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LD OLD AND LACK Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina Friday, December 2, 1988 Volume 72 No. 13 Committee Submits Proposal to Dean of Students for Extensive Sports Complex extensive facility is needed. Smith said: each, "the traditional student, along with Student Government. The complex would says most students agree that the complex By Jennie Vaughn "The gym we have now just isn't adequate. the student-athlete, are recognized as the also contain an area to be used for cardiac should be open to general students, the Old Gold and Black Reporter Many students are having go off cam• primary users of the facilities and pro• testing and research. health and sports science program and the to pus to find the programs and equipment grams," the report says. A committee representingthe athletic and university athletic teams - not as a fitness When Ken Zick, vice president for stu• club for the general public. they need." health and sport science departments, and dent life and instructional resources, was Recently, the university has placed a great the cardiac rehabilitation program, recent• asked for feedback about the proposal, he The group compiled a list of 24 univer• deal of emphasis on financial and. physical ly presented a proposal to Mike Ford, Community involvement should be growth and expansion. A goal of the ad• went to students. A 10=-memberstudent ad• restricted to special programs and usage sities comparable to Wake Forest in basic associate dean of students, for a new sports visory group, comprised of present and philosophies, academic standards, size and ministration is to achieve standing as a na• during holidays and other times when stu• tional university, the report says. complex. former varsity athletes and representatives dent demand is not great, the report says. location. The list included such schools as of such groups as Student Union and the . Duke, Furman and Emory universities. The facility, a joint project of the three University Capital Planning Committee, Ford said that "such a complex would be Committee members then contacted the The addition of such a large and far• departments, would include an indoor track, was formed to find what students want in schools to ask about their facilities. reaching sports complex would make Wake· an Olympic-sized pool and six racquetball a welcome addition to the university pro• a sports facility. vided that the needs of the -students were Forest more attractive to outsiders and and indoor tennis courts, as well as a large would contribute to its rise in national The group, chaired by senior Doug Wray, the top priority." They found that "most of these schools classroom, exercise and aerobic rooms, and have extensive sports complexes," and in recognition, the report says. a nautilus, said Mike Smith, president o_f published a report based on its findings. It Several students agree that a bigger, more Move Suggested For Admissions President Ream's House Offers Best Possibility for Relocation By Amy Washburn would be beneficial, he said. "If Old Gold and Black Reporter visitors don't know their way around campus, they can have a University President Thomas K. very hard time finding the admis• Hearn Jr.'s house may soon become sions office, as well as finding the admissions office if the findings parking. Relocating the office of a special committee are would allow us to· get them before favorable. they become irritated and confused. John Anderson, the vice presi• "The Hearns' house would be an dent for administration and plann• excellent location because most ing, said that plans for a move of visitors come in that way," Ander• this type first came up three years son said. "It would be a single loca• ago in a study of the flow of visitors tion with clear signage. There on campus. would be only one place to go and "It seems a good idea to have, one floor to go to." A Newt;Record like other schools, a visible The building will house an infor• The Brian Pit'tolo Cancer Fttnl D1"ive concluded at the last football game. Pictured here with the check are Dr. Robert welcome center and admissions of• mation center as well as the admis• sions office. The financial aid of• Capezzi, nireett>r of the Bowman Gray Oncology Research Center; Thomas He.arn, President of WFU; Traci Piccolo, fice. It needs to be clearly marked and easy to get to," Anderson said. fice will stay in Reynold.a Hall. Brian Piccolo's daughter; and Lillian Booe and Stan Pe1'1'y, co-chairmen of the drive. The president's house seemed an Visitors to the new office would obvious location, he said. "We not be provided with a shuttle ser• were looking for a place before vice to the main part of campus. visitors got too far onto campus." "We will direct visitors to one of Kohlberg Kravis Buys Out RJR Nabisco The parking lot at the house has the two visitor parking lots near. been enlarged recently to further Reynolda," Anderson said. By Kelly Greene It will also pay $108 a share for the 1.3 million "From what we know, our bid was the best. We the goal of moving the admissions The planning stage for this move are mystified about the process and the standards will continue for a few months, he News Editor outstanding shares of the company's preferred office, he said. stock.' that the board used to reach its decision. Anderson set up a committee to said. "The group we have is a Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. won the bat• The Associated Press reported that Kohlberg "We are going to continue to keep our options study the proposal, which began its working group, not a voting one. tle for RJR Nabisco Inc. late Wednesday night Kravis' offer for each stock was a package of $81 open. We believe the RJR shareholders will have research last week. William G. The final decision is yet to be with a bid of $24.88 billion, the largest amount in cash, $18 in stock, and additional securities a lot of questions as well," Starling, director of admissions and made." ever paid for a corporation. worth $10. Frank Benevento, a financial adviser to the financial aid, is a committee The next step is fmding a new F. Ross Johnson, RJR Nabisco's chief ex• The company issued a statement expressing RJR Nabisco management group, told the member. home for Hearn. "We've been look• ecutive, said the investment group he led had its satisfaction with the buyout. Winston-Salem Journal that the group's offer was The group's goals include ex• ing for an alternate house for offered $25.42 billion for the company, but had Johnson issued a one-sentence statement: "I worth $112 a share - $84 in cash, $24 in prefer• amining potential floor plans and several years;' Anderson said. · been cheated through an unfair bidding process. am proud of the fact that we put the best bid on red stock and $4 in additional equities. use of space in the house and "The real decision to move the ad• The offer from Kohlberg Kravis included a the table the first time and this time," Benevento told the Journal: "Once again, Mr. estimating the cost of the move, missions office has to do with package of cash and securities worth $109 for Shearson Lehman Hutton, a Wall Street firm Johnson and his financial partner, Shearson Anderson said. whether we can find another every one of RJR Nabisco's 2Z7 million shares.: that was one of Johnson's financial partners, said: See RJR, Page 4 A new location for the office house." Students Against Apartheid Thanksgiving Travel Hold Rally for Divestiture Slowed Down By Group Stresses Necessity to Gain Support Hazardous Weather Of Wake Forest Community for Divestiture By Jeanne Wussier Old Gold and Black Reporter dy Shelley Hale attended the rally. Old Gold and Black· Reporter Bryan, Professor Emeritus of Many students traveling back to school Sunday after Religion, said that he appreciates Thanksgiving break found it more difficult than usual. Students and the community the efforts of Students Against It is one of the year's busiest days of travel but was must support Wake Forest's divest• Apartheid. "I am pleased to see uncommonly bad this year because of thunderstorms ment in South Africa, said that Wake Forest is kicking and and gusty winds, and the heavy traffic fighting the sophomore Don Bradley at a rally becoming alive to this issue;' he elements. Tuesday. He outlined the goals that said. The ride from Chapel Hill, which usually takes less Students Against Apartheid Bryan has been working for than two hours, took one student about three hours. established at their first meeting: to social change in South Africa for Senior Loren Milhench said, "It wasn't so much the educate Wake Forest students and 30 years and has written several bad weather that slowed us down; it was the fact that the community about apartheid in books on apartheid. He is trying to there were just too many cars on the road." The average South Africa, to Improve race rela• lead a group of American and speed was 30 miles an hour for most of the drive, she tions on campus, and to push for · Canadian peace workers into South said. divestment of the funds that the Africa in March. Other students returning from Atlanta said that traffic university has invested in South Bryan said that people must con• held them up, and the trip took more than eight hours. Africa.

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