October 27, 2014

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CAPS, DSG to increase mental health awareness

ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 36

Duke Basketball gets down for Countdown

Partnership aims to boost knowledge of underused mental health resources on campus Gautam Hathi Health & Science Editor Through a fledgling partnership with Duke Student Government, directors of Counseling and Psychological Services hope to better publicize the resources they have available to students. DSG—in the inaugural semester of its partnership with CAPS—will launch a series of initiatives to increase student awareness of mental health resources on campus and to improve overall student access to those resources. In their first official project, members of DSG are working to put together an information sheet listing mental health resources available to students. Although many similar informational sheets have been produced by CAPS in the past several years, they were not widely circulated, and therefore provided limited benefit to students, said Gary Glass, associate director for outreach and developmental programming. “They’ve been produced and they’ve been available, but I don’t know that I’d go so far as to say that they’ve been out there, to be honest,” Glass said. “DSG can play a role in creating an information central around [mental health].” He added that the prominence of DSG can help to further publicize the options provided by CAPS. “When you have outreach by a unit at Duke University, there’s only so far that these people can get because they’re not integrated into the student population,” said junior Keizra Mecklai, DSG vice president for equity and outreach. The new informational sheet will include See Health on Page 9

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Khloe Kim | The Chronicle After their individual introductions, the men’s basketball team celebrated in anticipation of the upcoming season at the annual Countdown to Craziness event Saturday evening. (See story on page 6)

Curriculum revamp begins with call for input Three-year curriculum review opens with weekly committee meetings, request for feedback Will Walker The Chronicle As the review of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences’ Curriculum 2000 kicks into gear, committee members are emphasizing the need for input from the University community. The current review of Trinity curriculum will focus on what it means for students to receive an interdisciplinary education in the 21st century. Work

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has begun with weekly meetings of the “Imagining the Duke Curriculum” committee, which has started by analyzing models from other universities and gathering feedback from students and faculty across Duke. The committee is working toward ideas that will make the curriculum not only easier for students to understand, but also more representative of the opportunities available at Duke—including nontraditional programs such as Bass Connections and DukeEngage, said committee chair Suzanne Shanahan, associate director of the Kenan Institute of Ethics. “Simplification and integration are

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two key objectives,” Shanahan said. “We want whatever we do to be evidencebased change.” The review began last month and is scheduled to take three years. This year is known as the “diagnosis” stage of the review, focusing on determining the areas of the curriculum that will be targeted for change. The review will seek to ensure that the current Curriculum 2000—which was introduced in 2000 and last modified in 2004—is still working as well as it originally did, explained Thomas Robisheaux, chairman of the Arts and Sciences Council.

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