Professor's Document Violates Tenure Process

Gunning for the top Duke football looks to hold onto its place . atop the ACC -landing- as it battles Wake THE CHROMCLE Forest this weekend. See Sports, p. 15. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1994 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL, 90, NO. 39 Professor's document violates tenure process By ROSE MARTELLI ulty and administrators to deny A Divinity School professor's her tenure. public attack on a colleague up The Divinity School receives for tenure has violated Univer about $1 million a year from the sity rules on confidentiality. United Methodist Church, com About two weeks ago, Lloyd prising about 20 percent of its Bailey, an associate professor at budget, said Dennis Campbell, the Divinity School, mailed a 40- dean ofthe Divinity School. Al page document to more than 100 though the school is officially af United Methodist Church lead filiated with the United Method ers statewide, as well as to the ist Church, Campbell stressed members ofthe Divinity School's that the church has never exer Board of Visitors, concerning the cised direct governance over the ongoing tenure case of Mary institution and has no influence McClintock Fulkerson, an assis on tenure decisions. tant professor at the Divinity The incident both raises ques School. tions about the security of ten No, the Gothic Wonderland is just West Campus The document, which contained ure review, which is shrouded in Graduate student Edward Shanken points out the Georgian architecture of East Campus to material from Fulkerson's tenure secrecy, and points to fundamen Art 69 students, Thursday. file, encouraged church officials tal differences between Bailey's to pressure Divinity School fac See DIVINITY on page 7 • Consider educational Keohane to faculty: Get involved mission, faculty says By REBECCA CHRISTIE habits that must be addressed citing several specifics, in President Nan Keohane comprehensively, not just modi cluding inviting students to By REBECCA CHRISTIE ests, as well as the pursuit of called for a more unified fied through individual steps. dinner, arts or sporting Faculty outlined their criteria relaxed social activities and ac University community in re While many faculty members events; including them in for the future of residential life tive recreation." marks at a meeting of the already have fulfilling relation trips to professional confer in a resolution passed at The resolution stresses ex University faculty, Thurs ships with undergraduates, fac ences; and including under Thursday's Academic Council tending the educational experi day. ulty as a whole need to ensure graduates in departmental meeting. ence beyond the classroom and In her address to faculty, that they are continuing to ex functions, she said. The council's resolution, advocates increased faculty and Keohane touched on issues pand interaction and not isolate She compared the "clos passed with only one voice op staff interaction as well as ranging from the women's themselves through their fo eted" faculty member who posing, asks administrators to proper space for this interaction. soccer team's recent triumph cuses on research and graduate would like to interact more consider several criteria as they It further asks that all decisions to the relationship between education, she said. with undergraduates if the craft residential policy. Accord concerning selective housing en the University and the Medi "We must not sit on our lau system were more encourag ing to the resolution, a vision for sure compatibility to the above cal Center, but she focused rels; we must think of ways we ing, with the "closet intellec undergraduate housing should goals. her talk on faculty involve can confirm those tendencies tual" student who retreats be centered on the educational "There's more to residential ment in the undergraduate and make them stronger," Keo into the "work hard, play mission of the University and life than who sleeps where," said experience. hane said. hard" undergraduate men should foster a variety of com James Siedow, professor of Keohane attributed the Faculty could become more tality. munities "conducive to the free botany and chair ofthe Academic separation of faculty and involved in undergraduate life Keohane said technologi- exchange of ideas, the sharing of Council. "By passing this we are students to long-standing in a variety of ways, she said, See KEOHANE on page 8 iV cultural and intellectual inter See COUNCIL on page 8 • Keohane Does student input matter? Views differ This is the final installment in a three- know any better, will future University years later, all-freshman housing was to sponsor part series on issues facing the Univer students end up loving whatever residen unanimously endorsed by last spring's sity as it attempts to reform the residen tial system they land in when they ar Residential Life Committee. tial system. rive? And if they will, do the opinions of In an interview this summer, William forum By ALISON STUEBE current students matter as the Univer Griffith, former vice president for student When it comes to what freshmen want sity crafts a new residential vision? affairs, compared the current situation to From staff reports in a residential experience, anything goes, Tolsma says student views should the residential changes made in 1981. This Sunday, about 320 people says the president of Duke Stu count, and that long-standing "My guess is that l'J years, 15 years will converge on the Bryan dent Government. University traditions have cre hence, if we had another system, people Center's Von Canon Hall for a "If we made tent city a fresh ated a framework administra would probably like it," Griffith said. campus-wide discussion on resi man dorm, they would love tors should enhance, rather A chair of one ofthe committees review dential life. Duke Umversity," said Trinity than replace, as they plan for ing campus life last year agreed. "The About 160 students, 80 faculty, senior John Tolsma at a lun the future of residential life. reason we all believe that all-freshman 40 alumni and 40 administrators cheon with members of the Yet the University has aban housing is the right thing is because that's have been randomly selected to Board of Trustees last month. doned tradition before, even in what we've got," said Peter Burian, asso participate in the forum sponsored Thriving on the opportunity the face of students' objections. ciate professor of classics and chair ofthe by President Nan Keohane's of to meet new people .and become In 1981, trustees voted to cre Academic Council's Intellectual Climate fice, said William Slebos, senior part of a college environment, John Tolsma ate all-freshman dormitories, I_i.sk Force. "Student opinion about these management consultant and a co freshmen will enjoy any living arrange doing away with cross-sectional housing issues is very conservative. You talk to ordinator of the event. ment, Tolsma has contended. Yet such that had existed since 1930. some alumni, and it's even more fossil The forum will begin with a open-minded enthusiasm raises some In a 1981 student government poll, 66 ized. I don't think current student opir. See FORUM on page 7 • interesting questions: If freshmen love percent of students surveyed opposed the ion forms the basis for a residential deci- where they are now because they don't move to all-freshman dorms. Thirteen See HOUSE on page 8 • THE-CHRONICLE-' FRIDAY, OCT_8_R 2_, 1__4 " World and National Newsfile Close elections could benefit Republicans Associated Press By RICHARD BERKE and 7 for them to take the Senate. That is not entirely in the hands of Bridge COllapses: A50-yard sec N.Y. Times News Service Given the closeness of the contests, Republican leaders, whoseeffortsatgen- tion of a bridge collapsed in Seoul WASHINGTON — With the election the late-campaign talk among strate erating a national campaign have so far during rush-hour traffic, sending at gists in both parties focuses on one ques had little visible impact. But Republi least one bus and several cars into a 19 days away, there are more neck-and- river below and killing 24 people. neckcontests for House and Senate seats tion: can the Republicans achieve some can strategists are hoping for such a than there have been in decades, a situ thing not seen in 20 years, a nationwide powerful mood of protest against Demo Troops CUt: The Pentagon re ation of peril for Democrats who now sweep in an off-year election? crats that local issues and the signifi scinded orders for tens of thousands hold three-quarters of those seats. Whether the Republicans make solid or cant fund-raising advantage of incum of U.S. troops to move to the Persian Nearly 70 ofthe 435 House races and decisive gains, party strategists say, de bent Democrats will be overcome, and Gulf now that Iraq's threat to Ku 10 of the 35 Senate races are among pends on whether anti-Clinton, anti-gov Republican candidates who would not wait has abated. Instead, some those considered too close to call, and at ernment sentiment cut enough within otherwise have been able to win, will do 13,000 soldiers and 270 aircraft will least 50 more House races and 10 more the electorate to induce undecided voters so. remain for a training exercise. Senate races are highly competitive. It to cast ballots and to do so for Republican Democrats concede that a surge they would take a net gain of 40 seats for the candidates, pushing those in tight races thought was out of the question earlier Reforms pared: The Clinton ad Republicans to win control ofthe House, across the finish line. this year is not beyond possibility.

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