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How DSG presidential candidate Kristina Smith would handle a Stephen Miller campus visit and more

My name is Kristina Smith and my pronouns are she/her/hers and I want to be your next DSG president. In these past three years I have really fallen in love with this university. I have had the opportunity to engage with the very issues that affect us every day and in this time I have realized that Duke on its own will not provide us with everything that we as an undergraduate body need—not without a push from student leaders.


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How DSG presidential candidate Jamal Burns would handle sexually-explicit material in the first-year summer reading and more

I’m Jamal Burns, I’m a first-year from St. Louis, Mo. Growing up, I had a big family, nine siblings, and my mother always said ‘Closed mouths don’t get fed.’ What she meant by this was actually something literal. I come from a low-income background where if you didn’t come to dinner—if you weren’t in the kitchen—you didn’t get anything to eat.