The Chronicle 77Th Year, No

The Chronicle 77th Year, No. 56 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, November 20, 1981 Faculty urge 'united front' Ask for demonstration of leadership from Sanford By Marcie Pachino by the Council mandated that In addition to the and Robert Satloff the faculty representatives to placement of a vote of no Threatening a vote of no the negotiating committee confidence on the agenda of a confidence in the chairman of attend that committee's Dec. 1 future council meeting, the the board of trustees, the meeting "to gain information second resolution also states Academic Council voted on what are the specific that the faculty may consider Thursday to call on all parties to minimum conditions for further "other items as may appear present a "united negotiating . negotiations." appropriate to insure the position" to the lawyers According to Academic faculty's voice, on certain negotiating for a Richard M. Council chairman E. Roy issues, is virtually controlling." Nixon library at Duke. Weintraub, faculty attendance Deleted from the final After 90 minutes of closed at that meeting is essential to resolution approved by the sesssion, the faculty representa remain abreast of the ongoing Council were other items for tives unanimously urged developments in those possible future consideration, University President Terry negotiations. including refusal to participate Sanford to "demonstrate his "The issue has been in recommending honorary leadership" in bringing the inappropriately phrased in the degrees, refusal to recognize Council's guidelines to the past week. It is not a question of faculty participation on trustees and library negotiators participation or non-participa University committees and for formal approval. tion . neither would be an refusal to participate in "We need to urge a united intelligent position to take," University functions such as negotiating front," said Peter Weintraub said. "We need to go graduation exercises in May. STAFF PHOTO Burian, associate professor of to the meeting to find out what See COUNCIL on page 4 Roy Weintraub . • Academic Cou -il chairman classical studies. "There's now it's about." a cleft — Sanford is speaking for "The faculty advisors are in the faculty; McMahon is limbo," said Jackie Reynolds, speaking for the trustees." associate professor of physiology The two resolutions approved and member of the executive Faculty delineate the real issue by the Academic Council committee of the Academic By Robert Satloff action to deal with what is in board of trustees, refused to yesterday came in the wake of Council. "They will attend that Much more was on the line at their eyes, a usurping of their accept the faculty's self-binding trustee chairman J. Alexander meeting. If our conditions are yesterday's meeting of the right to have a "virtually conditions on the library McMahon's decision not to being violated, they'll come Academic Council than the- controlling" role in matters of negotiations. Although the accept the faculty's library back [to the Council.]" approval of the minutes. academic concern. report itself does not state that guidelines. Sanford endorsed "The issue is governance," Power. That's the name ofthe The Council unanimously the conditions arc binding on the faculty plan as "a position she said. "The library issue game. And yesterday the voted to call on Terry Sanford to the negotiations process, there that can be supported by the would never have happened if faculty representatives "demonstrate his leadership" is the implicit idea that without administration." there was a proper procedure for vocalized for the first time their hy trying to convince the board their approval, the faculty- The first resolution approved governance." willingness to take decisive of trustees to approve the would not participate in that faculty conditions for library process. Citing the legal negotiations and to place their authority vested in the trustees, own negotiation advisors "in McMahon ruled out the notion limbo" pending the meeting of Feds have last say in library the advisory committee. A news analysis More importantly, perhaps, under lock and key. No one By Stephen Harrigan Two additional lawsuits, council members outlined the that the faculty has any right to Although the debate concern could have access to them however, cloud the future of the future options available to the without Nixon's written demand statements from the ing the establishment of the Nixon papers. In December faculty, including a vote of no trustees. Richard M. Nixon library has permission and the use of "one 1980, Nixon filed suit claiming confidence in the chairman of been confined to Duke thus far, key, essential for access that unspecified monetary damages "Why in heaven's name does the board of trustees and refusal the faculty think it's binding?" Congress will have the final shall be given to me alone." for being deprived of the to participate in a wide array of word in the matter. exclusive use of his presidential said McMahon in a recent After 1977, the agreement University functions. interview. A 1974 act giving the gave Nixon the right to materials. Also, Nixon claims National Archives control of that some of the papers are These strides toward creating Indeed, McMahon and the withdraw any or all of the an independent-thinking faculty seem to have been Nixon's papers requires that materials and dispose of them "personal diaries," which, if they remain in the Washington published, would be an invasion faculty form just another talking right past each other in as he wished. chapter in the on-going three- discussing negotiations D.C. area. Congress would have Within months, Congress of his personal privacy. to amend that law before the way chess match to decipher the conditions. An integral part of nullified the Nixon-GSA intricacies of power politics at the faculty's library guidelines papers could be brought to agreement and seized custody If these lawsuits are settled Durham. and the Presidential Materials Duke. report expressly mandates that of all Nixon's presidential In recent weeks the faculty no "museum or museum-related The Presidential Recordings materials. Act is amended, Congress would still have the power to has been caughtupin a struggle activity" be allowed in the and Materials Preservation Act Nixon challenged the seizure that transcends the temporal proposed library. McMahon, on of 1974 was Congress's in court, and in June 1977 the veto any agreement between Nixon and Duke. worth or non-worth of the the other hand, has has response to an agreement Supreme Court upheld the proposed Nixon presidential difficulty in conceiving what seizure, on the grounds that the between Nixon and the General The Presidential Libraries library. They have been the the faculty is talking about. Services Administration. former president could not be whipping boy in a rare public "What's a museum or museum entrusted with the custody of Act of 1955 gives Congress 60 A month after he resigned, days to veto any agreement for display of the how power works related activity?" he asked. Nixon and a GSA administrator his papers and tapes. the establishment of a at Duke University. Indeed, The public stand — or lack of reached an agreement — Under order from Congress, presidential library. events of the past week seem to neither reviewed nor approved the National Archives and such a stand — by Sanford has bear out what most interested only made the situation worse. by the archival staff— in which Records Service has been Even among Nixon's parties had either known all the former president donated preparing papers and tapes for When charging the faculty to strongest foes on Capitol Hill, along or had been trying to produce its report, he stated that his papers and tapes to the public consumption. Twelve however, there appears little convince themselves didn't government, subject to certain hours of tape have been open to its conditions would be sentiment to block an exist. "virtually controlling" in conditions. the public at the Archives' office agreement between Nixon and Last Thursday, J. Alexander library negotiations. The papers were to be kept in Washington since May. Duke. McMahon, chairman of the See FACULTY on page 5 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, November 20,1981 Presidential libraries attract few tourists By Bill Hawkins attending the research facility itself," he For the past five years, the number of said. Attendance of Tourists during the past five years at various presidential tourists visiting six U.S. presidential Mack Teasley, assistant director of libraries libraries has declined about 14 percent. the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in And the number of tourists visiting Abeline, Kan., said the Eisenhower 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 Boston's John F. Kennedy Library, Library draws 150,000 to 200,000 which opened in October 1979, dropped visitors a year. Hoover 64,606 69,778 95,418 91,334 97,342 34 percent in its first two years of "It's been staying at that figure for the Roosevelt 241,459 215,582 276,865 371,514 213,766 operation. past few years. At the library itself we Truman 201,693 219,067 264,714 324,136 351,210 However, directors of the libraries get usually about 100 to 150 scholars a said the number of tourists is actually year who spend about a week here. Eisenhower 143,910 127,026 170,172 177,242 199,099 above statistical projections, while These are professors, Ph.D. candidates, Kennedy 661,470 visits by scholars remains on an even and so forth," Teasley said. 683,810 keel, averaging between 100 and 150 Of the seven libraries currently Johnson 446,062 480,521 502,115 657,907 visitors per year. operating, all but one include museum 1,661,146 1,111,974 1,309,284 1,622,133 1,545,277 "With resarchers it seems to remain exhibits with their collections of papers fairly steady, they come and stay and documents.

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