LAST ISSUE WEATHER OF 1977 Partly cloudy and cold The Chronicle will today; lows this morning in the 20's, highs this resume publication on The Chronicle afternoon in the mid 50's. Duke University Volume 73, Number 70 Tuesday, December 13,1977 Durham, North Carolina Pye hints at cutbacks as tuition increases By Barry Bryant $300 and a constant enrollment of 4620 full-time A new tuition hike of up to $300 was authorized by the students or the equivalent about the current level. University Board of Trustees this weekend. While this projection does not differ markedly from The 8.5 per cent increase, which could raise tuition budget studies done in the past the economic reality from $3530 to $3830, is identical to the increase behind it has changed. authorized last year. Both Pye and Huestis have said that most noness­ Chancellor A Kenneth Pye said he thought the full ential items in the budget have already been cut Every increase would be needed uring the coming year to keep year for the last five years, the administration has made, the University from running a deficit small, selective cutbacks throughout the University. For Photo by Barry Rossman Last year, the administration did not use the entire example, Huestis cut about $1 million from the business authorization, raising tuition by $250. and finance division in one year. Charles Huestis, vice-president for business Break-even budget Pye has said on several occasions that the admin- and financial affairs, presented a bleak financial The administration has been directed by the trustees (Continued on page 7) picture to the Board of Trustees. to produce a break-even budget every year for both the hospital and non-hospital portions of the University. Charles Huestis, vice president for business and finance, presented a five-year budget projection showing Kudzu Alliance asks support that if the University continued to operate as it has in the last fiscal year, it would run a deficit of over $1 million in the next year and over $4 million five years in anti-nuclear power drive from now. Huestis stressed that the projection was not an actual By Ginger Sasser $4.2 billion power plant with $25 in funds." budget He said that it would be used to guide the admin­ Editor's note: This is the second in a series of However, Campbell emphasized that "our work istration in producing break-even budgets in the next articles dealing with nuclear energy in North several years. will raise the nuclear energy issue to a lot of people The budget projections are based on a number of Carolina. and make it more difficult for future plants." uncertainties, Huestis told the Trustees. These include The Kudzu Alliance, a local group hoping to According to Melanie Sheller, another member the rate of inflation, federal rules and regulations educate people about the hazards of nuclear of the Alliance, "The idea behind an organization imposed on colleges and universities and the return that energy, would like to get the Duke community like Kudzu is to find another means of expressing the University receives on investments and endowment involved in the fight against nuclear power. an opinion. Our position on nuclear energy was not income. Taking its name from a vine which covers equally represented at the hearings before the The projection assumes yearly tuition increases of embankments along North Carolina roads, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." Alliance was formed in late October to try to block But, according to Mack Harris, head of corporate WDBS decision construction of the proposed Shearon Harris communications for CP&L, "the wonderful thing nuclear power plant at Apex, 25 miles southeast of about the United States is that it gives ample The Board of Trustees appointed a Trustee committee Durham. opportunity for people who have different opinions at their meeting last weekend to study the proposed sale "It's amazing the number of people who don't to articulate their views: it's the basis of a free of WDBS. know anything about the plant," said Corky Piwoz, society." The committee will report to the executive committee a Trinity College junior and member of Kudzu. "Beginning stage" of the Board of Trustees in January and to the full board David - Goliath Campbell sees the Alliance "in a beginning in February, if necessary. They were given the power .to Tom Campbell, coordinator of press relations for snowball stage—a core that will gather momentum ask the WDBS board to delay the sale of the station. Two the Alliance, said he is "personally the most pessi­ quickly." bids have been submitted. mistic member of the group" about the group's He said the group has about 35 "really involved Members of the WDBS board have said that they chances for stopping the construction of the would probable abide by any request that the Trustees people. Once we start doing public things, well get Carolina Power and Light (CP&L) plant. make about the proposed sale. much more attention, and probably grow in Committee members include: Kevin Moore, John Campbell said, 'It's David and Goliath magnif­ membership." Forlines, Tony Duke and Robert Fuqua. ied three times. 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Health Clinic, explained tired, but the only danger is Half-life of caffeine: 3-5 hours Cyclic A&P has a short life that with the exception of if you fall asleep and don't Drug Dosage: One (two for Midol) every four hours span, but caffeine inhibits certain stimulants, in cold know it" Source: Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior, 1972, p. 115. its breakdown, thus giving medicines, caffeine is the "There is a fatigue you the bright and alert only stimulant you can buy (Continued on page 12) Page Two The Chronicle Tuesday, December 13,1977 ...Kudzu seeks aid in anti-nuclear power fight (Continued from page 1) Campbell said Lovejoy "was very helpful. He universities" once "the area in geneal is gave us some suggestions, but he pointed out that organized." "Right now, we're basically doing groundwork, we [Kudzu and Seabrook] are dealing with two According to Campbell, the Alliance has received organizational activities," said Campbell. "We've entirely different plants. Kudzu will have to support from professors at North Carolina State had three or four meetings and some committee develop its own tactics." University, the University of North Carolina at meetings to talk about future plans." According to Campbell, the Alliance "hopes to be Chapel Hill and Duke. Plans include raising funds for the group doing a lot" this spring when the Supreme Court While the professors at NC State and UNC are through a benefit concert in early January, rules on limiting the liability of nuclear interested in directly supporting the group, conducting a door-to-door survey in Apex to see power-plant operators. Campbell said the Duke professors are more casual what the townspeople know about nuclear energy in their commitment. "More or less, they're saying and how they feel about it and participating in a "Then is the time", said Campbell, "that the nuclear issue will be on people's minds." "We're glad you're doing this,'" national festival this spring to promote alternative PIRG view energy sources. Duke uninvol ved Nan Sterman, a Trinity College sophomore, said Debbie Atkins, head of Duke chapter of the Internal education she "was encouraged" by the Kudzu meetings. North Carolia Public Interest Research Group, "We're also working on our own internal 'They were well attended, but unfortunately not said, "PIRG can't make one blanket policy with education on nuclear power," said Campbell.