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Olympic leadership :. .--. i- ..in r.... .rl promoted ' 'lehou to THE CHRONICLE head coatft. See page 19 for details,"• THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1996 - ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA anaai Choi's body found after lengthy search By MISTY ALLEN bridge that connects Monroe, The Vermont State Police, N.H., to Mclndoe Falls, Vt., working in conjunction with said Bruce Melendy, public in­ the New Hampshire formation officer State Police and for the St. Johns- other local authori­ bury division of ties, retrieved the Vermont State Wednesday the body Police. of Trinity sopho­ The driver then more Sei Hee Choi, notified Melendy's who had been miss­ department, which ing since the has been search­ evening of May 17 ing for Choi since when the canoe that her disappearance she and two of her hoi three weeks ago. friends were in cap­ The department sized. and auxiliary state agencies KERRY GARLAND/THE CHRONICLE A local resident who was on then arrived at the scene. his way to work spotted the The body was recovered Better than my dad's fedora! body floating downstream in near the Monroe Dam, which Proud graduate Jeremy Turner waits with classmates for the start of last week's gradua­ the Connecticut River at ap­ is just south of the Vermont tion ceremony at the Duke Children's Campus. proximately 7:30 a.m. June 5 state line. It was then moved while he was crossing a See CHOI on page 16 • Chafe to implement new faculty salary bonus system By DEVIN GORDON voted to a minimum salary in­ tions, and to address equity talents and differences," he win, chair of the chemistry de­ In an attempt to address crease for each faculty member, cases where there was clear ev­ said. partment. what he characterized as "a sig­ and 1.5 percent will be given to idence of a failure to pay ade­ Chafe explained that cur­ Baldwin said that faculty nificant morale problem" individual depart­ quate salaries to in­ rently, in one year's time, a pro­ members had been enduring among faculty members, ments to reward in­ dividual faculty fessor could potentially do very years of insufficient salary at­ William Chafe, dean of the fac­ dividual professors members in the little research, publish nothing, tention and that, if changes ulty of Arts and Sciences, re­ for superior achieve­ past." do average work in the class­ were not made soon, the Uni­ cently unveiled plans to insti­ ment. Emphasizing that room and receive a 2.5 percent versity might begin to lose some tute a reward system into the According to his these changes do not salary hike. The next year, the of its most treasured professors. salary structure ofthe academ­ letter, Chafe will entirely eliminate same professor could write a "All they have to do is open ic budget. also retain an addi­ the problems behind book, win various awards, do a up their windows a crack and The new structure, outlined tional 1.2 percent of faculty discontent, terrific teaching job—and still say, 'I'm not happy here,' and in a May 8 letter from Chafe to his office's budget for Chafe said that they receive a 2.5 percent raise. they'll start getting phone calls," faculty members and depart­ three distinct pur­ are a step in the His diagnosis of a morale Baldwin said. ment chairs, constitutes a 3.5 poses: "to recognize William Chafe right direction. problem, therefore, did not come Jim Siedow, immediate-past percent increase in the amount promotions with an "The entire salary as a shock to faculty members chair of the Academic Council allocated for faculty salaries in appropriate salary increase, to design was intended to create or to administrators. and professor of botany, said he last year's academic budget. Of help retain faculty who were greater flexibility and a greater "I don't think it's any great agreed with Baldwin, noting that figure, 2 percent will be de­ being recruited by other institu- degree of reward for individual revelation," said Steven Bald­ See SALARY on page 9 • Dean of Divinity Blair appointed to direct Hillel By MISTY ALLEN "More than anything else, I will be much easier thanks to After nearly two months of thought that [Blair] would be the efforts of Fischer and her School leaves post searching, members of the a warm and resourceful per­ predecessor, Michael Landy, By MARSHA JOHNSON term as dean ends in 1997, University's Hillel chapter son," said Dr. Harold Kudler, the first full-time director of Dennis Campbell, cur­ he will have served longer have selected a re­ chair of the Hillel Hillel, both of whom worked rent dean of the Divinity than any dean in the histo­ placement for out­ Advisory Board to develop a support structure School, has announced that ry of the Divinity School going director and assistant clini­ and a networking system he will step down at the end since it was founded in the Frances Fischer, cal professor in the with other offices of the Uni­ of the 1996-97 academic 1920s. whose tenure Department of Psy­ versity. "The soil's spaded, the year, leaving behind a 15- Campbell's colleagues ended at the begin­ chiatry and Behav­ seeds are planted and the year legacy of increased fac­ recognize the influence he ning of June. ioral Sciences. plants are going to grow," he ulty membership and pro­ has had on the school dur­ Joseph Blair, Saying he believes said. gramming for the school. ing his term. who will graduate Fischer has done Blair said that his first ob­ Campbell, who has "Dean Campbell's contri­ from Reconstruc- an excellent job in jective will be to improve served as dean since 1982, butions will have a lasting tionist Rabbinical helping to establish upon various initiatives that said that he will take a impact on theological edu­ College in Wyncote, Joseph Btair a foundation for are already in place. Speak­ year-long sabbatical before cation in general and on Pa., later this Hillel, Blair added ing about students, Blair said returning to a full-time Methodism in particular for month, hails from Morris that he hopes to expand upon that he wants to encourage teaching position. When his See DEAN on page 18 • Plains. N.J. He will assume the good work that Fischer large membership within Hil- the directorship July 15. has done. Blair said his job See BLAIR on page 17 • THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1996 World and National Newsfile Low funding for Medicare causes tension Associated Press By DAVID ROSENBAUM to happen is." bills for the elderly and disabled will go Peace emphasized: The leaders N.Y. Times News Service Democrats responded that Republi­ into the red in 2001, one year earlier of Jordan and Egypt joined Yasser WASHINGTON—An official govern­ cans wanted to gut the Medicare pro­ than they forecast last year. Arafat on Wednesday to urge the ment report on Wednesday confirmed gram to raise money for a tax cut for the The finding came as no surprise, hav­ new Israeli government to honor that the Medicare system was running wealthy. "Their goal," said Rep. Richard ing been telegraphed by administration commitments to the Palestinians out of money faster than ever, setting Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic officials at a congressional hearing in and to recognize that ultimately off a new round of political backbiting. leader in the House, lias been to raid February and documented in a recent there is no alternative to a Palestin­ Republicans used, the annual report Medicare, not to save it— to lavish more assessment by the Congressional Bud­ ian state. ofthe trustees ofthe Hospital Insurance tax breaks on the very people who don't get Office. Trust Fund to attack President Clinton need them." Donna Shalala, the secretary of Budget proposed: Senate Re­ anew for vetoing budget legislation last The trustees—three members of the health and human services, said that publican leader Bob Dole brought year that would have put the program Clinton Cabinet, the commissioner of the forecast had become worse in the up his amendment to force a bal­ on a sounder financial footing. last year because of higher costs than anced budget. But Senate Democ­ Social Security and two nongovernmen­ "That Medicare is going bankrupt is tal experts on the subject—reported expected for home health care, skilled rats closed ranks to deliver an at­ nursing and hospices and because hos­ tack that questioned Dole's motives not the news ofthe day," declared Haley that unless the law was changed to Barbour, the Republican Party chair­ raise more revenue or hold down costs, pitals were performing more expensive for forcing a vote on a measure that procedures. has little chance of passing. man. "That Bill Clinton has allowed it the trust fund that pays the hospital Leaders agree: New York Gov. George Pataki and legislative lead­ China holds U.S. businessman as suspect ers Wednesday agreed on legisla­ tion under which state health offi­ cials would for the first time tell all By SETH FAISON case, unlike other smuggling cases, was trade sanctions are to kick in on each parents the results of HIV tests per­ N.Y. Times News Service singled out for a report by the New China side. formed on their newborns. SHANGHAI, China—In a case that News Agency. A U.S. consular official, Richard U.S. diplomats believe is intended to U.S. officials suggested that the arrest Adams, met with Shanghai security offi­ send a political message to the United and unusual announcement were part of cials Wednesday, but was not allowed to States, China announced Wednesday the intricate dance that Beijing is en­ see Chen.

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