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Dec. 1, 2004

Op-Ed: The More Powerless AIDS Victims Are Women | Supreme Court Case Tests Title IX Protections | Op-Ed: Pumping Up New Beach Trouble, and more ...

OP-ED: AS AIDS SWEEPS INDIA, THE MORE POWERLESS VICTIMS ARE WOMEN

Dallas Morning News, Dec. 1 -- Duke '04 grad Jay Lee, who is working at an AIDS hospice in India as a Hart Fellow, raises his voice for those who cannot speak. (free registration) Full story --Also, Hart Leadership Program: Lee Profile Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Column -- Boys Living With HIV (Duke Children's Hospital) Full story Herald-Sun: Women Main Focus of World AIDS Day (Trish Bartlett, a Duke University Medical Center social worker who counsels HIV/AIDS clients in the Duke AIDS Research and Treatment Center, is one of the community organizers of Durham's annual World AIDS Day observance.) Full story

SUPREME COURT CASE TESTS TITLE IX PROTECTIONS NPR's Morning Edition, Nov. 30 -- Duke law Professor Walter Dellinger Tuesday represented at the U.S. Supreme Court a coach who says he was fired after complaining that girls' basketball teams at an Alabama high school got fewer resources than boys' teams. (Link to audio; transcript upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story

OP-ED: PUMPING UP NEW BEACH TROUBLE (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 1 -- Orrin Pilkey, Duke professor emeritus of earth sciences, wants to see an honest and open debate about the future of North Carolina's beaches. (Article not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) --Also, USA Today: N.C. Beaches at Watershed Moment for Preservation (Pilkey) Full story

DUKE HOSTS SOCIAL SCIENCE PIPELINE PROGRAMS Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, Nov. 15 -- Charles Becker brought the American Economic Association Summer Program to Duke from the University of Colorado Denver this year. The rigorous program prepares minority students for success in M.S. and Ph.D. programs in economics. (Article not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 3 -- Anne Firor Scott, professor emerita of history at Duke, says higher education "has changed just remarkably" for women over the past quarter century. Full story

NET LOSSES BENEATH THE WAVES New York Times, Nov. 30 -- A commentary from the Nicholas School with ideas for improving the way we manage and govern marine fisheries concludes, "We must sustain the oceans so they can continue to sustain us." Full story

NEWS THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Prevention, November 2004 -- Dr. Wei Jiang, an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, talks about antidepressants for heart health, cited as one of eight top breakthroughs in health and wellness for 2004. Full story

THEOLOGIAN TACKLES ISSUES OF FAITH DURING TALK (New Haven) Yale Daily News, Dec. 1 -- Theologians should strive to become "public intellectuals" if they want to improve society, Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas told a Yale audience Tuesday. Full story

THIS TEAM KNOWS ITS FACTS (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 1 -- Emil Thomas Chuck, a researcher at Duke University Medical Center, is promoting high school quiz bowl competitions. " Full story

THE HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE BIBLE READERS Christianity Today, Nov. 17 -- Reformation scholar David Steinmetz of Duke Divinity School talked in an interview about how the Reformers strove to ensure their own interpretations of scripture matched those of the early church fathers. (See second item.) Full story