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Duke Chapel’s closing does not deter brides-to-be “Most brides are going to wait until 2016. That is the phenomenon that we are seeing right now,” says Beth Pendergrass Grace Li The Chronicle
has experience with young people,” Seils said. “She also felt strongly about her role being one of advocacy.” He said that Brown possessed many of the qualities the committee desired in a director. Brown comes to Duke from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, where she focused on LGBT youth within the juvenile justice system. “We wanted someone with leadership experience who could come into the role with confidence and begin leading from day one,” Seils said. Senior Daniel Kort, the president of Blue Devils United, believes that Brown will positively impact the LGBTQ community at Duke. “I am confident that Brown will build on the legacy of the CSGD and LGBTQ life at Duke by expanding our campus presence to areas that are not as inclusive as they can be,” he said. However, Seils believes one of Brown’s challenges will be adjusting to the Duke culture and students who will have
For some couples, the trip to the Chapel just got a whole lot longer. A popular place for Duke alumni, faculty, staff and current students to get married, the Duke Chapel is booked solid until it closes for construction May 11, 2015, with three weddings each Saturday and one each Sunday. Most of these couples have reserved their date one year in advance, reflecting the popularity and high demand of the Chapel as a wedding venue. And for these couples, tenting expands beyond the demands of K-Ville. Although limited to Duke alums and employees, as well as their children and grandchildren, couples looking to wed at the Chapel typically have to book about a year in advance—the dates for a particular month opening up at 8:30 a.m. on the first of the same month a year beforehand, closing six weeks before the wedding date. This tradition, however, will see a one year gap as the chapel closes for construction until Spring 2016. But instead of finding a new venue for their weddings, many couples are choosing to wait until the Chapel reopens for their weddings. “Most brides are going to wait until 2016, that is the
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Emily Waples | The Chronicle Duke PAWS, Duke Partnership for Service and the Duke University Hospital sponsored an event featuring therapy dogs and hot chocolate in front of the Chapel to raise money for Hope Animal Rescue Monday afternoon.
Brown named new CSGD director Claire Ballentine The Chronicle After six-month search process, Bernadette Brown has been named the new director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. After former-director Jamie Long was named associate vice provost for undergraduate education in May, a six-person search committee, including faculty, students and staff from the LGBT Task Force, selected two potential candidates from a large pool of applications. These two recommendations were sent to Zoila Airall, assistant vice president of student affairs for campus life, who made the final decision to hire Brown. The decision was based on Brown’s previous leadership and youth-oriented experiences, said Damon Seils, a researcher at the Duke School of Medicine, co-chair of the campus LGBT task force and chair of the search committee. “We selected Brown in part because she was able to speak with knowledge and experience about LGBTQ issues and
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