Halle Vazquez is a Trinity first-year and a staff reporter for the news department.
The meeting included two closed executive sessions. The topic of the first session, according to one senator, was “financials.”
Many students feel that this increase is unprecedented, and some linked the increase in police presence to the implementation of the “Good Neighbor Program,” a new initiative streamlining communication between Duke and partnered neighborhoods.
The all-day event was entirely led by student groups Chabad at Duke and Students Supporting Israel, along with Jewish Life at Duke, and took weeks to set up following the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.
Some attendees said that trainings presented to first-years lacked information on mitigating sexual violence and mental health resources for survivors while over-emphasizing Duke’s reaction to violence only after it happened.
