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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 78
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Austin Rivers’ buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Jabari Parker’s 30-point outburst. Tyus Jones’ late-game heroics. In the last four years, those are the players who have etched their names into Tobacco Road rivalry lore. Who will be next? After a two-week hiatus from the top 25, No. 20 Duke has jumped back into the rankings on the back of two straight wins against ranked opponents. The Blue Devils now face their toughest test of the season, though, and will make the familiar eight-mile trek to Chapel Hill Wednesday to clash with No. 5 North Carolina at 9 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center in the latest installment of college basketball’s premier rivalry. Although the Tar Heels boasted a 133-107 advantage through the first 240 contests, Duke has had its way of late. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 12
Trio of juniors announce bids for DSG president Alex Griffith The Chronicle Juniors Annie Adair, Tara Bansal and John Guarco have announced their campaigns for the presidency of Duke Student Government. The election will be held from March 1 until March 2 and will elect a replacement for current president Keizra Mecklai, a senior. A new DSG Executive Vice President will also replace Guarco and a new Student Organization Funding Committee Chair will replace senior Nikhil Gavai. The three presidential candidates have each held roles in DSG as senators,
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vice presidents or cabinet members. Adair is currently serving as DSG chief of staff. She was previously a senator for academic affairs and chaired the Young Trustee Nominating Committee this year. Her campaign plans to focus less on individual planks of a platform and more on a general attitude of change for DSG. “I want to run as less of a checklist candidate and focus more on a guiding statement of ‘what DSG can do for you,’” Adair said. She explained that she wants to make practical, visible changes for students and focus more on promoting dialogue between administration and groups like Blue Devils United and the Black
Student Alliance in a “transformational rather than transactional way.” While a member of DSG, she helped to push for the C5 bus route this past summer to complement the new C4 bus created by Parking and Transportation Services. She also focused on revising the Young Trustee nomination process during her time as chair of the YTNC. Bansal is currently the DSG Vice President of Academic Affairs. Her platform is centered around making voting easier for students in an election year, increasing non-DSG presence on student committees and influencing the ongoing curriculum review process— including expanding student options for pass/fail classes and adding a new
cultural competency program called Duke 101. Bansal has been a part of several projects in her time with DSG, including working with students and administration to redesign ACES and adding a new housing option for independent students, the livinglearning community. “The living-learning community is a great way for students to have another option for community building and demonstrates my ability to work with both students and faculty to get the job done,” she said. Guarco is the current executive See CANDIDATES on Page 16
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