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THE CHKDNICLE Dave! Dave! Who is this man? Who is this band? Where are they from? Where are they going? Read THE CHKDNICLE about the Dave Matthews Band in % & % THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Campus debates honor society By SANJAY BHATT which was listed as a suite but spent. Sigma Gamma Delta Students and administrators is in fact a private mailbox in a raised an estimated $17,000 gave mixed responses to a re­ Dallas shopping center. The from student dues, they said. port that a campus honor soci­ group's founders said they were Lt. Charles Nordan of Duke ety billed as a national organi­ told to use "suite" in the ad­ Public Safety said that no one zation had one active chapter. dress, a statement refuted by had filed a complaint against The society, Sigma Gamma the manager of the business that the society as of Wednesday af­ Delta, was founded by Trinity rented them the mailbox. ternoon. senior Rohit Kumar and Trin­ • The dean listed as faculty "Anybody who has given ityjunior Jed Silversmith. associate on student govern­ money to [the society] and feels In Wednesday's edition, The ment recognition forms said his victimized needs to call Duke Chronicle reported that: name was used without his per­ Public Safety," said Det. Sara- • The society, described as mission. Jane Raines of Public Safety. "one ofthe nation's fastest grow­ Kumar said in a Monday in­ Raines said Public Safety would ing and most distinguished col­ terview that he told anyone who only investigate the case if a legiate honor societies" in an asked about the status of the complaint were filed. AMANDA FREEMAN/THE CHRONICLE invitation mailed to 2,379 stu­ society and that he had no in­ Paul Bumbalough, associate dents last spring, has no active tention of misleading anyone. dean of student development in Ah, to be young and carefree chapters outside Duke. The two founders produced charge of judicial affairs, said These Trinity freshmen can toss a football because they do • More than 600 students sent an August bank statement and he would examine the situation not have to worry about graduate school applications... yet. in the $28 dues to the national expense budget to account for more closely before comment- headquarters of the society, how the group's funds have been See SOCIETY on page 5 • University plans to review new mental health plan By ALISON STUEBE Partly in response to concerns said committee chair Paul external psychiatrist. said. The University will be review^ raised by opponents of thepolicy, Haagen, professor of law. Sue Jarrell, a vocal opponent While the October policy dis­ ing controversial changes to Toby Kahr, associate vice presi­ The committee plans to ad­ of the review policy .and an em­ cussion sponsored by Kafir's of­ employee mental health benefits dent for human resources, said dress a number of issues, includ­ ployee in the .graduate school fice will focus on how to improve next month. members ofthe Alexandria, Va.- ing confidentiality of records kept admissions office, said she was the new review process, Jarrell The review comes after more based review team will meet with at the review company and the pleased that the University was said the University should go than 70 local health-care profes­ University psychiatrists .and lo­ quality of care provided under taking a second look at the plan, back to the drawing board. sionals issued an open letter to cal health-care providers to dis­ the new system, Haagen said. but added that "it would be nice The current policy requires the University community con­ cuss possible changes to the re­ The review process requires if they had done that before they mental health care profession­ demning the changes, which re­ view process. care providers to release both a instituted this in the first place." als to submit a treatment plan quire mental health care provid­ "This is our plan," Kahr said. patient's name and details of Kahr said that just because for patients after five sessions, a ers to submit details about pa­ "This is not something that some psychological symptoms to clini­ concerns were raised by employ­ standard which Jarrell and oth­ tient treatment to an external other agency is putting on us—it cal social workers at the review ees does not mean the Univer­ ers say is too stringent. review board. Critics charge that has the freedom to be done flex­ board. Cases which are initially sity rushed into the policy. "In­ "I would like to see them deal the new managed mental health ibly." turned down for insurance cov­ evitably, when you go into any with the problem of abuse [ofthe care policy will erode quality of The Academic Council's Fac­ erage are also reviewed by a psy­ new plan, it's only when people benefit] and not try to make care and intimidate patients ulty Compensation Committee chiatrist, and therapists can ap­ raise questions that you double sweeping changes that affect seeking treatment. will also be looking at the policy, peal a negative decision to an back to see what happened," he everybody," she said. Black faculty hiring accelerates Matriculation of black By RUSS FREYMAN positions, he said. on campus. doctoral candidates Eight months after the Uni­ "I think it's [also] significant Among the strategies pin­ versity approved a resolution that since last year, no black pointed in the 1994 resolution, reaffirming its commitment to faculty left Duke," Wright the Academic Council estab­ increase the number of black added. From 1988 to 1993, 25 lished an annual fund of faculty members, University black professors joined the fac­ $500,000 to help recruit and efforts are beginning to bear ulty and 18 have left. pay the salaries of new black fruit. Newprovost John Strohbehn, professors. The plan, passed by the Aca­ who took office last summer, "This enables us to move more demic Council last January, was very complimentary of the aggressively than we would resolved to double the number University's overall efforts. normally," said Roy Weintraub, of black professors during the "Duke has taken this issue very interim dean of the faculty of next 10 years. It came in the seriously and has been very or­ Arts and Sciences. wake of the failure to imple­ ganized in trying to develop pro­ The fund allows departments ment a 1988 resolution that grams to achieve this objective," to create new positions for called for each of the he said. promising black professors, in­ University's 56 hiring units to Several administrators and stead of limiting hiring to fill­ add at least one black faculty student leaders, however, cau­ ing departmental vacancies. member by last fall or docu­ tioned the University against The psychology department, ment why it could not. becoming complacent. for example, has been given Since last academic year, "I think bringing in seven permission to continue its seven black faculty members more [black scholars] goes a long evaluation of a prospective se­ have been hired within the way [but] I still think we need to nior-level black scholar who "spirit ofthe plan," said George do a lot more," said Trinityjun­ specializes in minority-family Wright, director ofthe African ior Shavar Jeffries, president of structure and its effects on psy­ and Afro-American Studies Pro­ the Black Student Alliance. The chological development, said gram and vice provost for Uni­ BSA organized protests last fall Philip Costanzo, chair of the versity programs. Five ofthese to draw attention to the prob­ department of psychology-so- appointments are tenure-track lem ofblack faculty recruitment See FACULTY on page 5 • BARRY PERSH/THE CHRONICLE THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1994 World and National Newsfile U.S. troops to protect Haitian civilians Associated Press By DOUGLAS JEHL American soldiers could use their weap­ The announcement came as the White Woman questioned: Police in N.Y. Times News Service ons to protect Haitian civilians, officials House searched for ways to keep the Phoenix questioned a woman be­ WASHINGTON — President Clinton added. mission from seeming to be allied with a lieved to be the mother of two small declared Wednesday that the United But they also said American forces government that it had vowed to over­ children whose decomposing bodies States would not tolerate more outbreaks would not intervene every time Haitian throw. were found in trash bags pulled out of police violence in Haiti, and announced police used truncheons to break up dem­ The administration also won a public of a sewer. that American military policemen would onstrations. "Thank you" from the exiled Haitian try to deter Haitian troops from using Judge rules: The detective in And while Clinton declared Wednes­ president, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand charge ofthe O.J. Simpson double-, unreasonable force. day afternoon that a repeat of Tuesday's Aristide, which may have helped to dis­ murder investigation recklessly mis­ Administration officials described the violence "cannot and will not be toler­ tance Washington from the de facto gov­ stated facts to get a search warrant, step as a response to concern that ated," he made plain that American ernment in Port-au-Prince. but Simpson's estate was suspicious Tuesday's brutal beatings had begun to forces were not ready to shoulder aside From early Wednesday morning, when enough to justify a search any way, a put the American military mission in Haiti's police forces. Lt. Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, the Ameri­ judge ruled. political jeopardy. He said the task of 1,000 American can commander in Haiti, granted inter­ They said American soldiers in Haiti MPs who arrived in Haiti on Wednesday views on three television networks, the Case Continues: The child mo­ were being told that they should not just would be "to moderate the conduct of administration sought all day to project lestation case against Michael Jack­ stand by and watch if people were being Haitian security forces without assum­ a harder line in its dealings with Haiti's son will hang over the entertainer's military leaders.
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