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Office of Student Veterans
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November Events and Veterans DayHello Duke student veterans. With Veterans Day quickly approaching, you will find a wealth of different events across campus dedicated solely in recognition of Duke student veterans and their compatriots. Please take a look at the many events coming up, including panels with your peers, conversations with elected officials, basketball, and more. Additionally, listed within this newsletter are some courses of interest if you have an opening in your spring schedule.
On behalf of Duke, we honor your service and sacrifice, and we celebrate your experience this Veterans Day.
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Campus-Wide EventsSee below for more details about all of the following events.
3 Nov • Brown Bag Lunch with Senior Intelligence Officer
6 Nov • Duke Football Military Appreciation Day
9 Nov • DAFA Vets Talks - Military Family Life
10 Nov • Discussion with US Representative David Price
11 Nov • Duke Veterans Day Commemoration
12 Nov • Duke vs. Army Men's Basketball Game
13 Nov • Veterans Victory Lap 5K
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Brown Bag Lunch
Join Senior National Intelligence professional Andrew Vail on 3 November 1200-1300 for an informal chat about national security issues that span the Intelligence Community, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the US Government, and current events.
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Duke Football
Homecoming and Military Appreciation Day presented by Navy Federal Credit Union is set for Saturday, 6 November when Duke welcomes Pittsburgh. The Blue Devils are excited to welcome back to campus Duke alumni, who've stayed home, masked up and stood apart for over a year, for the best fall weekend. It's also always a special time when the Blue Devils get to welcome military members from across the region to a game. Thanks to the generous donations of Duke Football fans, military and first responders are invited to receive complimentary tickets to sit in the "Heroes Corner" section. You may register for free tickets by clicking here.
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DAFA Vets Talks - Military Family Life
Join the Duke Armed Forces Association (DAFA) on Tuesday, 9 November from 1800-1900 for a special event highlighting the unique challenges, issues, and sacrifices military families face, both during their time in uniform and while at Duke University. This event will feature veterans, current service members, and military spouses at Fuqua who will share what life is really like for today’s service members and veterans, husbands, wives, and children. The event will be located at Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business. You can register here.
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Discussion with US Representative David Price
Join the Duke Military Association--Duke's staff veteran organization--on 10 November at 1730 as they welcome US Representative David Price for a discussion about topics associated with Veterans healthcare and mental health services and support, postwar/post-conflict support for returning veterans, and other assorted topics from community-sourced questions. The zoom link to the event can be found here. Questions for Representative Price can be sent prior to the event by contacting Mr. Dan Bruno at dan.bruno@duke.edu.
More information about the Duke Military Association can be found here.
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Duke Veterans Day Commemoration
Duke University will be observing its annual commemoration of Veterans Day with a ceremony beginning at 1100 on 11 November 2021 in Duke Chapel. A wreath-laying will occur at the Memorial Wall adjacent to Duke Chapel, in front of the Divinity School, immediately following the ceremony. Everyone is welcome to attend both observances!
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Duke vs. Army Men's Basketball Game
SAVE THE DATE. In honor of Veterans Day, Duke Athletics welcomes you to join Duke Men’s Basketball in Historic Cameron Indoor Stadium as they take on Army West Point on Friday, 12 November at 1900. Duke Student Veterans will be sent a registration link next week to receive a ticket to the game.
As part of the Veterans Day celebration, a large court-sized flag will be displayed during the National Anthem. By registering for a ticket, Student Veterans are agreeing to volunteer as a participant to hold the flag on-court. Part of your responsibility as a volunteer will be to join athletics staff for a rehearsal in Cameron Indoor Stadium approximately 3 hours prior to tip. More details on rehearsal and the event will be emailed to registrants.
As a volunteer, you will receive one ticket to the game. Tickets will be located in Standing Room Only areas (Section 17 or 19 based upon availability). Capacity is limited. Registration is for Duke Student Veterans only. Please save the date and register through next week's Student Veterans newsletter.
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Veterans Victory Lap 5K
Join the Duke Armed Forces Association and the Duke University Office of Student Veterans on Saturday, 13 November (Veterans Day Weekend) for the annual Veterans Victory Lap 5K. Run, walk, ruck, (or even crawl) Duke University's beautiful East Campus as we celebrate the rich history of service in the Armed Forces that exists right here in our region.
Proceeds from the race go to Purple Heart Homes, a 501(c)(3) organization founded by military veterans to provide housing solutions for service-connected disabled and aging Veterans.
Click here for the registration site.
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Meet Your Community
Jac Parks is a second-year student in Duke's Fuqua School of Business.
Jac grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee, later moving to Nashville for his high school years. He attended The University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he studied Psychology and Mechanical Engineering. After graduating and working for a short period as a Mechanical Engineer with Dow Chemical, he enlisted in the Navy. Jac graduated Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training with class 307 and was assigned to SEAL Team Five. He finished his eight-year Navy career as a Maritime Assaults Instructor for the East Coast SEAL Teams. Jac, along with his wife, son, and two dogs, will be relocating to Salt Lake City after graduation. Jac is a relationship-oriented person who enjoys hearing others' stories, helping whenever he can, and brainstorming on new ideas.
Jac's family includes his wife Kelsey and son Owen (pictured above) and their Golden Retrievers Archie and Bodhi. His many hobbies include woodworking, motorcycling, archery, shooting, skiing, backpacking, and real estate.
You can see Jac's work and contact him through his LinkedIn page here.
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Courses of Interest - Spring 2021
Care of Souls and the Ethics of War
Duke Divinity School will be offering a course dedicated to the Ethics of War and the function of pastoral care in the lives of individuals who have experienced combat.
War is a political and moral activity. While the experiences of going to war and returning home are often framed in psychological language, the phenomenon of “moral injury” makes clear that war must be considered in moral and political contexts if these experiences are to be understood. This course aims to bring together the moral and pastoral dimensions of going to war and coming home. We will engage participation in war, including moral injury, within the context of Christian traditions around war, moral, and political theological accounts of American war, and the moral agency of soldiers. We will also examine the pastoral and prophetic roles of military chaplains.
Public Policy and Veterans: A Social Policy Seminar—The Case of Returning Military Veterans
Housed in the Sanford School of Public Policy, this course will analyze a range of public policy responses and programs implemented to meet the needs of those who have served our country in light of how these initiatives have influenced programs that apply to the general population, as well as veterans. Students will have the opportunity to engage with subject matter experts on mental health and substance abuse issues, the problem of homelessness and housing, community and NGO support services, legal issues relating to veterans and veterans’ courts that are similar to civilian drug diversion courts, entrepreneurship, and employment programs.
This course is open to all graduate students this spring. Instructor Paul Dillon welcomes any questions or inquiries about this course.
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Office Hours The Office of Student Veterans will hold office hours each Monday from 10:00AM-2:00PM and Friday from 10:00AM-2:00PM in the Crowell Building on East Campus.
Additionally, the Office of Student Veterans will be engaging with the broader Duke University community by holding additional office hours on West Campus Thursdays from 11:30AM-1:30PM* in the Griffith Board Room of the Bryan Center. Stop by with a bite to eat or a cup of coffee and have a chat about veterans' issues.
*Graduate Assistant will not be available for remote office hours on Veterans Day, 11 November 2021.
If you would like to meet outside OSV office hours, please email our graduate assistant Nic at nicholas.harrelson@duke.edu. He will be happy to schedule you to meet with someone in our office.
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