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Duke in the News: May 9, 2005

Medication & Melancholy | Great Gadget Giveaway | Commentary: Managing From the Middle, and more

MEDICATION & MELANCHOLY U.S. News & World Report, May 16 -- John March, professor and chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Duke, is among the concerned doctors who are trying to unravel the jumble of data on depression, drugs and kids. ... Full story

GREAT GADGET GIVEAWAY (San Diego) Union-Tribune, May 9 -- Instead of extending its iPods-for-freshmen program, Duke has focused its personal technology program on the classroom. ... Full story 

COMMENTARY: MANAGING FROM THE MIDDLE Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6 -- "Midlevel Administrators Collaborate!" doesn't have quite the zing of most slogans. But English professor Cathy N. Davidson, Duke's vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, says it works. ... Full story

PIETY AND POWER Los Angeles Times, May 8 --  "We should not eliminate the possibility that Iraq will turn toward a more absolutist rule by clerics," says Jalil Roshandel, a visiting professor of political science at Duke who specializes in Middle Eastern international relations. ... Full story 

LETTER: T-SHIRT CONTROVERSY Chicago Tribune, May 8 -- Lucas Schaefer describes how a group of Duke students first came up with the idea to distribute "gay? fine by me" T-shirts, "as an easy way to give a voice to all the people at Duke we knew weren't homophobic." ... Full story 

LAW SCHOOLS' CASE VS. GOVT. OFF TO HIGH COURT (Durham) Herald-Sun, May 9 -- Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the named plaintiffs in a case that pits the government against a group of 30 law schools. ... Full story

THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR MOTHER'S 'CONSEQUENCES' (Raleigh) News & Observer, May 8 -- Dr. Margaret Gradison, chief of the Division of Family Medicine at Duke, distinguishes fact from fiction in some of the common things mothers tell their children growing up. But she does so with one caveat. ... Full story