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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85. NO. 100 Germans face obstacles Rising tuitions lead to 'sticker shock' By HELEN DOOLEY before they can reunite This is the first part of a two- part series on rising tuition at the By SERGE SCHMEMANN University. N.Y. Times News Service the Soviet Union, Britain and The University may be a "hot The increase in BONN, West Germany — France — agreed in Ottawa to college," but high tuition is scar Leaders of both Germanys shape a negotiating frame ing many prospective students undergraduate welcomed Wednesday the work for German reunifica away. agreement of the wartime Al tion. Despite great success in ad lies to join in shaping a united It also coincided with the missions over the past decade, tuition Germany. conclusion of a visit by the University administrators real As if to begin the process, East German premier, Hans ize that "sticker shock" is causing Bonn approved a supplemen Modrow, who failed in his bid many high school seniors to for tary budget of $4.1 billion, to get $9 billion, or 15 million get Durham as a place to receive most of it to shore up East marks, in emergency money, an education. Germany until reunification and left showing his disap A recent survey indicates that could be achieved. pointment. the University's rising tuition is The aid package included a None of the money in the one ofthe most frequently named reserve fund of $1.2 billion (2 supplemental budget was to reasons for not applying. The billion marks), and $1 billion be dispersed by Modrow's in survey, conducted by the same 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 for East German resettlers ar terim government, which ends company that administers Scho 80 8182 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 riving in West Germany. after parliamentary elections lastic Aptitude Tests (SAT), dis BRENDEN KOOTSEY / THE CHRONICLE An additional $1.4 billion March 18. covered that aside from the Uni was earmarked for immediate versity's location in the South, than for students already here. Steele said. use for specific purposes, Before leaving, Modrow cost is the main reasons students As the cost of higher education One reason for this concern is ranging from credits for small welcomed the Ottawa decide not to apply. increases, some students are not "[this isl a time when there's a di and medium-sized businesses decision, which he said was This is not a problem limted to even considering schools they minishing number of high school to currency exchange for East the best means of protecting Duke, said Richard Steele, di feel are out of their price range. graduates, and you want to German visitors. German and Allied interests. rector of undergraduate admis Some students, especially high promote diversity," he said. The vote on the additional Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sions. Private colleges and school juniors, begin the process "I'm convinced fstudentsl aid came the day after Ger spokesman declared that universities across the country by asking, " 'What's the cost?' It's sometimes do make an arbitrary many's major opponents in Bonn "greets the creation and are experiencing problems be a terrible way to begin a college level" of cost, and do not apply to the war — the United States, See GERMANY on page 10 • cause of the public perception of search," Steele continued. colleges above that level, said the rising cost of higher Negative publicity about rising Bob Patrick, director of college education, Steele said. tuition rates contributes to the counseling at Durham Academy, "It's certainly not [only] a Duke problem. a local private high school. problem. It's a problem private "It's become very much a fad" Some students do not consider University agrees to pay education has been facing for for the media to report on in "way out-of-range schools" when some time." creasing costs, adding to the making decisions to apply, said Tuition for incoming freshman "general unease building that Nicole Schellstede, a senior at discrimination settlement this year was $11,950. Next year [college 1 costs are out of control," Durham Academy. it will be $12,800, pending ap Steele said. Schools that were "ridiculously proval by the Board of Trustees. While the cost factor is not expensive" were eliminated from By JOHN HARMON The University's two-tiered tu creating a dramatic drop in ap a list of possible choices, A suit charging the University ition plan implemented several plications, fear of rising tuition Schellstede said. Cost "was a def with racial discrimination in its years ago provides for greater in on the part of prospective appli inite factor" in where she decided hiring policies by a black former creases for incoming freshman cants is a cause for concern, See TUITION on page 3 • law student has been settled. The University has signed a Consent Decree and paid the alumnus an undisclosed sum of Recyclers work to slash waste output money. Under the Consent Decree, the University is "enjoined and By JONATHAN WRY Exact sites and times for the brochure distributed by Duke Re restrained from unlawful dis Duke Recycles, the joint pick-ups will be announced in the cycles. criminatory policies against its student-administration campus next two weeks. Other future plans for Duke employees and applicants for em recycling group, is stepping up White paper, blend paper, Recycles include a major public ployment ..." The University its waste collection efforts at the newsprint, cardboard and alumi ity campaign for Earth Day, a must send to the Equal Employ University this week. num will be collected this semes national environmental con ment Opportunity Commission The new effort involves place ter, with expansion to glass and sciousness day on April 22 and (EEOC) the names and races of CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE ment of separated trash bins in plastic in 1991, according to a See RECYCLING on page 4 • all applicants to the University Professor George Gopen. four selected buildings: the Writing Program and the names Bryan Center, Perkins Library, and races of all hired. qualification)." the Biological Sciences Building The decree also requires the The University has also sent and the Crowell Science Build UWP to put on all its advertise Taylor "an agreed upon sum of ing. ments a statement that Duke is money and [Taylor] has promised All of the new bins are in place an equal opportunity employer not to sue Duke on any cause of as of today. and that it "offers employment action related to this case." Duke Recycles hopes to have opportunities without regard to Two years ago, University law its trash receptacles in every race, color, religion, national ori school alumnus Maurice Taylor University building by 1999, said gin, handicap or veteran status, alleged he was turned down for a Paul Ferraro, student operations sexual orientation or preference, job as an instructor in the UWP manager for Duke Recycles. sex or age (except where sex or because of his race. In addition to the new trash age is a bona fide occupational Although the case is settled, bins, the organization is starting Taylor said the settlement did a new trash collection service. not compensate for the "racial Beginning on Feb. 24, the injustice" he experienced at the Duke Recycles truck will be used Weather University. The University does as a mobile pick-up location for not admit that discrimination oc- recyclable materials on West and Oooh, dat's nicesh: its cured. Central campuses. The mobile another beautiful day, with In April, 1988, Taylor filed a pick-up will be a weekly opportu MATT CANDLER/THE CHRONICLE highs in the 70's. Homework? lawsuit under Title VII for racial nity for students to participate in Surely you jest. discrimination. the University's recycling effort, Duke Recycles volunteers Chad Hood and Kristen Rolls help See LAWSUIT on page 4 • Ferraro said. load the group's collection truck. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1990 World & National Newsfile Associated Press Reagan to testify in Iran-Contra affair trial SDI SatelitteS tested: Two satel By DAVID JOHNSTON special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, will lites rocketed into space Wednesday on Associated Press cross-examine him. what the Air Force said was the most WASHINGTON — When Ronald Reagan's deposition comes a week after ambitious "Star Wars" experiment yet, Reagan appears in a federal courtroom on his lawyers declined to invoke executive testing a plan to destroy missiles by Friday, he is likely to be asked point- privilege and said that the former presi firing lasers off orbiting mirrors. blank the fundamental questions about dent would comply with the judge's order his role in the Iran-Contra affair that compelling him to testify on videotape. Jewish priests dehorned: Jew have gone unanswered for three years. But still unresolved whether Reagan ish high priests will no longer have The videotaped testimony he is to give must also turn over to Poindexter ex horns, Judas will be a confused rather for the criminal trial of John Poindexter, cerpts of his private diaries. than a coldly mercenary figure and the his former national security adviser, may Poindexter, a retired rear admiral in temple merchants will no longer be reveal with greater clarity than ever the Navy, served as Reagan's national se among Jesus' persecutors in the 1990 whether Reagan was an easily manipu curity adviser from December 1985 until Oberammergau Passion Play. lated president, largely ignorant ofthe ac he resigned in November 1986. tions of his subordinates, or whether he In a trial scheduled to begin March 5, assumed the much more active role in the he faces five criminal charges, including NO airline regulation: Transpor affair that Poindexter has depicted.