Duke in the News: Sept. 12, 2003

WHEN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE New York Times, Sept. 12 -- Some Native American tribes have refused to recognize the rights of black Indians. Duke historian emeritus John Hope Franklin, whose family bridges the black and Indian communities, takes a dim view of the attempt to divide the two, writes Brent Staples of the Times. ... Full story

OP-ED: WHERE HAS SEPT. 11 GONE? (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 11 -- Frederick W. Mayer, an associate professor of public policy studies at Duke, says, "Today we are less secure, less prosperous and much less admired than we were two years ago. But it was not what happened to us on Sept. 11 that made the difference. It was what we have done to ourselves since." ... Full story

KEOHANES DECIDE ON PALO ALTO SABBATICAL (Duke) Chronicle, Sept. 12 -- After Nan Keohane steps down as Duke's president next summer, she and her husband Robert, a professor of political science, will become fellows at the highly regarded Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a retreat overlooking Stanford University. ... Full story

BABOONS TAKE SIDES WITH THEIR OFFSPRING (London) Financial Times, Sept. 12 -- Fathers stand up for their own children in a fight -- if not in the playground, at least on the savannah. Male baboons take sides with their own offspring in conflicts among the group, protecting their children from attack, a Duke study finds. (Article not available online; full text upon request.)

OP-ED: AT BEST, AN IMPERFECT IRAQ (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 7 -- For the United States now, United Nations legitimization of a transition to Iraqi self-government offers the only real hope of escaping an impending quagmire, says Duke political science professor Robert O. Keohane. (Article not available online; faxed copy upon request.)

DUKE HOSPITAL REPORTS A PATIENT 'INCIDENT' (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 12 -- State and federal inspectors are investigating Duke Hospital after hospital officials reported an "incident" involving a patient during a medical procedure. ... Full story --Also, ABC News: Feds Probe Incident at Duke U. Hospital Full story

REVIEW: SOUND OF AFRICA! Downbeat magazine, August 2003 -- Louise Meintjes' book from Duke University Press documents a band's role in bringing a Zulu identity into the world music market. (Article not available online; faxed copy upon request.)

RETELLING THE TRUTH Winston-Salem Journal, Sept. 12 -- John Staples (Trinity '58) spent 30 years at the Kernersville News taking care to get the facts right in print. Now that he has retired, he has the liberty to use facts only when it suits him. (Article not online; full text upon request.)

CITY OF MEDICINE TO HONOR THREE RESEARCHERS AND TWO LOCAL DOCTORS (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Sept. 12 -- A former Duke University chancellor will be among those receiving the 16th annual City of Medicine Awards during an Oct. 9 banquet. ...Full story