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The Chronicle Senator Ted Biz masters offers grads new path New 1-year ro am Kennedy dies at 77 Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., died late Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. He was 77. Kennedy was the second most senior member of the U.S. Senate at the time of his death. He had been in poor health since May 2008 when he suffered a seizure, according to The New York Times. Renowned surgeon Dr. Allan Friedman operated on Kennedy in June 2008 at the Duke University Medical Center to treat a brain tumor. A statement released by Friedman following the surgery said the procedure “accomplished our goals.” One of the most prominent and influential members of the Senate, Kennedy cast an important vote on Medicare legislation just a few weeks after the surgery. His nearly 50 years of legislative experience made, him a key figure in the health care debate even during the final months of his life. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our heartsforever,” the Kennedy family said in a statement.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY UNION
DUU considers new committee to preserve traditions by
Christopher Ross THE CHRONICLE
The Duke University Union discussed creating a new committee in its first meeting of the new academic year Tuesday. President Zachary Ferret, a senior, introduced the idea to create a traditions committee that would help maintain the return of annual University events such as Tailgate, Last Day of Classes and Joe College Day. “Every now and then some group will start a tradition and keep it going for a few years,” Ferret said. “The trouble is that these traditions are not up-kept in terms of drinking objectives—and when that happens things get shut down.” He noted that excessive drinking was one of the contributing factors that led to Joe College Day getting shut down during its initial run from the early 1950 to the mid-19705. “The [traditions] that we have built I think are worth protecting,” he added. A few DUU members were uncertain about the exact capacity that the traditions committee would serve, not only in DUU but with other groups. The traditions committee would not take over any
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President Zachary Ferret (above middle) proposed the creation ofa 'traditions comittee'at DUU's first meeting of the semester Tuesday evening.
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event from any of the other existing committees, Ferret said. One function it could serve is taking charge ofannual events that committees no longer wish to coordinate. It also would not interfere with traditional events that other groups such as Campus Council and Duke Student Government, perform, but would offer its assistance to those groups if possible. Some members of DUU were apprehensive about the idea of creating a traditions committee. “I don’t really know if I like it because the thing about traditions is that they’re kept up only by the passion of the students themselves,” said Senior Merideth Bajana, Cable 13co-president. She added that if the originial committee has no desire to continue a specific event, then handing it over to the traditions committee may just continue events that students no longer want. “I don’t agree with the idea of creating another entity because we have [the Union Consulting Group],” said Senior Lacey Kim, executive marketing co-director of the special projects committee. “Most of the traditional events have a committee or [are] a big part of a committee, so I
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