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rrn DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 104
DURHAM, N.C.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23,2004
WWW.CIIRONICLE.DUKE.EDU
Celebration Blue Devi Is handle Terrapins easily remembers Howard DUKE 86 I MARYLAND 65
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Jesse Shuger-Colvin THE CHRONICLE
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With a defense slightly tougher thah week-old bread an offense that found the bottom of the net time after time with long-range shots and powerful dunks from close, and, perhaps most importantly, a rocking and rolling Cameron Indoor Stadium filled with chants and cheers from wall to wall, Duke’s men’s hasketball team stifled visiting Maryland 86-63 in a cqmmanding fashion Sunday afternoon And on the heals of a nervous time, coming after back-toback losses to North Carolina State and Wake Forest last week—its only ACC defeats of the year—all is well again in Blue Devil Land. “Our guys really responded well to what’s happened this week, losing two really tough games,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We came out and, I thought, played really well today. We got back to playing better defense.” JJ. Redick paced the Blue Devils (22-3, 11-2 in the ACC) with an efficient day of marksmanship, making 6-of-10 shots, including 5-of-9 from three-point range, and teammate Shelden Williams logged a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds while freshmen Luol Deng added 17 in 24 minutes of play, including his
Skyward Darby THE CHRONICLE
Wearing T-shirts with the phrase “His legacy lives on” proudly displayed on the back, the Reginaldo Howard Scholars gathered with other Duke community members in Reynolds Auditorium Saturday to commemorate their scholarship’s namesake and discuss racial issues on campus. The scholars organized the first Reginaldo Howard Day celebration, “Acting Black; Racial Identity at Duke,’? in honor of Howard, the first African American elected president of a University student government organization, who died in a car accident in 1976 before he could take office. The scholarship established in his name provides full tuition awards annually to five freshmen of African heritage who exhibit excellence in academics, service and leadership. The scholars are currently working to transform their role on campus. “Last year, we decided we we were going to take a presence as a student organization and not just a scholarship group,” sophomore scholar Brandon Hudson said. “We want people to know who we are, and we want to discuss student issues and what it means to be student leaders.” Hudson said the goal of Saturday’s event was not only to acknowledge BETSY MCDONALD/THE CHRONK
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Luol Deng scored 17 points as Duke defeated Maryland Sunday afternoon in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
later meaning of Santilldn case still debated
Margaux Kanis and Liana Wyler THE CHRONICLE
One year ago this past Saturday, Jesica Santillan died at Duke University Hospital after a second heart-lung transplant that was intended to correct an initial organ transplantation incompatible with her blood type. Although investigations ultimately determined that a failure to communicate basic information between more than a dozen people across multiple organizations was responsible for the Santillan incident, members of the medical community continue to reflect on the events surrounding her death. A major point of contention for DUH
was the role of the media in publicizing the Santillan story, in which the credibility of the hospital and Dr. James Jaggers, the surgeon who performed the transplants, was severely damaged. “[The Santillan case] is just made for the media,” said Frank Sloan, director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, J. Alexander McMahon professor of health policy and management, and professor of economics. “Here was a young, vulnerable person at this very powerful establishment, and there was a mistake.” The aggressive media coverage of the Santillan case led the public to believe that
medical errors are a rarity, medical student James Langheier said. ‘The tone of the media distracted the public. People think this never happens anywhere, but the number ofmedical errors actually made is absurd,” he said. The media, combined with the Santillan family’s “colorful” spokesperson Mack Mahoney, who Sloan said fed the media the Santillan situation as a “real, live human-interest piece,” made DUH the poster child for medical irresponsibility. “If it had not been Duke, there would have been less attention,” Sloan said. “If it were someone who was 80 years old, the news wouldn’t have covered it. The irony is
that medical errors happen all the time. And while [the Santillan situation] was happening, there could have been more errors elsewhere for the media to report.” In addition to the media, others involved in the situation highlighted the role Jaggers played in the Santillan case and emphasized that he should be blamed for the mistake. In an interview on the television show “60 Minutes” following Santillan’s death, Associate Professor of thoracic surgery Dr. Duane Davis identified his colleague as the source of the transplantation problems. “The initial misSEE SANTILLAN ON PAGE 16
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on-site review of Duke's transplant program.
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