Thursday, September 6, 2001
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No.
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
DSG election
smoothly
runs From staff
reports
It took three years and six tries, but Duke Student Government elections A
finally ended its
streak of controversial
Wednesday.
record-high 2,311 students,
student
body,
35.4
or
voted in the annual
legislative election,
with 52 percent of the Class of 2005 a
percent of the
voting,
a
record for
freshman class.
New members For
a
list of the 50
Legislature,
This
see
was
new
page
members of the Duke Student Government
5
the first time the and Elizabeth
held online,
legislative elections
were
Rreul-Starr, DSG attorney
general and election commission chair, attributed the record turnout to the ease of Internet DSG’s executive decision deadline for
20
proximately up for
This
Duke
to extend the
applicants until 11:59 p.m. Monday result-
ed in 62 candidates
spots
voting.
Sunday night
percent
grabs, 37
elected, only
By
represented
a
of DSG. Of the 37
served in
some
Citing
massive
students
capacity last
canceled
year
“I think it’s another manifestation of the DSG President C. J.
Only
of five races—the
Niejelow. The three filled
day
a
Walsh,
a
new
applications
This marked
are
to
off-campus
race —was
not
to DSG
at
5 p.m. Fri-
a
lots, violations of voting procedures
or
DSG
p roCedure
for
irregularities
quad council
Council has not received any
no
outside
last
year
free
brought
from her
President Nan Keo-
The
New York
West
Campus
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■
other
Times, The Herald-
was
summer
not to
sense
my
good opportunity for students
Duke renovated the Devil’s Den in
ity
more
a
bus
stop
in the
not
was
budget
the students’ most
hopes
begin the
of
making
near
the
are
building. See
the facilalso
con-
page 3
University also
Times to 35
that
to
attractive to groups. Administrators
sidering adding
was
lowed with about 125 and 65 The
continue
was
thorough evalquestion
came
want to fund
and
we
had
priorities.”
papers
beginning,
a
Trinity College would
The Herald-Sun and The News
run.
a
year, it
at the out-
concern
of the program.... When the
The Times
Campus, but after evaluating its
the
“My
that there would need to be
Dean of
popular choice,
with about 240 taken daily.
Raleigh
thought about expanding the
decided this
was
around whether
direct cost to students.
the trial
in the bal-
set
it this
discretionary fund last
reading the daily newspaper,” said
to discontinue the program.
uation
undergraduates’ connections
the University,
$20,644
provide
program to
this
elections.
complaints.
that
to increase
“I think from
bylaw confusion.
Candidates and students noticed
administrators have
readership,
program
benefits, they
grabs.
1998 that
lack of
Administrators had
headquarters. Ten
also up for
life
year to
off-campus positions will be
the first time since
|ottj
Trinity College Robert Thompson, who helped decide
Sun of Durham and The News & Observer of
election has not been contested because oferrors in bal-
Inofifl a Ill Slue
a
hane spent
seat for lone candidate Alex
vacant
other at-large positions
face of
senior.
by at-large candidates, who have until
to turn in
a
Seeking
DSG,” said
one
habit of
The Chronicle
freshman dormitories. newspapers to
with the organization.
contested, guaranteeing
newspaper program
DAVE INGRAM
filled.
also
make-up
seven
last year. And of the 40
over
were
election
year’s
turnover in the
axes
the ballot—an increase of ap-
on
gave
& Observer
free subscriptions to the
professors, hoping they would
in classroom
Of the 15
use
professors
who
University opened
sports-related the
country.
news-
discussions.
responded
to
See NEWSPAPERS
The
fol-
respectively.
injuries.
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a
It
a
survey
on
page
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clinic that will treat women’s is
the second such
facility
in