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The resolution “urges administration to consistently hold egregious offenders accountable—particularly from a Conduct and Community Standards perspective—to curtail another rise in COVID-19 cases, as promised when the Duke Compact was created at the end of summer 2020.”
Almost exactly a year after Duke shifted to remote learning, Christina Wang was taking a nap when she received a call from senior Jason Scharff, DSG attorney general. She had been elected the 2020-21 DSG president, beating junior Carlos Diaz, with 52.2% of the votes.
Shruti Desai, Duke’s new associate vice president of student affairs for campus life, spoke to Duke Student Government senators on Wednesday about her background and goals.
If Zac Johnson wins the race for Duke Student Government executive vice president, he hopes to initiate long-term collaborative projects that address underrepresented students’ concerns.
Despite limited staffing, Duke’s administration and student groups are still working together to oppose oppression due to gender and sexual identity, Nicholas Antonicci, the director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, told Duke Student Government senators at their Wednesday meeting.
While teachers last spring scrambled to move their classes onto virtual platforms, student-teachers will now have to face a transition back to in-person teaching without ever having taught in a classroom.
The Duke Student Government Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution supporting the student Black Coalition Against Policing’s efforts and approved the creation of the Student Advocate’s Office at a brief Wednesday meeting. The resolution seconds BCAP’s demands that the Duke University Police Department issue a written commitment to “not deploy police officers when responding to mental health crises, noise complaints or student disputes.”
Duke Student Government caucuses are changing course after realizing that other student groups are doing much of the work they had originally planned to carry out, DSG senators said at their Wednesday meeting.
Duke’s Student Organization Finance Committee presented its spring semester report to Duke Student Government senators at Wednesday night’s meeting.
During a time when most groups have had to redefine normal in unconventional and often virtual ways, religious life leaders are continuing to grapple with the question of fostering meaningful community, connection and spiritual faith during a moment marked by isolation and instability. The answer has changed over the course of the pandemic.
The DSG Senate heard from Duke’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity on Wednesday about the center's support programs for students and how it struggles with a lack of staffing.
Drew Flanagan, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, spoke about SOFC's efforts to support student groups at the Feb. 10 meeting of the DSG Senate.
The DSG Senate heard updates on student group funding at its Sept. 30 meeting.
