The Chronicle 75Th Year, No

The Chronicle 75th Year, No. 135 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, April 18, 1980 Duke Hospital North ready for habitation By Bob Roberts of public relations of Duke characteristics and other Saturday, May 3, 1980, the Medical Center, said. technical changes," Peck said. first patients will move into Plans were drawn by the St. Triangular layout of the bed Duke Hospital North Division. Louis firm Hellmuth, Obata floor should allow for more Medical Center officials say the and Kassabaum. efficient high-quality care, as $94.5 million hospital will open North Division consists of compared to Duke South, said as one of the most modern in the three parts. There are "patient Mike Schwartz, who will world. towers" of nine stories, an become North Divisii "The building has been auxiliary section for technical associate director. designed in a large measure by facilities such as radiology, "With the new hospital we PHOTO COURTESY OF DIKE UNIVEHtSlTV MEDICAL IKNTKR the people who will be working laboratories, operating and can rationally assign areas of Duke Hospital North Division, shown here with a PRT car and living in it, not just by recovery rooms and the the hospital specific functions in the foreground, will open its doors to patients May 3. architects," Kay Miller, director emergency room. A central core that will decrease the running of elevators and hallways around both staff and patients Professor attacks Duke Power connects the two sections. have to do," he said. North Division was designed Similarily, pneumatic, or air- with "cost-efficiency, energy powered, trash and linen Activists protest big business conservation, and patient systems will reduce the By Dan Michaels minimal. Secretaries went we're singled out, I guess we're comfort in mind," Richard manpower requirement of the A small group of anti-big about their daily business, and just a good big target," he said. Peck, soon-to-be administrative new complex. With tinted glass, business activists participated office workers chuckled at the "Of course, people always director of North Division, said. heavy insulation and a in a rally in downtown Durham slogans and chants of the love to jump on utilities," "The 32-bed units are isolated computer-controlled heating yesterday to protest the picketers. Mangum said. from the rest of the hospital. If system, North Division is an influence of large corporations The picketers included one has no business there, he energy conservative hospital, on the lives of Americans. Alton Mangum, Duke members of many local won't need to be there. In this Peck said. Power's Durham district office The local rally, which consumer groups, including way we can protect the patient's Except for the cafeterias in supervisor, glanced at the the People's Alliance and the environment," Peck said. each building, Schwartz said, coincided with yesterday's protesters through his office nationwide observance of Big North Carolina Public Interest The floors in the bed-tower "we have avoided duplicating window. Inreponsetoaqueryof Research Group. In addition, units are 12 feet from floor-to- any functions between the two Business Day, singled out Duke whether he would meet with Power Co. as a symbolic members of the Communist ceiling because "one would not hospitals." He attributed this any members of the group to Workers Party sold literature in expect to change these rooms advantage to the ability of the corporate "criminal," since learn about their grievances, he "their only concern is to the area of the rally. much in the future," he Personal Rapid Transit Service, replied, "Nope. I have no plans explained. a "horizontal elevator," to carry increase their own profits," said to talk with them." What the protesters had in Tom Wartenberg, assistant common was their desire to In the auxiliary area the people between the North and professor of philosophy, and Mangum denied the protester's expose the power that modules are 24 feet from floor to South divisions quickly, one of the organizers of the allegations about Duke Power's corporations such as Duke ceiling. "The interstitial spaces "Because of various construe- rally. "crimes" against ordinary Power wield in the American above the ceiling allow for Wartenberg spoke before a citizens. "I don't know why Continued on page 2 modification of engineering Continued on page 4 sparse crowd, composed almost entirely of Big Business Day supporters and the media, Duke may provide loan for housing project which assembled in a small park across the street from By Kevin N. Nance Durham City Council to spend The University recently investments have included an Duke Power's offices at Main University officials are the bulk of the 1982-85 embarked on a new investments office building in the Quail and Mangum streets. Warten considering extending a loan community development program, which is designed to Corners shopping center in berg accused Duke Power of a for a project that would turn the budget in the Edgemont area, decrease the endowment's Raleigh and a land develop history of unfair labor old Durham Hosiery Mill into a which borders the hoisery mill. dependence on traditional ment venture in Orange practices, discriminatory 150-apartment housing complex Approximately $3 million will investment ventures — mainly County. pricing policies and the for elderly and handicapped be spent in that long-neglected government and corporate The loan must be approved by construction of unsafe nuclear tenants. neighborhood, primarily for the stocks and bonds — and to the Investments Committee of facilities. The U.S. Department of construction of new housing make the investment program Duke's Board of Trustees before "Duke Power has continually Housing and Urban Develop and renovation of existing more flexible. any money can be funnelled shown contempt for the people ment has refused to invest structures. Other non-conventional into the housing project. and the people's interests, and money in the project until the has just been out to line their Durham city government pockets," Wartenberg said. prepares a preliminary budget Wartenberg said that for renovating the nearby although America is a Edgemont neighborhood. democracy, "there is a sphere of Duke has been asked to back influence where democracy the housing project with the doesn't reign — the corporate loan, which could approach $4 boardroom." He added that the million. purpose ofthe Big Business Day President Terry Sanford said celebration is to "channel the last week the loan could energy of Americans to show probably be "handled better" by that these things can be a bank or an insurance changed." company than by the Univer After several speeches, about sity, according to an article in 15 people walked across the the Durham Morning Herald. street to picket in front of Duke Myerson /Allen, the firm Power, carrying signs with such planning to execute the slogans as "Stop Duke's Nukes" renovation, will present a set of and "Stop Crime in the Suites." proposals for the loan to the The picketers, circling the University when HUD officials sidewalk in the noonday give preliminary approval, sunshine, chanted, "People which should be next week. Before Profits." The plan to renovate the mill PHOTO BY STEVE HUNT Inside the Duke Power offices, was suggested just before a An apartment complex for the elderly and handicapped may soon replace the old Durham the response to the rally was recent unanimous vote by the Hosiery Mill, the interior of which is shown here. Page Two The Chronicle Friday, April 18, 1980 Duke admits largest freshman class ever By Madge Silverman The one surprise is this year's number of Oriental application form implemented this year which must be Next fall, for the second year in a row, Duke will applicants, nearly tripling from last year's number, to filled out in two parts. "Over 100 black applicants enroll its largest freshman class ever, according to 333. "And there's no clear reason why," Lingenheld simply failed to complete the second part of the Edward C. Lingenheld, director of undergraduate added. Duke accepted 119. application form this year," he said. admissions. The number of black applicants declined this year, Each year at this time, David C. Belton, assistant Ofthe 2995 applicants offered a place in the Class of Lingenheld said, "which is very disappointing." Last director of undergraduate admissions and head of 1984, Lingenheld said he expects approximately 1450 year Duke accepted 244 of the 460 black applicants; minority recruiting, organizes a "telethon", to matriculate, an increase of 100 from last year's this year, 182 out of 400 were admitted. Lingenheld said. freshman class. Lingenheld said he sees the decline resulting Beiton, and approximately 15 black Duke students, Despite the nationwide downward trend in the partially from the growing cost of private college call every black accepted to encourage matriculation. number of college applicants,' he said the number of education. "But this is more of a problem for the entire "It really does help," Belton said, "just talk to some of applicants to Duke continues to increase. This year private college sector than just Duke," he said. the students here...they're the proof." approximately 9900 applied to Duke, a 10 percent He said he also attributed some ofthe decline in the Next year's freshman class will be geographically increase from last year. number of black applicants to the new Duke redistributed, Lingenheld said, with the greatest percentage increase of those accepted coming from Southern states. .Wartenberg accuses Duke Power The average SAT scores of the Class of 1984 are virtually the same as those of last year's freshman Continued from page 1 Street Journal as being that the company has "If Three Mile Island had class, Lingenheld said.

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