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WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION Thursday June 6, 1985 Volume SOB. Number 5 Duke University Durham,"North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Hanes crossing finished by fall By PAUL GAFFNEY State, city and University officials predict the road construction at the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive will be nearly complete by the time North Campus resi dents arrive in August. Erwin Road will be widened to four lanes from its inter section with the East-West Expressway to Duke Hospital North. The intersection with Trent Drive - the location of Trent Drive Dormitory, Hanes House and Hanes Annex Dormitory - is between these twb points. The widened road means Hanes Annex residents - 103 freshmen and resident advisors - must cross four lanes instead of two to walk to the bus stop or West Campus. But there are no immediate plans to abandon Hanes Annex as an undergraduate dormitory. "Hopefully, we will be at an advanced stage of construc tion at Trent Drive and Erwin Road by mid-August," said Bobby Downs, resident engineer for the Erwin Road project. The widened road will not adversely affect Hanes Annex, Downs said. "I wouldn't see any problem with the dorm. The speed limit is 35 m.p.h." he said, though he added the situation is "not the most advantageous." The University is examining the future of Hanes Annex See NORTH on page 4 Weather Barney Jones to preach in Chapel It's not the heat . .: And its not the humidity, either. It's the com Former religion professor evaJuates a changing campus bination of both that makes you sweat By SHANNON MULLEN sity," Jones said. "I find it difficult to define profusely all day. So where do you go for the present soul of the University." break? The Club at Central Campus, of Former students of Barney Jones, the course. Tomorrow's heat will continue retired religion professor who will inau "We are following the course of other elite into .the weekend, with highs in the gurate the Chapel's 50th anniversary cele universities but we don't have their tradi upper 80s and low 90s and a chance of bration with a sermon there Sunday, have tion, or their endowment," he said. "We no showers and thunderstorms. not forgotten him since he left Duke in longer espouse in a religious way what was 1983. In fact, they won't leave him alone. so important to the founder." "I attended the wedding of one of my A university's road to advancement is students in March and I'm going to another through research and'publication, Jones Inside student's wedding in August," Jones said in said. But in order to pursue advancement a phone interview Tuesday. Several of his Duke has severed its ties to the United Sanford returns: University Presi- former students spent last weekend with Methodist Church, which Duke is how dent Tferry Sanford is back at Duke after him and his wife Marjorie at their shore- with only as a "formality," Jones traveling for two weeks in the Soviet front home on Long Island. Jones met 20 Union and Europe. For details on his of his students for dinner earlier this spring. Jones, who often wrote as many as six trip, see page 2, Jones is happy students have kept in student recommendations a day, said touch with him. "Tb be remembered even faculty members can no longer afford to be Summer Session: The Summer for a semester is a distinction," he said. "It's personal in their teaching. Every hour a Session Office is calling this year's reciprocal. I haven't forgotten about them. young instructor spends with a student program a success, though not all Stu And they know that." damages the instructor's effort to acquire dents are satisfied with the classes The good natured sincerity and personal STAFF PHOTO tenure, he said. "That's blunt but it's true," offered. See page 3. ized teaching style that has endeared Jones Barney Jones, retired religion professor, he added. "The University is locked into to his former students characterized the 36 will inaugurate the celebration of the that system and I'm critical of it." Student health: The new student years he spent at at Duke, beginning in Chapel's 50th anniversary Sunday. "Had I come to Duke in the last decade health director, Dr. Howard Eisenson, 1938 as an undergraduate. It was his love I would have been dismissed from the Uni plans no major changes in the student for Duke - and Duke students - that "While' I was at Duke I felt it was quite versity [because of the individualized and health program next year. See page 4. brought Jones back to teach religion in different from other schools," Jones said. time-consuming attention he gave to stu 1948 and kept him here until his retire "Because Duke wasn't too big there was a dents]" he said. Alumni Weekend: Approximately ment. close bond between the students and the The University's quest for academic excel 1,500 alumni are expected on campus for. Another opportunity to meet with some administrators. You could speak of Duke as lence is "absolutely essential," but it is not Alumni Weekend. For details of the of his former students prompts Jones' a family. necessary to sever Duke's "religious moor event, see page 5. return to campus this weekend to inaugu "There was an unapologetic moral strand ings" to achieve that, he added. rate the Chapel's golden anniversary cele that ran through everything in the Univer Ironically, an endowment effort is under He'S back: Chronicle columnist- bration. Meeting his students "will be the sity - the classroom, the faculty, the stu way to establish a professorship of Ameri turned-newswriter Ed Farrell returns to highlight of the weekend," he said. dents," Jones said. "The Chapel of course can Christianity in Jones' honor as part of his editorial page form with a look at one "Students > don't change," Jones said. symbolized it." the $200 million Capital Campaign for the of the Souths favorite sports, automobile "What changes is the environment in which Because of his pride in its uniqueness, Arts and Sciences. racing. See page 11. they were brought up." Students today are Jones "loved Duke to the point of being "Without the endowment it's not at all criticized for questing financial security, uncritical about it." Since then, however, certain that niche in the curriculum will U.S. News on campus: us. but their concerns, Jones said, are justified. Duke has lost its uniqueness, he said. He continue," he said. "I hope it's successful. I News and World Report is planning to "I have the highest regard for the students said he will criticize the University in his don't count many multi-millionaires among publish an article on the integrity of I've met. If they are any exemplar, I believe sermon Sunday for allowing this to happen. my intimate friends." Duke's athletic program. See page 17. the University is in very good shape. My "President Few [Duke's first president] He does, however, count millions of concern is, 'Are we worthy of them?' used to speak about the soul of the Univer friends. •% Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Thursday, June 6, 1985 What I did on my break Griffith studies life at other schools Sanford visits USSR with ITT fellows By ED FARRELL By ED FARRELL The grass may not always look greener Having already visited Lenin's Tomb on elsewhere, but according to William a previous trip to the Soviet Union, Univer Griffith, vice president for student affairs, sity President Terry Sanford decided to skip "it's always good for us to visit schools, see it this time around. Mrs. Sanford wasn't as what the grass looks like on the other side lucky. "She may be the only American that's and share those thoughts with associates" gone through Lenin's Tomb twice," Sanford For the first time since he -joined the said. University administration in 1954, Griffith The Sanfords visited the Soviet Union took a sabbatical last fall to study student with 25 college graduates in the Interna affairs offices at Rice and Cornell. tional Fellowship Program, of which San Griffith, who was ill for two months of ford is chairman. The program is sponsored that time, also spent much of the semester by International Telephone and Tblegraph. working with the University Archives and In two weeks Sanford will meet in New his own files to reconstruct some of the more York with the ITT fellows' foreign counter interesting events of the 1960s and '70s: the JANE RIBADENEYRA/THE CHRONICLE parts, who will study in the United States. Allen Building takeover, the vigil held after ALICE ADAMS;THE CHRONICLE William Griffith, vice president of student __ven halfway around the worid, the San University President Terry Sanford Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and affairs fords were not far from home. "We saw the reactions to the war in Vietnam and 30 Duke students that are studying in fellows' itinerary included a tour of Moscow Cambodia. students," Griffith said. "My opinion was Leningrad," he said. "We had them come University, a briefing at the American His visits to Cornell and Rice gave reinforced in my experience with Rice." over to the hotel one day and drink a bottle embassy, meetings with Soviet officials and Griffith some ideas he may implement at Griffith attended staff meetings and met of champagne." correspondents from The New York Times Duke. For example, he realized the Univer with his counterparts at these colleges and As chairman of the American Council of and The Philadelphia Inquirer and tours of sity needs a "career center" rather than a plans to visit other schools when the need Young Political Leaders, Sanford met with the Kremlin, Red Square, St.

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