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INSIDE: ACC TOURNAMENT GUIDE THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. Ill Exhibit reveals daily life of Gullahs RJB makes decisions By STEPHANIE GERMAIN this role. On a moonlit night, a The colorful daily traditions of narrator with flailing arms tells the Gullahs, black Americans his story to a crowd and to Green, in pending BOG cases who inhabit the United States' who sits listening up in a tree. southeastern coastline, is the Green finds the narrative By ERIC JONES topic of "Gullah Life Reflections" genre ideal for his painting goals. "insufficient evidence," in that by Jonathan Green, currently on He plans to portray more of The Residential Judiciary "it was clear that someone had view at the North Carolina Cen­ America's melting pot of ethnic Board (RJB) last Thursday [broken inl, but it was not tral University Art Museum and racial groups. "I'm working evening passed down verdicts clear that it was BOG." through March 19. on a new series, the American on three separate hearings in­ The RJB decided BOG was Green's oil canvases combine Series, which will include In­ volving the BOG living group. guilty of an excessively high childhood memories with rich dians, Quakers, the Amish, The Board, composed of damage index for the month of Afro-American culture. Success­ Cajuns and American Orientals. seven students, heard BOG's December, Vansant said, and fully drawing the viewer into I want to work with the various cases on the subjects of a that the living group will suf­ Green's 40 recent works are ethnic groups and all races and violation of the University fer a penalty of having its flashbacks of his younger years people who made America what damage policy, a break-in of commons room closed for growing up in South Carolina's it is today," he said. BOG's sealed commons room, three weeks. lowcountry. Renowned for their In "Hip City", bright red, and food fight in the Blue and BOG will also be placed on basketry and cooking, the Gul­ green, and polka-dot prints hug White Room last October. probation for the remainder of lahs are a part of this nation's SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE the local saloon patroness' well BOG was found guilty of the semester. cultural heritage. The Gullah di­ Artist Jonathan Green endowed hips, symbols of the disorderly conduct, but not "I think we expected to win alect, which originated as the black female's sensuality. guilty of contempt or damage the [damage policy violation] language whites and blacks used crouched around a little mud and "Dressing Up" depicts the ten­ of property, for its involve­ hearing, but all in all, it was to communicate on plantations, straw hut that stores sweet pota­ der scene of two bobbysocked ment in the Pits incident. pretty fair, and we're pretty is a combination of approxi­ toes. The process, as indicated by young girls dabbing on their "There were some dis­ happy," said BOG president mately 25 western African tribal the title, is known as "Banking mother's makeup at the boudoir. crepancies in the facts of the Rich Matheny. languages and English. Yams." The mirror reflects the mother's case, and the board heard If BOG receives an index of Since the land distributions of In "Daily Rounds" the rectan­ slipped figure and her high- them," said Assistant Dean of six or more until the end of the Reconstruction period, the gular freshly laundered whites heeled shoes sit by the dresser, Residential Life Chuck Van- the semester, it will go di­ Gullahs have maintained their blow in the warm sea breeze as a reminders that the girls are play­ sant, adding that BOG rectly to the RJB for a primarily self-sufficient com­ mother hangs her wash out to ing make-believe. The bright "admitted they were involved" hearing, Vansant said. munities where each family con­ dry on the line. Another mother's colors of the fuchsia and green in the food fight during last "I'm pleased. I think the tributes a specific good such as hands twist her daughter's hair wallpaper convey the playful am­ semester's Homecoming board gives a fair, unbiased seafood, furniture or fish netting. into orderly black tressses in bience. weekend. hearing," Vansant said. Ear­ Green's works preserve these "Braiding Hair." Since his figures have no facial BOG was issued a warning lier in the semester, damage traditions which have slowly As one of today's Afro-Ameri­ expressions, Green's touching for its part in the incident, problems placed BOG's char­ been annihilated since the mid- can narrative painters, Green family and community scenes Vansant said. ter in jeopardy. The punish­ 1960s by the invasion of the ever- follows Jacob Lawrence, the depend on color and pattern for The RJB found BOG not ments evolving from Thur- prolific modern beach resort leader of the genre, in believing emotion. guilty of breaking into its com­ day's hearings do not directly which is uprooting the Gullahs. that the black painter's role is "I remember the lowcountry mons room, which the RJB threaten BOG's housing, Van­ The first work in the show fea­ "simply a storyteller." "Tales," a with the intensity of the sun, the had closed for a five-week sant said. "The [RJB] cannot tures two women in long farming vivid portrait of the storyteller in beautiful foliage and the flowers. period following a hearing dissolve groups, but it can rec­ ommend [that a living group skirts and scarved heads the Gullah tradition, exemplifies See GULLAH on page 12 • that found BOG guilty of ex­ cessive damages for the appear before] a hearing month of November. panel that can do that," he Vansant said there was said. Walk-a-thon for hunger falls during spring break By SAMUEL EWING Durham past the Durham Soup Two days after most students Kitchen and finishes back at the and faculty vacate the University Chapel. for spring break, volunteers will Of the money Durham raises, walk to combat hunger and 25 percent will stay in the city. poverty in Durham and around Meals on Wheels, the soup kitch­ the world. en, the Durham County Mission Participants in Cropwalk, a and the Durham Shelter will 10-mile walk-a-thon, raise share this portion of the funds. money through sponsors who The other 75 percent will be donate $1 for each mile a partici­ meted out by Church World Ser­ pant walks. The Durham walk vice on mostly international con­ originates in front of Duke Chap­ cerns. el, makes a tour of downtown See CROPWALK on page 5 £• Inside Weather Roll 'em: The University Joe ISUZU: Tomorrow will may establish new rules to be the most pleasant day of govern filming on campus. See the year. There is absolutely page 3 for more on Hollywood, no chance of snow, and with Duke-style. all the sun you'll probably jueue up want to break out those Students brave the bitter cold to get tickets for local favorite REM. shorts. You can trust me. WmmW PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989 World & National Newsfile Baker, Shevardnadze plan armstalks, summit Associated Press By THOMAS FRIEDMAN West conference, said they had agreed to According to the two officials, Monday's House wants action: A divided N.Y. Times News Service a wide-ranging negotiating session in talks included topics like the Middle East, House panel approved a union-sought SHANNON, Ireland — Secretary of Moscow in the first half of May. on which Baker told the Soviets that the bill Tuesday that would compel Presi­ State James Baker III said on Tuesday The two officials met at the residence of administration did not favor an in­ dent Bush to intervene in the Eastern that he would go to Moscow in May to dis­ the United States ambassador to Austria, ternational conference at this time, and Airlines strike, despite administration cuss the resumption of strategic-arms ne­ Henry Grunwald, in a wooded Vienna the conventional-arms talks, on which insistence that such involvement gotiations and preparations for President suburb. They began by meeting alone, ex­ both sides expressed optimism that the would not settle the bitter dispute. See Bush's first summit meeting with Mikhail cept for interpreters, for 1 hour and 7 mi­ opening bargaining positions presented page 5. Gorbachev, the Soviet general secretary. nutes, and then held a session including by NATO and the Warsaw Pact were close After his first official meeting with the 12-member delegations from each side enough to make a conventional arms Iran breaks ties: Iran broke rela­ Soviet foreign minister, Eduard and lasting an additional hour. treaty in Europe a real possibility. The tions with Britain on Tuesday because Shevardnadze, Baker said that the Bush Surveying Baker's delegation, talks will open in Vienna on Thursday. it refused to suppress "The Satanic administration would complete its review Shevardnadze quipped: "I see that in the Reporters aboard Baker's plane, which Verses," whose author is under a death of the Start negotiations on long-range American delegation there are some new stopped in Ireland on the way to Wash­ sentence by Ayatollah Ruhollah nuclear missiles by the end of April. faces." Shevardnadze had held 31 meet­ ington, were told after the meeting that if Khomeini for blaspheming Islam. Baker and Shevardnadze, who met in ings with Baker's predecessor, George there was one impression that the secre- Vienna after both addressed an East- Shultz.

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