Duke's Fiftieth Anniversary Issue
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Duke's Fiftieth Jtaby Anniversary Issue l he Chronicle Magazine Volume 70, Number 130'/2 Duke Universitv, Durham, N.C. Saturday, April 12,1975 Page 2A Saturday, April 12, 1975 Become an JUID listener W"l Model 103 Three-Way Speaker System ($165/each) Minimum Power Requirements: 20 watts Power Handling Capacity: 150 watts Driver Complement: 10" high compliance woofer w/butyl rubber surround AV-2." air suspension cone mid-range 1" dome tweeter Control: 5-position mid-range and high-frequency level switch Warranty: 5 years, transferable Special Features: Unique, user-changeable grilles Front mounted controls Fuse overload protection Push-type, quick connects Floor stand included ** ftt Hear the full line of Avid Loudspeakers from $60 to $300 each Exclusively at Mon., Thurs., Fri. 10-9 Tues., Wed., Sat. 10-6 wo Sound v 1 BANKAMERICARD ] W* ; ^ 175 E. Franklin St. (Upstairs above; P.J.'s) [master charga] Chapel Hill 1 • l1 942-8546 Saturday, April 12, 1975 Ruby Page 3A CONTENTS 4A Parker: Wisdom From History Holly Brubach 5A Sluck Inside of Mobile With Steve Dryden 6A The Hundred Per Cent Democrat Mark Pinsky 8A Life in the Duke Pre-Med Jungle ]ane Vessels 10A Celebration and Counter-Celebration .. Paul Bermonzohn, Shelley Ames and Betsy Mcintosh 12A Duke Grads Stay in Durham Charlie F.bel 13A Progressive Politics in Durham Elizabeth Tornquist 15A Affirmative Action . Slowly Fred Klein 1B An Outside Agitator Looks Back Jake Phelps Ruby Staff 2B Memoirs of a Frat Man Jonathan Ingram 3B This Isn't New York City Dan Hull Steve Dryden, Fred Klein: Editors; John Golieb, Aileen Masterson: Assistant Editors; Steve Drucker: Art Direction; Ralph Barnette, 5B Just a Few Tables in the CI Kevin Moore Peaches Rigsbee, Delia Adkins, Anne Newman, Charles 6B An Old Story Retold Howard Goldberg Demosthenes, Rick Wain: Composition; Jay Anderson: Photography; 8B He Taught the World to Smoke Susan Carter Elizabeth Ames: Tea and Sympathy. 9B Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Kate Jordan Welcome to Duke's fiftieth anniversary celebration. This is 1 OB Centralization and Isolation Brett Steenbarger Ruby, the Chronicle's sometime magazine. In compiling this 11B Maybe Next Year Steve Garland special edition we attempted to solicit divergent views of Duke— its past, present and future—with no specific theme in mind. We 12B The Demise of Woman's College Dara DeHaven hope that these articles will stimulate some thought about what the next fifty vears might bring. The views expressed here are those of the authors. —The Editors Come to The Sub Way •any style submarine sandwich (new york style) •all your favorite beverages •relaxed atmosphere with continuous music OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 11 AM—1 AM 104 Albemarle Street 688-2297 Eat Inside or Out or Carry Out Page 4A Rubv Saturday, April 12, 1975 36 Years at Duke Parker: Wisdom from History new. Because it was so slow—I attended the You once said that you think one of the re BY HOLLY BRUBACH During the war, the West Campus was University of Chicago where, if a practice is asons people today are so cynical is that converted into an ROTC base. Then you in existence three years, then it's time to be they are reared on too idealistic a concept "Take professors, not courses," has come have veterans coming in, people who really to be my philosophy, and Harold Parker changing. And you always learn from your of history. shouldn't be here, and the attrition rate is experiences, so you keep getting better and has been no small part of my curriculum. It terrific. Thai's when I developed the style Yes, they should be reared on Old Testa better. Whereas the tendency then was to is hard for me to remember how I thought of the three-level lecture: the storv for the ment, in other words. Because what his say, "Oh, no, we tried that and it didn't before 1 took his courses—I can only recall people who couldn't even read; ihen the torians do is sort of paper over the cruelties work, we tried seminars and they didn't thai my understanding of culture and ideas second level, I made comparisons for the that mankind inflict on each other and they work, we tried honors programs and they was, at best, haphazard and one- people who were a little brighfer; third was paper them over either by making general didn't work." So for 15 years, Dr. Watson dimensional. Credit where it is due: the movement of history underneath—now statements, generalizations—"ln a period and I got nothing through. Since '54 Harold Parker would never do the think everybody gets it. So I would say that there of inflation, some people are hurt, some re ing for his students. So we thought new there's been change—there's been a rush of was a decline, both absolute and relative, warded"—-you see, that hides all the pain thoughts; we came to a new understand change in '59-61 and a rush of a change in running through the men's campus from and suffering and also hides all the ex ing. Parker's gift is to provoke and inspire; '67-69. Then since '69 it's been consolida aboul 1940 till about 1954. The reason I hilaration of making a profit. They do it by his is one of the most agile minds at Duke tion along principles laid down at that time. pick '54 is that I entered the administra generalizations, but they also do it by ex University. This interview of April 9, 1975, So 1 think it's a more vibrant institution tion—I became director of undergraduate clusion. There are apparently certain is, in part, a reiteration of other conversa than at that time. studies, but that just means I was more gentlemen's agreements among historians tions I have had with Parker; but it is also, When did you make your original com aware of the situation. But more impor that indicate real cruelty, the kind that we as always, a learning process. mitment to scholarship? You obviously now see on television in the Viet Nam War, What year did you come to Duke? wavered in 1949— indicate that is sort of beyond the pale—we September, 1939. Along with Dick Watson Yes, that's also personal. The war had in don't do that. Historians don't really show and Arthur Ferguson. terrupted my life, and the depression had What changes have you seen in the faculty the dark side* of humanity, whereas the Old interrupted my life. And you feel oldest since then? Testament stories do. The Old Testament when you're young. stories are not only about God, they're And youngest when you're old? Well, when we arrived, there was still a about men and of course relations of men Well, I still feel young. I don't have any large portion of people connected with with God. That's something thatis first and sense that I'm any different, except the way Trinity College and the faculty of Trinity last understood. But about man usurping people look at me and offer to carry my College was composed of two types of peo men, that's something we would never books for me. Yes, the war had interrupted ple: one. very distinguished scholars, loyal gather from the historians" account. Trinity College people who stayed mainly my career and it took me two or three years Why do you focus your study of the his because they were devoted to the mission of to get back in scholarship. That was part of tory of consciousness on individuals? Trinity College, namely to raise the educa it. 1 was still out of scholarship in '49. But Well, for one thing, it's easier to identify tion level of the region. Then the other was. then I went to Europe in 1949—my first with a single person. Well, I would change what we would call dead wood, in other sabbatical. I went to Europe and got in that now to small groups—you can move words, thev were somewhat provincial terested in Napoleon again, so I guess it from individual actions to the formation of teachers who were sort of being outgrown was a renewed commitment. My original common ways of thinking...But I concen by the university environment. They were commitment was in the senior seminar at trate on the cultured elite. Then too it's certainly not equal, but they had tenure, so Chicago: we .were to write three term easier to identify with a single person. you had to keep them. Eventually, what's papers a semester and I wrote six—I just What qualifies a man as a genius? What happened is you've filled the university got started and couldn't stop. with Ph.D.'s from the rest of the country. sets him apart? Do you regret any of the sacrifices you've So whereas when I came, the faculty, the A rich unconscious and the ability/o tap it. tant, Allen Manchester and Paul Gross, un- had to make? Freud said an unhappy childhood, but I majority, was southern, the overwhelming der the auspices of President Edens, began I have no sense of sacrifice. I've always don't think that's all of it; many people had majority now comes from regions other to rebuild the institution. And so they liked what I'm doing—you don't become an unhappy childhood. They may have than the South.