Most of what students need already exists. Finding it is the problem.

The problem

What is already built

Click anything in this list and try it. Nothing here is a mockup or a screenshot — it is the finished thing, running.

• A searchable resource directoryLive nowOne list covering academic support, counseling, residential life, dining, transport, technology, and forms. Search by what you are trying to do rather than the department that owns it.
• Search that speaks like a studentLive nowEvery entry carries the words people actually type. Searching “stressed” finds Counseling; “broken dryer” finds the maintenance request. No AI, so it is instant and cannot invent a link.
• An opportunities board for DurhamLive nowHackathons, competitions, volunteering, and events, with dates, cost, and eligibility on every entry, and an explicit warning to verify before registering.
• Issue reporting, anonymous by choiceDemo onlyValidated, spam-resistant, and private by construction: an anonymous report stores no contact details at all, so there is nothing to leak later.
• A public status boardDemo onlyEvery issue gets a stage students can see, with no names, quotes, or room numbers. Being listed is never a promise it will be solved.
• An editor SG can run without codeLive nowOfficers update links, mark entries verified or outdated, and post status updates from a password-protected page. Handing this to next year's officers is a password, not a tutorial.

What it deliberately does not do

These are choices, not gaps. Each one is a line worth keeping even when it would be easy to cross.

Never asks for your school password

Navigate links out to NCSSM systems and stops there. It never proxies, mirrors, or stores anything from behind a school login, and it has no password of its own to forget.

Never shows a student's report

Submissions are private without exception. Public entries are written from scratch by an officer, generalised enough to cover several reports at once.

Never lets a demo pass for the real thing

Everything is explorable, and the moment it would matter — the confirmation after you submit — it says plainly that nothing was sent. A demo that fools someone with a real problem is not a good demo.

Never promises SG can fix everything

Most issues belong to a school office. The honest job is routing them to whoever owns the decision and showing students where the thing actually stands.

What switching on the rest would take

None of this is a technical problem, and none of it is something one senator decides alone. All four need Student Government as a body, and an advisor, behind them. What a senator can do is bring a finished thing to that conversation instead of an idea.

1. 01A Student Government account that outlives its officersIssue reports have to land somewhere SG owns and can hand on, not in a personal inbox that graduates.
2. 02A staff advisor who knows the obligationsSome reports will touch safety, harassment, or a student in crisis. Those need an adult who knows what the school is required to do, agreed before the first one arrives rather than after.
3. 03Officers who verify the directoryEvery link needs a person to open it and confirm it is right. The site tracks who checked what and when, and flags entries nobody has confirmed.
4. 04A rhythm for deleting old reportsReports kept forever are a liability with no upside. Clearing actioned ones on a schedule is part of running this properly.