President Responds to Governance Report Seale Calls for More Grass

THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 133 President responds to governance report reevaluate it, according to the Ad hoc group completes By CRAIG WHITLOCK memo. President Keith Brodie has for Brodie, however, deferred "to mally responded to the final the Board [of Trustees] for any review of Brodie's term report of the Task Force on Uni action with respect to recommen versity Governance in a memo dation Number 1" — the task for By DAVID WOLF and Philip Baugh. this week, calling the document ce's proposal to name the provost The findings of a review of According to Baugh, chair of "for the most part sound" and ad as the University's chief execu University President Keith the review committee, a letter dressing the task force's eight tive officer after the president. Brodie were presented last requesting opinions about suggestions for opening up the. The trustees must decide on the week to the executive commit Brodie's "leadership qualities, University's basic decision-mak provost recommendation because tee of the Board of Trustees, executive qualities, effective ing process. it would require a change in Uni although the results of the ness in interactions within the The chair of the Board of versity bylaws. review will be kept confiden immediate University commu Trustees said Thursday, howev Board Chair Fitzgerald Hud tial, according to the trustee nity and accomplishments" er, that the trustees probably son said Thursday that the trust chair. was sent to all faculty mem would reject the task force's rec ees probably would not consent The review was conducted bers, trustees, senior adminis ommendation to designate the to the provost proposal, primar by a five-member ad hoc com trators and selected presi provost as the University's chief ily because they do not want to mittee appointed by Trustee dents of other universities. executive officer, second only to restructure the way the Council Chair Fitzgerald Hudson in Presidents of the various the president. of Executive Officers (CEO) func accordance with guidelines in alumni associations, chairs of None of the task force's other The final tions. The CEO —the highest the Faculty Handbook. the boards of visitors and the proposals require formal trustee ranking decision-making body at The committee was com current student body presi approval. recommendations the University — consists of posed of two faculty members dents received similar letters. In the April 10 memo, ad are for the most Brodie, Griffiths, Executive Vice and three trustees, and was The committee received a dressed to members of the Aca President Eugene McDonald, charged with evaluating number of letters and con demic Council, Brodie approved part sound. Chancellor William Anlyan and Brodie's performance and ac ducted several interviews, continuing the landmark Advi Vice Chancellor for Medical Af tions during his four years in Hudson said. A constructive sory Committee on Resources, a President fairs Ralph Snyderman. office, Hudson said. report was made with the aim group of faculty, administrators "That's a very finely balanced The president's regular to improve the president's and students that would "provide Keith Brodie committee," Hudson said. "We term is five years. position, rather than to make me with advice concerning our didn't want to reach down and "I wouldn't anticipate any it appear as if Brodie is up for budget forecast, our annual proj its "success" prompted Brodie "to seize any one of them and make changes," Hudson said. "I re-election, he said. ects, our long-range planning for didn't anticipate any before. insure its continuance as an ex him the number two person in "Lots of opinions were solic capital projects, and any major That wasn't what [the review] cellent advice-giving body helpful the University. That might ited," Holsti said, adding that new projects under consider was for," he said. to the President and to the Aca send a bad signal" to the other the information is confidential ation," he wrote in the memo. demic Council," according to the members of the CEO. It is unclear how, or if, the and "not appropriate to dis Last summer Brodie formed memo. Brodie also called for Hudson said the trustees full board of trustees will for cuss it publicly." the interim resources committee ASDU and GPSC to nominate would probably act formally on mally act upon the review's in response to the task force's call student representatives to the the provost recommendation at findings, or when it would of According to the Faculty for increased faculty input into committee. the board's May meeting. fer Brodie another term. Handbook, a review commit the University's budgetary The committee will function The trustees have followed the Brodie said last June that if tee is responsible for prepar process. The interim committee for another two years, after task force's recommendations the committee "would like to ing a written report to be is due to disband this spring, but which Brodie will again See MEMO on page 9 • see more of me, then it'd be delivered to the president and something I'd take very seri the trustees. It is a very broad ously, but would not decide on process meant to be construc i* until that decision is made." tive and dignified, though Seale calls for more grass-roots efforts The committee members "quiet and not widely publi were John Falletta, professor cized," Hudson said. of Pennsylvania" each year, he of pediatric ' hematology-on- It is a standard review ByJAYEPPING said. cology, Ole Holsti, professor of process for deans, the provost The need for coalition politics "Twenty percent of the oxygen political science, and trustees and other senior officials, ac to fight today's world problems we breathe" goes straight to the John Chandler, Kay Stern cording to Baugh. and the reasons behind the rise brain, he said. If the oxygen in of the Black Panther party were the air falls below 14 percent, the the main topics in a speech by "brain can't compute." one of the defendants in the The key to solving this problem great Chicago Seven conspiracy and others are political coali Referendum on activity fee trial. tions, Seale said. "All five billion Bobby Seale, a noted black ac human beings in the world right tivist from the '60s, began his now need to coalesce on the en- passes by whopping margin speech Thursday night by remi viromental problem," he said. niscing about Abbie Hoffman, a Seale said coalitions also By SCOTT GELIN fellow defendant in the Chicago played a major part in the Black percent of the vote with 1,795 Seven case who was found dead Panther Party in which he was A referendum to raise ASDU's votes in favor and 196 votes in his home in Pennsylvania involved during the 1960s and portion of the student activities against. The question required at Wednesday night. early '70s. The movement was a fee by $8.10 per year passed by least 67 percent approval of Hoffman symbolized the need "grass-roots organization" an overwhelming majority in un those voting, or 1,334 votes, for dergraduate elections on passage. for "more grassroots political" designed to fight institutional Thursday. groups to concentrate on today's racism, he said. A total of 1,991 under JILL WRIGHT/THE CHRONICLE problems, Seale said. "We developed a world view" As a result the annual student graduates voted on the referen Seale and Hoffman both par Bobby Seale as well as a national view of what activities fee will increase from dum question. ticipated in a special program at was happening in the fight $83.48 to $91.58. Trinity senior Dave Pyle, chair Vanderbilt University last week. apartheid and women's issues as against racism, Seale said. The The fee increase received 90 See VOTE on page 18 • Hoffman, the founder of the some of the major topics that group was formed in response to "Yippie" movement, seemed should be addressed by grass civil rights violations, such as the down and "sort of depressed" but roots coalitions. authorities' use of racists to at still "witty," Seale said. One rea The destruction of tropical rain tack peaceful anti-racist assem son for his depression may have forests and the effect such defor blies, he said. This tactic violated Inside Weather been that "students are still in estation will have on the atmo the demonstrators' constitutional terested in the '60s" but not in sphere are major environmental right to free assembly, Seale Durham Law: Sarah Wed- Goin' to California:Cause their own time, Seale said. factors, Seale said. Twenty per said. dington, attorney for Jane the weather here rots. Cloudy "I know the '60s," Seale said. "I cent of the air we breathe is The Black Panthers looked at Roe, spoke in the Bryan Cen Saturday with a 50 percent know the past. I don't live for the oxygen, 50 percent of which problems from a legal perspec ter Film Theater last night. chance of rain and the high past, I live for the future. Where comes from the equatorial rain tive. Members knew the law and See page three for the scoop. near 70. Knock yourself out. are we going?" He listed concerns forests that are being cut at a what they could and could not do for the enviroment, abolition of rate equal "to the size of the state See SEALE on page 18 )• PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 World & National Newsfile Wright denies accusations in press conference Associated Press ByJIMDRINKARD "Whether I'm speaker of the house, the legacy I intend to leave my children Beirut war rages: At least 15 peo Associated Press ple were reported killed and about 40 which is the greatest honor I've ever had, and my grandchildren, I will fight to the wounded Thursday as fierce artillery WASHINGTON — With his position as is not important," Wright said.

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