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Renowned global health expert Dr. Paul Farmer, Trinity ’B2, returned to his alma mater Tuesday night to deliver the inaugural Global Health Lecture in front of a packed Page Auditorium. Farmer, the founding director of Partners in Health, a charitable organization that has helped to eliminate health disparities in resource-deprived settings, was dubbed the “poster boy of our aspirations” by presenter President Richard Brodhead. “Paul has dedicated his life to treating the world’s poorest populations and helped to improve their standard of living,” Dr. Michael Merson, director of the Global Health Institute, said when introducing Farmer. “But what is most important to us is that Paul is a Dukie.” In his speech, entitled “Rethinking Health and Human Rights,” Farmer urged audience members with equal parts candor and humor to think of access to health care as a fundamental human right rather than solely an economic concern. “When we talk about global health, we’re talking about equity. We’re talking about access. We’re talking about fairness and justice,” Farmer said. “We’re talking about the notion that there should be certain rights—the right to clean water, the right to education, the
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Although chaos sometimes characterizes Last Day ofClasses T-shirt distribution, umbrella-bearing students filed neatly into the Clocktower Quadrangle to get theirfree apparel. The remaining shirts—supplied by Campus Council and the Duke University Union—will be available this afternoon.
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The Durham Police Department exonerated senior Eric Halperin less than a month after he was arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana and possession of marijuana with the intent to sell, but his name always will remain under a cloud of suspicion on the world’s largest stage: the World Wide Web. A Google search of the key words “Eric Halperin” and “Duke” returns dozens of links related to the charges, ranging from news articles charting the course of the case to blogs sounding offon DPD’s handling of the investigation. “On the Internet, the fact of this charge is indelible and will never be erased,” said Bill Thomas, Halperin’s lawyer. “There’s an old adage, ‘Where do I go to get my reputation back?’ The answer is there’s no place you can go.” Thomas said the charges couldaffect Halperin’s immediatefuture as he decides where he will attend law school. Applicants to graduate and professional schools are required to disclose any criminal charges filed against them, even if they have been dropped. Halperin said he had applied and been accepted to several law schools at the time of his arrest. He declined to confirm whether he has since notified the institutions of SEE CHARGES ON PAGE 6
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Global health activist Dr. Paul Farmer,Trinity'B2, discusses human rights Monday in Page Auditorium.
For the past three years, the planned renovation of the 200acre Central Campus has undergone several different changes, leaving many members of the community wondering why the process has taken so long. Since being proposed in 2005, the Central Campus face lift has transformed into the current plan for “New Campus,” but University officials said the amount of time spent so far is not anomalous. “It’s a lengthier process than planning a singlebuilding,” President Richard Brodhead said. “The really important thing is for us to take the trouble to get the idea right before we build it, because when we build it we’ll have the powerful addition to campus we had in mind.” In September 2006, the Phase I development concept plan, which Elkus Manfredi Architects helped draft, was approved by theBoard of Trustees. However, instead oflaunching into construction, the University sought a second opinion, said Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, who has been working with Executive Vice President SEE CAMPUS ON PAGE 8
The Feb. 2008 plan for New Campusfocuses on extending West Campus.Since 2000, the blueprints for a renovated campus have changed severaltimes.