Union Elects New President In-State Applications Down by 22 Percent
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Skins stampede Buffalo Washington's "National Defense" hassled Bills' quarterback Jim Kelly into throwing four interceptions en route to a 37-24 win. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 79 Union In-state applications elects new down by 22 percent By NOAH BIERMAN Overall applications are about president Admissions officers found North the same as last year's large pool Carolinians conspicuously absent with 14,052 applications counted By DEAN ROMHILT from this year's applicant pool: as of Friday. An additional 284 Trinity sophomore Chris the number of in-state applicants applications are scheduled to be Maughan was elected president dropped 22 percent from last year. processed in the next few weeks. of the Duke University Union Harold Wingood, acting direc The number of applicants has Friday night by the Union Board. tor of admissions, said he was at a not increased significantly despite Heather Whitaker, a Trinity loss to explain why. last year's men's basketball na junior, was the only other candi Duke may have lost North Caro tional championship. The class of date. linians because of the recession 1996 marks the first to apply since Maughan will replace Trinity and the close proximity and lower the win. senior Tom Talbot who has been tuition ofthe University of North While the University's success president ofthe Union since last Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wingood in athletics has helped increase spring. said, but otherwise he could not national exposure, it may be over "Chris is terribly qualified," interpret the fall. shadowing academics, Wingood said Talbot. "He has a great vi "We would like to maintain a said. sion for the future ofthe Union." strong precedence of students Many top high school students The University Union is the from North Carolina," he said. apply and are accepted, Wingood major programming body on cam Last fall, 12.4 percent of the in said, but they choose to go else pus. It has a budget of almost coming students were North Caro where because the University's $500,000, much of which comes linians. reputation focuses on athletics from the student activities fees, The large drop is especially sur rather than academics. graduate and professional stu prising, Wingood said, because a "After we send out our offers of dent fees, and the University stu large number of area high school admission, whether or not we've dent affairs office. students have visited the Univer won a basketball championship The Union has 13 committees sity, which is traditionally a strong is not going to convince a physi which are responsible for co CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE1 indication of interest. cist [to attend the University]," ordinating events like Freewater Despite the drop, there are no he said. films, Cable 13, Broadway at Welcome home, Rodney new recruiting programs sched The public relations depart Duke and many major concerts Duke's Thomas Hill did not exactly roll out the red carpet for uled to attract more in-state resi ment needs to change the and speakers. Wake Forest forward Rodney Rogers, a Durham native. dents for the following year, University's image, he said. See UNION on page 15 • Wingood said. See ADMISSIONS on page 5 • School merger plans stalled over composition of new board By LEIGH DYER the merger, slated for July, offers system. upcoming lawsuit, deal with the tempts to unite concerns that the Each day in the process of the best hope for improving "If you look at the plan in total, possibility that the merger may merged school board be responsive designing a merger ofthe Durham Durham's lagging schools. The the issues that we're disagreeing be implemented through the Gen to minority interests with concerns city andcounty school systemsbrings Durham County Board of Com aboutaren'teducationalissues," said eral Assembly, and face questions that all citizens be allowed to vote for more questions than answers. missioners has been designing a Bill Bell,chair ofthecounty commis on the validity of the state law more than one member of the Numerous elected and ap plan for the merger for months. sion. "What we're down to now is that has been allowing them to merged school board. pointed bodies on the local and But what the county commis how we're going to share some type design the merger plan in the "Durham has been embroiled the state levels have been vying sion, the city school board, the of equitable representation." first place. in this extremely delicate and dif for the final decision-making au county school board, the state The county commission will try The compromise, dubbed the 4- ficult issue for several months, thority in the contentious pro board of education and just about to hammer out a last-ditch com 2-1 plan, was initially hailed as and it's a shame, because it has posal, and it is now less clear than everyone else in Durham and even promise this week which could go the only way to bring together the torn the community apart," said ever who will ultimately get to elsewhere in the state have not before the state board of educa racially polarized opposition in Commissioner Ellen Reckhow, call the shots. been able to agree on is how to tion in February. But in the mean the merger debate when it was who helped author the 4-2-1 plan Everyone seems to agree that elect a school board for the merged time, they must contend with an introduced in December. It at See MERGER on page 4 • University barber leaves trademark Ultra short Albert-cuts adorn heads on campus By ERIC LARSON hair, and ever since the Persian simply the style he first learned When Albert Starr was 10 Gulf War crew-cuts have become in the '30s. years old he was already turning a trend among the general male Albert's career began at a magi heads. population. Lawrence Liao, a Trin cal moment, when he was a fifth As a barber at the Duke Uni ity senior, has been going to Starr grader in Kings Mountain, N.C. versity Barber Shop, he's still exclusively since he was a fresh Flipping casually through a Sears turning them. man. and Roebuck catalog in his family "A little to the right, please." "Albert is very efficient," says room one afternoon, an adver Snip, snip. Liao. "He goes right in there and tisement for a shiny new pair of Since he began cutting hair in chops it off." hair scissors caught his eye. the Union Building on West cam "He pretty much did his own Quietly noticing his face light pus in 1969, Starr's haircuts for thing," attests Edward Olson, a up, Albert's mother ordered the men have become trademark. Trinity freshman. One Albert-cut scissors for him that week. Thus, Find a professor or student on was enough for him. "I didn't feel a career was born. campus with an ultra-thin ear^ I was left with much hair." "I was so proud of those scis lowering and you can bet it's Starr, a man of slight build who sors," Albert remembers. "I car Starr's doing. Ask for the name of is an authority on most subjects ried them in my back pocket to the style and the person will tell ever brought up in barbershop school." you: It's an "Albert-cut." conversation, denies taking ma Everyone's hair was fair game. "You have a real need for short niacal pleasure mowing down hair. After school Albert would haunt MELISSA BERMUDEZ/THE CHRONICLE haircuts on campus," Starr says. "I don't particularly like to cut it the football field where the older Albert Starr has been cutting hair since he was in fifth grade. ROTC students require short extremely short," he professes. It's See STARR on page 6 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1992 World and National Newsfile U.N. members not paying full share for peace By PAUL LEWIS Associated Press to expand the organization's peacemaking Palestinians debate: With the N.Y. Times News Service role, but at present it contains no pledge to next round of Middle East peace talks UNITED NATIONS — At a meeting pay these unpaid bills. "The world's lead scheduled to start on Tuesday in Mos here on Friday, President Bush and the ers are coming here to tell us to work cow, the Palestinian leadership is still leaders of the 14 other members of the harder," said a senior United Nations offi debating whether it will participate in Security Council are expected to call on cial who asked not to be the negotiations or hold out for broader the United Nations to play a growing role identified. "But will theyremember their Palestinian representation. in preserving peace in trouble spots around checkbooks?" the globe. But the organization finds itself The United States remains the biggest facing a deepening financial crisis because Ferrer dies: Jose Ferrer, re single delinquent on peacekeeping, owing many of these same member states are not $140 million at the end of last year. nowned as the cool, cerebral and paying their share for the operations. idiosyncratic actor who won an Acad But of the other four members with emy Award playing Cyrano de The United Nations has been called upon permanent Security Council seats, only Bergerac, died on Sunday at Doc to mount eight new peacekeeping opera China, which has the smallest share ofthe tors' Hospital, in Coral Gables, Fla. tions since 1988, compared with 13 in its five, had paid its peacekeeping bills in full.