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AEOLUS The Chronicle's weekly magazine Duke University Volume 74, Number 113 Wednesday, March 7, 1979 Durham, North Carolina Inside Today's news Page 2. Kung Fu Meeps Dolph Amick, a nine-year old Durhamite, likes to draw and loves Duke basketball Page 3. Decisions, decisions Has the Bakke case changed the admissions processes at Duke? Page 5. Gold mine The Art Museum on East campus has treasures you probably didn't know about. Page 6. Half a century! George Harwell, an English professor, reflects on his 50 years at Duke. Page 8. Cover story A student survey looks at students' views of sex roles and offers a plan for an equitable housing situation on campus. Which do Dukies want? Page 10. Today's news Aeolus ASDU approves referenda wording By Ginger Sasser In other business, the legislature spent a budgetary increases for next year. The ASDU legislature approved the wording of nine considerable amount of time discussing whether or not In other business, Marshall Orson, ASDU attorney questions on tomorrow's referendum ballot in a two to separate the individual budgets from the rest ofthe general, presented a resolution drafted by Jeff Levee, and a half hour meeting last night centered around student activities fee on tomorrow's referendum. chairman of the Academic Standards Committee, to issues involving the Publications Board. A motion made to separate the Publications Board limit proxy votes in the legislature to an elected The nine referendum questions will include five portion of the student activities fee from the remainder member of the ASDU legislature, a member of an questions dealing with constitutional issues, and four of the fee was approved. ASDU legislative committee, or a designated person with budgeting matters involving to student Those arguing for separating the individual budgets from the dormitory ofthe absent legislature. activities fee. The five constitutional questions include from the student activities fee said the Publications Levee's resolution will be voted on at the next four questions dealing with the separation of Board receives over half of the total activities fee, and meeting ofthe legislature. Publications Board funding from the ASDU students should know where their money was going. Orson said after the meeting that the resolution was legislature and one question dealing with the Those arguing against the separation said that the the result of a general feeling that "there is no form to inclusion of the University Union budget in the legislature voted to approve the Publications Board the use of proxies." student activities fee. The four budgetary question budget along with all of the other budgets and "We want to ensure that the dormitories will be include: therefore there was no need to separate it fronV the rest represented by ASDU legislators or their agents," said •an increase in the Publications Board portion ofthe of the organizations. Orson. • student activities fee to $29.04 per year; John Ayaneum, an ASDU legislator from House I, •an increase in the general student activities fee to made a motion to separate the ASDU executive budget $19.28 per year, which includes all student from the rest of the budgets, prompting one legislator No frat for BOG organizations chartered by the ASDU legislature to ask why Ayaneum wanted "to put the executive on The Inter-Fraternity Council voted last night "not to which will not have their budgets voted on until next the spot, too." allow Duke University to charter BOG as a national fall; WDUK; the Black Student Alliance; the ASDU The motion failed. fraternity," Chris Scott president of the IFC, said in a Executive Committee; the Freshman Advisory Ayaneum said after the meeting, "I wanted this telephone interview after the meeting. Council committee; student vehicles; and the ASDU whole thing (the referendum question dealing with contingency fund and van; "It was felt by the council that it [chartering BOG as student activities increases) together, but since this is a fraternity] would not be in the best interest of the •an increase in the Public Interest Research Group turning into a battle between the ASDU executive and fraernity system and the residential community at portion of the student activities fee from $3 to $4 per the Pub Board, I think we should have the same rules large," said Scott. year; and for everyone. BOG, an independent selective male house on West •the allocation of $13 per year to the University Union A motion was also passed to list the names ofthe campus, voted on February 5 to become a fraternity. budget. publications funded by the Pub Board on the The group chose Delta Kappa Epsilon national Christ Hest, in his report to the legislature, said the referendum question dealing with Pub Board fraternity as its sponsor. Q ASDU executive voted unanimously to advertise against the Pub Board proposal to separate its funding from the ASDU legislature. An ad placed by the ASDU executive against the proposal appears in today's Mysterious committee surfaces Aeolus. Lynn Hill, ASDU Business Manager, said the Veith, when questioned in his room Monday By Larry Schaner and evening, admitted to placing the ad earlier in the day money for the $135 ad came from the ASDU Executive Jim Townsend discretionary fund. Hill said last night she "had no but refused to comment when asked to name other A group called the Student Committee for Financial members of the committee, its function, date of idea whether [this type of advertising] had been done Accountability approached the Chronicle business in the past." formation or source of revenue. Vieth instructed the office late Monday morning and purchased a $135 full reporter to leave and said the inquiry was "very much page ad urging students to "vote NO on the first four unappreciated." questions on the referendum ballot tomorrow." Pub Board revokes According to Bruce Gill, Chronicle advertising According to Marshall Orson, ASDU attorney manager, Veith appeared at the business office general, the final form ofthe ballot was not decided by Monday, shortly before noon, and requested a full $2 Chanticleer fee the Elections Committee until Monday afternoon and By Ginger Sasser page ad in Wednesday's Aeolus on behalf of the had to be approved by the ASDU legislature Tuesday committee. Gill said he wasn't surprised, but added The Executive Committee ofthe Publications Board night. The ad, paid for in cash by the group's only decided at 11:30 p.m. last night to revoke its recently that "It's unusual for some one to come in and pay $135 known member, Craig Veith, a Freshman living in in cash for a full page ad." initiated policy requiring a $2 reservation fee from all Wannamaker I, appears on page 4 of today's Aeolus. It undergraduates for copies ofthe 1979 Chanticleer. The is not known how Veith learned where each question Fifteen minutes earlier, Gil! said he received a phone committee voted to require a $2 deposit, refundable would appear on the ballot. call from Chris Hest, ASDU President. According to when students pick up the yearbook in September, Gill, Hest wanted to know theprice of a full page ad. He from all freshmen, sophomores and juniors. was told by Gill, $135. When Veith, an SAE pledge, According to Craig Lewis, an at-large member of the Government traces appeared a few minutes later, he denied any committee, the original fee was levied because the Pub connection between the ad and the ASDU president. Board did not feel a yearbook ofthe size and quality of Hest, a member of SAE and an opponent of the books in the past could be produced with the $23,000 loan defaulters funding separation proposal, said he did not budget passed by the ASDU legislature last year. The By Jo Ann Spanbauer encourage Veith to place the ad. Pub Board planned to use the original $2 fee to It's no longer so easy to run out on a college loan. Hest said, however, that he knew ofthe committee's supplement this year's Chanticleer budget. That's the message made clear in recent disclosures existence prior to the submission ofthe ad on Monday. that the U.S. government has hired two collection Marshall Orson, ASDU attorney general, addressed Hest said he has spoken to many of his fraternity agencies to track down some 94,000 debtors in the brothers about the upcoming referendum. "I explained the issue of requiring a $2 non-refundable fee at the South and West. meeting of the ASDU legislature last night. the whole thing and asked them to vote wisely," he Orson said he had informed the Pub Board that the Currently Duke runs a 15 percent default rate on the said. $2 fee was illegal. "This is a very ser;ous affront to the college-run National Direct Student Loan Program Lynn Hill, ASDU Business Manager who must authority of ASDU and probably the most serious (NDSL) and a 2.84 percent rate on government approve any expenditure of ASDU money, flatly affront we've ever had," said Orson. guaranteed student loans — about average, according denied that she had authorized channeling any of its to Henry Williams, manager of the office of student funds to the committee. "I swear," she said, "that none Orson said the fee was unconstitutional because the loans. ASDU constitution states that the only way the of the committee's money came from ASDU." • student activities fee can be increased is through Although Duke pays only one-ninth of NDSL funds student referendum. it provides, James Belvin, director of financial aid, emphasized the importance of students' repayments Lewis said the reason for the executive committee's in maintaining the government program.