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monday, september 27, 2010
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 23
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Parade celebrates LGBT community Students rally
in support of DREAM Act by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE
to 15 floats on Campus Drive and continued to Ninth Street, Markham Avenue and Broad Street. After the parade, festivities continued into the evening at the Hargett Street area in Raleigh. Major sponsors of the parade this year included Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Time Warner Cable and Whole Foods. Senior Robert Krattli attended the parade and said he thought it was a great event to embrace people of all genders and sexual orientations.
Some Duke students have been working to raise support for an act aimed to help undocumented students acquire American citizenship that was blocked by the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act was designed to also help undocumented students eventually become eligible for financial aid after becoming naturalized citizens. Under the bill, students who had lived in the U.S. for at least five years before turning 16 could become legal citizens after graduating high school and finishing two years of college or military enrollment. The DREAM Act was attached to the repeal of the so-called “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the armed forces, which some thought lessened its chances of passing through the Senate. Despite its shortcomings Tuesday, there may still be a chance that the DREAM Act could pass because the Senate blocked the bill on which the act was attached but not the act itself. Now, Senator Dick Durbin, Ill.-D, has declared the DREAM Act as a stand-alone bill. Junior Michelle Villegas, a member of Duke Students for Humane Borders, said because of the other issues on the bill, like the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, she had not been optimistic for it to pass. “But I think eventually it will [pass],” Villegas said. “Elections are coming up, just vote the right people in.” On campus, students have participated in various activities to support the bill and to promote education on the subject.
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The Duke LGBT Center created one of 10 to 15 floats in the 26th annual Pride Parade and Festival held Sunday on East Campus. by Amanda Young THE CHRONICLE
The Pride Committee of North Carolina hosted the 26th annual Pride Parade and Festival at Duke’s East Campus Saturday to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. An estimated 10,000 people from all over the state attended the event. About 190 vendors, ranging from church groups to jewelry businesses, set up booths at 10 a.m. around Trinity Circle. After several speakers rallied the crowd together, about 2,000 people marched alongside 10
Panel provides globalization update for alumni by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE
As part of a campus-wide initiative to highlight the University’s commitments abroad, Duke held a panel discussion Friday on its global objectives. The event “A World Together: Duke and Global Development” featured several administrators including William Boulding, J.B. Fuqua professor of Business Administration and deputy dean for the Fuqua School of Business; Gregory Jones, vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs; and Dr. Michael Merson, director of Duke Global Health Institute. “It is a question of Duke’s outreach,” said Beth Ray-Schroeder, assistant director of education and travel for Duke Alumni Affairs. “This is part of the World Together Initiative geared toward returning alumni, and we’ve really seen a record turnout. People are interested to see how Duke has grown beyond boundaries.” Jones opened the forum by calling global outreach “the flavor of the moment” at
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many American colleges and universities before detailing Duke’s more long-term strategy. “Every college wants to be international,” he said. “Some get into it for the money that an overseas location could bring. Ultimately, we want to maintain the level of quality in research and education to make students leaders of consequence.” The panelists said Duke hopes to be an ambitious leader among universities in the nation and stand out by not limiting itself to typical strategies. Merson noted that members of the Ivy League are also expanding globally, but they are more cautious and “do not do it as boldly.” At Duke, plans to establish programs in other nations, Jones added, will allow better collaboration between the University and its alumni living abroad. “A major proposal is to draw new partners,” Jones said. “For example, for programs in China, we would draw on Chinese See globalization on page 4
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Duke administrators led a panel discussion over Homecoming weekend to emphasize the University’s globalization efforts and its attempt to be a pioneer in the process, to an audience mainly of returning alumni.
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ONTHERECORD
“We believe in complete and total honesty. Students are even held to this through the Community Standard.”
—Sophomore Antonio Segalini in “Truth in numbers.” See column page 7