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"Drinking at Duke"
In this two-part series, Sanette Tanaka examines the alcohol policy and drinking culture at Duke University. The reporter reveals differences in drinking policies between private and public universities, as well as examines the effectiveness of the "new associate dean," who has implemented an "education-based harm-reduction model" in an effort to curb "binge drinking among students."
Tags: alcohol; binge drinking; Tom Szigethy; Stanford; Harvard; Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research; UNC; Wake Forest; National College Health Assessment
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"Innocent" and "The Duke Case"
In two separate reports, CBS airs the conclusions of their investigations into the Duke Rape Case, in which three white Duke University Lacrosse players were accused of raping a black exotic dancer. "The Duke Case," aired in January, includes an interview with the prosecutor's key DNA expert, who "admitted that crucial exculpatory evidence had been withheld." "Innocent," aired in April, includes an exclusive interview with the North Carolina Attorney General, who explained why he decided to exonerate the three players.
Tags: Duke Rape Case; rape; Duke University; police reports; forensic evidence;
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The Duke Rape Case
CBS News looks into the investigation of the Duke University Lacrosse team's rape case. Three players were indicted in the case, in which an African-American dancer accused the Duke lacrosse players of sexual assault at a team party. For six months, CBS "reviewed the voluminous case file case file" and interviewed the three players accused: Collin Finnerty, David Evans and Reade Seligmann, who are all caucasian. The story also examined the actions of District Attorney Mike Nifong, and the veracity of the rape accusation. The charges against the three players were dropped two months after the report aired.
Tags: Duke University Lacrosse; Duke rape case; Collin Finnerty; David Evans; Reade Seligmann; Mike Nifong
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"Anatomy of a Mistake"
60 Minutes reports on the death of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan, who died on the operating table at Duke University Hospital while receiving a heart and lung transplant. Her death, a result of human and systemic failure, came about because her surgeon, Dr. James Jaggers, never properly verified whether the donor organs were of the same blood type of Jesica's. Cross-checking the blood type of the donor and the recipient is a standard procedure which was overlooked by the surgeon, nurses, assisting doctors, Duke University Hospital, and Carolina Donor Services. Jesica's death could have been prevented if the agencies followed national policy, instead of releasing the organs without first verifying the blood type.
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Jessica's Story
This story describes how problems with the national organ transplant system killed a 17-year old girl. The girl was to receive a heart lung transplant and received organs that were against her bloodtype. The story describes how the entire chain from the initial screening to the inappropriate implantation failed to notice the discrepancies.
Tags: organ transplant; Duke University Medical Center; UNOS; FOI; heart transplant; lung transplant; blood groups
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An inside look at how a university tries to protect human subjects. Federal scrutiny has led Duke to ease the huge workloads burdening its review boards.
This article talks about how universities' Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are overworked, and often times unable to properly evaluate and supervise experiments involving human test subjects. The Chronicle observed and document how Duke university evaluates it's IRB experiment proposals.
Tags: IRB; institutional review board; education; colleges; universities; human test subjects; Duke; professors; school; higher education
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Blind Trust
A story of the downfall of Kenneth Manton, an internationally known researcher at Duke University. The Chronicle discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars under Manton's supervision had been misused. It was also found that Manton had remained director of the center even when he was hospitalized for severe mental problems.
Tags: Kenneth Manton; Duke University; universities; mental health; research grants; Duke University's Center for Demographic Studies; National Institute on Aging; Edward Davison; Christopher Fowler
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Top of the World
The Daily Northwestern reports that "... Schools as diverse as Harvard University and Grinell College offer more than 100 awards to foreign undergraduate students; from California's Cal Tech to Maine's Bates College, schools are actively seeking - and helping fund - sought-after and successful international students. But among the 10 best schools in the country, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, only two, Duke University and Northwestern, do not offer financial aid for international students."
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The News and Observer investigated a Duke University Medical Center plastic surgeon who removed hundreds of women's breasts and replaced them with silicone breast implants; many of the women did not have breast cancer, but he told them they were at risk for the disease. The doctor had financial interest in the company that manufactured the implants. Many now claim they are sick from leaks in the implants, March 31, 1994.
Tags: NC Ready CHA Breast cancer Consumer affairs Food and Drug Administration U.S. patents 8 pages