Just over 25 percent of students voted in Duke Student Government elections Monday, approving all four referendum items and electing 17 senators and the first special secretary for the Young Trustee process. DSG Attorney General Var Shankar, a senior, provided The Chronicle with elections results:
Junior Awa Nur has won the DSG presidency, DSG Attorney General Meg Foran told The Chronicle.
The first-round vote percentages are below. DSG uses an instant runoff system to determine the winner in the event that a candidate does not receive a simple majority of the votes in the first round.
Awa Nur: 35.11 percent
Chelsea Goldstein: 27.7 percent
Mike Lefevre: 20.59 percent
Kousha Navidar: 16.59 percent
The other winners:
Executive Vice President: Gregory Morrison
VP for Academic Affairs: Cynthia Chen
VP for Athletics and Campus Services: Peter Schork
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.
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…]
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.
The DSG Presidential Debate will begin in t-minus 2 minutes. Visit our twitter account to stay up to date on how candidates Kousha Navidar, Awa Nur, Mike Lefevre and Chelsea Goldstein perform.
