The Chronicle is accepting letters in the DSG presidential election, EVP election

The Chronicle will be accepting endorsement letters for the 2024 Duke Student Government presidential and executive vice presidential elections from March 21 to March 25 at noon. All accepted endorsements will be published by March 26 at 11:59 p.m.

This year's candidates for president are juniors Teddy Hur, Heather Raslan and Emily Yagoda. The candidate for executive vice president is junior Akhilesh Shivaramakrishnan. The election will take place online March 27 and 28. 

We will accept letters from any student organization, so long as the group adheres to the rules stipulated below. We will not accept personal endorsements from individuals.

1. If student organizations elect not to attend the DSG presidential debate on March 21, they are encouraged to offer to meet with all candidates running for the position being endorsed. If a candidate voluntarily declines to meet, the endorsement meeting may go on as scheduled, and the candidate's absence should be noted in the endorsement letter. 
2. To avoid even the appearance of impropriety, The Chronicle expects that members of organizations with significant personal or professional attachments or associations with candidates will remove themselves from the endorsement process for that position. This includes public or substantial participation in the campaign of any one individual. Any conflict of interest that would jeopardize a non-prejudiced review and consideration of a candidate should result in a recusal. If a member of an organization recuses themselves due to conflicts of interest with any one candidate for a position, that member may not participate in the endorsement process at all for that position. This includes asking questions in meetings with the candidates and writing the endorsement. Members of organizations who recuse themselves must be listed as having done so in the text of the endorsement letter.
3. If one of the candidates currently is, was or will be a president or officer of an organization, that organization is precluded from issuing an endorsement for that position in The Chronicle. 
4. If an organization wishes to publish an endorsement letter, the president of the organization must email Editor-in-Chief Audrey Wang (editor@dukechronicle.com) and Opinion Editor Viktoria Wulff-Andersen (opinion@dukechronicle.com). All candidates running for each endorsed position must be CC'd on the email as well.
5. The email must include an attached endorsement letter and the following statement: “I, the president of [organization name], certify that all Chronicle endorsement rules were followed in the formulation of this letter. I understand that failure to adhere to the rules undermines the election process, as well as the integrity of my organization and The Chronicle.”
6. Endorsement letters must be signed by the leader of the student organization and include their full name, school and graduation year. Endorsement letters must include a list of all organization members who recused themselves, if any.
7. If a candidate wishes to challenge an endorsement letter on the grounds that any of the rules above have been violated, they may submit by email a formal challenge to the editor-in-chief stating their claims. The president of the organization must be CC'd and may respond to the challenge. This challenge must be received within three hours of the endorsement letter email sent under Rule 5. The Chronicle retains the final and exclusive right to adjudicate the merits of any such challenge.
8. There is no guarantee that endorsement letters will be published. The letters with the greatest likelihood of being published are those that arrive earliest and are concise. Letters may not exceed 325 words. Organizations submitting endorsement letters are encouraged to register their endorsements through DSG and receive more information about the position of DSG president and executive vice president.
9. If The Chronicle determines that any of the aforementioned rules have been violated in the formation of an endorsement letter, that letter will not be published.

Audrey Wang is a Trinity junior and Volume 119 editor-in-chief. Viktoria Wulff-Andersen is a Trinity junior and Volume 119 opinion editor.

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Audrey Wang is a Trinity senior and data editor of The Chronicle's 120th volume. She was previously editor-in-chief for Volume 119.