Duke in the News: Sept. 14, 2007

MULTIPLE MESSAGES AND AUDIENCES New York Times, Sept. 14 -- Peter D. Feaver, a political science professor at Duke and a former senior official on the National Security Council, says the President wanted to reframe the debate over troop withdrawal in his address Thursday. ... Full story -- Also, Los Angeles Times: Bush Redefines Victory ... Full story International Herald Tribune: Bush Outlines Iraq Plan with Multiple Audiences in Mind ... Full story Reuters: Bush Offer Of Troop Cuts In Iraq May Buy Him Time (Christopher Gelpi) ... Full story DUMPED OVER AN OP-ED Los Angeles Times, Sept. 14 -- Duke law and political science professor Erwin Chemerinsky, unhired as UC Irvine's founding law school dean, says his ordeal is a lesson in academic freedom. ... Full story -- Also, Los Angeles Times: Why I Let Chemerinsky Go ... Full story Los Angeles Times: Furor Disrupts Plans For UCI School of Law ... Full story New York Times: Editorial - A Bad Beginning in Irvine ... Full story

HOLD THE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE Chicago Foundation for Women, Sept. 12 -- At a symposium on violence against women and girls, Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke referenced the case against best-selling R&B star R. Kelly. ... Full story

DUKE PERFORMANCES The Independent Weekly, Sept. 12 -- Aaron Greenwald, interim director of Duke Performances, is attempting to bring the Duke campus to Durham, and vice versa, with a one-month celebration of jazz piano titan Thelonious Monk. ... Full story

SHAW WIN BEGAN WITH DREAM TO HEAL FATHER (China) The Standard, Sept. 12 -- "Honey, we won a million bucks," is how Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, the James B. Duke professor of medicine and biochemistry at Duke's Medical Center, informed his wife he had won the $1 million Shaw Prize for his work on G-protein coupled receptors. Lefkowitz entered medicine to help his father who had heart disease. ... Full story -- Also, People's Daily Online: U.S.-Based Academics Awarded Million-Dollar Shaw Prize in Hong Kong ... Full story

SWEEPS NET CHARGES FOR 22 AT DUKE, COMPLAINTS (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 14 -- The first major North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement sweeps in Durham since the onset of the Duke lacrosse case have left 22 Duke students facing an assortment of charges related to underage drinking. ... Full story

STUDENT GROUPS AT DUKE BACKED (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 14 -- One of the key proposals to emerge from a study of Duke's campus culture looks like it's going to be dismantled following a review by the provost's office, according to a new report. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Associate Professor Greg Dale, a sports psychologist who works with several Duke athletic teams, will be interviewed on "The Star Jones Show" on Court TV for a feature on sportsmanship on Sept. 14 at 3 p.m. ... Full story