At their first official session of the year, Duke Student Government legislators last night heard the first readings of the men's basketball admissions policy for the 2002-2003 season and of changes to the Inter-Community Council By-laws.
After legislators were sworn into office, Head Line Monitor Jeremy Morgan introduced the basketball admissions policy, emphasizing two changes in the process-the short time between the North Carolina and Maryland games and stricter monitoring of walk-up games.
Junior Clifford Davison, vice president for facilities and athletics, said he liked the policy, which was approved unanimously by his committee Tuesday. "But the committee voted unanimously knowing that it wasn't the last say on it," he added.
The full legislature will vote on the policy next Wednesday.
Legislators raised questions focusing specifically on the policy of tenters transferring their place in line from the Carolina game to the Maryland game.
Only tents registered for the UNC game will be allowed to register early--during Blue Registration--for the Maryland game, Morgan said. Those tents will be registered in the same order as they were for the Carolina game.
"If you were the No. 1 tent in line for the Carolina game... you can be tent No. 1 for the Maryland game," Morgan told the legislators.
Last year, Morgan said, the longer separation between games allowed tenters to deconstruct and reconstruct Krzyzewskiville, creating two distinct tenting seasons.
"This year, I really don't see how I can do that and still allow the most hardcore people to stay at the front of the line," he said.
Junior Donald Wine mentioned a rumor that the Athletics Department might retire former Duke basketball star Jay Williams' number 22. Morgan confirmed that the department had discussed it.
"The Athletic Department strongly hinted to me that that was a strong possibility," he said.
Davison, who said he was an avid tenter, also said he especially liked the stricter monitoring of walk-up games. "One of the problems that I noticed was that if it's your friend, you're going to let him in the line. One turns into two, two turns into four. So I was glad to see that included," he said.
Sophomore Mimi Wachendorf said after the meeting that she wanted to ensure that tenting included many students. "Not having tented myself, I would want to talk to some tenters to get their opinions about giving priority to tenters for the North Carolina game," she said.
After Morgan's presentation, senior Thaniyyah Ahmad, DSG vice president for community interaction, introduced amendments to the Inter-Community Council By-laws--including a change in the ICC Young Trustee Nominating Committee.
Ahmad said that the old By-law included only three cultural groups, which Spectrum Organization selected for the ICC Executive Committee. However, Ahmad said that since Spectrum, a coalition of cultural groups, dissolved this year, she decided to remove three group leaders from ICC's executive committee-the chair of the Undergraduate Publications Board, DSG's president and the editor of The Chronicle. Instead, the committee will include all six cultural groups Spectrum selected from in the past.
DSG will vote on the amendments in two weeks.
IN OTHER BUSINESS: The legislature approved an amendment to include the West-Edens Link as a residence hall in the by-laws.
Several new appointees to DSG President Joshua Jean-Baptiste's cabinet were also sworn in: junior Brandon Taylor and sophomore Eileen Kuo as co-directors of undergraduate computing; junior Dan Kravitz as DSG treasurer, and sophomore Elizabeth Dixon as director of student services.
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