Executive Board Application

duARTS 2013-2014
Please e-mail a completed copy of this application to ryan.gaylord@duke.edu by Saturday, April 11 at
11:59 PM.
Timeline

Monday, April 6 at 11:59 PM - Applications for elected positions due.

Wednesday, April 8 at 8:00 AM - Voting for elected positions begins.
Thursday, April 9 at 11:45 PM - Voting for elected positions closes.
Saturday, April 11 at 11:59 PM - Applications for appointed positions due.
Sunday, April 12 - Appointed positions interviewed and selected.
Monday, April 13 at 7:00 PM - Transition executive board meeting.
Voting Details
Voting is open to students who are a part of a duARTS member organization in one of the following
councils: Marketing, A Cappella, Chorale and Instrumental, Dance, Theatre, and Affiliate. The voting
form will be a DukeGroups election and will request a Duke NETID and duARTS affiliation in addition
to candidate selections. If you are unsure about your voting status, please contact ryan.gaylord@duke.edu.
Description of Offices
The President is elected by member groups, calls and presides over the Executive Board, ensures that
duARTS is functioning well, sets the agenda and priorities, and maintains a broad vision for the arts on
campus.
The Executive Vice President is elected by member groups, calls and presides over the Executive Board
in the President's absence, assists the President in his/her duties, and manages duARTS contributions to
other projects in the arts.
The Vice President of Finance is appointed by the Executive Board, records Executive Board meetings,
serves as a liaison to SOFC on behalf of all arts groups by sitting on the committee, manages funding
coming from various sources, and oversees duARTS grants.
The Vice President of Collaboration is appointed by the Executive Board, collects and condenses
information about events from individual student groups to be handed over to the Marketing Team and
interfaces with other student groups to set up collaborative arts events/initiatives.
The Vice President of Advocacy is appointed by the Executive Board, oversees the Advocacy
Committee, and acts as an ambassador from student artists to the Duke and Durham community at large,
e.g., the Career Center, the Alumni Association, the Chronicle, the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts,
Duke Magazine, DSG, etc.
The Vice President of Marketing is appointed by the Executive Board, oversees the Marketing Team,
which acts as a marketing resource for the duARTS umbrella and all student arts groups, manages the

duARTS website and social media presence, and prepares the weekly e-mail blast to all undergraduate
students.
The Vice President of Programming is appointed by the Executive Board, oversees the Programming
Team, and holds principal responsibility for developing goals and executing logistics for duARTSs two
annual events - the Arts Festival in the fall semester, and ArtCon in the spring semester.
Applicant Information
Name: Haley Hamill
Graduation Year: 2017
Preferred Email: haley.hamill@duke.edu
Phone Number: 2523650952
Available Offices
Please bold each office for which you would like to apply. You may only run for a single elected position,
but you otherwise may apply for as many positions as you would like. If applying for multiple appointed
positions, please indicate your order of preferences.
Elected Offices:

President
Executive Vice President

Appointed Offices:

Vice President of Collaboration

Vice President of Advocacy
Vice President of Marketing
Vice President of Programming
Vice President of Finance (Treasurer)

Written Response:
Describe your artistic/organizational experiences and accomplishments. What is your vision for the arts at
Duke and how you work towards it in your desired office? Please limit your response to one page, singlespaced.
I apologize in advance for the brevity of this response. I, unfortunately, just found your email about
my being recommended to apply in my junk mailbox. I think my most notable organization
experiences and accomplishments would be: (1) helping found a research group at my high school, and by
publishing research/presenting it at a conference, receiving a total of 25000 dollars to continue the
program, (2) founding a committee of students and teachers to assist the understaffed guidance

department at my high school with personalized educational paths to college (or whatever post-graduate
plans one aspired to), and (3) creating a student internship with the library, resulting in my becoming the
head intern, and organizing opportunities for other students, increasing library visits from 20 to 140/day
in one academic year by various means of outreach and activity -- saving the future of the library by
doing so. My most significant artistic achievement thus far is getting offered a 25000 dollar role in a nonunion, feature film.
To be blunt, my vision for the arts at Duke is much more grand than I ever think will be achieved, but we
surely can try. I wish to ultimately end on the same playing field as Yale and Columbia and USC, etc etc,
when it comes to the arts. I want to help harness all the unique, creative energy and intelligence on Dukes
campus, and give it a productive and worthy outlet so much so that people find that careers in the arts are
attainable and certainly worthy of, at least, our consideration and, optimistically, our lives. In a marketing
position, I could help direct the attention toward and shape the conversation of happenings, tools, and
resources. In a programming position, I could thoroughly define and flesh out my own and certainly
others aspirations for the program and work toward ways to make them realities.