The Chronicle Thursday, January 26

THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 26. 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 82 Report tries to uncloud governance " By CRAIG WHITLOCK "The interim was more of a per mary focus is academics, prompt In its final report to be pres suasive document. This [final] ing the final recommendation to ented to the Academic Council document is more legislative. elevate his stature. today, the Task Force on Univer "We've offered some correc • The formation of a 12-mem- sity Governance will recommend tives to some of our judgments" ber Advisory Committee on the fundamental restructuring of from the interim report, he ad Resources. The committee, con a number of administrative posi ded. sisting almost entirely of faculty tions and processes, all in an at Among the specific recommen members, would be intimately tempt to uncloud the Universi dations are: involved in the annual budget ty's basic decision-making • The recognition of the process, making specific propos process. provost as the University's chief als about financial expenditures. Included in the report are rec executive officer, second only to The committee "will have full, ommendations to designate the the president. Under certain cir direct, and timely access to any provost as second-in-command to cumstances, the provost would data it requires, and will be pro the president, create a new dean then serve as acting president vided with sufficient staff to of Trinity College and greatly in and would continue to hold re make informed use of this data," crease the power of two bud sponsibility over all academic af according to the final report. getary and academic oversight fairs. The recommendation committees. "The provost's standing second resembles an almost identical The 15-member task force's to the president emphasizes the one made in the interim report. final report comes nine months fact that the University is an In response, President Keith after an interim study harshly educational and research institu Brodie last May formed an in criticized the University's man tion in its entirety," the report terim resource allocation com agement process, saying.the states. mittee. "faculty seems neither to under The interim study identified a The interim committee began stand, nor to be involved with, Committee of Executive Officers work in September and has basic policy decisions." (CEO), the University's major "worked closely and in tandem" The final report differs from decision-making group con with the task force, Meyers said. the interim in that it recom sisting of the president, execu The committee is chaired by Fu mends more specific solutions to tive vice president, provost and qua School of Business Associate improve University governance. chancellor for health affairs. Professor Wesley Magat, who is "We tried to craft it in a differ One of the task force's top con also a task force member. 1ATT CANDLER/THE CHRONICLE ent way," said Religion Professor cerns was that the provost is the The primary purpose of the The Academic Council will discuss the final report of the Task Eric Meyers, the task force chair. only CEO member whose pri See GOVERNANCE on page 12 ^ Force on University Governance this afternoon. Court ruling's local effect uncertain By ERIN SULLIVAN ordinance "successful," noting "The majority decision is 60 Durham officials said Wednes that most construction projects pages and I've only seen two day that it is too early to know have included good minority and paragraphs," Powell explained. whether a recent U.S. Supreme female representation. In the "It's hard to say anything until Court decision that could limit long term, Powell said, the we see the exact wording of the affirmative action programs for MWBE ordinance would cause decision," Powell said. minority-owned businesses will the creation of more minority City Council member Johnny affect a Durham ordinance. and women businesses. Until "Red" Williams also could not say In a 6-3 vote announced Mon now the ordinance has been what effect the decision would day, the court ruled unconstitu "relatively succcessful, but it have in Durham. He did point tional a Richmond, Va., ordi hasn't really had the time fto out the differences between the MATT CANDLER/THE CHRONICLE nance requiring 30 percent of all work completely]." Powell said. two ordinances, saying "the Rich city build- AT~\ Powell could not say what ef mond ordinance speaks only to Eva-Michelle Grace Green, the first baby born in North Carolina minorities, ours is to women and from a frozen embryo, with her parents, Michael and Eva Green ing con- (| ]} fect the Supreme Court's decision tracts to be p-it-v^.jM, J]^ concerning the Richmond ordi minorities. The Richmond case See ORDINANCE on page 13 • tZ _ lOWN nance would have in Durham. Former frozen embryo born least half - •'" owned by minorities. Imposing a By CHRIS GRAHAM Medical Center on April 11, im doctrine of "strict scrutiny" of af Mass graves from Stalin Medical Center officials an planted into her mother's uterus, firmative action programs, the nounced Wednesday the birth of and born at Memorial Mission court found that the Richmond the first baby conceived and born Hospital in Asheville on Dec. 27. ordinance violated the rights of era uncovered in Russia in North Carolina from a frozen At birth, she weighed 8 pounds, 2 white contractors to equal embryo. ounces, and measured 20 and protection under the law. Approximately 200 local gov MOSCOW (AP) — Officials people, have been excavated. The baby, Eva-Michelle Grace one-half inches long. of the Byelorussian republic Workers have found car Green, was conceived through a Her parents, Michael and Eva ernments in 36 states have mea sures similar to Richmond's, in plan to build a monument to tridge cases, bullets and process known as in vitro fertil Green of Asheville, said they the estimated 30,000 victims clothes, and these objects ization (IVF) at the Medical Cen were "elated" with Eva-Michel cluding Durham. Durham's Minorities and Women in Busi of political executions carried have been analyzed using a ter last Valentine's Day and fro le's birth. out in a forest during Josef laser, she told Izvestia. zen at -196 degrees Celsius for "When you can see this young ness Enterprises (MWBE) ordi nance sets a goal of up to 35 per Stalin's rule, a newspaper Mazai said at least 30,000 two months. lady after so many technologies cent of city building contracts to reported Wednesday. people were buried at The embryo was thawed at the See BABY on page 13 >• be awarded to minority- and The government daily Iz Kuropaty, down from previous women-owned businesses. vestia quoted Nina Mazai, a estimates that more than According to Durham City deputy premier of Byelorus 100,000 had been killed there. Inside Weather Manager Orville Powell, The city sia, as saying that 510 mass The exact figure cannot be will accept less than the desired graves have been found in the determined, she said. percentage goal if "good faith" Kuropaty area near the re The mass executions were Psychedelic: Hoof v Tropical breezes? Lively has been demonstrated. The or public's capital of Minsk. carried out by the secret po Horn's latest production, up yourself with temperatures dinance outlines what "good faith Mazai, who chairs a com lice, which at the time was "Hair," is just that — complete in the low 60s and light winds. efforts" entail. mission investigating the kill called the NKVD, from 1937 with all its 1960's trappings. N.C. may not be Jamaica but The ordinance has been effect ings, said six graves, each con to 1941, and the commission is See page 4 for a review. it beats the hell out of N.H. in its current form for about two taining the remains of 50-60 See STALIN on page 7 • years, Powell said. He called the THE'CHRONfCLE THURSPAV, JANUARY 26,1989 World & National Newsfile George Bush favors development of Alaska Associated Press By H. JOSEPH HEBERT way to do it. small group of reporters today, Bush said Associated Press A dozen of the leading environmental the concerns raised by the environmental Ground broken: A silent protest WASHINGTON — President Bush, dis and conservation groups, including some groups brought to mind similar argu greeted Kent State University officials appointing environmental groups, said of the movement's biggest names, urged ments made about the Alaska oil pipeline. Wednesday as they broke ground for a Wednesday he favors "prudent develop Bush in a letter Tuesday to review Interi "I remember the pipeline. I remember scaled-down memorial to students shot ment" of oil and gas resources in a vast or's position with an eye toward reversing the arguments against it," he said. "And I by Ohio National Guardsmen during Arctic wildlife refuge in northeastern the department's recommendation to Con also know the effect it did not have on the 1970 anti-war demonstrations. Alaska. gress. caribou." Bush said that while he favors oil explo "We have strenuously opposed this pro Bush has said his administration in Female bishop elected: The ration in the Arctic National Wildlife Ref posal as a shortsighted sacrifice of a na tends to be a strong defender of the envi Rev. Barbara C. Harris, elected the uge, precautions must be taken "so that tional treasure for a few months of energy ronment, but also has indicated in the first woman bishop in the 2,000-year we do not do irreparable damage to the that is readily procurable elsewhere," the past that he favors expanded oil drilling tradition of apostolic succession, said environment." groups said.

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