TIP US OFF WEATHER If you know of any news Friday will bring around campus, please cloudy skies and pass the information on temperatures in the- to the Chronicle. Call the 40s and 50s. news editor at 684-2663 Sunday through Thurs­ day between 3 p.m. and 5 The Chronicle Duke University Volume 74, Number 50 Thursday, November 9, 1978 Durham, North Carolina Early vote aids clasBy Tim Farrosw fund-raising good job at all "We've got to pay more motivating fund raising problem recently is that attention to all of the among the alumni. We've we have gotten a late start classes as groups, rather got to get out and let in reminding graduates of than just the freshmen students see what we are their status as part of their and seniors," said Mike trying to do, and at the class. The earlier elections Peterson, assistant direc­ same time keep our this year should remedy tor of annual giving, standards high," Peterson that." Office of Development last said. Class officers are week. He mentioned the great responsible for arranging So this year, class amount of attention and coordinating all class elections will be held administrators pay to activities and events November 16, and officers freshmen by having small subsequent to graduation. for both junior and senior get-togethers for them According to Peterson, the classes will be elected. during their first semes­ ideal officers would be Class elections are ter. He went on to say that "open — minded, and able normally held at the end the administration ig- to keep ail the diverse Could Republican incumbent Senator Jesse Helms (!) be saying, "Try of the spring semester of nores the sophomores and interests of their class­ again in six years, John Ingram (r)?" "Mr. No," as Helms tagged himself the class' senior year. juniors, only to resume mates in mind." Tuesday night, took 54% of the vote. For details on national results, Peterson said the earlier fawning on the seniors in see page 3. elections will allow the hopes of receiving money officers more time to from them as alumni. create awareness in their "Duke students are Wilmington 10 defendant denies class of future fund- sophisticated, socially raising efforts. Future and politically, and it is officers will also be elected impossible to fool them a year in advance. with false motivation or that parole implies closed case The election of class promises," Peterson By Dan Falstad officers is an annual event continued. Reginald Epps, co-defendant in the Wilmington 10 black high school students. which determines who case, said Tuesday night that although most of the ten The first film was a complete tape of the defendants' will represent the gradua­ Peterson responded are now out on parole, they do not consider the case press conference held at Central Prison immediately ting class for the next five positively regarding the anywhere near closed. Epps spoke to about fifty people after N.C. Governor James Hunt's decision last years. The offices in enthusiasm of recent in York Chapel following the presentation of two January not to grant a pardon to the group. The question are the president, Duke graduates toward informative films on the case. second was a "60 Minutes" documentary on the case. fund-raising efforts."I a vice president for each of The Wilmington 10 were charged with and convicted Also present at the meeting was Turner, the single the three undergraduate think graduates generally of the firebombing of Mike's Grocery in Wilmington, have a good attitude white co-defendant, who detailed the actions the group schools, and a secretary North Carolina in 1971. The group was comprised of the wishes to encourage. She expressed hope that people, treasurer. toward their alma mater," Rev. Ben Chavis, Anne Sheppard Turner, and eight he said. "One major upon learning about the case, would write the federal "We haven't done a Department of Justice and their elected officials demanding attention at the federal level to the case. Henry New son honored The program, titled "Wilmington 10: Still No Justice," was sponsored by the Wilmington 10 Defense Committee, the Divinity School Women's Cour cil, and the Black Seminarians' Union. Portrait exalts nuclear physicist Chavis, the Wilmington 10 leader and a student at By Mike Ruth his contributions to Stagg Field in Chicago serve on the Manhattan Duke Divinity School, was not able to attend the A recently commission­ nuclear physics, died May with Enrico Fermi and Project, where his work meeting because he is still in prison. He did, however, ed portrait of the late Duke 14, 1978. other physicists during earned him the War send a personal message to the group emphasizing the physics professor Henry Born in 1909, Newson the first controlled slow Department Service "necessity to struggle for human rights." W. Newson will be earned his B.S. in nuclear reaction in 1942. Award. The defendants' demand for pardon focused on unveiled here on Sunday, chemistry in 1931, and a Following this, in 1943, he various prosecution improprieties which have been November 19, according Ph.D. from the University was appointed principal In 1948 Newson joined the faculty at Duke, where uncovered in the years since the original trial. The to E.G. Bilpuch, a of Chicago in 1934. There physicist for Oak Ridge prosecution's three leading witnesses have since professor of physics. he served as instructor National Laboratory. he worked to improve the precision of nuclear recanted their testimony, admitting publicly that they Newson, who was and physicist until 1943. were bribed and misled by the prosecutor. Newson was present at Newson went on to spectroscopy and engin­ internationally know for eered the acquisition and However last January Hunt, though aware of the installation of one of the new developments decided that the Wilmington 10 had first commercially prod­ received a fair trial and that he would not grant them a RLC maintains existing uced Van de Graaf nuclear pardon. He did, however, reduce most of the sentences, accelerators. In 1966 originally totalling over 280 years, by about one third. Central Campus lottery Newson established the In the press conference film the defendants By Margaret Donnelly they've settled into apartments just Triangle Universities expressed their shock at the governor's decision. They The Residential Life Committee because dorm people want to move in Nuclear Laboratory, made several charges of racism, and Chavis called the (RLC) made no recommendation at with their own roommates." which has become a Wilmington 10 case a "classical lesson in North its meeting Mondaynight to After lengthy discussion, the RLC leading center of nuclear Carolina racism." He said that "North Carolina leads change the Central Campus decided that there was little research in the southeast. the nation in political prisoners." Apartments' lottery system. difference between the Central After the films Epps commented that it was the first Gwen Mouser, a Central Campus Campus students' proposal and the From the early days of time he had seen them and that he "had to struggle to student representative, had requested actual university practices as his career, Newson hold (himself) together." a resolution stating "people (request reported by Barbara Buschman of the collaborated in experi­ Epps said that there were two reasons why he and ing Central Campus housing) will be Office of Student Affairs. ments leading to many the others, (with the exception of Turner), refused to moved into ail available single spaces In an effort to establish long range major discoveries in the take the stand in their own behalf. First, he said, he before any attempt is made to goals, the RLC created two ad hoc field of nuclear energy. didn't want to risk implicating others and second he consolidate present residents." subcommittees, an East campus With his colleagues, he "really didn't feel that what the state was pulling off study committee to be chaired by Ken invented the overall would be sufficient for conviction." Mouser had reported in an Adler, a senior in Trinity College and control system which still Both Epps and Turner said that for personal and interview Sunday that, "Under the a committee to review living is an important facet of legal reasons all the Wilmington 10 want complete present system (Central Campus standards for campus groups,to be research with nuclear exoneration for their alleged offenses. They want their residents) without roommates are chaired by Jim Werner, also a Trinity reactors. names and criminal records cleared. "Only then," unfairly shuffled around after f n||ppp spninr . Turner said,"will we rest." Page Two The Chronicle Thursday, November 9, 1978 hit Ocean Engineering flicks will be you pre-conceptions, bring only your rtins Fri shown at 8 in 115A Engine House. imagination land dice of all kinds). Main Quad. ASME will meet before films at 7:30; all Jewish-Christian Dialogue: B:30p.m.. ZETAS: Get psyched forthe formal SPECTRUM substitute locker attendant ibis week ME's welcome. Be there! Baptist Student Center on Alexander the Raleigh Women's Club. Ta Highway 70 to Raid; condolences. so why not come up and meet the best Avenue. Dr. Robert Osliorn and Dr. looking guy on campus' Cosmos can't Orabtree Valley Mall. Go under th. 5:15 p.m.. Holy Com beltline and take the Koger Executivi PHI MU's: Get psyched forthepledge Memorial Chapel. Duke f TOMORROW Parkway Exit. The club is on the right NCSI.: Meeting at 7 p.m. in the office. University community is at 5:30. Get psyched for a good dinner! formal. Also, initiation is on Sunday in Resolutions will he distributed and the iittend this service.