THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1987 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83, NO. 64 Factors may hinder new goal for recruiting women faculty ByPATTANGNEY the number of women in the faculty are In the wake of a recent recommenda­ said to be numerous. tion to increase the number of women One factor that could create problems is faculty members hired, administrators that the administration traditionally has and faculty members agreed that accom­ not forced individual departments to meet plishing the goals set by the committee recruiting quotas. "The administration, could be a difficult task. whose role is budgetary, cannot adopt a The report released by the Academic quota on faculty hiring, but can support a Council Committee on Women Faculty at hiring goal. The faculty is autonomous in the most recent meeting ofthe Academic hiring new members," said Dolores Council recommended "that the Univer­ Burke, special assistant to Brodie and ex sity endorse the goal . that one-third of officio member of the Committee on new hires [to Trinity College] be women, Women Faculty. and that other academic units ofthe Uni­ "Enforcement is impossible," Burke versity adopt comparable vigorous goals." said. "One person isn't responsible. It's al­ Currently, 17 percent of all faculty mem­ ways a group effort." If the one-third bers are women. hiring goal is approved by the administra­ The goal was first adopted for Trinity tion, its implementation would fall to the College in the draft version of the Aca­ individual departments and their deans. demic Plan in September. While the ad­ But while individual departments con­ ministration has not yet formally ad­ duct searches for faculty and choose final dressed the objective, officials indicate candidates, the deans to the various that the goal will be established as Uni­ schools of the University could take the versity policy. leadership role in promoting the one-third - ^'&&«ammm_« "I see no reason why we can't be aggres­ hiring goal, said Kenneth Spenner, chair sive in seeking out a woman candidate," of the Committee on Women Faculty. said President Keith Brodie Tuesday. And Deans interview each final candidate in JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE Margaret Bates, vice-provost for academic faculty searches, and they must approve affairs and facilities, said the Provost's of­ departmental nominations. "The dean is a Fa-la-la-la-la fice is also "supportive ofthe objectives." persuader," Spenner said. "In my judg The Hats Off Singing Group officially opened the ceremonies Tuesday even­ ing at the University's annual lighting of the tree on James B. Duke quad- However, impediments to increasing See WOMEN on page 4 ^- Board of Trustees will review USAir head praises deregulation By SCOTTLEHRER Airline deregulation did not have as two-tiered tuition in December negative an effect on air travel as is com­ From staff reports monly perceived, according to the presi­ under the higher tuition tier would dent and chairman of the board for The Provost's office has calculated also be guaranteed that future in­ USAir, which recently took over Piedmont the undergraduate tuition increase creases would cover only increases in Airlines. that will apply to next year's incoming normal operating expenses. "There are now attempts to turn back students, but the figure will not be The list of 24 schools was derived by the clock on deregulation because con­ released before it is considered by the former chancellor Kenneth Pye for the sumers feel it isn't perfect," Edwin Board of Trustees at a Dec. 12 meeting, purpose of comparing faculty salaries. Colodny said to an audience of 40 people President Keith Brodie said Tuesday. All the universities on the list are pri­ Tuesday in the Hanks Lobby ofthe Bryan Brodie said Duke's tuition will rank vate, selective institutions. The list is Center. The remarks were made during below the half-way point on a list of 24 now used by administrators as a refer­ the first Frank Barnett Lecture presented schools with which the University com­ ence group for comparing tuitions. by the Institute of Policy Sciences and monly competes for students. The max­ Although the list was a consider­ Public Affairs. imum increase for Duke's bill would ation in determining the higher tuition Many people have suggested that safety therefore be about 13 percent, assum­ tier, the primary factor in the decision has been compromised by the change, and ing an average six percent increase was the need for academic enhance­ the number of near misses at the nation's among the schools. Northwestern is ments, according to Paula Burger, vice airports has indeed increased, according JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE currently 12th on the list with a tuition provost for academic services. to Colodny. However, private automobiles of $11,367. Duke's tuition is $10,320, Edwin Colodny, USAir president and "We can't go too far too fast. On the have a fatality rate of 35 per billion pas­ currently 20th on the list. CEO other hand, our tuition hasn't been at a senger miles, while that of airplanes is level that was satisfactory," Burger The new tuition rate would be part of only 0.3 per billion passenger miles, he Colodny attributed part of the delays a two-tier system announced in said. "To suggest that any airline is going problem to the FAA, Colodny said. The November. Brodie has already an­ to send out unsafe planes is painting with 1981 air-traffic controllers' strike wiped nounced plans to ask for an across-the- "I don't think anyone would feel that far too broad a brush," he said. out a good percentage of experienced board six percent increase. If the Board we ought to place ourselves among the "In a fast-growing industry .. ob­ workers, according to Colodny. Airports approves the plan, those students cur­ most expensive institutions," she said. viously there is some level of experience allow in the air only the number of planes rently enrolled would not face any "We didn't just want to see what the factor that could get compromised," .he that can be handled at one time, leaving other increases. Students who enroll market would bear." said. But he added that US^r sets its the others sitting on the ground, he said. standards for pilots above those of the "The FAA and [Department of Transpor­ Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). tation] need to spend the money they The deregulated industry has also been have collected from the tax on ticket sales criticized for more delays, he said. Follow­ to put the number of controllers in the Inside Weather ing deregulation, many airlines converted towers that are necessary," he said. to the "hub-and-spoke" system, in which Faults in the airline industry have also passengers are brought to a central "hub" What next Steve?: We saw him Trying to be funny?: Well have been highlighted due to increased use of city and often change planes before going air travel, he said. Because of the decline on the football field in charge of Airball our share of laughts tonight with on to their final destination. The hub sys­ in train and bus travel, private '87, but now Steve Slayden is going to Steven Wright who brings his distin­ tem has been criticized for delayed flights, automobiles and airlines have become the try to bring Airball to another sport. guishable voice and the cold to campus. he said. But, "There is more air service two major forms of transportation, Find out which sport on page 15 in High will only be around 45 today with available today, to more places, with more Colodny said. "We've got to fix the Richard Lewis's article. lows around 25. frequency than under regulations," he system," he said. said. See USAIR on page 5 • THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2,1987 World & National Newsfile Talks with Cubans look encouraging N.Y. Times News Service By RONALD SMOTHERS trant elements among the inmates. U.S. criticizes France: The U.S. sharply N.Y. Times News Service There are indications that some ofthe official striden­ criticized France for making what one official said Negotiations aimed at ending the eight-day uprising cy, picked up instantly on the television sets and radios was a deal with Iran to obtain the release of French of Cuban detainees at the federal prison here were that abound in the prison and constitute the inmates hostages in Lebanon. The French-Iranian accord "considerably more encouraging" Tuesday, a govern­ main source of news, might be intended to move the ne­ might reward hostage-taking, an official said. ment spokesman said as inmate leaders took a proposed gotiations. Federal officials concede this intent and it ap­ agreement to fellow inmates for discussion. parently worked on Monday when the Cubans brought Bonn approves Spending: West German capi­ The spokesman, Patrick Korten, deputy public affairs Thomas Silverstein, an American inmate, shackled and tal spending was the focus of a plan reportedly ap­ director for the Department of Justice, said that four in­ handcuffed to officials. proved by Bonn. The plan centers on cutting rates mate leaders reached "substantial agreement on a num­ Silverstein, who is serving three consecutive life sen­ and expanding the amount of credit available from ber of issues" in an hour-long meeting with federal nego­ tences for murdering two fellow inmates and a prison the state reconstruction loan corporation, officials tiators. guard while at other prisons, has been a source of worry But he said he could not say whether the proposal to negotiators as he roamed about the prison after the would break the standoff.