CALL US Note The Chronicle's WEATHER Dry today telephone numbers: Sleet tonight Newsroom: 684-2663 It's gonna be cold Business office: 684-3811 So bundle up tight! Sports-Arts: 684-6588 High upper 20*s-iow 30's Editor: 684-5469 The Chronicle Duke University Volume 73, Number 74 Thursday, January 12, 1978 Durham, North Carolina Housing causes top-level dispute By llene G. Reid and 1035 freshmen to be housed. In mid- Douglass T. Davidoff August, the projection was pushed Last September's housing crunch, upwards by 30 freshmen to 1065, the termed the worst ever by one housing records said. The final figure matric­ official, was a result of tuition revenue ulating and housed last fall was 1078 budget necessities that left University freshmen, 43 people above the admis­ administrators no alternative to the sions office's original prediction. squeeze, John Fein, vice-provost and Cahow pointed to temporarily sof­ dean of Trinity College, indicated tened continuation requirements as one yesterday. of the main factors in September's His statement was supported by unexpected crush. He said that the new William Griffith, vice-provost and dean rules led to 50-60 more students remain­ of student affairs and repeatedly denied ing in school than previously would Deans William Griffith and John Fein (above) call financial difficulties by undergraduate admissions officials. have been enrolled. responsible for overenrollment; Registrar and Director of Undergraduate "We have to predict high. We have to Fein denied Cahow's allegation as to Admissions Clark Cahow and Associate Admissions Director Ted predict the fiscally conservative side," the importance of continuation rules, Lingenheld (below) deny the charge. Fein said. "At times this does have a bad saying, "There was an impact. But we effect on residential life at Duke." had a very accurate measure of the Controversial experiment "This did make for the crunch," impact made in the spring. It was not Fein said. "There is no doubt about it." one of the factors." Overprojection Provost Frederic Cleveland said yes­ Quark finder at Duke He was supported by Griffith, who terday that the budget-related target- By Charlie Slater his results are accepted by active source was used to said, "From an admissions standpoint, I setting group is meeting this week to Elementary particles physicists. neutralize the charge on would guess they would protect them­ begin formulating admissions target with a charge smaller Fairbank was a physics the ball. selves by going over." projections for September of this year. than the charge on the professor at Duke from Fairbank's group was Fein and Griffith both said that Clark Aside from Fein's statement that the proton exist, according to 1952 to 1959 when he took able to bring the charge on Cahow, registrar and director of under­ University must have been especially experimental results a position at Stanford. six balls to zero, but on one graduate admissions, was part of a fiscally conservative last fall, the compiled by William While he was here, ball it found a charge very group of administrators involved in following were cited by sources as Fairbank of Stanford, Fairbank worked with close to negative one-third setting target figures. They also said the considerations contributing to the who described his experi­ liquid helium to make and on another a charge of group included, other than themselves, squeeze: ment in a colloquium here important discoveries in positive one-third. Char­ Richard Cox, associate dean of student •The complexity of the admissions yesterday. the areas of nuclear ges of one-third confirm affairs for housing; Frederic Cleave­ process cited by Fein; Fairbank's experiment properties and superfluid­ the quark theory. land, provost; and members of their •A "domino effect" caused by multiple is the first experimental ity. Quark quirks staffs. changes in housing habits, cited by Cox; evidence that quarks, Fairbank cited two Cahow's denial •The uncertainty in attendance habits, which many believe to be No more major problems with his But Cahow denied that he was part of cited by most sources. elementary particles When he left Duke, experiment: the possibil­ a budget-related target-setting effort. Maximum expansion within protons, neutrons Fairbank said, "Someone ity that dipole effects "I was never involved in arriving at As early as September of 1976 Cox and other sub-atomic told me, 'You are going to rather than quarks caused targets that were used to develop a said in Chronicle interviews then, that particles, can exist alone, a different school. You are the fractional charges, budget," Cahow said yesterday. campus housing had undergone "max­ free from other quarks. over 40. You won't do and the small number of According to Edward Lingenheld, imum expansion." The evidence of frac­ anything more.'" balls tested. Fairbank Cahow's associate director of under­ Then, four months later in January, tional charge contradicts Fairbank developed the described in detail the graduate admisions, "We hit the target 1977, Cox said that dorm space was the belief held by a method used in his quark steps he and his col­ that is given tons. If there was a housing filled to capacity, again according to a "majority of theoretical experiments from the leagues took to eliminate problem in September, it was not be­ current Chronicle report. physicists" that quarks work Arthur Hebard and dipole effects. He said he cause of a mistake in Admissions." Finally, in September of 1977, Cox are confined by extremely George LaRue did as was confident that they Lingenheld's assertion that actual said that the housing staff "made it by strong forces and cannot graduate students at did not result in the admissions conformed to projections the skin of our teeth. We're at the bottom get out of the particles Stanford. fractional charge. was disputed by records maintained by of the barrel." they make up, Fairbank Niobium balls, about His group is continuing Griffith's and Cox's office. Last week Cox said the situation could told a crowd of about 100 one-fourth millimeter in the experiment. "People According to their office's figures the be even worse next fall. However, the people. diameter, were floated in a want to see more balls," admissions staff in August, 1977, pre­ January class numbered within two Quarks combined magnetic field. A radio­ Fairbank said. dicted a September 1977 enrollment of people of the projections. The quark theory was proposed by Murray Gell- Mann of Cal Tech in 1963. WDBS decision A similar theory was proposed independently due on Friday by George Zweig at the The University trustees' com­ same time. mittee on the future of WDBS, According to the theory, Inc.. the Duke-controlled radio protons and neutrons are station, will be discussing similar particles each sometime today or tomorrow composed of three quarks. proposals to sell the profession­ Gell-Mann also described ally-run station or turn the many other sub-atomic operation over to students. particles as combinations According to Phil Schaefer, of quarks and predicted general manager of carrier the discovery of new current student station WDUK, particles. the trustees' WDBS committee Although much evi­ will converse via a conference dence is available to call, probably coming up with a suport the quark theory, recommendation for the Trustees' Fairbank's experiment Executive Committee. That will become the first Photo by Mark Ehllch committee, which has authority to conclusive proof that Students bundle up against unusually cold temperatures which have already caused at approve WDBS's sale, meets on quarks exist — provided least 23 deaths across the nation. Snow Is seen as a possibility for the Durham area on campus this weekend. Friday. Page two The Chronicle Thursday, January 12, 1978 SPECTRUM* CLASSIFIEDS ATTENTION ALL KAPPAS! Meet­ Today some, snuggly, warm, following: water safety, during Spring semester. The Disinvestment Coalition will ing at 6 p.m. in House G. We will discuss Announcements intelligent, humorous, water skiing, boating, meet at 7:30 in 317 Perkins. initiation, rush, social, and more. 684-2982, 684-6184 or Council will meet at 5 p.m. Don't fun-loving, sex-loving soccer, basketball, athle­ (collect, Chapel Hill) 967- TRIDELTS- We have a meeting CONTACT LENS WEAR­ forget!!!!! man with a beard you tics, rifiery, ham radio, tonight at 6;I5. 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