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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 103
Alum seeks growth Giving rate tops last year's for nursing school by
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work on a new Ph.D. program in nursing and the construction of a new nursing facility. The new degree was approved last December, and Gilliss said it will begin in Fall 2006, shortly after the completion of the building’s construction. The doctorate program will prepare nursing scientists for academic careers while attracting research faculty, grants and publications. “[At] a place like Duke, where we understand that knowledge can be applied in the service of humanity, a career like nursing makes a lot of sense,” Gilliss Said. “Nursing is a knowl-
Catherine Gilliss, Duke’s new dean of the School of Nursing, can barely contain her excitement when she describes her vision for the future of nursing at the University. Holding a photo of herself in a nurse’s starched white cap and blue shirtwaist dress with “DU” embroidered on the collar, Gilliss compares her days at Duke as a nursing major in an undergraduate program on the decline to the rapidly expand32nd-ranked nursing ing, school she hopes to bring to the top 10 within five years. “My return this time is really thrilling,” said Gilliss, Nursing ’7l. “It’s very exciting to come back to my own alma mater at a time when my own alma mater is really ready to break into the top-tier schools. It deserves a place in the top tier, and I’m very confident that we’ll be there in short order.” Since her August appointment to replace Mary Champagne as nursing dean, Gilliss has transitioned from her most re-
The University is well on its way to reaching its goal of raising $270 million by the end June. Robert Shepard, vice president for university development, said Duke is 10 to 15 percent closer than they were at this time last year to reaching their goal for the fiscal year. Despite the lack of an official, large scale campaign—such as the Campaign for Duke, which raised more than $2.3 billion between 1996 and 2003—the University continues to set ambitious goals. There are, however, certain features unique to large scale efforts, such as a University-wide
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en that knowledge through a “trajectories of care” philosophy focused on quality of life issues, Gilliss will also be involved in the major decision-making processes at Duke University Health System. Her appointment as both dean of the nursing school and vice chancellor SEE NURSING ON PAGE 6
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Students who work at the Annual Fund calling drive solicit donations from alumni and othermembers of the Duke community Thursday evening.
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Malcolm Gladwell wants to remove the accused from courtrooms, separate boys and girls in math classes and mandate that students wear school uniforms —all to help eliminate the biases that influence people’s snap judgements. Wearing blue sneakers with neon yellow shoestrings and gesturing energetically to an audience at the Sanford Institute for Public Policy Thursday night, the quirky bestselling author and journalist for The New Yorker discussed his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which explores the concept of
rapid cognition.
Just warming up Mistie Williams and Alison Bales smother the Miami offense in Thursday night’s 95-61 blowout in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils will look to carry the same energy into Sunday’s Tobacco Road showdown when the Tar Heels come to town.
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Author rails against bias by
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and volunteers who take ownership [of the project],” Shepard said. “Without that type of campaign focus, it can be hard to maintain momentum.” Thus far, though the University has had more than kept pace. Hank Woods, associate director
Using anecdotes, humor and references to current social dilemmas, Gladwell analyzed the process of making judgements and decisions on the spur of the moment. “This kind of instantaneous decision making is absolutely central to the way we make sense of the world,” he said. people make bad snap judgments, Gladwell said, because they are blinded cognitive
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Author and journalist Malcolm Gladwelladdresses a crowd at Sanford Thursday night.
predilections —such as racial or gender bias—or overloaded with
information that burdens their mental capacities. Changing this trend and removing bias from judgement require boosting individual awareness and altering the context in which people make decisions, not “changing the hearts of the decision makers,” Gladwell explained. “We are powerfully attracted to these biases, and they are not easy to dislodge,” he said. “The only way we can effectively dis-
lodge them is to make some kind of systematic structure change.”
Gladwell told a story of a female trombone player who auditioned for a philharmonic symphony in the early 1980 and was selected as a member of the historically male organization because there happened to be a screen between die musicians and the judges the day she auditioned. Gladwell said the situation exemplified the kind of institutional
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