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Make-up class Eight vie for Young Trustee slot starts Sunday nmlsn3s By JAIME LEVY
BySSSU semifinalists
The Chronicle
Duke
Many professors and students say
they will probably attend weekend class sessions, but others are seeking alternate ways of making up the snow days. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
Snow canceled classes for three-and-a-half days, but students and professors will have the snowstorm blues for weeks to come. This Sunday, students and professors from Trinity College and the Pratt School ofEngineering will begin to make up their missed classes, administrators announced Monday morning. And so far, professors and students seem grudgingly accepting of the plan. “It seems like this is the best resolution,” said Trinity junior Josh Schiffrin. T think we should make up the classes. We’re paying for it.” Most professors agreed that the time has to be made up somehow, but many had already designed make-up schemes, using catch-up time already built into their syllabi or lengthening several class periods, for example. “I was going to make up two of the three lectures during recitation...,” said Roger Nightingale, an assistant research professor of biomedical engineering who teaches a Tuesday-Thursday Introduction to Biomechanics class with a weekly recitation section in the evening. “I wouldn’t have a problem with [weekend classes] myself, but I’m sure students would just as soon have classes during the week in the evenings, as I would. I’ll take a vote in class and go with the majority,” he said. Trinity senior Niels Peetz-Larsen said that even See CLASSES on page 6
Student
Government’s
Young Trustee Nominating Committee had an easy task so far this year. Because only eight people applied and DSG bylaws require the committee to look at 10 semifinalists, all eight applicants will continue to the interview round of the process. Selection committee chair Jeremy Huff said he was not concerned by this year’s more limited pool. “[This pool offers] a wide range,” he said. “It will give the committee a lot of different things to think about.” Still, the group of semifinalists is smaller than in years past. Last year, 12 candidates applied, and the two previous years drew 15 and 25
applicants, respectively. Young Trustee Tackus Nesbit, Trinity ’97, added that perhaps the smaller pool would enhance the selection process. ‘They can scrutinize them a little more closely,” he said. ‘That in itself might yield a better candidate. Who knows?” The process will continue this Saturday, when the nominating committee interviews each of the candidates for a three-year membership on the Board of Trustees. After asking each applicant 10 questions, the committee will narrow the field to three finalists by the end of the weekend. The Duke Student Government legislature will select the Young Trustee Feb. 16. Here are the candidates, in alphabetical order;
The
These seniors compete for a seat on the Board of Trustees.The winner serves three years, the last two as a voting member.
Justin Fairfax
Ben Kennedy
Sean Loughlin
Rae Miller
Rudy Spaulding
Brian Stempel
Kara Medoff
Lisa Zeidner JAKE HARRINGTON/THE CHRONICLE
Trinity senior Justin Fairfax, a public policy major, currently serves as president of the National Panhellenic Council. “I’d certainly like to help with the initiatives that have already been started, like The Campaign for Duke and the allocation of resources,” he said. “I want to make sure that all parts of the University that need [it] are bolstered by the campaign, especially financial aid.” As a former DSG vice president for academic affairs, Trinity senior and public policy major Ben Kennedy spent two years serving on the committee that designed Curriculum 2000. ‘The Young Trustee serves to give not the student perspective, but the young perspec•
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four freshmen at North Caroli-
na Agricultural and Technical
State University had finished a full
day of classes that Monday afternoon in 1960. But Franklin McCain, Joseph Mc-
Neil, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond had one more assignment ahead of them: writing a new chap-
ter of our history. As they walked into Woolworth’s merchandise store on South Elm Street, the enormity of what they were about to do must have weighed heavily on their minds. Although the city of Greensboro, N.C., prided itself on a history of smooth race relations and what was seen as a sense of emergent progressivism at the time, it was still in the grip of Jim Crow segregation, discrimination and racial prejudice. When these four students sat down at the shiny lunch counter to be served as equals with the white people who were already there, their action was seen and felt around the nation.
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tive...,” he said. “If I can simply be an educated and articulate representative of the young perspective, then I will accomplish my goal.” Trinity senior Sean Loughlin, executive vice president of the Duke University Union, is also a public policy major. “I decided that I had enjoyed my time at Duke so much that I wanted to have a life-long relationship with Duke,” he said. ‘This is probably the most excellent way to keep myself involved in important decisions at Duke. In the next two or three years, Duke is going to undergo major changes.... I wanted to take my experiences and be able to help shape those changes.” •
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“There were heartfelt, strong convictions that this was the time to step up to the plate and take segregation on,” said McNeil, one of the now-famous four. “The feeling was there, the reality was there, the need was there.” The students, all of whom were on academic scholarship at the university, had hatched the plan and strategy in their dorm rooms. During that first day, a white waitress informed them that in accordance with Woolworth’s policy for its Southern stores, they would not be served, and a black employee sternly lectured them about how their action would hurt race relations. But for the most part, the sit-in was quiet. And then, as McNeil recalls, an older white woman told them she was proud of what they were doing. “Her response was that she had wished they had done it sooner,” McNeil said. For the four who otherwise sat alone that afternoon, it was a sign that encouraged them to return the next day See SIT-INS on page 12
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