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Duke starts talks on alcohol Is Dunleavy Done? As administrators meet, Raheem Bath’s mother urges education
By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle When details of Raheem Bath’s Nov. 27 alcoholrelated death became public last week, the University community’s consensus was that discus-
sion was needed to adjust Duke’s drinking culture. ‘We need more open conversations on campus,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson. We need to try to find ways to talk more straightforwardly.” But the next steps are trickier. Instincts to impose rules are balanced by the need to educate; possible policy changes are tempered by a desire to effect actual culture shifts. Catherine Bath, Raheem’s mother, stressed education and awareness of the dangers of binge drinking. “There is an underlying problem in American culture... that needs to be brought up to the surface. A crackdown on alcohol use is not the answer. This kind of control needs to be within each individual...,” she said. “Maybe education about drinking is the answer. I’m not sure my son was aware ofthe connection between the drinking incident he may have had over the weekend... and developing flu-like symptoms.” Bath, a 20-year-old Pratt junior, died of aspiration pneumonia, which he contracted by inhaling his own vomit.
At a meeting Monday afternoon, a group of about 18 administrators, professors and students agreed that although education is the University’s best tool, it is not particularly effective right now. “We know we have a health education structure, which certainly has a component that addresses drugs and alcohol,” said Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson. “Are there contributions that others can make to that structure that would make this more effective... in the types of messages [we send] and how they are received?” Catherine Bath stressed that mixed messages—in both the University community as well as the national culture—significantly contributed to Raheem’s death. “My son was a social drinker on campus, and apparently it can entail some bad things. He was pretty typical. He certainly did not have a drinking problem...,” she said, adding that she and her husband are Muslim and do not drink. “I blame American society for killing my 50n.... Social pressure and peer pressure was much stronger than his parental pressure.” She added that Duke should not treat her son’s death as an isolated incident: “I think it’s a nationwide problem. Every single campus has probSee ALCOHOL on page 7 EDDIE GEISINGER/THE CHRONICLE
MIKE DUNLEAVY’S departure will leave a hole on the Duke bench.
Duke’s best player off the bench will be out indefinitely with mononucleosis By NEAL MORGAN The Chronicle
Duke’s already thin lineup just suffered a major blow. Freshman Mike Dunleavy was diagnosed with mononucleosis and is out indefinitely, the team announced yesterday. Dunleavy is sixth on the team in scoring, averaging 9.5 points, and plays 25.3 minutes per contest. “I feel badly for Mike,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He was having a great year for us and has been an integral part of our team. We know he’ll get better with the proper treatment. We look forward to having him back before the end of our season.” Although the recovery time for mono varies with each patient, Dunleavy expressed optimism that he would play again in two or three weeks. Although doctors have told him his return. to the court will be dependent on how his body reacts to the disease, Dunleavy hopes to return to action by the start of the ACC tournament March 9. “Obviously I’m disappointed, but at the same time, I’ll get See
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Trinity releases matrix showing course distribution By ELLEN MIELKE The Chronicle
about half of the requests were sent back for revisions so they would fit the categories. The extent of Curriculum 2000’s readiness for the As for the two areas that are yet to be filled, Thompincoming freshman class became apparent last week son has already sent out requests for proposals for new with the release of the first filled-out matrix, showing courses, offering research support for professors who what number of current courses fit into the curricueither modify or create a -course to fit the Science, Techlum’s required areas. nology, and Society criteria. Writing in the Discipline As far as administrators are concerned, only two of courses are not required until a student’s junior and the eight columns of the matrix have too few classes senior year, so they won’t be needed until 2002. “We Writing in the Disciplines and Science, Technology, knew all along we wouldn’t have enough Writing in the and Society. Discipline courses,” Thompson said. “We don’t need “We ended up with a really nice matrix,” said them for two years, so we’ve got time.” Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College. “I’m very Thompson calculated that 400 courses would be happy. It was not knowable the extent to which our needed in each column to give every student the opcurrent courses filled the areas students needed..., portunity to complete the assigned curriculum component. “I’m looking for 400, minimum 200,” he said. and I was pleased to see the natural yield.” During the summer and fall, faculty reclassified “[Fori anything with 200 or more, we have more than their courses according to the categories in the matrix; enough for students to meet the requirement.” —
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This calculation is based on the idea that at the smallest class size, a seminar, about 93 courses would need to be offered each semester for all students to be able to meet the requirements over four years. Offering 400 courses provides cushion room. “Four hundred is just an approximation.... They can’t all be seminars,” Thompson said. If an area becomes difficult for students to meet, then changes will be made, said Thompson. Currently, however, he doesn’t think they’ll be necessary. “We wanted a system that didn’t need exceptions, or even substitutions,” he said. “If we look at this and we’re requiring students to do something they can’t, we’ll fix it.”
Edna Andrews, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council’s curriculum committee and a professor of Slavic languages and literature, said the faculty has
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