THE CHRONICLE MONDAY. MARCH 23, 1987 ' DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 82. NO. 120 Computer accelerates towing By KATHY NOONEY used to take her staff weeks can now be Computers are making life easier for done overnight. "In terms of automation, everyone,'almost. neatness and clarity. I think it's been a According to Elizabeth Campbell, ad­ real improvement," she said. ministrative services manager at Public According to a pamphlet given to car- Safety, a system installed at her office in owners upon registration. Traffic Control 1985 is just now enabling her traffic con­ will impound unregistered vehicles trol staff to track down, notify and tow receiving more than four citations, regis­ car-owners who have violated university tered vehicles receiving six citations in a parking regulations. twelve-month period and found illegally "This is the first year we've taken full parked and vehicles suspended from advantage of their capabilities." Campbell parking on campus. said ofthe computers. The pamphlet says parking privileges Consequently, Traffic Control has sus­ can be suspended for 120 days after a car- pended a record high 225 cars from park­ owner has received four or more fire lane ing on campus, according to Campbell. citations, four or more moving violation She said last year the number of suspen­ citations or a combination ofthe two total­ sions issued was "somewhere in the hun­ ing four in a 12-month period. Car-owners dred mark." And the 40 letters sent to car- who receive 10 or more citations in a 12- owners by certified mail last week, noti­ month period, remove a permit from an­ fying violators of suspension, set another other vehicle, use a removed permit, or record. Furthermore, Campbell said her register in a fraudulent manner are sus­ SUSAN HELMS/THE CHRONICLE office has "definitely" been towing more pended for 90 days. Dancing Din? this year and believes last year's mark — However, the recent surge of activity at No, the Dancing Devils haven't gone co-ed, but the Pitch Forks executed 800 cars towed -— will be surpassed. Traffic Control is catching some car- some fancy footwork Saturday night at the annual Devil's Din Spring concert. Clifton Brown, finance clerk at the East owners off-guard. Campbell said students Campus post office noted the volume of and employees complain to her they have certified mail from Traffic Control "has violated rules several times in past years increased considerably since the later half with no consequences and now suddenly of February." have been towed or suspended from And James Vickers, owner of the parking. wrecker service Traffic Control contracts In defense of Tn.ffic Control's apparent Pub board officer resigns to tow vehicles, said his business has in­ "reign of terror," Campbell said, "This is creased "maybe 10 percent since school not to say more couldn't have been sus­ ByTHERESE MAHER began this semester," pended in the past, but it was such an or­ In a letter of resignation to the publica­ Traffic Control uses the computers to deal from an administrative standpoint tions board last week, former finance of­ compile and print out a list of all cars hav­ that it just didn't get done as often. This is ficer Rick Kuhlman calls for "a complete ing more than six tickets in one year, paid progress." and independent evaluation ofthe publi­ or not, and from that list assembles a tow Rachel Braun said she did not exactly cations board and the publications under list. She said the first list includes more see this as progress. The Trinity senior its jurisdiction." than 15 percent of all registered cars on was notified of suspension when Kuhlman, also a Student Organizations campus. Campbell then uses the system Campbell's computer tracked down her Commission member since February, to print out letters to notify car owners on unregistered car several weeks ago. resigned because he was disatisfied with the tow list who have had their parking Braun, who received many parking tick- the board's performance this year. "So as privileges suspended. She said a job that See PARKING on page 4 to best effect these changes, while at the same time ensuring that I am meeting the desires of my constituents, I feel that I must withdraw from this board." the let­ Landers, Koppel land degrees ter says. "In all good conscience, I cannot continue to serve a cause which I cannot SUSAN HELMS/THE CHRONICtE fully support and do not have full confi­ From staff reports dence in." Rick Kuhlman, SOC member, resigned from the pub board. Along with commencement speaker Ted Publications board chair Denise DiBlasi Koppel. Ann Landers, a syndicated advice could not be reached for comment this He cites the tight financial position of all columnist whose real name is Eppie weekend. the board's publications and unfamiliarity Lederer, will receive an honorary doctor Kuhlman says that he believes he can with each publication's readership as two of humane letters from the University at best help to reform the board externally. major problems facing the board. graduation this year. "I felt as though I was one person working "The board must know how its publica­ The other honorary degree recipients against a group of the editors and other tions are being received so as to ensure are R. David Thomas, Mary Good and members." he said in an interview yester­ that it is meeting its primary responsibil­ Thomas Powell. day. "I didn't have any influence." ity to the members of this community," he Koppel, anchor of the news program In addition to an independent external says. "The publications could quite possi­ "Nightline", has worked for ABC News for review, Khulman says the board should bly be 'wasting' student money because over 20 years. He was cited by Time mag­ evaluate itself to determine its specific they cannot clearly identify their read­ azine as "the best serious interviewer on role. "This board has, in my view, done ership." American TV." these publications somewhat of a disser­ Kuhlman also suggests expanding AS­ Landers, whose column appears in vice by operating in the manner that it DU's legislation governing the body to en­ more than 1,000 newspapers, reaching has in the past year," the letter says. sure it functions properly. about 85 million readers, was the keynote "I think many of the problems could An alternate member will fill his speaker in last year's ground breaking of position, among ten appointed to the have been dealt with in a more construc­ the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Research UPI PHOTO board, until its expiration May 1, accord­ tive and positive manner had the frame­ Building, where Alzheimer's disease will Advice columnist Ann Landers will ing to ASDU president Jan Nolting. work which already exists been utilized." be studied. receive an honorary degree at gradua­ Thomas, the founder of Wendy's Old tion. Fashioned Hamburgers, will receive a Weather doctor of laws. Thomas serves on the Inside Board of Vistors for the Fuqua School of sity of New Orleans and Louisiana State Business and has donated $4 million for University. X-rated cartoons: What happens Classes end: in a month. So start five weeks of fun-filled study under Fuqua's planned executive conference Powell, who will receive a doctor of sci­ when you put advertising together center. mostly sunny skies with highs in the ence, earned a doctorate in zoology from with cartoon-making, Monday, Mon­ upper 60s and light winds. Try the gar­ Good, president of Signal Research the University in 1930 and went on to day uncovers some possibilities for dens for chemistry or Wally Wade for Center, will be given a doctor of science. found Carolina Biological Supply Co. of your Saturday morning viewing that international relations. Fair tonight She was named 1982's Industrial Scien­ Burlington. His company now has 300 could rival Gumby 'page 7). and increasingly cloudy tomorrow. tist of the Year by Industrial Research employees and annual sales of more than magazine and has taught at the Univer- $20 million. Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Monday, March 23,1987 Our Town Master Housewright honors woodworking in film, print By ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ ery other weekend from April to Novem­ Ask Roy Underhill of television's "The ber. He also writes, and has published Woodwright's Shop" what led to his 18th three books to date: The Woodwright's century career as Master Housewright at Shop (19801, The Woodwright's Compan­ Colonial Williamsburg, and he'll spin an ion (1983) and The Woodwright's Work­ improbable yarn. book (1986). "I was born in the mountains of Wash­ Despite this dizzying schedule. Under­ ington. D.C. When I was eleven my mama bill is currently developing still more proj­ gave me a hatchet," said the Duke School ects with Colonial Williamsburg, includ­ of Forestry graduate (M.A, 1977). "Some ing magazines and children's programs. people say I like working in the woods be­ Soon to appear will be a new historical cause it's close to nature, but they're quarterly. The Journal of Historic Trades. wrong. It's because trees are evil — and Underhill did not set out to be an 18th ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ/THE CHRONICLE need to be punished." century woodworker. His bachelor's Roy Underhill, Master Housewright, reconstructs 18th century buildings. Joking aside, Underhill mostly remem­ degree in Fine Arts from the University of bers riding the D.C. trolley cars in '55-'56 North Carolina in 1972 led not to fame or but admits to at least one formative influ­ fortune but a stint with a theater troupe ence from a childhood in the nation's cap­ in Colorado and New Mexico.