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Students seek to cut Uni ties to fuels
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A group of Duke students are campaigning to remove the University’s investments in the top 200 publicly-traded companies. Divest Duke, started in Fall 2012 by a group of graduate students, is a movement attempting to stop Duke from investing its assets for the betterment of the environment. The group, now expanding to undergraduates, is working to gain a larger following before approaching administrators with its proposed changes. Courtney Trutna, a freshman volunteer for Divest Duke, said that Divest Duke hopes to raise more public awareness for the issue of climate change and the power that is given to fossil fuel companies through investments. “Pulling out investments is the only way to make fossil fuel companies understand that the public is serious about the environment, and that climate change caused by fossil fuel industries is strongly protested,” Trunta said. Divest Duke is currently trying to involve undergraduate students in greater numbers. Undergraduates are the heart of Duke, said Emily Palmer, a field organizer at Green Corps. Palmer was sent to the University from the organization’s field school for environmental organizing to assist the campaign. “If we could build up leadership and engagement amongst the undergrads, we think that is going to make our campaign incredibly strong.” Palmer said. Since the beginning of last week, fliers and posters about Divest Duke have spread to various places on campus. “We’ve only been out talking to people [about] the campaign since Monday [Sept. 2],” Palmer said. “In the last five days actually, we’ve had over 250 sign on.” Palmer said 250 is a number she has no doubt will increase. Divest Duke plans to follow the steps set by preceding campaigns. One example the group hopes to emulate is the conflict minerals divestment campaign in Spring 2012, led in part by current Duke Student Government President Stefani Jones, a senior. Jones’ campaign succeeded in having the Board of Trustees pass investment guidelines regarding conflict minerals. “They kind of legitimized [divestment] as a means to make social change on campus,” Palmer said. See DIVEST, page 4
Admins quiet on sex assault guideline THE CHRONICLE
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Students enjoy a day of apple picking, hay rides and treats as part of event organized by the Jewish Student Union to celebrate Rosh Hashanah at Millstone Creek Orchards Sunday.
Although Duke put forth new sexual assault sanction guidelines this summer, administrators are not forthcoming about how the changes will work in practice. When Duke announced a major change to the guidelines, which suggests expulsion as the preferred sanction for a perpetrator of sexual assault, the University received significant positive publicity. Although dozens of sexual assault cases come to the Office of Student Conduct each year, many administrators are unwilling to publicly discuss specifics as to how the new guideline will impact the student conduct process. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of Office of Student Conduct, declined to answer questions over the phone or in person, and other members of the student conduct staff deferred comment to Bryan. After receiving email questions about the implications of the new sexual assault guideline, he deferred all comment to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. Moneta has continued to tout the positive aspects of the guideline since it was first announced, including appearing in a video on The Huffington Post. But in interviews with The Chronicle, he has said he is unable to answer numerous questions about how it will be used in practice. See GUIDELINE, page 5
Former gov. notes importance of adult edu. by Jenny Mazzarino THE CHRONICLE
Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue discussed the importance of continuing education throughout adulthood at the fall convocation of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The event, intended to celebrate “the joy of learning,” featured a number of speeches regarding the importance of adult education. Perdue emphasized the innovations in technology and the corresponding changes in education. “I’ve admitted to people that I’d never want to be young again, but as I see the way technology is changing it makes me want to stick around another 50 years to see what
happens,” Perdue said. Director of OLLI Garry Crites introduced Perdue as a former public school teacher in Florida and Georgia. He added that she recently taught at Harvard College, which he described as “the Duke of the North.” Perdue, who received her Masters of Education and holds a doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Florida, wrote her dissertation on lifelong learning. In preparing for yesterday’s speech, she reread the conclusions she had drawn in 1976 as a student and realized how much things have changed in recent years. “Four million students are getting a college education online,” she said. “This
transformation of education is the most important innovation in learning since the printing press.” Perdue and her husband, Bob Eaves, are both planning on enrolling in OLLI next semester. OLLI offers non-credit courses to those over the age of 55 who pay a $35 annual membership fee. Course offerings range from Chinese brush painting to Mastery of your iPad. The courses do not have tests or award grades—the students enroll simply to learn. Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton See OLLI, page 4