THE CHRONICLE Brodie Succeeds Sanford As University President Transition Period 'Almost Unnoticed' Sanford Stays on As President Emeritus
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WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION Thursday Volume SOB, Number 9 Duke University Durham. North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Brodie succeeds Sanford as University president Transition period 'almost unnoticed' Sanford stays on as president emeritus By PAUL GAFFNEY By ED FARRELL Keith Brodie's first official act as Univer Fireworks still go off for a president sity president was to take his family on a emeritus. President Emeritus Terry Sanford vacation to Maine. and Margaret Rose Sanford will celebrate But more than anything, Brodie's taking a special wedding anniversary today - the leave the first month on his new job signals first one in 15 years that Sanford has not the smooth transition between him and his been enveloped by his daily job as Univer predecessor, President Emeritus Terry sity president. Sanford. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford were married on Brodie, who was elected University presi July 4, 1942. dent last December by the Board of Trus At least for now, Sanford is enjoying this tees, took office July 1. change of pace. "I got up this morning "I think the transition has gone just about, [Tuesday] and I went out and walked for the way I predicted to the trustees," Sanford about an hour. By that time it was about said. "I wanted the new president to walk ALICE ADAMS/THE CHRONICLE seven o'clock. And I told Mrs. Sanford, who ALICE ADAMS/THE CHRONICLE across the hall, and at that time everything University President Keith Brodie was getting up about then, that I didn't President Emeritus Terry Sanford Board of Trustees meeting Aug. 22 and his is complete. know what I was going to do today, I had Joel Fleishman, director of the campaign, inauguration at the end of September will "I think the transition could hardly have nowhere to hurry to. That's a pretty good and Brodie want him to do to help in gone any better." be his first projects when he returns at the feeling." fundraising. end of July. Eugene McDonald, senior vice president "But I don't know how long I will enjoy Yet Sanford said fundraising will remain for administration and University counsel, Raising money for the Capital Campaign it," Sanford added. his only major activity at Duke. "I certainly agreed with Sanford. "The transition was for the Arts and Sciences will be an Part of the reason Sanford can rest easier don't intend to get over into anything that so well prepared it passed almost overriding concern throughout the first than many retiring executives is because closely approaches administrative work. unnoticed." years of his presidency, Brodie said. The of the smooth transition between him and We've got a new president, and one of my McDonald said the smoothness could be campaign has so far raised $50 million in President Keith Brodie. obligations is to stay out of his way." credited to good preparation by both Brodie "cash, pledges and promises" toward its goal Sanford wilt not retire just to work in his Another of Sanford's projects will be work and Sanford. of $200 million, he said. garden, but continue as a major participant ing as a major partner of Durham Research Brodie said that working on a speech to in the Capital Campaign for the Arts and incoming freshmen and preparing for the See BRODIE on page 11 Sciences. Sanford says he will do whatever See SANFORD on page 11 Weather Class of '89 bigger than planned But what's it like in Maine?: There is some thing distinctly un-American about scheduling class on By ED FARRELL the Fourth of July. Tbday is a day to be spent doing truly An unexpectedly high yield of freshmen admitted to the patriotic things, like going on a picnic or enjoying a cool class of 1989 will cause increased overcrowding in fresh Fresca at the Club on Central Campus, not work. So man residence halls this fall, according to University skip your classes and enjoy that 30 percent chance of officials. afternoon thunderstorms and mid-80 degree weather. The number of freshmen who have said they will attend Duke and have paid housing deposits is currently 1,450. The original prediction for class size, before April admis sions were sent out was 1,330, based on a 28.5 percent yield Inside rate for those accepted in April. The disparity between the predicted and actual class size EnO River Festival: For the sixth year in a row, will be smaller than the current figure, according to there will be a special three-day benefit celebration to University officials. raise money for the Eno River State Park. For some The number of students who will matriculate in the fall history of the festival and a schedule of events, see page will almost certainly fall from 1,450, as students notify 2. the University this summer that they will not attend Duke in the fall, according to Jean Scott, director of admissions. NO yogurt parlor: The University has tabled plans to replace the East Campus Dope Shop with a Using attrition rates from previous years, the new esti yogurt parlor. Plans for the University to buy The mate for the number of students in the class of 1989 is Hideaway Bar have also been put on hold. See page 3. 1,395. The University can house this number of freshmen without expanding existing rooms, according to Richard Fourth festivities: For details of Fourth of July Cox, dean for residential life. STAFF PHOTO celebrations in the area, see page 5. But estimates for this year's attrition based on previous Jean Scott, director of undergraduate admissions years cannot be trusted, Scott said. "The pattern is just Basketball getS recruit: Alaa Abdelnaby, a thrown out the window this year." no decrease in the yield rate in case this did not occur. "It 6-11 rising senior from Bloomfield, N.J. has announced The overall yield rate for combined February and April wasn't a miscalculation," Scott said. he will attend Duke in the fall of 1986. See page 13. admissions was expected at 39 percent, according to Pro A factor that contributed to the higher yield rate is that vost Phillip Griffiths. But the actual yield rate this year other universities Duke competes with have also closed is 44 percent. "I see no way the whole thing could have their waiting lists early, Scott said. At other schools, people been foreseen," Griffith said. are not getting off waiting lists, either, so those who So long for now This year's unexpectedly high rate of students accepting accepted admission to Duke will hold their acceptance. admission offers is either an aberration or the start of a Another reason for the higher yield rate is the increasing You are holding the last weekly edition of this year's new trend toward students accepting Duke's offer of admis popularity of the University, exemplified by a November Summer Chronicle, volume 80B. The Chronicle staff sion in larger numbers, Scott said. In May, the admissions cover story in The New York Times Magazine, according will now take three weeks off to prepare for the annual office had already notified students on the waiting list to University officials. summer send-home edition. If you are interested in there would not be room for them in the fall class. The schools of the Consortium on Financing Higher helping with this special issue, please attend an open This year's accepted class, which has a higher SAT Education, which includes most of the schools Duke com house Friday at 4 p.m. on the third floor of Flowers average than previous year's, was expected to have an even pares itself with, have all had one unexpectedly high year Building. higher attrition rate as students were taken off waiting in the last two years, Scott said. lists at other schools But the admissions office predicted See ADMISSIONS on page 4 Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Thursday, July 4, 1985 Eno Festival offers tradition, music and more By ROBIN EPSTEIN With the Festival for the Eno underway Duke's summer community has no excuse for not having a superb Fourth of July weekend. 1985's three-day festival, which runs this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, will rain or shine be the most extravagant staged so far by the Eno River Association, the North Carolina non-profit environmental organization that initiated the festival six years ago. The multi-faceted celebration which takes place off Roxboro Road at West Point on the Eno has become a Durham Independence Day tradition. The festival is expected to draw 40,000 this year, including 2,000 volun teers, according to Kerstin Nygard, one of the coordinators. The purpose of the Fourth of July festival is to raise money to buy land in Durham County for the Eno River State Park, Nygard said. Since 1980 the festivals have raised $77,000, which has been matched by federal funds and turned over to the state for the purchase of four tracts of land, Nygard said. Each participant's three-dollar entrance fee contributes directly to the protection of the scenic, historic river, Nygard said. "We've got to do it now, or it's going to be lost forever," she said. Expert folklorists and musicologists used criteria estab lished by the National Endowment for the Arts and the SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE North Carolina Arts Council to select the musicians, Revellers at 1984's Eno River Festival give an idea of what to expect this year. In addition to having fun, you'll singers, dancers, hoilerers and storytellers who will provide be helping enlarge a state park.