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With internal changes and a fresh set of concerts, speakers and events on the docket, the Duke University Union is taking a new approach to campus entertainment. Last year, the Union’s allocation offunding and lack of transparency was called into question by other student groups. Since then, the group, with the largest annual budget out of all student groups, has made adjustments to better address student needs. Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, said the biggest change the organization made this year is the way it funds programs and events. “We have switched from this committee model to a programming model,” Donnelly said. She wrote in an e-mail that now, when students come in with a great programming idea, DUU will fund them. The new funding policy allows for more innovation, Donnnelly said. She noted that since students are excited and passionate about their tasks they are more willing to reevaluate and reinvent campus-wide social events. In a move to make the organization more efficient, DUU has also merged the former programing committee into the executive board. “I think the new policy is a very good
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Rapper T.l.'s abbreviated appearance was one of many road bumps for the Duke University Union last year.
thing because funding individuals is really what the Union should be about,” said senior Max Entman, co-director of Joe College Day. “The ideal is to be a campus programming body that caters to every part of the student body.” He said he and co-director Max Alexander, a senior, proposed the idea of the event and received $35,000 to fund it.
Donnelly said she believes as long as interested people with great ideas come to the Union, it will keep getting better. Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior, said he noticed an increase in attendance at DUU events this year, adding that the organization SEE DUU ON PAGE
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interaction, announced DSG’s appointments to the President’s Council on Black Affairs, junior Andrew Tutt and sophomore Katrina Henderson. Some senators, however, have asked DSG to reconsider Tutt’s appointment because of his lack of experience with the black community. The Senate must approve all appointments to the PCOBA. PCOBA, one of several president’s councils, is chaired by President Richard Brodhead and acts as an advocate for black students. Its membership includes DSG and Black Student Alliance members as faculty members an( J admin istrators. BSA President Simone Randolph, .
Andrew Tuft's appointment tothe President's Council on Black Affairs has been challenged on the basis thathehas no ties tothe black community.
who spoke at the meeting, said she was concerned over the representatives that had been appointed to PCOBA by DSG and wanted to make sure that the representatives would meet PCOBA’s needs. “There was some concern over whether DSG-selected representatives had any experience [with the black community],” Randolph, a senior, said in an interview. “We were looking for [experience] and we... weren’t aware of those things in the DSG candidates.” The senate tabled the issue after debate because senators wanted to hear a response from Tutt, who was not present at the meeting. The issue may be taken off the table at
Perkins Library is about to get a little more crowded—but not until this week’s midterms have long since ended. Starting in the summer of 2008, the collections of the Vesic Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Physics and the Biology and Environmental Sciences Library will be relocated to Perkins and Bostock Libraries, said Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice provost for library affairs. Jakubs said the move will centralize cross-departmental information and enhance the quality of library services available to students and faculty. “We see the way the libraries are being used in a very collaborative way,” she said. “It seems to me that it will become an even richer environment for students.” Combining research materials from smaller libraries in one facility supports Duke’s underlying commitment to interdisciplinary studies, said Dean ofNatural Sciences Alvin Crumbliss. “While it is less convenient for chemists to walk to Bostock than it was to walk down three flights of stairs to the library, a library really needs to view itself as being interdisciplinary, not the possession or the name of a specific department,” he said. The transition will take place after the current Perkins construction project has been completed, Jakubs said. “We want to make sure that we don’t SEE TEER ON PAGE
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Vesic Library, housed in the Nello L.Teer building, will be relocated to Perkins Library.