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SUMMER PREVIEW, SEE PAGE 5 Friday Vol. SOB, No. 129, 20 pages Duke University Durham, North "Carolina Free Circulation: 15,000 THE CHRONICLE Newsfile Botany chairman to replace Friedl Budget comprimise: Abudgetto reduce projected spending in 1986 by $52 By TOWNSEND DAVIS Friedl said White will probably continue billion and by almost $300 billion over Richard White, botany department chair ongoing projects such as the curriculum three years was approved by Senate man and teacher here for 22 years, has been review, recruiting development, coordina Republican leaders and the Reagan selected to replace Ernestine Friedl as dean tion with student affairs and fundraising. administration. The president agreed to of Trinity College. More generally, she said, "I think it would the compromise plan, which halves his "I thought it would be a good opportunity be important to create a more prominent requested increase for the Pentagon and to work for the University as it enters a image for Trinity College." drops his opposition to limits in Social flexible period," White said in an interview White has chaired a trustees committee Security increases for three years in March 25 following his nomination. on faculty-student relations and served as exchange for the elimination of many The recent ascension of a new University vice chairman of the Academic Council domestic programs. president, provost, Board of Trustees chair Executive Committee from 1982 to 1984. man and himself as dean, White said, will He has also served on University commit Reagan peace plan: President make consensus decisions more likely. He tees on Rhodes Scholarship selection, the Reagan offered a peace plan for Central said as dean he would also address admis BETH BFtANCH/THE CHRONICLE Talent Identification Program, the Duke- America. His proposal coupled a call for sions demographics and residential life. Richard White, botany department chairman, Durham Fellow Program and residential talks between the Nicaraguan govern The appointment will be official pending is expected to replace retiring Dean Ernestine life, among others. ment and the U.S.-backed rebels with a approval by the Executive Committee of Friedl. White has been on sabbatical this year request to Congress to approve $14 Board of Trustees today. he will have wide acceptance by the faculty." writing in Scotland, and has completed million in aid for the insurgents. Reagan White will address upcoming changes in Lewin said curriculum reform would three chapters of a book on a British called for a cease-fire until June 1 in Trinity College, such as advising, cur continue to be a major issue for the dean botanist, tentatively titled "F.O. Bower: Nicaragua. See page 2. riculum review, student-faculty interaction and the faculty, along with the development Theory and Experiment in Plant Morpho and faculty recruitment, Provost Phillip of a "new emphasis on Arts and Sciences logy." He is currently studying in Greece. Tulane cuts hoops: Tuiane Griffiths said last week. "I think the other as the core of the University." White said he favored a full-scale cur University plans to drop its basketball major component will be developing the "I think it's an excellent choice," said riculum review, though he has "no precon program in the wake of a point-shaving faculty, especially junior faculty." Friedl, who was not involved in the selec ceived ideas" about specific changes. He scandal. The announcement occurred "We had a number of strong candidates, tion. "His strengths are his ability to be said some faculty had expressed concern just before indictments were returned both internal and external, and among diplomatic. He's an animated person. More that four courses per semester is too few to against three players and five others. See them I think Dick had the qualities we were importantly, he is quite efficient and has a get a broad education, though he acknow page 18. looking for," Griffiths said. "He best fit the deep commitment to students and faculty." ledged that students might react negatively job." Friedl, 64, will retire Aug. 15, but will to a requirement increase. Mexican drug bust: A suspect in "He'll make an outstanding dean," Arie remain here as an anthropology professor. He said that though three of the top the killing of a U.S drug agent was Lewin, Academic Council chairman, said She came to Duke in 1973 as anthropology administrators for next year - himself, captured by the Costa Rican police. The Thursday. "He has a broad perspective on department chairman and has been Trinity Griffiths and University President-elect suspect, Rafael Caro Quintero, is the University, he's always been concerned dean since 1980. Deans typically serve five- Keith Brodie — are natural scientists, they believed by authorities to be one of the with undergraduate education and I think year terms. See WHITE on page 4 major figures in Mexico's cocaine and marijuana traffic. U.S. in mideast talks: The latest Emigre addresses Soviet mentality Middle East peace initiatives of Jordan and Egypt will involve the United States in a more direct diplomatic role, Reagan By DOUG MAYS declaration of good: 'be honest,' 'be modest'" Another reason for the differing Soviet administration officials said. Secretary There are distinct differences between the - a less absolute code allowing room for mentality is that urban dwellers must live of State George Shultz is planning to mentalities of the average American and ambiguities. The official interpretation is in crowded conditions. Cramped living visit the Middle East himself next Soviet citizens, according to Russian emigre that a person should not lie to friends or to conditions and reliance on public trans month if an envoy reports progress. Dimitry Mikheyev. Mikheyev spoke on cam the party, but should "kill or cheat the portation create friction, "resulting in a pus to 40 people Thursday on "How Rus enemy, and steal from the capitalist," he more negative perception of other people sians Think." said. and the perception of life as a struggle," Weather "Deep, profound misunderstandings" arise Yet in daily life, the official code may be Mikheyev said. Love, exciting and new: Weil, on the most elementary levels because of twisted. "A black marketeer could be your These perceptions make Soviets "very it's Gregory Peck's birthday but he's not different interpretations of ordinary terms, friend, not a party member. People cautious in dealing with others." Unlike the very funny. You know who's funny? Mikheyev said. develop their own special functional code," American habit of "going straight to the Gavin MacLeod is funny, but it's not his For example, Americans think of "bal Mikheyev said. "The area of overlap point," Soviets "think the real, deep, birthday. So, in case you're interested, ance" in military terms; for the Soviets, he [between the two codes] is very small." See SOVIETS on page 4 here's the weather report. Tbday will be said, balance between the East and West in partly cloudy with winds at 15-25 mph volves economics, technology and demo (knots?). Highs on the Promenade deck graphics. should climb aboard into the mid 80s. One reason for this difference lies in the Soviet emigre relates hardship Tonight lows should be in the 60s. contrasting "processes of integration of a Unfortunately, there's a 40 percent person to society." In the United States, By CORNELIA GRUMMAN Levitt's "Russian Prison Camp Litera chance of showers and thunderstorms Mikheyev said, there are five major forces Four years of Rat burgers, baked ziti ture" seminar and described what six Saturday. Highs for Saturday will be in acting on a person: church, family, school, and East-West buses may be torture for years of isolation behind the walls of the 70s. television and the "street" or "reality." many Duke students, but the experi prison camp number 37 was like. After Despite differences among these influences, ences of a Soviet emigre may lend a new obtaining an exit visa, Mikheyev estab "they still create [for the American] a more perspective to such complaints. lished himself in 1976 as a free-lance or less coherent perception of the world." Dimitry Mikheyev, a tall, graying writer and broadcaster for the Voice of Announcement "In the Soviet Union there is no one set physicist, served six years of hard labor America. He lives in Arlington, of rules, no universal picture" Mikheyev in camp for political prisoners squeezed Virginia. The Executive Committee of the Board said. Family, reality and official institutions among the Ural mountains in the Soviet The purpose of these camps is not to of Trustees will meet this morning to are the main influences there, and the com Union. convert dissenters to communism, but to consider, among other decisions, the bination results in "two, sometimes He was arrested in 1969 while trying intimidate the West as well as the Soviet appointment of a new dean of Trinity opposing sets of codes." to escape from the Soviet Union by population, according to Mikheyev. College and a new student identification Mikheyev, who spent six years in a Soviet posing as a Swiss tourist after distribu "They play the same role as nuclear card that could also double as a meal prison camp for trying to leave the country, ting underground publications. What fol weaponry and Soviet tanks at the bor card and be used in stores around compared the ways the two societies im lowed was a highly publicized trial in ders," he said. campus. press morals upon their people. "The basic which Soviet courts used Mikheyev as an Food, the Soviet exile said, was con The committee meets in months when principle of Judaic-Christian ethics are the example to Soviet youths of a good boy stantly on the minds of camp prisoners.

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