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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 114
LAST DAY OF CLASSES
DSG wraps up 2014-15 year
Final meeting included passing of new election bylaw and swearing in of next year’s exec. board Alex Griffith The Chronicle In the final Duke Student Government Senate meeting for the 2014-15 academic year, a new election bylaw was passed and next year’s executive board was sworn in. The new election bylaw, introduced by John Guarco, the incoming executive vice president, and associate justice Nikolai Doytchinov, abolishes the DSG Board of Elections and gives all power to the attorney general. Guarco, a sophomore, said that this change will increase the functionality of DSG elections in the future. “It hands over responsibilities to the attorney general to avoid any discrepancies and make the elections easier and more efficient, particularly in comparison to previous years,” Guarco said. The new bylaw transfers some of the Board of Elections’ powers to the Senate, which will annually pass election rules and procedures that govern election details like voting dates, expenditure limits and campaign rules. Additionally, campaign violations will now be reported to the attorney general, who will issue punishments See DSG on Page 6
Eliza Bray | Chronicle File Photo Students celebrate the 2013 Last Day of Classes by attending one of several concerts held that day. (See more photos on page 2.)
Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Students can look forward to seeing more advanced stage effects and better sound quality in the annual Last Day of Classes concert and festivities. T-Pain will headline the evening’s concert, which will also feature performances by Jeremih, MisterWives and Duke junior Spencer Bruno, who performs with the stage name Spencer
Brown. Programming prior to the concert includes a barbecue in K-ville, food trucks, a Chapel climb and other activities on West Campus residential quads— such as morning yoga, a silent disco and spin art. “I think the biggest change that I’m most excited for besides our range of daytime activities is the stage effects,” said LDOC committee co-chair Anton Saleh, a sophomore. “We’re really enhancing the stage presence while the artists are up there and getting more
people involved.” Saleh said the committee looked at issues from LDOC 2014 and attempted to mitigate them. One of the main issues that people complained about from last year’s Dillon Francis concert was poor speaker quality. This year, the LDOC committee collaborated with all the artists who will perform, particularly electronic dance music artist Spencer Brown, to ensure the speakers met their See LDOC on Page 2
‘Bane of my existence’: a look at campus inchworms Adam Beyer The Chronicle
Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Members of the Duke Student Government passed a new election by-law at their final meeting Tuesday evening.
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When students come to Duke, they expect to have all sorts of new experiences—entanglement in the strands of small, green worms is usually not one of them. “I’ve never experienced inchworms in my life before coming to Duke,” said freshman Adriana Okoye. “They’re really annoying and gross. I hate them.” The inchworms—whose presence
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peaked last week—can be spotted dangling from trees all over campus. The recent abundance of worms has altered many students’ lives, including freshman Kevin Bu who said he is now too scared “to walk within 20 feet of a tree.” “I’ve stopped doing my regular exercise routine of running around East Campus loop because when I do, I get a bajillion in my hair and on my clothes,” said Bu. Though many students have been See Inchworms on Page 4
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Izzi Clark | The Chronicle The increased visibility of inchworms on trees all over campus has concerned many students.
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