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After this Wednesday’s DSG presidential debate, Will Robinson, Local & National Editor and next year’s Editor, chatted with News Editor Shuchi Parikh and University Editor Emmeline Zhao about the candidates’ performances, positions and backgrounds.
If you simply want a recap and brief analysis of the debate, watch the video below (running time: 7:23). If you want to watch the whole debate, click here. We’ve split the debate up by question for easier viewing.
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As promised, here is our unabridged video coverage of the DSG debate held yesterday night. Candidates first gave two-minute opening statements. Then, each candidate answered eight questions from John Harpham, moderator and chair of The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board. Harpham then asked each candidate a specific question, and to end the debate, each candidate presented a one-minute closing statement.
Look below for footage of the whole debate, in the order described above. Feel free to embed these on your website or link to them–especially if you’re a candidate.
“Please evaluate the work of the student government of the past two years. What is its biggest accomplishment, what is its biggest failure, what initiative is ongoing that you would try to finish during the presidency?”
To see the next seven general questions, candidates’ answers to their individual questions, and their closing statements, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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The four candidates for DSG president gathered today in the Great Hall for an hour-long debate. They each issued opening statements, took eight questions from John Harpham, moderator and chair of The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board, answered a candidate-specific question and closed with one-minute statements.
We were around to live-tweet and film it, and we’ve posting all our video online. (Because our video-streaming service Vimeo has not taken kindly to our onslaught of 15 large video files, not all files are properly named, tagged and displayed yet. They should be all set by Thursday evening.)
The four candidates–Chelsea Goldstein, Kousha Nawidar and Awa Nur, all juniors, and Mike Lefevre, sophomore–were asked to limit answers to specified times. After the debate, Editor-elect Will Robinson interviewed News Editor Shuchi Parikh and University Editor Emmeline Zhao for their analysis of the candidates’ performances and ideas.
I’ve embedded Harpham’s introductory comments and each candidate’s two-minute opening statement below. Expect more videos Thursday.
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Hello, News Blog readers! Alex Klein here. I’m The Chronicle’s Editor for New Media and its chief proponent of Twitter. In the last few days, we’ve had nothing less than a Twitter explosion (twitsplosion?) at the office. Before this Monday, only a few of us were on Twitter. Now, only half a week later, most of the top editors and many other editors, writers and photographers have joined.
Some haven’t really caught the bug yet–Photography Editor Maya Robinson’s only tweet remains “I joined because of peer pressure.” Most, however, have gotten the hang of it, even if they’ve only been communicating with each other. If you want to expand your Twitter network–or want to get to know the people behind those tiny bylines and photo credits–click away! Here are 25 29 30 Chronicle staffers dipping their toes in the Twitter stream. Many will succeed. Some might fail.
Wait! There’s more! Duke’s head football coach, David Cutcliffe, joined Twitter today after Sports Editor Ben Cohen showed him the ropes. You can find him (and follow him) here: @DavidCutcliffe. (Also, Cohen’s alter-ego Sports Blog Twitter account is here: @ChronicleSports.)
Our freshly-minted, and still very rough-around-the-edges, Chronicle account is here: @DukeChronicle. It’s not properly set up yet, but follow it and stay tuned. It’ll be up and running in no time.
Please use the comments section below this post to tell me about more Duke students, professors, staff members, coaches, or entities (libraries? departments?) who use Twitter. And you, dear reader: You should join Twitter, too! If you do, be sure to leave your username in the comments.
Update–Feb 20, 5:40p: Andrew Hibbard, recess Film Editor, just announced that recess literally just joined Twitter. Here they are: @chronicleRecess.
Update–Feb 22, 5:58p: We’re up to 29!
Update–Feb 23, 8:36p: Magic No. 30.
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Our exclusively online columnist here at The Chronicle, Jacob Wolff, has written today about the election from a place very far from North Carolina: Spain. Though his column is, as usual, a bit more focused on humor than on serious events, his “American abroad” status does offer a unique perspective on today’s historic events:
On a serious note though, go vote. When you do vote, think about how there are billions of people out there who are truly less fortunate than you. If I’ve learned anything while I’ve been here in Spain, it’s that this election just might affect the rest of the world more than it will affect many Americans. There are billions of people suffering across the planet every day, and the impact the United States has on these people can’t be understated. So please, when you do vote, I hope you think about which candidate will not only be best for the United States, but also for peace in the rest of the world…
While he does go on to suggest one specific candidate, Wolff does point out something more general that people may tend to forget. The decision citizens of the United States will make today will most certainly have implications around the world. Just what those implications are, though, remains to be be seen.
Catherine Butsch, a writer on our abroad blog, The Reformation of Pangea, also wrote about the U.S. election today. She writes from Paris, France, a place she claims is “just as interested in the Presidential elections as we [Americans] are.” Here’s a brief excerpt from her post:
At first I was surprised how invested everyone here seems in the election. As I embarrassedly admitted to a friend, most of the time I don’t care about elections in other countries, so why do they care about ours so much? But what Annie said makes sense. If Barack is really “the candidate for change” as he claims, then it’s no wonder that the world’s excited to have him.
As for me and the other Americans here, we’ll be staying up through the night to see the results of the election. There’s no way I could sleep through something this important.
We’re glad to see that, even when abroad, some Duke students are still interested in the election over here!
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Voting tomorrow? Already voted early? If you haven’t, Starbucks may just provide the energy you need to fill in those ovals tomorrow.
Nationwide, they’ll be offering a free Tall (12 oz.) coffee to anyone who says they voted early or on November 4. They’re not the only national chain offering election discounts, either. There’s a long list of eateries offering free items or great deals on Election Day, including Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme and Ben & Jerry’s. (There are other free offers that we’d like to point out for our more “advanced” readers, too. May be NSFW.)
However, these chains have recently come under fire for potentially breaking certain states’ election laws. The jury’s out, so to speak, about the offers’ legality, but right now they look like they’re still available! So get out there and vote, and then make the rounds to collect your free ice cream, doughnuts and coffee.
Click here for a Google map of Durham’s Starbucks locations.
UPDATE: Starbucks has responded officially on their Twitter account. Here’s what they had to say about the whole legality of the situation:
IMPORTANT: To ensure that we are in compliance with election law, we are extending our offer to all customers who request a tall brewed drip
Free coffee for everyone! (Almost as good as Taco Bell’s World Series promotion.)
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