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The Chronicle 75th Year, No. 134 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Thursday, April 17, 1980 Douthat suspends Phi Delta Theta By Loren Weil Pine Lodge in Bahama, a Vaughan and her The Phi Delta Theta property owned and operat husband live in an fraternity was placed on ed by the city of Durham. apartment next to the temporary suspension In addition to fraternity lodge. Tuesday morning in members and a band Vaughan said he response to allegations which performed at the warned the students to go that its members behaved party, several local into the lodge or she would inappropriately at an off- residents also reportedly call the sherriff. When campus party Saturday crashed the party, one they ignored her admoni .:, *•« night, said James Dou fraternity member said. tion and one of them that, dean of student life. Thomas Maynard, a approached her, she said, The party, to which park ranger who was she called Maynard. fraternity members and called to calm initial No formal charges have PHOTO BY D. ROKEKT MICHAELS their dates were invited, unruliness at the party, been filed in response to Peter Gillon. national media coordinator for Earth Day. was held at the Spruce said yesterday that when the incident. Apparently he arrived at the party, the only law broken was a said yesterday that when city ordinance which First celebration in 10 years he arrived at the scene he requires that alcohol be saw a woman urinating in consumed inside the lodge a carport adjacent to the and not on the surroun lodge, another woman ding property. Earth Day festivities slated without a shirt leaning Brad Korbel, Phi Delt out a lodge window, president, said, "It was By Sam Millstone celebration. Fairs, forums and "The aim of Earth Day '80 is and a couple without Maynard's right to shut Tuesday is Earth Day 1980, festivals are scheduled in major three-fold," Gillon said, "to any pants on in one room down the party if he saw marking the second observance of cities across the country. celebrate the achievements of the of the lodge. He said a tree fit." He added that the the nationwide event first North Carolina is one ofthe most past decade, to demonstrate and inside the lodge was fraternity is "assisting held in 1970. President Carter put involved states, Gillon said, with give voice to universal support for decorated with condoms. Dean Douthat's office to Earth Day on the national calendar organized events in 20 cities and environmental values among Rhonda Vaughan, the best of our abilities. in his first official act of 1980, thus week-long events in Raleigh. American citizens, and to focus on caretaker of the lodge, "We are complying with encouraging Americans to become An Earth Day Festival will be the unfinished business of said she called Maynard our suspension. The more aware of their environment. held at Duke, on the Main improving the environment." when she saw several men problem is that we are "Over the past 10 years since Quadrangle of West Campus, Earth Day '80, as a concept, will drinking alcoholic bever dealing with public Earth Day 1970, there has been beginning at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. take an urban focus, looking to do ages in the yard outside the property. We foresee no tremendous improvement in The festival will include music and away with urban pollution, lodge and others urinat legal action at this time." environmental conditions," said numerous displays on environ hazardous wastes and dangerous ing on cars parked nearby. Douthat said the Peter Gillon, a 1979 graduate of mental issues. work-places. The energy crisis is In addition, people were probationary action was Duke and media coordinator for Displays will be presented by also a major issue this Earth Day, sitting in her carport and taken after a meeting Earth Day '80. ECOS, a Duke student-run as environmentalists will urge on her car. Continued on page 12 "Some of these environmental environment awareness group that conservation and improved improvements have been the has organized the festival, technology. establishment of the Environ Students Against Nuclear Energy, "Earth Day has a very broad mental Protection Agency and the the North Carolina Public Interest perspective, with no real agenda. Council on Environmental Quality, Research Group and the Holistic Earth Day is community innova Glenn named as well as the passage of such bills Community Health center. tion and initiative. We are just as the Clean Water Act and the Dave Reeves, president of ECOS coordinating events and not Clean Air Act," Gillon said. and a Trinity College senior, said pushing issues. Each area has its Emory dean Tuesday, thousands of people he hopes to have a solar energy own particular issues for their from more than 500 cities and exhibition, an EPA-sponsored events," Gillon explained. By Richard Liebeskind towns across the country will be booth andthenon-competitiveNew "At the first Earth Day in 1970, Dr. James F. Glenn, professor of urology in the involved in the Earth Day Games at the festival. Continued on page 12 Department of Surgery at Duke Medical Center, has been named dean of the Emory University Some prefer nocturnal work School of Medicine in Atlanta, an Emory spokesman announced today. Glenn's appointment was "overwhelmingly approved" by the Emory faculty in a meeting To work while others sleep? Monday, at which Emory President James T. By Caroline Finney people "who have trouble getting to sleep and decide to Laney said, "I am persuaded he will be a dynamic, While most people are settling down to an evening of do their grocery shopping," and Duke students who imaginative and vigorous leader." study, socializing, or sleep there are those whose "day" are suffering from a late night attack of the If approved by Emory's Board of Trustees, is just beginning. A midnight tour of Duke and "munchies," Cates said. Glenn will take office August 1. He will replace Dr. Durham helped to discover some night people and find The cashier described the students who come into E. Garland Herndon, Jr., who has served as acting out what makes night jobs different from working in the store in the wee hours as seeming awake and full of dean since Dr. Arthur P. Richardson resigned in the daytime. energy. Cates said this is the case probably because August after a 23-year term. Herndon will the students "sleep through their classes all day long, continue to serve as vice president of health Shopping after dark and just need somewhere to go at night — so they come affairs and director of Emory's Woodruff Medical The A&P is surprisingly busy at 2:30 Sunday here." Center. morning. While there are no long lines to contend with "You deal with a whole different class of people at Glenn said Monday, "I join [Emory] with at the cash registers, there are still customers milling night," Cates continued. "People seem friendlier, enthusiasm, eagerness, a sense of dedication and about with shopping carts and making late night easier to get along with." His customers buy a lot of with a conviction that this can be one of the purchases. snack-type foods at night, especially "pretzels, potato nation's leading medical centers." Jack Cates, a cashier, chose to work the night shift chips, and a lot of ice cream." Because the A&P stops Dr. William G. Anlyan, Duke's vice president of at the A&P because he thinks it gives "him more time selling alcohol at 1 a.m., alcohol-related traffic in the health affairs, said, "We are terribly proud of Jim during the day to do what he wants." Cates works from store at night is rarely a problem. Glenn. He has been one of the pillars of this midnight until 8:30 a.m., when he goes home to sleep Cates said he feels safe working at night and doesn't institution. We hate to lose him. Ashe has reached for a few hours, and then coaches a Little League worry about robberies. If a woman comes in alone at the pinnacle of academic urology, he has baseball team in the afternoon. night, one of the cashiers will escort her back to the car developed broader academic interests and it is a At night the store is patronized primarily by retired Continued on page 4 Continued on page 12 . Page Two The Chronicle Thursday, April 17, 1980 According to U.S. Custom Service report Islamic terrorism may hit U.S. AUSTIN, Texas (CPS) — Two University of Texas The letter, reprinted in the Customs report, warns students have obtained a U.S. Customs Service report Moslems to prepare to defend "our lively interests" detailing possible Islamic terrorist attacks by foreign and to use "rhetoric, demonstrations, coordinated students within the United States. However, some policies and physical warfare if necessary." foreign student advisers doubt the report's Although the letter was circulated in the east, the authenticity and fear it may be used to exacerbate report was written out of the Customs Service's hostility toward — and increase the danger to — Portland, Ore., office. Iranian students in the U.S. Special Agent Lawrence LeDage wouldn't say how The report was prompted by a letter, allegedly now the Portland office got involved in the case. Though being distributed in some eastern cities, that calls on reluctant to comment, LeDage did confirm the UPI PHOTO Moslems to conduct "Islamic guerilla warfare in the authenticity of the report. Moslem students have allegedly been called United States" in the event the U.S.