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The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 46 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, October 31, 1980 GSBA receives major gift Largest funding since endowment By Scott McCartney including who the donor is and construction, but rather to University President Terry how much the donation is for, endow the operating costs ofthe Sanford will announce a major will be announced today. school. He said the money could gift to the Graduate School of The Graduate School of be used, among other things, to Business Administration today Business Administration is a add professorships and — a gift which may amount to relatively young school that fellowships to the faculty ofthe the largest donation to the received accreditation about a school. University since James year and a half ago. The During his sabbatical last Buchanan Duke's original donation will establish an year, Sanford said he endowment. endowment for the 10-year-old "attempted to identify people The donation, Sanford said school. who could do substantial things yesterday, is of a "substantial Currently the school is for Duke." amount. This is one ofthe most raising funds for the construction Sanford said the donor is a significant endowment gifts in of a new building on Science "vast friend of Duke," and he the history of the University." Drive. doubted that the University Sanford would not comment Sanford said he hopes the gift competed with other schools for further on the donation. Details, would not go to finance the the gift. Sanford holds class in Page By Kelly Walker Duke must recommit itself to getting involved, pointed out University President Terry academic excellence: "This that Ernestine Freidl, dean of Sanford supported Chancellor excellence depends on the arts and sciences, is currently in A. Kenneth Pye's long-range excellence of the faculty; China establishing a Duke/China planning report and encouraged students find Duke exciting exchange program. faculty members to spend more only because the faculty make it Sanford also said the School time with students at the such." of Nursing is facing rough PHOTO BY DKNE BAl.l.OO annual meeting of the faculty Last month, Pye presented See Sanford on page 2 President Terry Sanford.. .to announce major donation to Thursday. Directions For Progress — a Business School today. Sanford said Pye has caused long-range planning document Duke to make honest, tough, that recommended terminating creative appraisals of its the School of Nursing, the Jimmy the Greek predicts programs as they relate to the Department of Education and establishment of excellence. the Department of Health, Retrenchment, Sanford said, Physcial Education and "is not a good term for what is Recreation. wins for Reagan and Duke being done unless retrenchment Beyond retrenchment, By Jon Rosenblum Without hesitation, he starts Anderson, a smaller amount means intellectual courage and Sanford said he believes the Two or three nights a week, Reagan. Some not at all. discipline." to call the shots. "After the faculty's major concern should Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder is in debate, we put it at 8-5 for They're only gonna hurt Carter. "As we approach the 1980s, be expanding the opportunities Durham, the place his family Reagan. Reagan in my opinion, "Anderson will get 7 to 8 our spirit is strong, our step is and experiences ofthe student. has called .home since last has a 70 electoral vote lead over percent ofthe popular vote," he secure," he told the faculty. The major complaint he hears August. Thursday night he was Carter." predicted. Duke is moving forward, not- from the students, Sanford said, home in body, but all over the The Greek played down his turning back, he said. "Creative is that students and faculty do U.S. in voice, on the phone. But the undecided voters still give him some problems, he own expertise in making the retrenchment makes creative not mix enough. Though most of the calls right choice in politics, saying progress ... I expect the 1980s Sanford told the faculty that coming in ask the Greek about said. "I'm worried about 14 to 15 percent of the voters out there he owes his picks to the polls; he will be Duke's most creative one of the most enriching this weekend's football picks, has his own pollsters who work decade, second only to the experiences graduates can take the subject off the line is who don't know which way to go." If people changed their out of Las Vegas. "There's a 1990s." away from college is their politics, Tuesday's presidential great difference between The problems at Duke are experience with their professors. election. He is prepared for what minds because of the debates, said the Greek, they went 5 to analyzing a football game and a simply the problems of the The president, giving he calls "the greatest Superbowl political race, he said. In world, the president said, and examples of how faculty are of all." Reagan for every 3 to Carter. "The debates convinced me football, there are 12 categories totally." from speed to the home team. "In politics, you've got the The Greek, 61, has been candidate, his presence, Employee dies in accident convinced in the past about credibility, appearance, probable election results and minutes after several performance, speech. But you By Mark Ayanian the cause of his death. has scored well. He gained can get all that in a nutshell in a Duke employee Thomas According to Public Safety witnesses reported the recognition in the Truman- accident. poll. If you poll 75 percent for Lyons died as the Duke Officer Carl Moraven, the Dewey confrontation in 1948 Reagan or Carter, you can transportation van he was accident occurred as Lyons "The code five team was when he bucked the 17-1 odds pretty well say it's right. driving veered off Trent Drive travelled north on Trent Drive called down and they set against Truman; together, "But asking for Duke-Georgia last night and crashed in a between the hospital and administered CPR [cardio- Harry and the Greek gave 'em Tech, even if you get 75 percent wooded area. The vehicle Trent Drive Hall. The van pulminary resuscitation]" on hell. "Dewey's moustache made for Duke and 25 percent for carried no passengers. swerved toward the curb, hit a the scene, according to him look like Hitler," he said. Georgia Tech, you've still gotta Lyons, of Butner, was parked automobile, rolled Moraven. "And nobody was hungry, play the game." pronounced dead in the Duke down a sharp 10 foot everybody had money. There Hospital emergency room enbankment, grazed one tree Public Safety is conducting was no reason for a change. Since coming to live in shortly after the 7 p.m. and crashed head-on into an investigation of the Durham last year, the Greek accident. another. accident and Duke transporta "Now, there are a lot of people has developed some close ties to An autopsy will be Moraven said rescue tion officials were unavailable out of work. Some who are Duke. performed today to determine personnel arrived on the scene for comment. normally Democratic will go See The Greek on page 9 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, October 31, 1980 Pye open to alternative housing plans By Scott McCartney Chancellor A. Kenneth Pye said selective dorms on West Campus," Pye student limit on the size of selective percent inflation, you either have to Wednesday he is open to alternative said. houses. increase your revenue or cut ideas regarding residential life and Pye's residential life plan, part ofthe Recently groups have formed to something." emphasized that saving money was not long-range planning report Directions protest Pye's plan, and they have staged He said tuition will continue to his only priority in retrenchment. For Progress, includes housing two demonstrations to "save" East increase, but "the question is how much Responding to the reaction of the freshmen in all-freshmen dormitories Campus. A group of East Campus house will the increases have to be." community to his long-range planning primarily on East Campus, but also in presidents have polled students and are Pye said the report represents "the report, Pye said he was most concerned Trent Drive Hall and Hanes House; working on an alternative housing plan. judgment of a faculty committee and about equalizing housing options for retaining 375 upperclass students on While the Board of Trustees will act on you either have to take it or propose students, and said he would consider East, about 30 percent of the campus; other recommendations in the report in alternatives." any proposal that met that objective. implementing a 50 percent ceiling on the December, Pye said there was "no need Pye said that while the recommenda "We need to provide equal opportunity amount of upperclass dormitory space to hurry" action on the residential life tions made in the report would save the for women and for residents of non assigned to selective groups and a 45- plan. The chancellor said he would ask University money, questions of quality William Griffith, vice president of often outweighed questions of cost. student affairs, to look at all the "If I only wanted to save money, I alternative plans. would eliminate forestry. The difference Sanford's faculty talk Pye said he does not plan to defend his is the educational merit of forestry," he Continued from page 1 students but a reminder to students to report to its critics. "I don't plan to said. times. The appeal of other occupations is look at honor for honor itself," he said. change my position on anything.