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LO OLD AND LACK Volume 72 No. 14 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina ~rid~y, December 9, 1988 Hanes Estate Donated to Wake Forest as New Home for University President By Michael McKinley records. The home's actual value is general• The house is about 1.5 miles from the the grounds is permissible. Phillip Hanes, the family spokesman, Assistant News Editor ly within 10 percent of the taxable value, main campus and about one-half mile from Mrs. Hanes will live in the home through said: "We're delighted in the way in which he said. Wake Forest's Graylyn Conference Center. the spring. University President Thomas K. Wake Forest has flourished and has become A mansion valued at almost $1 million An agent at Merrill Lynch Realty Co. said G. William Joyner, vice president for Heam Jr. is expected to move into the house a leader in Winston-Salem and the state, was given to Wake Forest· yesterday as a that houses are sometimes valued for tax university relations, said that access to the in late fall after access is established in the and, this year especially, has been visible home for its present and future presidents. purposes significantly under their market home will be cut off from the Hanes fami• summer, Joyner said. as a university of national stature." Dewitt Chatham Hanes, widow of the late value. ly compound and will be re-established at Joyner said that Mrs. Hanes, 92, will Hanes and his sisters, Martha Hanes Ralph P. Hanes, founder of Hanes Dye and The mansion is located on the Hanes the intersection of Keams Road and Dear• move to another home on the compound. Finishing Co., has given the home and 14 .7 Womble and Anna Hanes Chatham, family compound off Robinhood Road. The born Road. Mrs. Hanes is in Europe and unavailable presented the deed to the family estate to acres of land surrounding it to the university. property is bordered by Keams Road, the Stipulations for the agreement say the for comment. the Wake Forest board of trustees. Richard Davis at the county tax collec• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art home will be occupied by the president, the Joyner said that the Hanes have a tradi• was tor's office said the home and property are Ralph Hanes a member of the board and Middleton, the home of R. Phillip gardens surrounding the home must be tion of being "very generous benefactors" of visitors of the Bowman Gray School of ~~Jued at $948,100, according to 1988 tax. Hanes Jr. maintained and no future development of to Wake Forest and the community. ~ Hanes, Paae 4. · SBAC Allocations, 1989-90 Number indicates dollars allocated; shading SBAC Releases '88-'89 represents percentage of request allocated. Women's Soccer Wesley Fdn. • Organization Budgets WAKE Radio !!!!!!!!~!!!!~ By Jonathan C. Jordan Ultimate Frisbee " I O I cial needs of this organization until this matter has been Editorial Page Editor cleared up. SG~ The Anthropology Club, also denied funding, was The Howler._ ..... ._. The Student Budget Advisory Committee (SBAC) The Student told to seek funding from the anthropology department cut funding for 25 of the 28 groups that requested it or the provost for its program of speakers. Rugby Club Gospel Choir e!:!!!:~~!!!!!!!!!~ this year. Three groups were granted their entire re• · SBAC recommended that the Resident Student ~~::!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Equestrian Club• l o... __, quests, and eight groups received no allocations. RSA* Association (RSA) receive the rights to the refrigerator 0 The committee presented its allocations for the rental service. RSA receives funding from the residence PRE PAR Dance Club~!!!~~!!!!!!!!!~ 1989-90 school year at the Student Government life and housing office, an amount not determined un• legislature meeting Tuesday evening. til after the SBAC process. Photographers Six of the groups were denied funding: the Anthony . According to guidelines used with all organizations, Peer Counselors BSA~ Aston Players, Black Christian Fellowship, Catholic SBAC determined that no additional funding beyond Student Association (CSA), Equestrian Club, Ultimate Black Christian Fshp. • o that received from residence life and housing was re• Old Gold and Black Frisbee Club and Wesley Foundation. These groups quired for RSA. Mortar Board Anthropology Club• ::::::::=====~o were referred to the Appropriations and Budget Com• The Gospel Choir requested and received $905 for mittee for 1989-90. Men'sSoccer ~ Anthony Aston • ~0=======: 1989-90, down from $975 it was granted this year. The The referrals were made because either the request International Club received its entire request of $500, I I I I I I I I 0 I I (or SBAC-determined request) fell below the $500 and was also commended by SBAC for having met 0% 100% Oo/o 100% minimum level for SBAC funding or concerned items many expenses from personal funds. The Rugby Club not traditionally covered by SBAC, such as speakers. received the amount requested, $1600, because the • - Referred by SBAC to another funding body. The Equestrian Club was denied its request because amount was only a percentage of what the SBAC con• Graphic by J.D. Fugate the club's goals and objectives have not been defined. sidered mandatory expenses. SBAC's report says that it cannot determine the finan- See SBAC, Page 4 . Leadership Problems Cause Professors to Leave Business School By Kelly Greene Robert Taylor left the school in 1983 after of the change in leadership, he said. cock faculty" in selecting a dean. Rice said that his opportunity in Alaska Old Gold and.... Black Reporter being forced to take a faculty assignment But "the straw that broke this camel's He agreed with the dean's priority to another professor wanted to keep, he wrote dominated his opportunity at Babcock, but back was the way the faculty assignment stabilize his office, but disagreed with he probably "would not haVe been open to Several former professors left the Bao• in a letter to Charles R. Gordon, then presi• related to Field Study Projects was handl• Shively's approach. "If the current Dean for: cock Graduate School of Management dent of the Babcock Student Association. the opportunity (in Alaska) except ed," Taylor said. believes so strongly in stability he would ~ Ed Felton's resignation as Dean. because of leadership problems still plagu• Michael Rice took a deanship at the This "The Dean wanted me to take this job, not have accepted the office, but would have was a signal that the stability and vision so ing its faculty, according to letters written University of Alaska in Fairbanks because and I was initially inclined to do so. Richard argued for retention of the previous Dean by or about them. of the "lack of vision in the Dean's office badly needed at Babcock had not arrived. Miller, the previous Field Study Director who had broad faculty support," Taylor (Felton's) only mistake was making too James Kepley, a 1985 graduate, said: as to what the School should become," he (whose unjust treatment could be the sub• said. much progress too fast, "There has been a distinct definite wrote in 1983 to DaltiJl Ruffin, then chair• ject of a dissertation on Machiavellianism), However, "there are more crucial - the lack of vision in the premeditated plan to reshape the mold of man of the board of visitors. current Dean's desired to remain in that position;' he said. priorities than keeping the Dean in his of• office as to what the school could become, the faculty members at the Babcock School. Harold W. Hill, president of the Babcock ""Nhy not?' I asked the Dean. No answer fice. Focus on such peripheral affairs and the "Probably eight professors left who were class of 1985, said that Don Wallace was . - the continuing deep split among was forthcoming. Instead, I received thin• failure to address the fundamental issues between backward important components of that first-year in• denied tenure and "graciously" offered an faculty those looking and ly veiled threats to 'take the job or else,"' determining excellence will assure the those looking forward, and tegrated core;' he said. "The school has an academic year to find employment Taylor said. decline of Babcock;' he said. outstanding track record of tenure decisions. elsewhere. - the apparent lip service to quality Taylor said in his letter that he was "In two years I saw Babcock come to the coupled with decisions to force or en• People are elected teacher of the year and Taylor left the school soon after Robert already concerned in 1982 about the lack 'end of the beginning' only to embark on - boom - they are fired the next year." Shively became dean. He resigned because CO\lnUlC the best faculty to leave." of "involvement of or input from the Bab- the 'beginning of the end,"' Taylor said. See Baib_cock, Page 4 Christmas Vandals Strike Poteat, Madrigal Dinners By Jennie Vaught. Old Gold and Black Reporter ''I regretfully think that A cash reward is being offered students did it.'' for the return of five felt banners, a jester's costume and equipment - Mary Beil taken from the Magnolia Room late Director of Student Union Saturday night or Sunday afternoon. back." The items were used in the Pied- Susan Reeves, president of Poteat mont Chamber Singers' Madrigal House Council, said that 10 to · 15 . Dinners, held here last week. Mary Christmas wreaths were stolen Beil, director of Student Union, from Poteat House doors Dec. 2, said they were left in the room after and an inflatable reindeer on the Saturday's performance and were dorm roof was vandalized. discovered missing late Sunday · The reindeer was found Saturday, afternoon.