Meet the Councilors
Bryan Fleming - WebmasterElectrical Engineering and Computer Science - 2009
Favorite food: Pizza
What you are doing on a Friday night: Spending time with friends
Dream job: technology company CEO
Quote: "Don't overplan your life."-Rick Wagoner, 2007 Duke Commencement Address
Daniel Haaren
Ethics and Political Theory - 2009
Favorite food: North Beach Breakfast Pipeline, the ideal way to start any day,
consisting of pork roll*, egg, and cheese in an herb wrap, lots of ketchup. This dish is best served coupled with a properly buttered, toasted, and sliced (horizontally of course) apple cinnamon muffin.
Favorite film: Gladiator
Favorite quote: "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates, The Apology
* For an explanation of what pork roll is, please see this
Toni Helbling
Biomedical Engineering and Premed - 2009
Favorite food: Lasagna
What you are doing on a Friday night: club tae kwon do practice
Dream job: surgeon on the Mars colony
favorite movie: The Princess Bride
favorite quote: "Those woulda-coulda-shouldas all ran away and hid from one little did."-Shel Silverstein
Andrew Holmberg
Economics and Public Policy - 2009
Favorite food: Steak
On a Friday night I am probably with a group of friends laughing about something that only we find funny.
Dream Job: I would like to start my own business doing a job that I wouldn't consider work.
Quote: "If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity."-Anton Chekhov
Leslie Modlin - Vice Chair External
Program II Medicine - 2009
Favorite food: Anything chocolate or anything from The Melting Pot
What are you doing on a Friday night: with the Perkins 1 crew, or out, or both
Dream Job: neurosurgeon or Pediatric oncologist and yoga teacher
Favorite film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Favorite quote: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars -Jack Kerouac
Jared Thomas Mueller
Political Science, economics, and foreign languages - 2009
favorite food: Thai
favorite movie: Casablanca and Rushmore
Dream Job: Host of Reading Rainbow
favorite quote: Despite his career success, Morrison continued to be accused of
various crimes, and in 1997 he was convicted of attempting to bring a stun
gun onto an aircraft. He was jailed for three months for this offence in
early 1997, at about the same time that the single "Return of the
Mack" began its climb to the #2 slot in the US charts and later was banned
from driving when he was caught driving unsupervised in his Mercedes whilst
on his provisional license. In 1998, Morrison was sentenced to a year's
imprisonment for violating a community service order imposed in 1995. He had
paid someone to complete the community work while he fled to Barbados
Katie Anderson
Art History, English, Markets and Management Studies - 2009
Favorite Food: Pumpkin Pie
What are you doing on a Friday night?: a healthy mix of either going out with friends or studying
Dream Job: Starting my own non-profit organization and writing best-sellers
Quote: It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney
Jane Chong - Chair
English; Economics; Philosophy - 2009
Favorite food: Probably Bojangles, if I ever tried it. So they tell me.
Favorite movie: Good Will Hunting
Favorite quote: "I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you’d be like ‘Huh? What the hell is this?’, but if it’s in a fruit basket you’re like ‘This is nice!.’"
-Demetri Martin
Jessie Weingartner
International Comparative Studies (concentration on Africa and French language) - 2009
Favorite Food: Mom's lasagna
What are you doing on a Friday night: Going out with my girls or just relaxing.
Dream Job: Being able to teach abroad in an underprivileged community WHILE making money :)
Quote: "Everyone can be great because everyone can serve."-MLK Jr.
Andrew Pickens
Economics and Classical Languages - 2010
Favorite Food: Philly cheesesteaks
What are you doing on a Friday night: playing music with friends
Dream job: International real estate developer
Quote: We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the
horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth,
and we can enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won... We can fill our
lives with generous deeds, with loving words, with art and song, and all the
ecstasies of love. We can flood our years with sunshine -- with the divine
climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Var Shankar
American Politics and International Affairs - 2010
Favorite Food: Japanese / Greek / Indian / Mexican
Favorite Movie: Gladiator
What you are doing on a Friday night: Lat dinner with a small group of friends.
Dream Job: Diplomacy, conflict resolution
Favorite Quote: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." –Theodore Roosevelt
Stephanie Dreifuss
Chemistry/Premed - 2010
Favorite Food: Strawberries
What are you doing on a Friday night: Happily studying.
Favorite Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Dream job: doctor by day, health news reporter by night (think Sanjay Gupta)
Favorite Quote: "You can only do your best." -Mom and Dad
Vivek Upadhyay
Biology; Hindi; Science - 2010
Favorite food: Indian Food made by my Mom
Favorite films: Chinatown, Gandhi, Wedding Crashers, Old School, Rush Hour
Favorite quote: "I'm gonna graduate on time no matter how long it takes." --College Basketball Player
Lucy Zhang
American Political Science and Cultural Anthropology - 2010
Favorite food: anything Asian and noodle-ly
What are you doing on a Friday night: Having a dinner party and movie/live concert, anything small and intimate. Occasionally George's.
Dream job: to be honest, it would be awesome to be the next Steve Irwin (documentarian+zoologist)! but right no, I'd want to be a teach for America teacher in rural Eastern NC.
Favorite Quote: "People ask me if I would rather be loved or feared? That's easy I want people to be so scared of how much they love me."-Michael from The Office and also "The back of yo head is RIDICULOUS!"
Emily Melson
Psychology Major Spanish Minor - 2010
Favorite Food: Sour Patch Kids (if they count as a food...)
What are you doing on a Friday night: anything but schoolwork?
Dream Job: Primetime news anchor a la Katie Couric
Quote: "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself."-St. Frances de Sales
Courtney Han
Economic growth and development in Africa - 2010
Favorite food: avocadoes
What are you doing on a Friday night: Chatting with my roommate out and about or reading
Dream job: novelist
Quote: "Stop. Hammertime." -MC Hammer
Chris Martin - Personnel Chair
History and Markets and Management Studies - 2011
Favorite Food: Chipotle Chicken Guacamole Burrito
What are you doing on a Friday night: Mountain biking through Umstead park and/or playing guitar and making noise without discretion with friends.
Dream job: Pro Cyclist
Quote: “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”-Lance Armstrong
Carol Cheng
Economics and Medicine - 2011
Favorite Food: bok choi
What you are doing on a Friday night: swing/salsa/ballroom/club dancing
Dream Job: surgeon
Quote: "I'm just an ordinary person, but there are exceptional things that even a person like me can do." -Iryu 2
Eliza French
Art History, English, Markets and Management Studies - 2011
Favorite Food: Dark Chocolate
What are you doing on a Friday night: Going out or exploring Durham/Chapel Hill with friends
Dream job: Curator or gallery/auction house worker
Kevin Tao
Biomedical Engineering - 2011
Favorite Food: Gyros
What you are doing on a Friday night: Having fun. Duh.
Dream job: I intend to do awesome stuff in bioengineering for a while, and after I become rich and/or famous, I want to be like Barack Obama and run for office, and help change the world!
Quote: "All great truths begin as blasphemies."-George Bernard Shaw
Sam Heroy - Outreach Chair
Chemistry and Modeling Biological Systems - 2011
Favorite Food: peanut butter
What are you doing on a Friday night: makeshift activities, i.e. shoe bocce, inflatable/kiddy pool partying, low budget raves
Dream Job: I'll probably end up doing some kind of research or medicine, but if the options were endless, I think that being a professional ranter would be a lot of fun. I'm picturing people who write "life editorials" in slate, etc. as well as 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney. It wouldn't get any better than saying whatever I want with plenty of freedom and have millions of people listen.
Quote: "Don't be sad because it's over. Be glad because it happened."-Dr. Suess
Bogna Brzezinska
BAA and Biology - 2011
What are you doing on a Friday night: movies, Shooters, mall...all with friends!
Dream job: veterinarian/doctor and part-time world-famous chef
Quote: "Every fight is a food fight if you're a cannibal."-Demetri Martin
Ally Helmers
Public Policy and History - 2011
Favorite food: edamame and gluten free soy sauce
What are you doing on a Friday night: Ordering Tommy's with my roommate to avoid that 200 foot walk...and those stairs.
Dream Job: After realizing the many downsides of being a professional ice cream taster, I've settled on The White House Press Secretary.
Favorite Quote: "Love, it's too hard. That's why I listen to music."-Craig Nicholls