THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988 g DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 38 Trinity hiring policy targets junior faculty By MAH SCLAFANf As a result ofa change in hiring policy, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is now placing a greater emphasis on recruiting junior professors rather than "star faculty" as has been the focus in recent years, according to Dean of Trinity College Richard White. The new hiring guidelines will re-establish the "traditional policy" of hiring more assistant and asso­ ciate professors, White said last week. The policy went into effect during last year's recruit­ ment process, he said. Approximately 28 out of 30 faculty hired last year were on the assistant or associate professor levels. Each of the past several years, White has he asked departments to submit names of distinguished profes­ sors, or "targets of opportunity," whom they would rec­ ommend for hiring by the University. Trinity College would then make serious efforts to recruit the named professors, partly by offering competitive salaries, he said. The former policy was intended to bring about a "major and rapid" change in the number of distinguished professors at Trinity, White said. The presence of distin­ guished professors, whom White called "magnet faculty," helps in recruiting highly qualified junior facul­ ty, he said. Having concentrated on hiring magnet JIM JEFFERS/THE CHRONICLE faculty in the past few years, "we are in a better competi­ tive league for associate and assistant professors," White Under cover said. These sheep are on special assignment at the State Fair in Raleigh, so we can't show their faces. But word has it they're tracking a big shipment of grass into the country. Baaaaaad. See FACULTY on page 4 j>- Cardiology research center Students assist rural residents to utilize engineering library By JENNIFER DOUGLAS Rather than escape to the beach or By SCOTT GELIN January for a projected completion date of the mountains, 18 dedicated students Construction on a new facility to im­ June 2, 1989, said Ron Blickhan, director spent fall break working just as hard prove cardiovascular technology is sched­ of facilities planning and management. as they do during classtime. Their trip uled to begin late this year on the fourth Other participants in the project in­ to rural North Carolina to renovate an floor of the Nello Teer Engineering Li­ clude the University of North Carolina at old potato storage building into a medi­ brary. Chapel Hill, the Research Triangle Insti­ cal and senior center proved to be a dif­ The new laboratory, formally called the tute, the Microelectronics Center of North ferent sort of classroom. Duke-North Carolina National Science Carolina, and the North Carolina Biotech­ The program in Tillery, a town of Foundation Engineering Research Center nology Center. 800 about two hours from Durham for Emerging Cardiovascular Technology "We are the lead institution, the host," near Rocky Mount, is a project of the (ERC), will be supported financially by said Len Pardue, associate vice president North Carolina Student Rural Health various grants totalling approximately and director of University relations. Coalition. Founded in 1978 by students $15 to $20 million. "It will certainly be a Research at the new facility will focus from several universities in the state, great boon to our school," said Earl primarily on cardiovascular research the Coalition works to develop com­ Dowell, dean of the School of Engineering. from an engineering aspect. Research will munity-run institutions to improve BRENDEN KOOTSEY/THE CHRONICLE The construction, which will cost be divided into two main areas: diagnosis health conditions in poverty-stricken $900,000, is scheduled to begin in the last and therapy. Specifically, researchers will towns. health care,according to Engineering week of December or the first week of See LIBRARY on page 11 • The Coalition recruits doctors, nur­ junior Curt Jennewine, who helped or­ ses and interns from different univer­ ganize the trip. "They just use tents, sities who volunteer their time to and especially with OB-GYEN patients, various health clinics. The organiza­ more privacy is needed." tion also recruits undergraduates as About 80 percent of Tillery's resi­ volunteers. dents are senior citizens living on so­ The project, originally undertaken cial security benefits. Many families by students, during fall break last are headed by teen parents or are on year, involves building a desperately welfare, Jennewine said. needed medical center in Tillery. Cur­ The Duke student group made sig­ rently the doctors closest to the town nificant headway working on the the are 20 miles away. "Right now there new health clinic, dubbed the "Potato really isn't any solid structure" for See TILLERY on page 7 • Inside Weather Blackburn honored: What do Scattered ShOWerS: For Dodgers Reynolds Price and William Styron fans, tomorrow will be warm and sun­ have in common, besides being Duke ny. But for A's fans it will rain, hail alumni and famous novelists? To find and storm. For those who really don't STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE out, see page 3. care, i'll be partly cloudy, highs in the 60s and lows near 40. The Nello Teer Engineering Library THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20,1988 World & National Newsfile Two planes crash in India; 164 believed dead Associated Press Vayudoot hit the side of a hill in eastern allegedly failing to maintain pre-flight Palestinians killed: Two Pales­ India during a severe rainstorm, and all safety procedures. tinians were reported killed and 10 AHMADABAD, India — A Boeing 737 34 people aboard were feared dead, offi­ The cause of Wednesday's crash was wounded Wednesday as a general jetliner and another Indian passenger cials said. not immediately known, but one airline strike to protest Jewish settlements plane crashed in bad weather within two Indian Airlines Flight 131 was flying official who spoke on condition of anonym­ shut the occupied West Bank and Gaza hours of each other Wednesday, and au­ from Bombay with 129 passengers and six ity said the airline suspects a technical Strip. thorities said the death toll may be as crewmembers when it crashed at 7:40 malfunction complicated by bad weather. high as 164. a.m. Wednesday (10:10 p.m. EDT Tues­ The Indian Airlines jet was trying to day) on its final approach to Ahmadabad A recording between the pilot and the Israelis killed in Lebanon: A land in heavy fog at the western city of airport, about 500 miles southwest of New Ahmadabad control tower gave no indica­ suicide car bomb exploded Wednesday Ahmadabad when it slammed into a tree, Delhi. tion of trouble. Rescue workers found the near Israel's "Good Fence" border hit a power line and crashed. All but five Federal Aviation Minister Shiv Raj flight data and cockpit voice recorders in crossing in south Lebanon, killing of the 135 people aboard were killed, and Patil said the death toll of 130 was the smoldering wreckage and blood-stained seven Israeli soldiers and wounding three of the survivors were in serious worst in the carrier's 26-year history. It debris. eight others and two Lebanese civil­ condition with burns and broken bones. was the airline's 16th major accident. Survivor Paag Vasavda, 28, said the ians, the military command said. About VA hours later, a 30-year-old The government-run airline, which flies pilot told passengers he was having trou­ Fokker Friendship propeller plane leased to 73 airports in India and to nine other ble landing in the fog. Vasavda said he Iron may cause cancer: iron by Indian Airlines to the domestic countries, has come under fire recently for heard two explosions. pills may be unhealthy for people who don't have anemia because of the possi­ bility that excessive iron increases the risk of cancer, a new study concludes. FDA announces new drug approval policy The plan calls for the agency to work human testing. Contractor Suspended: The Pen­ more closely with drug developers to more But if any drugs now in early trials tagon on Wednesday suspended the WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug clearly focus early research on a drug so show effectiveness, they will be approved Sundstrand Corp. from doing business Administration Wednesday announced that it produces more information to be for wide commercial distribution far ear­ with the government, saying it wasn't new drug approval procedures intended to evaluated, Young said. lier than generally allowed under the old satisfied with the company's response make new treatments available more With more early data, and taking into system. to being caught up in a huge defense quickly to people with such life-threat­ account the risks of a potential treatment fraud case. ening diseases as AIDS or cancer. vs. its possible benefits, the agency can The effort to change the regulations The FDA commissioner, Dr. Frank speed the approval process for agents was touched off by complaints by advo­ FAA Checks 737S: The Federal Young, said the procedures could reduce aimed at life-threatening or severely de­ cacy groups for people with AIDS that the Aviation Administration said Wednes­ the time it takes to clear promising drugs bilitating diseases, he said. process was delaying possible treatments day it was speeding up an order for by a third to a half, cutting years off the for critically ill patients. more thorough inspections of aging average of eight years for approval. Health officials cautioned that the Specifically, the commissioner said, the Boeing 737 jetliners after a row of "I believe the new plan will help insure changed testing process would not neces­ plan was developed in response to a re­ cracks, including one a foot long, was that some key drugs and biologies go sarily produce a cascade of new drugs for quest in August by the President's Task found on a Continental Airlines plane.