ANNUAL SEND-HOME EDITION It's the Olympics, y'all!!! Take a iook at an insider's view ofthe impact that The Centennial Games are THE CHRONICLE having on Atlanta. See Currents. WEDNESDAY. JULY 24, 1996 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Jacobs ceases quest for tenure By MARSHA JOHNSON appeal was primarily based reconsidered. After this ap­ Timothy Jacobs, assistant on his conclusion that the na­ peal was denied, Jacobs ap­ professor of civil and envi­ ture of the process would pealed to the ombudsman in ronmental engineering, said prevent his concerns from March and was again denied. he will not appeal to the Fac­ truly being considered. "It Members of Jacobs' de­ ulty Hearing Committee and looked like the odds are partment expressed their re­ will therefore end stacked against grets that he will no longer his fight for me," he said. be working at the University. tenure. He will An appeal to the "His leaving is to the detri­ begin a job Aug. 1 FHC would have ment of our department and in the research de­ been Jacobs' next our students," said Eric Pas, partment of Sabre step in the tenure associate professor of civil Decision Technolo­ appeals process, and environmental engineer­ gy, a consulting which began in ing. firm in the Dallas- February when Criticism has surrounded Fort Worth area. Provost John Stro­ the decision, from both stu­ "We're excited hbehn denied Ja­ dents—who organized a rally about it," he said of Timothy Jacobs cobs' December March 28 in protest of both he and his family. 1995 request for the decision and the tenure "It will give me some differ­ tenure following a negative process as a whole—and ent experiences." He added recommendation from the members ofthe faculty. that if he decides to return to Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee. Aarne Vesilind, professor KERRY GARLAND/THE CHRONICLE teaching, which he may do in of civil and environmental a few years, the problems he Jacobs' department, which engineering, said that criti­ Painting by numbers? will be solving in his new job had unanimously supported cism of the decision has not can provide real-life exam­ his bid for tenure, then filed been confined within the Dr. Kerri Robertson and her son Mitchel Gorecki paint a ples for the classroom. an appeal to the provost re­ walls of the University. "I mural as volunteers for the Duke Pediatric Specialty Clinic. His decision to abort the questing that the decision be See JACOBS on page 32 • White to retire as Trinity dean Off-campus students By BRIAN HARRIS turns to the botany department, White taught in the botany de­ Richard White, dean of Trin however, White will take a one- partment for 22 years, starting ity College and vice year leave of absence out as an assistant professor in gain representation provost for under­ to complete a manu­ 1963. He eventually went on to graduate education, script at Cambridge chair the department for seven By MISTY ALLEN sociation's monthly meeting will soon be making University in Eng­ years, beginning in 1978. In an attempt to forge bet­ in July and asked the com­ ter relations between Univer­ mittee's president if DSG the leap from bureau­ land. The book is a Originally appointed for a cracy back to botany. biography ofthe dis­ sity students who live off could place two student rep­ five-year term to the post of campus and their Durham resentatives on their board of White will retire tinguished English dean of Trinity College and dean botanist F.O. Bower, neighbors—who include directors. from his administra­ of the faculty of Arts and Sci­ other residents as well as tive duties in May whom White de­ ences in 1985, White agreed to The committee responded scribes as a "touch­ landlords—Trinity senior favorably to Nesbit's request, 1997 and will return continue for an additional five Takcus Nesbit, president of to teaching in the stone for the work in years as dean of Trinity College agreeing to place Trinity ju­ fhite my research area." Duke Student Government, nior Trang Nguyen, DSG vice botany department Richard 1 and vice provost. White said attended the TVinity Park As­ after a 12-year stay in Before settling into that after 10 years, he thought See TRINITY on page 29 • the Allen Building. Before he re­ the Allen Building in 1985, See WHITE on pago 36 »- University graduate goes to White House By ALEX GORDON the White House, as President A year after graduating from Bill Clinton's political director. the University, Doug Sosnik, For the past 18 months, Sos­ Trinity 79, landed his first job nik has worked closely with in politics—as Sen. Christo­ Clinton as the man in charge of pher Dodd's (D-Conn.) official attending to the president's driver. day-to-day political operations. "He liked having me He is currently immersed in around," Sosnik fondly re­ preparations for the upcoming called. presidential election, a respon­ And throughout the years, sibility which entails traveling Sosnik has remained in the dri­ on the road full-time with Clin­ ver's seat, accumulating politi­ ton. cal mileage along the way be­ "We play hearts a lot, and I fore arriving at his current enjoy beating him,'' Sosnik ad- OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPH position—in the West Wing of See SOSNIK on pago 17 • Sosnik receives instruction from President Clinton In the Oval Office. THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1996 Summer Update From staff reports Hospital names new CEO: Mark ulty of Arts and Sciences, unveiled plans vice provost for library affairs Oct. 1. Rogers, former vice chancellor for to institute a reward system into the Trustees approve construction: The health services and executive director salary structure ofthe academic budget. Registrar appointed: Bruce Cun­ University Board of Trustees granted of Duke Hospital, stepped down from ningham, current registrar at St. Louis final approval May 10 to plans for a his post this summer to take over as Hillel gains new director: Joseph University, will become the Universi­ $143 million Medical Center construc­ chief technology officer and senior vice Blair, who graduated from Reconstruc- ty's first full-time registrar Aug. 1, suc­ tion and renovation project. The im­ president at the Perkin-Elmer Corpo­ tionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, ceeding Albert Eldridge, associate pro­ provements to the Medical Center will ration in Connecticut. Dr. Ralph Sny­ Pa., in late June, succeeded Frances fessor of political science and director include the creation of the Duke Clinic, derman, chancellor for health affairs, Fischer July 15 as the director of the of the Center of Teaching and Learn­ the construction of an ambulatory announced June 11 that Michael Is­ University's Hillel Chapter. ing, who will be stepping down from surgery clinic and adjoining clinical in­ rael, then chief operating officer for the the part-time position after having formation management office building Hospital, would replace Rogers. Campbell to step down: Dennis held it for eight years. and the construction of a facility dedi­ Campbell, who has been dean of the cated to cosmetic services and dermato- Public Safety changes name: The Divinity School for 15 years, will step Program director named: Presi­ logical surgery. Duke University Department of Public down from his position and return to a dent Nan Keohane announced in June Safety officially changed its name to full-time teaching position at the end that Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced Kuniholm to replace Lange: Bruce the Duke University Police Depart­ ofthe 1996-1997 academic year. A suc­ "keesh"), an assistant professor of poli­ Kuniholm, professor of public policy ment in order to eliminate any confu­ cessor has not yet been named. tics at Princeton University, would studies and history and specialist on sion between them and the Occupation­ serve as the first director of the Kenan U.S. policy in the Middle East, has been al and Environmental Safety Office. Deans leave: Linda Studer-Ellis, as­ Program in Ethics. appointed vice provost for academic sistant dean of student development, and international affairs beginning on Athletic facility progresses: Con­ and Charles VanSant, associate dean Rice pleads guilty: Trinity senior Aug. 1. He will replace Peter Lange, struction is currently in progress on of student development, left their posts Jason Rice, a former co-manager of The professor of political science, who will the new $5 million athletic facility on to pursue interests elsewhere. In addi­ Coffeehouse on East Campus who was chair the political science department. East Campus, which should be com­ tion to the departures, the University charged March 20 as part of a Durham pleted near the end ofthe summer. appointed two new assistant deans of Police Department Organized Crime Di­ Three students die: One recent student development: Carmen Tillery, vision drug raid with embezzlement, pos­ graduate of the University and two Newman leaves post: After six associate director of housing and resi­ session of drug paraphernalia and pos­ undergraduates died in separate inci­ years as the director of dining and spe­ dential life at North Carolina Agricul­ session of "schedule II," a form of cocaine, dents this summer. Trinity sophomore cial events, Wes Newman has taken a tural and Technical University, and plead guilty to the latter two felonies and Sei Hee Choi died May 17 while on a four-month leave of absence—which Debbie LoBiando, former director of to a reduced charge of misdemeanor lar­ canoeing trip in Vermont; Stephenson began May 12—and said that he will residential life at the University of ceny during his June 14 trial. Pope Babcock, Trinity '96, died May not return as director of dining at the Evansville in Indiana.