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The Chronicle Wednesday INSIDE: Summer Job Finder THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 91 Congress defeats federal pay raise paid and Congress had failed to deal with the ethical issues WASHINGTON — Congress raised by members' supplement­ killed the proposed 51 percent ing their government salaries federal pay increase Tuesday, with payments from private leaving a tangle of political prob­ groups. lems, including judges demand­ "This is not the end of the ing a raise and critics promising discussion," he said. to continue the fight over Con­ The raise would have directly gress's taking honorariums from increased the salaries of 2,500 private interests. judges. Cabinet and sub-Cabinet The mood on Capitol Hill was officers and members of Con­ grim Tuesday after House mem­ gress from the present $89,500 to bers disapproved the raise, 380- $135,000. 48, under the weight of a public But it also would have cleared uproar, thus defeating a care­ the way for virtually automatic fully laid political plan to permit increases for thousands of other it to take effect without a vote. senior employees, from generals A few minutes after the House to cancer researchers. UPI Photo voted, the Senate followed, 94-6. "You won't find too many meek President Bush, who had en­ House Speaker Jim Wright and mild bureaucrats around dorsed the raise while restrain­ this week," said Marylouise Uh- ing his usual enthusiasm, crat, as he rose on the floor to of­ lig, director of program manage­ planned to sign the resolution of fer tbe resolution disapproving ment for the Environmental disapproval, his staff said. The the raise. "We're doing what has Protection Agency. "There's a raises would have taken effect at become the inevitable." strong feeling of disen­ M FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Fazio said the collapse of the chantment. It's ironic how Con­ Raindrops keep fallin "This is not a task I enjoy in pay increase plan left "a national gress doesn't think enough of any sense," said Rep. Vic Fazio of crisis" in which judges and fed­ themselves to stand up and be Don't let the rainy weather get you down. Let a smile be your California, a senior House Demo- eral executives were still under­ See PAYRAISE on page 8 »- umbrella. Just smile real hard. Black architect never saw campus Professor discusses evils This is another in a series of oc­ casional articles commemorating for paying him so well. of racism, categorization Black History Month. James B. Duke, founder of the Duke Endowment, hired the ByLISAKLINK Trumbauer firm to design his By CHRIS BERGERON The architect who designed al­ personal townhouse. He was pleased with their work and An active figure in the ad­ most all of the buildings on West ministration's effort to recruit Campus never came to Durham hired the firm to design Duke University's new West Campus. black faculty addressed an au­ to see his finished work, probably dience of black and white fra­ because he was black. Abele was the chief designer for all of the buildings on the main ternity members on the topic Julian Francis Abele was born quad, the Chapel, the Allen of race relations Tuesday eve­ in Philadelphia in 1881, the building, Cameron Indoor Stadi­ ning in the Few Fed commons youngest of eight children. He at­ um, and Hanes House on North room. tended the Institute for Colored campus. He also sketched a Melvin Peters, associate Youth, then high school, and did design for the Forestry School, professor of religion, both crit­ well in both. He went on to study but it was never built. icized the categorization of architecture at the University of people by race, and lamented There has been some question Pennsylvania, and he graduated the "disease of racism" that about how Abele's color affected at the top of the Class of 1902. exists in our society today in his work. His name didn't appear The dean of architecture at his two hour presentation. His JE8 BRACK AT THE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES on any of the drawings he did Penn noticed Abele's talent and speech, titled "The Fallacy of while under Trumbauer, al­ showed his drawings to Horace Architect Julian Abele Race and the Disease of Rac­ though historians credit him as Trumbauer, the owner of a pres­ ism," was sponsored by a chief designer. Clients of the firm tigious architectural firm in Phil­ signer. He landed a contract for a white fraternity in conjunc­ worked and negotiated through adelphia. Trumbauer was so im­ wealthy sugar refiner, and made tion with three black frater­ Trumbauer, and may never have pressed that he not only hired a large profit for the company. nities. Abele, but paid his way through Soon afterwards, the chief de­ known that their chief architect four years of architecture school signer left and Abele took over was black. He was very fair- "The majorities in the Uni­ CHAD HOOD/THE CHRONICLE skinned and may have been able versity need meaningful con­ at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the position, receiving a high sal­ Melvin Peters Paris. Abele is the only black ary and serving as a confidant to to pass for white, according to tact with their minority American ever to have graduated the uneducated Trumbauer. the University Archives. peers," said event coordinator current inadequacies of the Blake Dickson, explaining the from that school. Many criticized Trumbauer, Abele never came to the Duke racial classification system in reason for the forum. A however, for employing a black campus to see the buildings he society. Using the racial clas­ Abele joined the Trumbauer Trinity senior and a Sigma Al­ man in such a high position, and had designed. One man, Valen­ sification section found on the firm as assistant to the chief de- pha Epsilon fraternity mem­ tine Lee, who worked on the con­ current undergraduate appli­ ber, Dickson stressed that struction of West Campus, said cation as an example, Peters black and white fraternity in­ Abele's color was not the reason said that "to use the catego­ teraction is a "step in the right Weather he never came to see his own ries is not useful unless they Inside direction," and that "by buildings. Lee said Abele stayed are further qualified." mixing, [ fraternities I can af­ Reflecting on the mixed eth­ Sickly Sweet: Medical re­ HOOS bleWS: Blazing 10 to in Philadelphia during the whole fect some of the social segre­ nic background of all humans, searchers are investigating 15 m.p.h. winds will make the construction period because the gation here at Duke." Peters asked hypothetical^, some possible harmful effects sunny day slightly chilly and firm was busy, and he was "when do you cross over from of Nutrasweet, including add most profusely to the mid needed there to work. Upon introduction, Peters when you are white, lets say, hives and headaches. For 40s air. The night will be as Abele's son, Julian Abele, Jr., began his presentation on "the fallacy of race," describing the See RACISM on page 15 • more, see page 4. cold as the Hoos' shooting. said he thinks color was impor- You guessed it, 20. See ABELE on page 16 ^ THECHRONICLF. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1989 World a National Newsfile Bush ties military budget to rise in inflation Associated Press hours in the Capitol on Tuesday setting S&LS taken Over: Federal regula­ the stage for his first major policy address tors in implementing President Bush's WASHINGTON — President Bush, in a by telling members of Congress that they savings and loan rescue plan an­ challenge to Congress to set new budget face unpleasant choices, but ones that nounced Tuesday that they had begun priorities, wil! propose Thursday that mil­ must be made to put the country on a taking control of more than 200 insol­ itary spending in the next fiscal year rise somewhat different course. vent savings and loans institutions only enough to keep pace with inflation, He plans to tell Congress on Thursday which are still operating. administration officials said Tuesday. night that not only military spending but That is about $2 billion less than Presi­ also some popular government grant EthiCS CZar proposed: Several dent Reagan's farewell budget proposal, programs will have to be canceled to allow members of President Bush's ethics which called for a 2 percent increase to more spending for education, child care, commission supported the idea Tues­ make up for inflation in military spending drug programs and protection of the envi­ day of creating a federal ethics czar for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. ronment. with the power and prestige of Judge The president will loosen the reins on "For the first time in years," said Sen. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who military spending a bit in the following Warren Rudman, R-N.H., "we're going to President George Bush cleaned up baseball in the 1920s. fiscal years, though generally not by as be asked to set priorities, not just to cut much as the Reagan budget would have and cut and cut." clean up pollution at plants that make nu­ called for, the officials said. California discriminated: The Among the elements of the president's clear weapons. One official said the state of California deliberately under­ The main theme of Bush's address to budget, said adminhstration officials and money for environmental cleanup might paid women for decades, starting in Congress Thursday night, Republican lawmakers, are these: be taken out of programs in the Reagan the 1930s, a labor economist said Tues­ lawmakers said, will be one of challenge.
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