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INSIDE WEATHER Air pollution laws, VS. Partly cloudy through -Soviet relations, defense Friday with a chance erf threats, metroliners, and rain today. Highs both vaccinations against days in the mid 70's, lows pneumonia all courtesy of in the mid 50s. Extended those wonderful folks at outlook for the weekend: the new New York Times crisp and clear all the way News Service. The Chronicle to Monday. Duke University Volume 73, Number 40 Thursday, October 27,1977 Durham, North Carolina Funding shortage s^^rf1- O'Connor believes hinders Archive in Duke 'product' By Wendy Cohen printed. "What's happened By Diane Dracos to locate a position in the Insufficient funding for between '72 and '76 is "1 firmly believe in my working world. The final the Archive limits its ASDU and the Pub Board product—Duke students", lecture, delivered by a availability to the majority have been cutting the said Pat O'Connor, head of Duke alumnus, consisted of of students, according to amount allocated for print the Placement Office. The techniques used in an ac Cheryl Stiles, editor of ing the Archive by 500 or office is designed to direct tual job interview. Duke's literary magazine. 1000 copies a year." prospective employees, O'Connor said successful Out of 162 students sur Stanford claims that all particularly senior stu career placement involves veyed recently in the Blue the issues distributed last dents, to their desired ^jobs three basic principles. and White room, most year and the year before upon graduation. First, start very early look knew what the Archive is were "taken up immediate ing for a position—for a yet more than half have ly." He said he thinks that During the first few senior this means begin never read an Archive, and "the main problem is that weeks of school, O'Connor seeking a job in the spring don't know how to obtain a ASDU is concerned with conducted fifteen small of the junior year. Second, copy. cutting each organization's Photo by Dan Michaels seminars which culminated be flexible—try not to put Cheryl Stiles, Archive budget each year, possibly "On this stump I build my University Center." with one large lecture on restrictions on job locations editor, said she believes to show their sense of fiscal Land clearing has begun in earnest at the the subject of finding jobs. or narrow employment op that "the reason for this responsibility, and the Pub Center's site behind Page Auditorium, even The seminars dealt with portunities to one specific lack of visibility is that it's Board the past few years though the University still has not signed a topics like a job resumes, position keep all possible given less and less money (Continued on page 12) contract to build the $12.4 million facility. preparation for choosing a options open. each year." job, and methods necessary Expressing interests Mike Stanford, Archive Third, O'Connor stressed edtior last year, agreed that Three blocks from East campus that the student must iden "we don't have a budget to tify his or her own print a sufficient number of strengths and interests, magazines. Our budget in Woman graduate student attacked and be able to articulate cludes enough money to By Barry Bryant and express them to print 1500 copies of each is A female graduate student was attacked and screamed, Hall said. perspective employers. She also suggested that a stu sue, and 1500 doesn't go in beaten early yesterday morning in her apartment The method the attacker used was different from to 6000 undergraduates too dent think carefully about on Dacian Ave., three blocks off East campus. She that of a man believed to have attempted seven or well. No matter how much his or her choice and do was rushed to the hospital and received several eight rapes in the Durham area, according to Hall. publicity is done, we only "field investigation" about stitches in the head before being released. Hass said that in the rapes, the man had not beaten have enough magazines to possible companies, or his victims before trying to rape them. distribute to less than one The attack occurred at about 1 a.m., according to ganizations and jobs. third of the undergraduate S.A. Hall, a detective in the Durham police depart The police are still seeking a black male in con Last year O'Connor population. ment. The woman could provide no description of nection with those incidents, three of which oc became concerned about Amount cut her assailant, he said. curred near East campus over the summer. In the the proliferation of Stanford explained that The person entered a first floor window and past three weeks, two rapes have occurred around literature and PR about the in 1971 and 1972, 5,000 began beating the woman with a hard object while Lakewood Shopping Center which Hall said were (Continued on page 5) copies of each Archive were she was asleep on the couch. He fled when she probably connected to the previous attacks. Communities explore alternative lifestyles By Elizabeth Buchanan and we are getting somewhere." the larger communities have set up a "work credit" Fall is approaching and the gray sky hovers over A part of this alternative is that each member con system. One member of the Twin Oaks community in trees just starting to change. At Aloe Farm, 10 miles tributes his or her labor to the earning of income in the Virginia explained the work credit system at Juniper, northwest of Hillsboro, north Carolina, about 30 to 40 community. Only one of the groups, North Mountain in the largest of three branches wi thing Twin Oaks. concerned people have assembled for a weekend. Some Lexington, Va, is into "heavy duty" self sufficiency "Everybody works about 40 hours a week, at any type have brought their children; many are camping in the farming. North Mountain people were unable to attend of work." He said that for every hour, a member gets woods at night; they all share in the chores to be done. the conference. The other communities earn income one credit. When people work under the expected quota, During the day they sit on logs under a small outdoor making all sorts of crafts and other useful items, such other people at the community "go talk to them about shelter discussing community life, alternative educa as hammocks, chairs, silver panels, sandals and de it Juniper finds it a big problem." tion and communal child rearing. corative tin cans. East Wind, a Missouri community with 56 members, Aloe Farm is one of five communities in the Eastern In order to insure equal sharing of the work some of has a similar system. Michael, who lives in East Wind, United States and Canada influenced in one way or explained that they used to have a variable system, like another by B.F. Skinner's Walden Two, a novel about the one in Walden Two. The variable system allots one life in an alternative community. These five com credit for most work hours, but may allot more or less munities, ranging from six to over fifty members, came credits depending on the desirability of the work done. together a year ago to form a federation. Each com The problem with this was "it promoted competition munity in the federation aspires toward certain for jobs," Michael said. egalitarian ideals, among them the common holding of Aloe does not use any type of work credit system. land and resources, a participatory form of government, Instead, members simply discuss and allot the work to non-discrimination and the sharing of labor. be done at weekly meeting. Aloe is a small community This year in early October Aloe held a conference of four adults and two children. open to any person interested in joining communities, The communities at the conference generally agreed starting a community or just finding out what it's all upon the idea that government of the communities in about Ira Wallace, who lives at Aloe, said that through volves the community as a whole, and attempts to get this conference the federation was "trying to com input from each member. In a small community such as municate to people that this alternative is here." Aloe, members try to come to a consensus on decisions What exactly does this alternative involve? Dan in group meetings. For East Wind, Dandelion and Twin delion Community, a federation member in Ontario, oaks, government is set up on the "planner-manager Canada, stated the essence of the alternative in the system" in Walden Two. following way: "Join Dandelion and you join a mov Michael said that at East Wind, "planners keep the ement... We have learned that we can live together in long range perspective, and give the overall direction." peace, cooperating without unnecessary conformity. We A manager supervises individual areas such as auto can live close to nature and the land, and we can work maintenance and the kitchen. At East Wind there are for outselves and something in which we believe, rather three planners and about 60 positions for managers, not than some anonymous institution. We like our life here • (Continued on page 4) Page Two The Chronicle Thursday, October 27,1977 SPECTRUM SPECTRUM POLICY: rides, contact Patti or Roxanna. Gatherings and other announcements may be AEPHl'S: Our weekly meeting for Community Environmental Education pledges and actives will be at 6:30 in 220 Audicn m of Psych.-Soc. Westvaco placed in SPECTRUM, provided that the following thru Duke (CEED) gathering Irom 9 pm Soc-Sci.