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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016
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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 69
Young Trustee finalists outline platforms ahead of election Rachel Sereix, Samantha Neal and Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Editor’s note: The following candidate profiles have been modified due to print constraints. The full profiles can be found online at www.dukechronicle. com. Wills Rooney In his Young Trustee campaign, senior Wills Rooney is emphasizing his variety of experiences as a representative of the student body in athletics, religious life, academic life as well as social engagement. A Program II major, Rooney plans to pursue a one-year master’s degree in theology at Maynooth University in Ireland through the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which he was awarded in November. He has served as director of the Duke Catholic Center Lecture Series and on The Chronicle’s editorial board, in addition to being a current Chronicle columnist. “I am a very thoughtful and insightful person that thinks about every issue very seriously,” Rooney said. “Duke is not just a research university. Students should come first.” Rooney has proposed a more integrated curriculum as well as potential core classes that would weave together “philosophy, literature, history, the arts and the methods of the hard sciences,” according to his Young Trustee campaign website. Other proposals include greater interactions between faculty and the University’s “spiritual centers” as well as more service projects for students. Rooney said that his experience on The Chronicle’s editorial board has also prepared him for the Young Trustee position. He noted that the editorial board and the Trustees discuss very similar issues and that
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he is conscious of the multiple perspectives students have on those issues. Jamal Edwards Senior Jamal Edwards highlights his wide range of experiences at Duke and ideas for future directions in his campaign for undergraduate Young Trustee. Edwards is a Robertson scholar majoring in global health at Duke and journalism at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He is a member of Dukes and Duchesses—a student ambassador group for the Office of the University President— the former president of the Black Student Alliance and was one of 10 undergraduate students in the nation named a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow. Edwards hopes to use the position of Young Trustee to repay Duke for the opportunities it has provided him. “I see the role as an opportunity to be a
trusted steward of the University and after embedding myself in so many different communities on campus, I know I have what it takes to help make Duke’s best, better,” Edwards wrote in an email Monday. If elected Young Trustee, Edwards plans on using his knowledge of student life to inform decisions on diversity and inclusivity, sexual assault and gender-based violence as See YT FINALISTS on Page 5
Students petition to keep Grace’s Café on campus Heather Zhou The Chronicle
Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Students have questioned why the decision to close Grace’s in Trent Hall was made.
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Students are questioning the recently-announced closing of Grace’s Café at the end of the Spring semester and petitioning to keep the eatery on campus. The imminent departure of Grace’s Café has caused disappointment among students and raised questions about whether Duke Dining and Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee are serving student interests. Some students are taking actions to keep Grace’s on campus by signing an online petition, which has generated more than 700 signatures, asking Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey to
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keep Grace’s open. Students have also arranged to talk with Duke Student Government representatives and speak at DSG’s public forum Wednesday, said sophomore Anna Li, who started the online petition. “A lot of Duke students are really upset about this because Grace’s Café, being here for so long, has already become a part of the Duke community,” Li said. “It’s irreplaceable. If we are going to keep one vendor at Duke, let it be one vendor that we can’t get anywhere else, not some chain restaurants you will find everywhere.” Junior Timothy Blumberg, who is also actively involved in the effort to keep Grace’s open on campus, said that he has reached out to student organizations to assist the movement.
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“Students are voicing their opinions on this issue and that’s a good start. We will be able to present a really strong case to the administration,” Blumberg said. Although Duke Dining has stated that the closing of Grace’s is due to high maintenance costs and new Asian food vendors in West Union, some students found such reasons unconvincing. “I think the claimed $500,000 renovation fee is probably covering other parts of the Trent Hall, which is unfair to be wholly attributed to Grace’s alone,” freshman Elaine Zhong said. Blumberg said he is also trying to get in touch with Duke Dining to
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