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Sports No hits, no win The baseball team was no-hit by two ECU pitchers yesterday in a 5-0 loss to .the Pirates in Greenville. See page 13
Elders critiques ‘sick care’ system Schools continue strategic planning
By ALEX SUNDSTROM The Chronicle The sophisticated techniques
and advanced research that characterize American medicine reflect a misplaced focus on treating diseases instead of keeping everyone healthy, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders said last night in Griffith Film Theater. “We’ve got a health care system for the haves and a sick care system for the have-nots,” Elders said. “It’s cheaper to provide primary preventive health care for everybody.” Such care would consist of immunizations, easier access to physicians and comprehensive health and early-childhood education for everyone. Programs like these would particularly benefit the poor and minorities. “We’ve got a problem of health care access in the black community,” Elders said. “Because we don’t have enough doctors... we’re less likely to have doctors that understand our [medical] history. So we’re less likely to go to the doctor until we get too sick, and then it ends up costing 10 times as much.” Elders’ controversial comments about health education and the legalization of drugsresulted in President Bill Clinton removing her from office in 1994. “I was fired for what I believe in,” she said. Upon her dismissal, news accounts portrayed Elders as advocating that schools teach mastur-
� With a preliminary report from each of the schools, the provost is preparing a detailed presentation for the late-February Board of Trustees meeting. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
So far, the year-long strategic planning process is still in its preliminary stages and right on target.
DR. JOYCELYN ELDERS, the surgeon general deposed in the Clinton administration for her controversial beliefs on drug policies and sex education, spoke Monday night.
bation. Masturbation is an important part of human sexuality, she said Monday, but she never suggested it be taught. “Nobody has to educate anybody about masturbation—God taught
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us to masturbate,” Elders said, “Ninety percent of men masturbate, 70 percent of women masturbate and the rest lie.” Health education should go be-
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With Provost Peter Lange set to present an elaborate outline to the Board of Trustees later this month, each school is refining the first sketches of its long range academic plan. The process—last performed six years ago—will designate areas for future investment and disinvestment within each school and the University as a whole and will help allocate Campaign for Duke funds to academic areas. “We’re just getting some preliminary documents from schools,” said Lange. “Our working groups in arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences and engineering have generated proposals from the faculty and are working with those at the moment to begin... to think about priorities and how they relate to funding.” Lange’s late-February presentation will include the working groups’ findings, synthesis of the schools’ plans and information on finances. So far, the schools have begun delineating priorities, but few have started targeting areas for disinvestment. Lange said he expects the schools to be at various levels of completion, depending on their size and other outside factors. The Nicholas School of the Environment, for example, is currently undergoing an external review, so Lange said it might have to wait for those results before moving ahead with planning. But the external review has also given the Nicholas See STRATEGIC PLANNING on page 12 �
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