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THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1989 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 108 Institutions must balance research, teaching in future By TIMOTHY MCGUIRE Top research universities will have to make changes in the fundamental roles of research and instruction to maintain ex­ cellence in the future, said the president of Princeton University who spoke Thursday night on the future of the Amer­ ican research university. In a speech titled "The American Re­ search University: Can the Vision Sur­ vive?" Harold Shapiro said universities SUSAN HELMS/THE CHRONICLE must seriously examine whether or not undergraduate education and scholarly The Hideaway committee has approved a proposal to allow students to research can continue to coexist in the JILL WRIGHT/THE CHRONICLE retain majority ownership of the campus bar. same institution. Princeton University President Harold Shapiro, a Canadian and graduate of Shapiro McGill University, served as president of the University of Michigan prior to be­ departments in order to maintain excel­ Hideaway proposal approved coming president at one of the top Ivy lence in the ones they retain. "I don't see League institutions. the initiative on any of these issues any­ ByJAYEPPING ter, director of real estate administra­ Shapiro said American research univer­ where," he said, however. The Hideway committee decided tion, and Taylor will work on refining sities' attempt "to do everything" has Duke will probably exist forever, Wednesday night to form a new cor­ the plan over the weekend, Heine said. "driven a wedge between undergraduate Shapiro said. However, its future as a poration to replace the current owners The Hideaway committee is com­ education and centers of high quality great university depends on its making of the on-campus bar, Hideaway, Inc., posed of representatives from GPSC, scholarship." these changes. which currently leases the space from ASDU and the Fuqua School of Shapiro also said research universities According to Shapiro, the American re­ the University. Business, as well as bar employees and need to "find a more selective course to search university is a relatively new thing The other option available to the Taylor, who is an associate professor of follow if [they] care about quality." He and while it shares some characteristics committee was to make the Hideaway health administration. said they will have to cut back some See SHAPIRO on page 8 • a division of Auxilary Services. The new corporation will be pres­ The decision to form a new corpora­ ented to the University and if found ac­ tion allows students to retain control ceptable, negotiations on the new lease over the bar, said Carl Heine, a would begin, Glazer said. The proposed Knight book chronicles 1960s graduate student and member of the corporation would take over before the Hideaway committee. Also, the new bar's present lease ends in May, Heine By ERIC JONES Five and a half years ago Knight con­ corporation would allow Hideaway said. A former Duke president's new book sidered writing the book, which will be faculty advisor Robert Taylor to Glazer also said that the bar most about the 1960s ranges in scope from an released in May. He had read the litera­ remain involved with the bar, Heine likely would be better managed as an analysis of Bob Dylan's pervasiveness ture of the 1960s widely, although he was said. The committee thought this outside corporation rather than as a during the decade to a tense account of without an exact idea of what his focus would give the bar a better chance of part of Auxilary Services. He said the the takeover of Allen Building in 1969. would be. being successful, Heine said. University does not and cannot have "Street of Dreams: The Nature and Leg­ "For 15 years I couldn't [write about his Heine said the proposal still needed the same interest as a student "whose acy of the 1960's" chronicles the tenure of experience], but it became a book I truly some refinements before its pres­ livelihood depends on the business." Douglas Knight, who served as University had to write. The release of some stuff in­ entation to the Graduate and Profes­ Glazer said students themselves are in president from 1963-1969. The book side surely was a part of it," Knight said. sional Student Council (GPSC) and a better position to see and respond to provides an explanation of the causes and He said he had felt "weary and ASDU on Monday night. Committee student needs. effects of the era's social movements and thwarted" after leaving the University in member and Interfraternity Council Glazer was assigned to the commit­ descriptions of the University's atmo­ 1969, and would not visit any college cam­ President Trinity junior Larry Glazer, tee by ASDU president and Trinity ju- sphere, from students to the Board of pus for four years. who presented the proposal, Jeff Pot­ See HIDEAWAY on page 10 • Trustees. One of the themes of "Street of Dreams" "None of the people doing my kind of job is the loss of innocence the '60s brought did anything about the '60s," in terms of about for youth, women, blacks and the writing books, Knight said in a recent in­ military. terview. "The books written have seen one The "complex interaction of innocence segment of what was going on; I'd been in and lost innocence ... is everywhere in Journalists, professor discuss touch with many of them. Others were the major movements, in the individual written by reporters who hadn't been dreams of the young, in the prosecution of character of Bush presidency through any of it at all." See KNIGHT on page 5 ^ ByCRISTINACHOU Barber, a widely published expert on poli­ A prominent political science professor tics and the media, moderated the panel. and three participants in the visiting All three panelists commented on Japanese ambassador to visit journalist program candidly discussed Bush's refreshingly spontaneous public their impressions of President Bush and personality. Richard Boeth, assistant pic­ From staff reports Matsunaga is Japan's senior diplo­ the media in the light of the current de­ ture editor for Time, said Bush's accessi­ The Japanese Ambassador to the mat, having served in the foreign ser­ bate over secretary of defense nominee bility was admirable. "He's not doing a United States, Nobuo Matsunaga, will vice for 43 years. Philip Cook, director John Tower in a forum Thursday night. Reagan and saying I can't hear you while speak in place of former Japanese of the Institute of Policy Sciences, Political science professor James David the helicopter is [taking off]." Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, described him as "a person of great Boeth called the day-to-day coverage of who canceled his March 8-9 visit to the distinction." Bush "the best running story there is. It's University. hard for the president to be spontaneous Matsunaga will speak in R.J. According to Cook, Matsunaga's visit Weather ... to rent movies, order pizza, and pick it Reynolds Theater on March 8 at 5 is the result of a special invitation by up himself," Boeth said. The media "has p.m., the Institute of Policy Sciences Charles Manatt, director of the Insti­ Poor Holes! Cloudy skies and a 50 its own S.W.A.T. teams to follow him." and Public Affairs announced tute's Board of Visitors. Although percent chance of rain spell doom for A Quebec correspondent for the Cana­ Thursday. A reception, open to the Nakasone was scheduled to be the the hapless Holes. Sunday, 100 percent dian Broadcasting Corporation, Paul general public, will be held on the up­ third speaker in the Terry Sanford Dis­ chance of fire and brimstone showers Workman, agreed that Bush is showing a per level of the Bryan Center prior to tinguished Speaker series, that fund in and around the Dumb Dome. new openness through news conferences, the speech at 4 p.m. will not sponsor Matsunaga's lecture. See BUSH on page 6 • FRIDAY, MARCH 3,1989 THE CHRONICLE PAGE 3 Internationally famous Tokyo Quartet to play in Page By KEVIN BAILEY Kikuei Ikeda, violist Kazuhude Isomura ton, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Met­ The sounds of famous classical quartets and cellist Sadao Harada. Now nearing Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and ropolitan Museum of Art. will fill the Reynolds Industries Theater the end of its 18th season, the group has Sydney. In addition, the Quartet has played on as the internationally renowned Tokyo received accolades from numerous musi­ Saturday evening's program will fea­ PBS' "Great Performances" and on CBS' String Quartet performs at 8 p.m. Satur­ cal publications, some going so far as to ture the Quartet in F Major, Op. 74, No. 2 "Sunday Morning." Each year, the group day. call them the finest quartet of our time. by Franz Joseph Haydn, Alexander performs at Yale and American univer­ A much-acclaimed ensemble, the Quar­ They have appeared on five continents Borodin's Quartet No. 2 in D Major and sities where the musicians are artists-in- tet features violinists Peter Oundjian and and in such cities as New York, Washing- the G Major Quartet, D. 887 by Schubert. residence. Known for their immaculate balance as They are also in residence at the Col­ well as their precise intonation, the Quar­ lege-Conservatory of Music at the Univer­ tet also comes to the University with a sity of Cincinnati. reputation for dramatic flair and intensi­ The Quartet has recently completed an ty. exclusive, long-term contract with RCA Such reviews have earned it the Grand Victor Red Seal, an engagement which Prix du Disque du Montreux, Best Cham­ will feature the recording of the complete ber Music Recording of the Year Award quartets of Franz Schubert.

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