Duke in the News: Jan. 15, 2003
Universities Must Require Athletes to Make the Grade -- In Class | Money to Aid Children, Neighborhoods | TB Cases on the Rise Among States Children | Baptist Cleric Is Shaw's Choice, and more...
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
OP-ED: UNIVERSITIES MUST REQUIRE ATHLETES TO MAKE THE
GRADE -- IN CLASS
San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 14 -- "Those of us charged with leading
our nation's major universities have a responsibility to restore
the primacy of academics in the lives of student athletes," write
Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane and Stanford President
John L. Hennessy in an op-ed piece. ...
Full story
MONEY TO AID CHILDREN, NEIGHBORHOODS
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 15 -- The Duke Endowment announced
on Tuesday that it will give $700,000 to the Duke -Durham
Neighborhood Partnership, which will mean piano lessons, a house
for a police officer and training for tutors who serve some of the
city's poorest children. ...Full
story
--Also, Walltown Children's Theatre photo
Photo
News & Observer: Duke Endowment Donates $700,000 (not
online)
TB CASES ON THE RISE AMONG STATE'S
CHILDREN
The (Southern Pines, N.C.) Pilot, Jan. 14 -- 'The numbers for 2002
are still coming in, but as things now stand, North Carolina is on
track to have double or triple the number of childhood cases of
tuberculosis it had in 2001,' said Dr. Carol Dukes Hamilton,
medical director of North Carolina's Tuberculosis Control Program
who is also on faculty at Duke
University Medical Center. ...Full
story
BAPTIST CLERIC IS SHAW'S CHOICE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 15 -- The newly-named president
of Shaw University, Clarence G. Newsome, studied at Duke
University, earning a bachelor's degree, master's degree in
divinity and doctorate. The Ahoskie native was the first black
student to give a Duke commencement address. ...
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REVIEW OF 'PASSED ON: AFRICAN AMERICAN MOURNING
STORIES'
JAMA, Jan. 15 -- Karla F. C. Holloway, professor of English and
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Duke University, has
written a fascinating book about the unique experience of death and
dying within African American culture. ...
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LONG-TERM CARE NEEDS BEING MET, STUDY
SAYS
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 15 -- Authors of a new study of the
long-term care needs of aging baby boomers cite statistics from
Duke University's Center for Demographic Studies. ...
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N.C. COURT TO MULL RIGHT TO A LAWYER
Education Week, Jan. 15 -- An analysis by the Children's Education
Law Clinic at Duke University found that the Buncombe County
schools' policy of denying students legal representation in
suspension proceedings -- even initial fact-finding hearings -- was
uncommon.Full
story
AN UNFORCED DESEGREGATION
Baltimore Sun, Jan. 15 -- By 2000, according to a recent Duke
University study, private schools enrolled more than half of all
white students in heavily black rural counties where the social
divisions of the Jim Crow era were strictly enforced.
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