Weather At 1:50 p.m. yesterday, Duke Karate Club Durham received its first [ There will be a meeting of the! rainfall since Sept. 4, ending puke Karate Club Tuesday, SeptJ the prolonged heatwave which 29, at 7 p.m. in the Ark on East had plagued the area. Campus. This meeting is for both Decreasing cloudiness today, with highs of 72 to 76. Clear experienced karate students. and very autumny tonight, e cnronicie with lows of 53 to 57. Not 7*F¥iJl much change for tomorrow. Volume 66, Number 10 Durham, North Carolina Monday, September 28, 1970 Fraternity Prof, police chief call aquires college killings unjust staircase By Jack Rosenthal The commissioners found In its general report, issued (C) NYT News Service "a remarkable, incredible lack Saturday, the commission WASHINGTON-The of concern for the human life declared that government, After five years of killing of six students in Ohio of black people" among students, and universities, all frustrated effort, the Delta and Mississippi by law police in Jackson, Rhodes share responsibility for Sigma Phi Fraternity enforcement officers last May said. preventing campus disorder. succeeded in acquiring a was completely unjustified, He said testimony The report pleaded with all staircase to link its upper and two members of the concerning National Guard sides "to draw back from the lower floors. Previously, it President's Commission on Firing at Kent State was brink" of hostile, dangerous was impossible to move from Campus Unrest said contradictory. But, he added, division. level to level without leaving Engineer dropout yesterday. 'we found that in both cases, In the wake of the report's the building. James Ahem, the Chief of the use of the daedly force publication, however, the Fraternity president Tom Police of New Haven, and that was used was White House, college Levine praised student effort Joseph Rhodes Jr., a Harvard unjustified." administrators and students for its part in realizing the rate studied instructor, gave this Ahern, speaking as a law pointed new fingers of blame project. "This project is conclusion today in a enforcement professional, at each other. totally the result of student By Roger Noble its students, or a lack of television interview following said he agreed with that Nixon sends letter input", he said. Policy reporter awareness on the part of release of the commission's judgment. President Nixon sent a Levine cited the deficit After battering and entering students as to what general report. The two commissioners letter Saturday to 900 budget as one source of the grinding his way through four they are getting into. The commission appeared yesterday on the university presidents to warn five year delay. "Every year years of fluid dynamics, Dr. Richard Rohlf of the conducted extensive National Broadcasting them of ways "extremists we were promised action and linear systems analysis and counseling center has been investigations both of the Company's "Meet the Press." attempt to trick college every year our request was differential equations, the conducting a study of the death of four students at Commission will students into support of cut from the budget," he senior engineer of the Class of dropout rate among Kent State University in publish reports 1 a w lessness, disruption and said. "75 is likely to find that the engineering students at Duke. Ohio, and of two students at The commission will violence." Overcrowding made need acute number of his fellows has He is attempting to find a Jackson State College in publish extensive reports on Some university officials According to Levine, the dwindles from 139 to correlation between Mississippi both its Kent and Jackson need for a connecting contested today the between 60 and 70. first-semester grades and later Lack of concern found investigations later this week. commission's assignment of stairwell became acute as This rate of attrition is not academic failure. overcrowding increased. partial responsibility to as serious as in past years. universities. And students "We had too many people Rohlf's figures show that But critics say it may still insisted that the policies of and we needed the space. It of the entering engineering represent either a failure of Director selected the Nixon Administration, was either connect or move." class of '66, approximately the school of engineering to two-thirds did not graduate as not they, were to blame for (Continued on Page 2) live up to the expectations of engineers. Of this class, 22% transferred to Trinity College, (Continued from Page 2) 22% failed academically, and for Black Studies another 16% either QPRs no longer transferred to another school, By Adrenee G. Glover religion department, and or dropped out for reasons member of the search other than academic failure. Assistant Editor Meeting Directing a Black Studies committee. As curriculum reform Program "appears to provide "The strong posture of the seeped into the school of put on transcripts an opportunity to give the Afro-American Society was engineering, these figures onunion black experience and one positive factor in the have also changed. Of 133 By Glenn Reichert and ad dress, high school, concerns of black people acceptance of my freshmen in the Class of '69, Academics Reporter major, and degree sought. some recognition," Walter appointment," Burford said. 59 graduated as engineers in Student transcripts no Additional academic Burford, recently appointed "I was impressed by the election four years, five graduated in longer contain quality point information pertains to director of the Duke's Black black students at Duke and By Nancy Stewart more than four years, 27 ratios, according to Dr. Clark academic honors and Stu dies Program, said last their past efforts in Hospital reporter transferred to Trinity College, Cahow, University Registrar. honorary societies. The week. attempting to gain a Black In an open meeting transcript does not list any 28 failed and 14 left Duke for The transcript is strictly a The 27 year old Burford Studies Program," he Saturday night, interested other student organizations other reasons. report on the student's previously taught in Yale's continued. students and union 1199 or affiliations. academic progress. It does Divinity School. He is a The University said "very leaders discussed plans for a not contain subjective The transcript also notes George Pearsall, dean of native of New York City. little" about the state of the union election among nonacademic hospital information, such as deans' voluntary and involuntary the school of engneering, Presently teaching program, Burford said, workers. recommendations, personal withdrawal from the when asked whether this Religion and Theology of referring to the few courses evaluations, etc. University. But a recent problem was unique to his Black America, Burford's being taught by temporary, The informational meeting Information on the administration decision school, replied that special academic interests are interim faculty." at 7:00 in the Flowers Music " transcript is essentially a dictates that notation of engineering seemed to require philosophical theology and Burford did not discuss for Room was attended by four duplication of the student's involuntary suspensions be a special type of student with how it relates to Black the future makeup and 1199 leaders, four members semester grade reports. It lists removed from the transcript a strong committment to the Studies. perspectives of the program. of the Y executive cabinet, course names, grades upon termination of the Hutch Traver, president of program, who must develop When asked about the He said, however, he would received, and course weights. suspension. ASDU, and other interested his creativity while taking details of his appointment, like to see "a substantive Personal information includes persons. A copy of the transcript fundamental courses that Burford said he was first in Black Studies Program with the student's name, may be released to anyone, may seem to lack relevance to contact with Thomas creative and competent The meeting was called by hometown, parents' name but only with the student's Hs particular interests. Lantrford. chairman of the faculty." Dan Robinson, a Duke expressed permission. student, to discuss plans for Authorized University requesting the University to officials may review a grant a union election later student's record at any time. this week. Off-campus officials or Eddie Bragg, national organizations, however, may organizer for 1199D, said not do so unless the student that he plans to ask President permits. Terry Sanford to meet with A11 h ough the registrar's workers this week and office does not compute or request an election. publish quality point ratios, it Robinson explained that does review student records he had contacted several i n o rder to provide faculty members, asking for organizations, such as Phi their support in the drive for Beta Kappa, and the deans' a union election. offices with lists of students There was also discussion who might be eligible for of the level of student membership, scholarships, or support, but Bragg noted that honors. Dr. Cahow said that "students aren't going to win these groups will then apply this election. I believe that their own methods to calculate QPR factors. Blue Devil fullback Steve Jones crashes and gets crashed (Continued from Page 2) Page LkM^illMilMR Monday, September 28, 1970 After union merger failure,] College Kent State calm Duke 17, Virginia T North Carolina 53, Maryland 20 South Carolina