Local School Boards Ponder Merger Hammes Named Vice Chancellor Economic Sanctions Will Be Lifted ASDU Concludes Year
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THE CHRONICLE LeO TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86, NO. 135 Local school boards ponder merger By PEGGY KRENDL •6. Taxes that people in the The basic __5%___cture of a new districts pay for the school sys school system merging Durham tem have to be coordinated to the City and Durham County schools new school board; could be unveiled at a meeting on •7. A public hearing on the April 17. merger has to be held 10 days The meeting is the second to before the merger is approved; be held between the two school •8. An election date for public systems on the merger. The approval of the merger has to be county commissioners asked the set; two systems to devise a plan for •9. Conditions necessary to merger in January. create an orderly administration, The first meeting was held on such as school districts, must be March 27. The school boards de organized. cided to split into three subcom A representative from Stanton mittees to work out the nine school Leggett and Associates, a busi merger requirements under state ness in New York that specializes law. The subcommittees will re in advising on school mergers, STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE port on their progress on fulfilling will also present information on Becky Heron the state requirements. demographics for the new system The nine requirements are: during Wednesday's meeting, "The two systems cost too much •1. A name must be given to said Joy Baldwin, the chair ofthe now. The state has to pay for the the new system underthe merger; county board. extra personnel under the two • 2. A date for the merger must The merger also has significant systems," said Becky Heron, a be set; financial implications. Last week county commissioner, who added •3. The structure of the new the county commissioners turned that Durham County is building school board needs to be developed down the Durham City Schools' new schools while some Durham and organized; request for $500,000 to cover a City classrooms are empty. •4. The authority, power and budget shortfall this year. Though Fred Hill of Stanton Leggett CHRISTINE KEMPER/THE CHRONICLE duties ofthe school board must be the system will bring its financial and Associates said during the Trashed defined; problems into the merger, most March 27 meeting that if the officials think the merger will save Cl. customers have apparently found a site for the new • 5. The school properties, titles systems merged, it could save the the new system money in the long state $13 million annually. Durham landfill. and liabilities have to be trans ferred to the new school board; run. See MERGER on page 6 • Hammes named vice chancellor ASDU concludes From staff reports planning. laude from Princeton University Gordon Hammes, vice chan "Dr. Hammes is a noted scien in 1956, Hammes received his year; elects chairs cellor for academic affairs at the tist, scholar and scientific ad Ph.D. from the University of University of California at Santa ministrator as well as a fine hu Wisconsin in 1959. He taught at By DOUGLAS BUSH Barbara, has been named vice man being," Snyderman said. "He the Massachusetts Institute of chancellor for academic affairs has a keen sense for what we Technology from 1960 to 1965 The speaker of the legisla and professor of biochemistry at hope to accomplish here, and I before moving to Cornell as a full ture and the committee chairs the Medical Center, pending ap look forward to working closely professor. He was named chair- for ASDU next year were proval by the Board of Trustees. with him." of chemistry at Cornell in 1970. elected at the organization's final meeting of the year The announcement was made While at Cornell, Hammes helped A scientist as well as an ad Monday night. jointly by Dr. Ralph Snyderman, ministrator, Hammes was for establish a $4.5 million biotech chancellor of health affairs and merly chair of the chemistry de nology program, of which he Colin Curvey, a Trinity dean of the Medical School, ac partment at Cornell University. served as director. sophomore, was elected to cording to Duke News Service. Early in his career, he worked He is a member ofthe National succeed Trinity junior Bill He will be Snyderman's second with Manfred Eigen, a Nobel Academy of Sciences and the Griesser as speaker of the in command in regard to academic award-winning chemist, to de American Academy of Arts and legislature for the 1991-92 issues, with primary responsibil velop an innovative method for Sciences and is the author or co year. Trinity junior Seth Krauss will continue serving ity for academic and faculty determining the rates of ex author of more than 200 scientific as Student Organizations matters in the basic sciences, in tremely fast chemical reactions. publications, including three Commission chair. cluding training and academic After graduating magna cum books. Other positions for next year are: Trinity junior Geoff Marx, STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE Student Affairs chair; Trinity Bill Griesser Economic sanctions will be lifted freshman Mark Grazman, External Affairs chair; Trinity mended that a committee be By ALAN RIDING community are still bound by the Washington's sanctions are freshman James Dean as established to investigate the N.Y. Times News Service U.N. embargo on arms sales to wider than the European Academic Affairs chair and possibility of establishing pri PARIS — Ignoring appeals South Africa, Monday's action Community's. They included a Trinity sophomore Joe vate vendors in the Bryan from the African National Con marks a new step toward South ban on the export to South Africa Lichtenburger as Buildings Center. The resolution states gress, the 12-nation European Africa's reincorporation into the of crude oil, petroleum products, and Grounds committee chair. that because "there exists a Community agreed on Monday to world economy. In 1985, the year munitions, and computers and The legislature chose the general dissatisfaction with lift its remaining economic sanc before European sanctions were computer services to security recipients of two legislative the quality of food in the Boyd- tions against South Africa in re adopted, South Africa exported services. And the United States awards. Jen Rudinger, a Pishko and Rathskeller com sponse to the Pretoria some $700 million worth of gold continues to ban new investment Trinity senior, was given the pared to that offered by private government's continuing moves coins, iron, and steel to commu in South Africa. Paul Edwin Harner award for establishments," the Univer to dismantle apartheid. nity countries. The European Community's her four years of service as an sity should offer alternative Meeting in Luxembourg, com In Washington, a State De decision on Monday was signaled ASDU legislator. Griesser was franchised food services. munity foreign ministers said the partment official said the South last February when community given the Graydon John Forrer Other resolutions passed move would result in ending a African government must still officials told Pretoria that re award for showing the most were a congratulatory message five-year-old ban on imports of fulfill two conditions — freeing maining sanctions would be lifted integrity in the service of to the men's basketball team gold coins, iron and steel from all political prisoners and re as soon as South Africa proposed ASDU over the past year. and coaching staff and a South Africa. Last December, the pealing laws that classify people legislation to repeal important The association approved change in an SOC committee ministers revoked a prohibition by race — before American sanc apartheid laws. The South Afri several resolutions at the by-law. against new investments in South tions can be lifted under the can Parliament is expected to meeting. One resolution that failed Africa. measure by which Congress ap approve this legislation in July. One resolution recom- See ASDU on page 5 • Although the nations of the plied them. See SANCTIONS on page 6 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1991 World and National Newsfile Supreme Court to hear segregation case Associated Press By BOB DART The state argued that the current role of preme Court to clear up the "considerable Cheney on the defense: N.Y. Times News Service the individual colleges, not their racial confusion over the proper legal standard" Defense Secretary Dick Cheney re WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court origins, determined the spending per stu with which to measure a state's obligation jected congressional charges Monday agreed Monday to decide whether Missis dent. All schools are now open to students to abolish a formerly segregated system of that politics played a role in his sippi has done enough to exorcise the ghosts of all races, the state said. higher education. proposal to close 43 U.S. military of sanctioned racial segregation that still The appeals court ruled that Mississippi The separation of black and white stu bases. linger in its public colleges. has eliminated race as a factor in admis dents in public schools was ruled uncon Nearly 30 years after federal troo sion to its institutions of higher learning stitutional in 1954 by the Supreme Court's Bush deprived?: President enforced a court order to admit a bla< and was not perpetuating segregation. ruling in Brown Topeka Board of Educa Bush and his wife Barbara paid student named James Meredith to Ole This decision was wrong, said McClure. tion. The end of official segregation in $99,241 in taxes last year, down Miss, "hardly a dent has been made in In its brief, the NAACP said the lower Mississippi's colleges came in 1962 when about $2,000.