to privatize its dining facilities. The narrow margin of victory, however, prompted President Jordan Bazinsky to issue an executive veto of the resolution.
In some ways, you could consider the average girl an amateur cologne tester in disguise. She's equipped with exquisite taste, a nose that never forgets a smell and an impulse that directs her to cute boys' necks. So, long after she forgets his chronic tardiness and inability to sign for a bill over $20, she still remembers his aroma. With a good cologne, a guy can at least ensure he leaves behind one good memory. But if he wants to, he'd better smell better than Lever 2000.
The Remembering Omran Bus Tour stopped at Duke last night to present its case for lifting sanctions against Iraq. The two-hour talk, led by speakers Rania Masri, a United Nations representative from the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and Simon Harak, a Jesuit priest, introduced HIWAR, a new Duke organization focused on political and social injustice in the Middle East and North Africa.
Meet Chloe. Works hard, plays hard; reads Plato, reads Vogue-a well-rounded Duke student.
While reviewing the city's financial situation in a recent meeting, the Durham City Council discovered that this year's Durham budget projects a $10 million deficit. According to council members, the group's first priority now is finding the reasons for the deficit and then correcting them.
In an unusually short meeting, Duke Student Government legislators voted to recommend that Dining Services offer daily ethnic lunches and dinners in the Great Hall in place of the pizza counter.
Last night's Duke Student Government meeting swept out the old and brought in the new, with the fanfare of a much-anticipated January election for a replacement executive vice president. In a contest of four candidates, DSG legislators voted junior Drew Ensign to fill the position junior Daryn Dodson abdicated.
Asking college students what they want to do with their lives is about as productive as asking what the meaning of life is. Regardless of how intelligent or accomplished the student is, the answer is most often a blank look, a shrug or a dismal groan. Junior Julia Love, despite being the producer and director of three acclaimed documentaries, is no exception. Her future is clear-to everyone but her, that is.
Duke Student Government ended the year with a bang, giving its support to several significant resolutions, including two alcohol policy statements. While the resolutions echoed many similar ideas, one endorsed a collection of opinions of the student body as taken from an meetings with student groups. The other, however, reflected an overview of DSG's views on the current policy.
In the wake of their four-and-a-half-hour-long meeting last week, Duke Student Government legislators sped through their agenda last night, repeatedly moving for early votes on the night's business, including revising the cost of meal plans.
While alone in a room with a murderer's military personnel folder, should a journalist open it to uncover pertinent information for a story?
In his speech to a 60-person audience Thursday night, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Starr focused on how the United States' policies on communication, from the Bill of Rights to regulation of the Internet, have allowed an information-based society to thrive.
For years, bonfires have commemorated Duke's basketball successes. But the tradition will be a bit rarer this year-administrators and Duke Student Government have reduced the number of bonfire permits from six to four.
Kicking off the "back to school night" for the Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement, columnist and professor William Raspberry spoke about remedying the problems associated with race relations in America. In his hour-long address Sunday afternoon in a crowded Baldwin Auditorium, the Pulitzer Prize winner stressed that society should focus on maladies like racial discrimination and inequities, instead of racism itself.
