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Thursday April 19, 1984 Volume 80, Number 141 Duke University Durham, North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Newsfile Jazz publicity angers Jeffrey New NATO Strategy: The NATO allies initiated By CARRIE TEEGARDIN a new approach to the Soviet bloc in an effort to break Raul Jeffrey, artist-in-residence, said lack of publicity a long deadlock in the negotiation., in Vienna on reduc resulted in low attendance at Sunday's Ellis Marsalis con ing conventional forces in central Europe, Reagan ad cert. But Gay Llewelyn, the University Union's program ministration officials said. Under the plan, the NATO adviser, blames "over-programming" for the small countries would no longer insist that the two sides agree audience. on how many troops they had in the region. See page 2. Marsalis' concert was part of the second annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival and was heard by only 200 Libyans' London siege: Libyan troops and people. demonstrators ringing the British Embassy in Tripoli "Four jazz concerts [per year] in a school of 10,000 is not held 25 people captive for most of Wednesday, but over-programming" said Jeffrey, who directs the jazz band allowed the group to return home in the evening, Bri and ensemble and teaches classes in jazz. Instead, he tain's Foreign Office announced. In London, the police blamed "underpublicity" for the small Sunday audience continued to hold the Libyan Embassy under siege, in Baldwin Auditorium. more than a day after the fatal shooting of a British "I'm so tired of hearing that. We advertised all over the STAFF PHOT0 policewoman. See page 2. world," said Llewelyn, adding that the Union had exceeded Paul Jeffrey, artist-.n-residence its publicity budget. She said that Ellis Marsalis' lack of Eyken said the entire festival, whose proceeds benefit the U.S. helicopters downed: Two unarmed U.S. fame as a performer hurt ticket sales. Mary Lou Williams scholarship, was a success. helicopters, one of them carrying two American The concert featured Ellis Marsalis, accompanied by "A lot of things can be said in retrospect about what [the senators, were shot down over Honduras during a flight trombonist Curtis Fuller, Jeffrey and the Duke Jazz Union] did not do," Jeffrey said. "[But] without the Union near the border with El Salvador, congressional and ad Ensemble. Ellis Marsalis, a jazz pianist, is the father of the funds for putting onthe festival would not have existed." ministration officials reported. They said the entire par Grammy award-winning trumpet player Wynton Marsalis Jeffrey cited the date of the festival, a low priority of jazz ty, which included Sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida and who performed Monday night to a nearly sold-out audience programs in the University, a lack of appreciation for the Sen. J. Bennett Johnston Jr. of Louisiana, was rescued in Page Auditorium. members of the jazz ensemble and the small role the music without injury. An aide tb Chiles said he had been told Jeffrey agreed that "no one knew who Ellis Marsalis was," department plays in many of the performances scheduled that the helicopter carrying the two senators was hit but contended that if publicity had informed the communi on campus, as other problems with the festival and other in three places - the rotor blade, one door and one ty about his importance in the jazz world, then the jazz events. window. response would have been much better. "If I'm a sincere and caring person then I have to feel "If we are going to do something, then it should be con disturbed about these [factors]," he said. U.S. nixes Sandinista: A Sandinista heroine is centrated, it should not be haphazard" Jeffrey said. "There is no way we could have pulled [the Jazz Festival] unacceptable to Washington as Nicaragua's ambassador Tod Van Eyken, Black Student Alliance president - off without [Jeffrey]," said Paul Arianas, head of the Union's to the United States, diplomats in Managua said. which funded the festival with the Union and ASDU - Major Attractions Committee. He said Jeffrey's connections Nicaragua's nomination of Deputy Foreign Minister said the Ellis Marsalis concert "did exactly what it was in the jazz world and his talent as a performer were assets Nora Astorga generated opposition from U.S. in supposed to do - get the Durham community on the Duke in the festival's organization. telligence officials because of her role in the 1978 Campus for a night of jazz." He said the audience was Jake Phelps, University Union director, said Jeffrey's murder of a top military officer in the Somoza dominated by older people who were probably jazz fans and criticisms must stem from miscommunication. "I know government. familiar with Ellis Marsalis. Paul Jeffrey and he is a straightforward man." On two oc- Llewelyn said the weekend went "beautifully" with the Israelis aCCUSed: Evidence is mounting in Israel exception of the low turnout at Sunday's concert. Van See JAZZ on page 5 that one of the Arabs who hijacked an Israeli bus last week was captured alive and later killed. The Israeli army denies the accusation. Relatives and neighbors in the occupied Gaza Strip identified the slain terrorist as a man who was photographed by an Israeli Nursing program 'hiatus' due newspaper as he was being led, handcuffed, from the bus by two security agents. By KATHY BURKETT 13 years, will retain a faculty position and work on examin Almost four years after its doom was announced in a ing health policies at the state and federal level. DeLorean trial begins: The case against John University-wide retrenchment plan, Duke's undergrad Masters degree candidates have in the past numbered Z. DeLorean on charges of cocaine trafficking went to uate School of Nursing will graduate its last class this around four or six, Booth said, although she said she hopes trial in Los Angeles. A government prosecutor described spring. the number will increase when the program begins again in the fall of 1985. the former auto manufacturer as "a man with a dream" What will remain of the Duke's nursing program, accord who "turned that dream into a nightmare." ing to school officials, will be some tenured faculty, a one- Another major change, Wilson said, will be the coordina year graduate school and the future possibility of a co tion of the nursing school and Duke University Medical operative baccalaureate program with Raleigh's Meredith Center's nursing services. "It was my recommendation that College. the two come under one roof," she said. "[The two depart Weather ments] have the same philosophy - they should be to "Being associated with Duke, we have always had high gether." WOUld yOU believe?: Ibday is the birthday of quality students, and we have always been on the cutting Wilson said that although the departments have never Maxwell Smart himself, Don Adams, and through our edge," Ruby Wilson, outgoing dean of nursing, said of the been under the same umbrella, her administration has shoephones the National Weather Service called in the nursing program. She cited as examples of Duke's innova worked to involve nursing students with nursing services following forecast: Tbday will be partly cloudy with tive policies the decision in the 1950s to allow nurses to both in the Medical Center and in Durham Veterans highs in the mid 60s, with winds gusting Kaotically up specialize in a field and the creation in 1960s of the first Hospital. to 20 mph. Lows in the 40s. Friday and Saturday will masters program in gerontology. Because of this merge, when Booth becomes dean she see increasing cloudiness with highs in the 60s and Wilson, who will remain in her position until September, will also gain the title of assistant vice president for health there is a chance of rain forecast for Sunday and Mon said the school will take a one-year hiatus in order to affairs. day. Don't worry chief, you can count on this forecast. re-evaluate its program. "For the 1984-85 year, [tenured There has been discussion with Meredith College about Psst - Agent 13 is hiding in the microwave in the C.L faculty who choose to stay] will be working on changes in collaborating on an undergraduate program, Booth said. the graduate curriculum." Although no decision has been made, she said, the pro Rachel Booth, who has been at Duke since January and gram would accept registered nurses with associate de Inside will take over Wilson's position in September, said no deci grees and award Meredith baccalaureate degrees. Booth sions have yet been made as to how the school would said details to be worked out include who will hire the ArtSchOOl profiled: The year's R&R swan song change its program. She said a plan for a market survey faculty and what extent of access classes would have to contains a look at the programs of the ArtSchool in has been approved, the results of which will be used in Duke equipment. Carrboro, some of the local activities scheduled for the restructuring. The nursing school's discontinuance is mandated in Dukies this summer, a few good reasons not to see Tenured faculty numbered 14 when the retrenchment "Directions for Progress," a 1980 report to the Board of "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan" and a record con plan was written, Wilson said, and only one faculty mem Trustees by then-Chancellor Kenneth Pye that recom sumer guide. See inside section. ber left because of the University's decision. Three are mended the University do fewer things better. Both the retiring this year or next year, she said, and two will take nursing school and the Department of Education are being More ShrOUd evidence: Duke psychiatry pro a leave of absence for post doctoral work.

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