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Duke Students Share Bi-Partisan Friendship and Love of Politics

0October 30th, 2009 by Snapper Underwood

Article by Naureen Khan originally appeared in the November issue of Towerview Magazine:

Democratic and Republican Party SymbolsYou can tell a lot about a person’s worldview from their Facebook statuses. OK, maybe not a lot. But definitely something. Take, for example, what Ben Bergmann and Vikram Srinivasan—arguably the most visible political figures on campus as far as Duke students go—had to say on their respective pages the day it was announced President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Bergmann, a junior and the president of Duke Democrats for two years running: “Ben will have a permanent quizzical expression for the day because of the Nobel Prize pick. But isn’t it great when the RNC, John Bolton, Hamas, and the Taliban can agree on something?” (more…)

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