The Chronicle Duke negotiates deal to end day care crisis � A private company will run the YMCA facility, which will reopen to children this Wednesday.
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Holocaust ads renew Dr. Drew revisionism debates
damns drinking at Duke By ALEX SUNDSTROM The Chronicle
MTV doctor-in-residence Drew Pinsky, known for his openness about sex on the hit show Loveline, is much less liberal when it comes to drinking. At a Sunday talk in Griffith Film Theater, Dr. Drew cited the November death of a Pratt junior from aspiration pneumonia as part of a discussion about why
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Much ofhistory is taught as simple fact, especially about something as horrific as the Holocaust. But some groups contest even the most widely accepted notions about the fate of Jews during World War 11. Any time such ideas surface, controversy follows close behind. The California-based Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust recently brought its ideas to Wake Forest University by publishing a pamphlet in the schooFs student newspaper, The Old Gold and Black. The 24-page pamphlet questioned the facts of the Holocaust through essays that doubted the existence of gas chambers and challenged the extent to which Jews were murdered. The pamphlet has created an uproar at Wake Forreminiscent of events at Duke in 1991, after The Chronicle published a one-page advertisement from the CODOH. These ads, which have appeared in numerous college papers across the country, have generated debates about the validity of Holocaust revision-18111 as a scholarly field, the extent of open debate in 80 academic community and the newspaper’s role.
structure is needed to curb college drinking. “Each institution needs to make up its mind on this [alcohol abuselDr. Drew said. “I’ve been in institutions who choose education. I’ve been in institutions where they’ve gone dry overnight. The ones that have had zero tolerance have overall done better.” Defending the current drinking age of 21, Dr. Drew noted that when the drinking age was raised to 20 in Massachussetts —where he went to college—the amount of alcohol abuse decreased. “When I went to college, the drinking age was 18, and it was not good,” he said. College campuses, Dr. Drew added, are hotbeds of alcohol abuse —a trend that concerns him for many
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What is Holocaust revisionism?
Holocaust revisionist theoiy denies what most See HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM on page 6
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“Over the past week, we began investigating options,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. “Because Duke doesn’t have any expertise in child care, we thought this was the By STEVEN WRIGHT best solution.” The Chronicle Mindy Kornberg, director of staff and After days of negotiation, the labor relations in the Office of Human University has brokered a solution Resources, said the University felt the that will reopen the YMCA Early transfer was necessary in order to reLearning Center day care solve the stalemate beprogram and end a sixtween striking teachers and day teacher walkout. the administration of the Duke officials announced Greater Durham YMCA. Friday that Nashville“When it became evident based Bright Horizons the teachers weren’t comSolutions—a Family ing back, it became clear to leading provider of workus Duke would have to do site child care—will take everything,” said Kornberg. over the ELC, which The center has been should reopen for stuclosed since April 24, when dents Wednesday. ■ teachers walked out to Under the plan, nei- Tallman IrasK protest the firing of Interther the YMCA nor Duke ini Director Karenne Berry, will run the center. Instead, the They protested again throughout the University will continue to pay following week, refusing to return until $400,000 annually to reserve 120 YMCA President David Byrd resigned spots for children of employees. and Berry was reinstated. The 80 spots not currently reSince then, the center has had a seserved by the University will still See YMCA on page 5 �
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MTV’S DR. DREW PINSKY condemned binge drinking during a Sunday visit to the University.
“A single episode of binge drinking is associated with a marked drop in academic performance a week after the binge,” he said. Dr. Drew, medical director for the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, Calif, noted that other countries’ lax policies on alcohol use can cause substantial problems. “France has the highest incidence of cirrhotic liver disease in the world,” he said. A cultural emphasis on “thrill mechanisms” generally contributes to problems like alcohol and drug See DR. DREW on page 7 P*
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