We represent you

At our Dec. 6, 2011 DSG Senate meeting, Senator Daniel Pellegrino and I presented legislation that requested $6,630 in order to make Midnight Breakfast on West Campus open and free to all students. The impetus for this request was Sophomore Class President Andrew Hanna, who approached Dan and I after exhausting his other avenues for funding. The Senate approved our request, and Midnight Breakfast was free to all, allowing students of all years to join together on the night before finals.

This sort of collaboration is not unprecedented, but it is definitely rare. More than any other goal, the DSG Senate is here to serve its constituents. Yet, DSG senators do not always know what their peers actually want. DSG works on solving some of the difficult problems, like an alternative to Tailgate or issues of campus culture, but we rarely hear about the other problems we could easily solve. So, if you want to recognize an important accomplishment through a DSG resolution, address a campus problem through a DSG statute or fund an important project through a DSG budgetary statute, contact a class council representative or a DSG senator (http://dsg.dukegroups.duke.edu/representation/senate/). We would be more than happy to meet with you and discuss how we can help, because you elected us, and we represent you.

Patrick Oathout, Trinity ’14