THE CHRONICLE Admissions Head Selected from Tough Applicant Pool Carleton College Candidate Offered Post
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Wednesday March 19, 1986 Vol. 81, No. 116, 24 pages Duke University Durham, North Carolina Free Circulation: 15,000 THE CHRONICLE Admissions head selected from tough applicant pool Carleton College candidate offered post By PAUL GAFFNEY "I felt very fortunate to be selected" Steele said in an interview Tuesday. "I think Duke The admissions director at a private Min is clearly such a great university." nesota college will be nominated to the In a prepared statement, Griffiths called same position here, ending a two-month Steele, 46, "a first-rate admissions profes search to replace Jean Scott, who was fired sional who is both energetic and effective. in November. His expertise and sensitivity will be great Provost Phillip Griffiths will nominate assets to this institution as wilt his ex Richard Steele, dean of admissions at perience at an excellent liberal arts college, Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., for nationally recognized for the strength of its the post at the April 4 meeting ofthe Ex student body." ecutive Committee ofthe Board of TYustees. Steele will take over for Clark Cahow, Steele was chosen over four other can University registrar and interim admis didates, two of whom were already affiliated sions director, July 1. Cahow has been with the University, according to Thomas heading the office since Scott's dismissal. Langford, vice provost for academic affairs Steele will join an admissions office that and chair of the selection committee. has experienced significant turnover in the Steele, a Harvard graduate who earned last six months. In addition to Scott, both a Ph.D. in English from _ie University of associate admissions directors and an assis f TWOUT_ Wisconsin in 1973, has 20 years of ex tant director have resigned. perience in college admissions. Before go The University is also formulating a com ing to Carleton in 1979, he headed the ad prehensive admissions policy and is con missions office at the University of Vermont sidering changes to the admissions process, and was an admissions assistant at Vassar including a system where the admission of College and Bates College. fice would refer candidates to a faculty com ^^^^, Hew \ He has also served on the national mittee, which would then present its final __ V, u*MAR K ESTRADA/THE CHRONICLE scholarship selection committee ofthe Na decisions to the provost. tional Merit Scholarship Corp, and as direc But Steele said he is not worried about Devil's advocate __________________________-_____• tor ofthe New England Association of Col the problems the admissions office has ex- Marshall Silverman, Trinity sophomore, indicating how many minutes before lege Admissions Counselors. See ADMISSIONS on page 4 game time a cheerleader must arrive at Cameron to get a front row seat. Competition hexes ailing Pizza Devil CAPS may move off West Campus By MICHAEL MILSTEIN By LAURA ALLEN Pizza Devil's delivery service, the only one accepting The need for more academic office space will force points, may be eliminated or curtailed because of large Counseling and ftychological Services (CAPS) to vacate financial fosses that officials blame on increased competi its West Campus location by next summer. tion and low quality pizza. "The central administration has had its position for The DUFS operation is designed to make about an some years that CAPS would have to move," said $8,000 profit - money normally used to defray losses of William Griffith, vice president for student affairs. other operations, such as the East Campus Union - ac U) CAPS is located on the second floor of the Old cording to Barry Scerbo, DUFS director. But Scerbo pro Chemistry Building. jects Pizza Devil will lose about $24,000 this year. IZZA But CAPS officials are worried about where their new Two years ago, Pizza Devil was a big money-maker for offices will be located. Jane Clark Moorman, CAPS DUFS, Scerbo said. Last year, the operation almost broke director, said a move away from a central location would even but this year it has sunk into the red. "If the trend restrict CAPS' accessibility to students. "CAPS being continues, it dosen't look that good," said Kate Wandscher, DEVIL on the "beaten path' of all groups of students is an im manager of Pizza Devil. portant factor in students using the services early or A DUFS management group including Scerbo and other ding delivery hours and improving quality. when problems arise," she said. DUFS administrators, is considering options to slow the "It's hard for Pizza Devil to compete with their low CAPS "has been a major factor in the prevention of rate of loss. Scerbo said DUFS will not go out ofthe pizza volume and short hours," Freedman said. "And they don't more serious illness in a significant number of students, business, but will consider either changing or limiting have the quality. If they had the quality, I would never buy as well as in preventing the tragedy of more suicides," delivery service. If deliveries were stopped, pizza would still a Domino's pizza . [But] I do, I think everyone does." she said. be available at the Downunder and the Rathskellar, he Scerbo agreed that quality must be improved. "We lost CAPS has occupied its suite in the Old Chemistry said. But he stressed that no definite plans have been the quality about a year ago," he said. made Building since it was formed in a merger ofthe Univer But Wandsher said Pizza Devil has been rated highly sity Counseling Center and the Student Mental Health Trinity junior Ed Freedman, head of DUFSAC, the stu in student surveys. She said she hopes the operation can Sevice in 1977. dent committee which monitors DUFS, said committee continue in "some shape or fashion." Moorman said that when she assumed the director members were against closing Pizza Devil, but understood Both Scerbo and Wandscher said that the opening of five ship ofthe new center in 1977, it was "not made clear" the need for change. He said members suggested exten- local pizza outlets in the past year has also hurt business. that the facilities were considered only temporary. She first learned of definate plans to move CAPS last November, she said. Weather "There has been an attempt for the last four to five Inside years to get non-academic facilities out of Old Be Still my heart: Elvis may be a pleasant RlghteOUS bucks: Unless our contra friends get Chemistry," Griffith said. memory to your corpulent Aunt Phyllis, but to the grow more guns, the president says, it won't be long before Moorman said she would not fight the move from Old ing legions of Elvis impersonaters he's a way of life. Is desperate Latin peoples are hopping the Texan border Chemistry and that she was "not wed to any one loca it true that by the year 2000 one out of every eleven and the Sandinista military machine interdicts our tion." But she will fight for a Wes. Campus location for American males will be one? We don't know, but what Caribbean sea lanes. Oh my. Possible thunderstorms the agency, which employs more than 15 people and we do know is pretty scary. See Carillon, page 6. today, high near 70. PS. - The winds will be southwest served one eighth of the student body last year. and gusty, so part your hair on the left. See CAPS on page 4 Contra aid remains 10 short in House World & By STEVEN V. ROBERTS "The Great Communicator didnlt reach the Am NY Times News Service people," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., who reported that WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders of both parties 60 percent of his callers opposed helping the rebels. "I agreed Tuesday that President Reagan must persuade at wouldn't fault his communication skills, I would fault the National least 10 more House members to vote for his $100 million product he was selling." aid package for the Nicaraguan rebels or face defeat. Rep. Robert Michel, the Republican leader, expressed Page 2 March 19, 1986 Reagan, meanwhile, continued to lobby legislators for disappointment that the calls were running about even the aid, one ofthe major foreign policy initiatives of his in his Illinois district. presidency. The House is scheduled to vote on the measure "People just don't get cranked up about this," said Michel, Thursday. who supports the president. "In my district they're wor Vote-counters on Capitol Hill say the president has ap ried about jobs and losing their farms. That's the problem Newsfile parently won over a handful of wavering legislators in re out there in the country." cent days. Supporters of Reagan contend that, given the Speaker Thomas O'Neill said ofthe president, "We have Soviet Spy Ships: U.S. spy ships entered Soviet political leverage ofthe White House, he is within reach him by 10 or 12 votes," And Thomas Foley of Washington, waters off the Crimea last week to gather intelligence. of the votes he needs. the majority whip, said, "It's going to be a fairly close vote, Pentagon officials said they operated on orders ofthe But Republican and Democratic leaders agree that his but we're going to win." Joint Chiefs of Staff in the name of Defense Secretary nationally televised speech Sunday night, in which he ap Rep. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the minority whip, agreed Caspar Weinberger. The Soviet Union, in a protest note, pealed to members ofthe public to contact their represen that "there hasn't been a mass movement" toward the presi said the incursion "was of a demonstrative, defiant tatives, failed to generate a surge of public sentiment in dent's position and that "the balance still hangs with 10 nature and pursued clearly provocative aims." favor of his aid proposal.