Duke in the News: Sept. 6, 2005

DUKE SENDING NEARLY 50 MEDICAL WORKERS TO GULF COAST WRAL.com, Sept. 6 -- A team of nearly 50 doctors, nurses and other staff from Duke have traveled to the Gulf Coast region to help staff a field hospital being set up in response to Hurricane Katrina. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke, UNC Doctors Working in Mississippi ... Full story New York Times, Reuters: Anti-Terror Teams Switch Gears, Help With Katrina ... Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Hospital Puts Healing on Wheels ... Full story Herald-Sun: Louisiana Teen Stuck in Durham by Hurricane, Medical Condition ... Full story Duke Med News: Duke to Staff Second Field Hospital in Mississippi ... Full story 3 DUKE STUDENTS TELL OF 'DISGRACEFUL' SCENE Herald-Sun, Sept. 5 -- A trio of Duke sophomores say they drove to New Orleans late last week, posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities. ... Full story --Also, Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges Make a Range of Offers for Displaced Students Seeking Fall Enrollment ... Full story Duke Chronicle: Duke Lends Hand in Storm Relief Efforts ... Full story Duke.edu: Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts ... Full story Duke Chapel: Dean Wells' Sept. 4 Hurricane Katrina Sermon ... Full text

SCIENTISTS COMB A RUINED COASTLINE FOR CLUES AND LESSONS New York Times, Sept. 6 -- Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., director, and Andrew S. Coburn, associate director of the Duke University Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, provide insights into why Hurricane Katrina was so destructive, and so deadly. ... Full story --Also, Baltimore Sun: A Call to Look Again at Coastal Development (Pilkey) ... Full story Chapel Hill News: Hurricane Brings Duke Professor Full Circle (Pilkey) ... Full story

OP-ED: KATRINA'S LESSONS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY (St. Paul) Pioneer Press, Sept. 6 -- The nation's response to Hurricane Katrina shows "that we have a great deal of unfinished business...," says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, a new center that Duke established with UNC and RTI International. (Also in News & Observer and Contra-Costa Times.) ... Full story

ROBERTS A SAFE PICK FOR TOP JOB Detroit News, Scripps Howard News Service, Sept. 6 -- "This changes the dynamics of the confirmation process without changing the balance of the court," said Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, discussing President Bush's decision to promote Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to the vacancy created by the unexpected death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. ... Full story --Also, Los Angeles Times: Roberts Tapped for Chief Justice (Chemerinsky) ... Full story Slate: In Memoriam -- William H. Rehnquist, the Man Who Devised the Natural Law of Federalism (by Duke law professor Walter Dellinger) ... Full story San Francisco Chronicle: Conservative Jurist Helped Steer High Court on Path to the Right (Dellinger) ... Full story Bloomberg News: Bush May Face Irreconcilable Pressures on Second Court Pick(Chemerinsky) ... Full story U.S. News & World Report: Rehnquist Death Leaves Second Vacancy (Chemerinsky) Full story Washington Post: Letter -- Remembering Chief Justice Rehnquist (Duke law professor Neil S. Siegel) ... Full story

PESSIMISM INVADES CFO SUITE (Toronto) Globe and Mail, Sept. 5 -- Chief financial officers are gloomier about the U.S. economy than they have been in four years because of rising fuel and health-care costs and fears the housing bubble might burst, according to a new survey conducted by Duke University and CFO Magazine. ... Full story --Also, Dallas Morning News: Column -- Flying Blind Out of a Storm ... Full story

ON THE AIR The three Duke students who went to New Orleans and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities will be interviewed Wednesday  morning on CNN's "American Morning." The live interview is scheduled to air at 7:40 a.m.