THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 78 Changing of the guard: Bush becomes 41st president today WASHINGTON — President-elect George Bush, suggesting he would take a cautious approach in the first weeks of his administration, said Thursday that he would not rush to se­ cure an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. On the eve of his inauguration, Bush said he had no desire to pursue a precise battle plan like the aggressive "100 days" script Reagan used in his first term. The remarks were similar to cau­ TOM LATTIN/THE CHRONICLE tious statements that Bush Cabinet choices have been making this week students on the Land Associate University Counsel Max Wallace and seemed to reflect the tone of Resources Committee report moderation he plans to bring to office. George Bush, 41st President He and others prepared for inaugu­ ration day in a capital city poised be­ At the Kennedy Center an overflow Forest report meets with support tween nostalgia for the Reagan era and crowd assembled to salute Barbara the dawn ofa new presidency. Bush. Bush, dressed in a blue suit with By CRAIG WHITLOCK Dec. 9, although not without concern for Throughout Washington, signs of a a big, patterned bow at her neck, dis­ some aspects of the study. new beginning flashed brightly. Busi­ played the lighthearted and candid More than one month after the release ness came to a stop at a downtown style she is expected to bring to the The report recommends that approxi­ of a landmark report on Duke Forest, fast-food restaurant when Vice Presi­ White House as she challenged the mately 90 percent of the Forest's 8,600 faculty members and students have of­ dent-elect Dan Quayle made a surprise contention that she was less glamorous acres be reserved for research and fered only a few modification proposals to visit for a breakfast of sausage patties than Nancy Reagan. the report before it is presented to the teaching, while the remainder should be and eggs. See BUSH on page 7 *• Board of Trustees for final approval in earmarked for campus expansion and February. financial use. In addition, the LRC Although an 18-month planning proposed a formal management system process by the Board of Trustees' Land for the Forest, including two advisory Resources Committee (LRC) generated committees and an umbrella group of much anticipation and speculation over faculty, students and administrators. Burke's 'Universe' film series the LRC report's findings, students and In its meeting Thursday, the Academic faculty alike have generally supported the Council reviewed the LRC report, passing report's conclusions since it was issued one proposal without dissent to include investigates nature of change two additional faculty representatives on the Forest's Institutional Resources By TIMOTHY MCGUIRE Board and one more representative on the Duke Forest Research Board. The two What could link such diverse subjects Orange County committees, which currently are slated to as the founding of universities in the Mid­ have one Academic Council member on dle Ages and the overthrow of Newtonian each, would recommend changes in the physics by the "new physics"? looks to rezone Forest's land use plans to a Land Resour­ Both topics are covered in "The Day the ces Board, proposed in the LRC report. Universe Changed," a film series that deals with change and how it affects hu­ "I'm concerned about the institutional By CRAIG WHITLOCK man beings. The series was written and use land fproperty slated for campus ex­ While the Land Resources Commit­ produced by popular English science com­ pansion] that might be sold off for com­ tee is currently seeking reaction by the mentator James Burke. University community to its report on mercial purposes without more faculty input" on the advisory boards, said Ken­ The common thread in the series is that Duke Forest, local governments are change is inevitable in the history of hu­ also carefully examining the 18-month neth Knoerr, professor of forestry and en­ vironmental studies. man knowledge and that humans' iden­ study. tity is determined by the world view they Knoerr added that because the research In Orange County, where roughly hold during a particular epoch. board would be "a very active committee," one-third of the Forest is located, the The series is sponsored by the Office of Board of Commissioners and Planning a co-chair such as the dean of the forestry school should be appointed to accompany Residential Life and the Program in Sci­ Board are preparing to rezone the For­ ence, Technology, and Human Values. est, a process started last August. the provost as head of the board, as the LRC report proposes. Frank McNutt, assistant dean of residen­ The rezoning of 2,800 acres of Forest tial life, said the purpose of the series is to SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE land will be open for debate at a public The chair of the LRC's academic uses promote interaction among students, hearing Feb. 27 in Hillsborough. After subcommittee, History Professor John faculty members, and other University of­ English science commentator James a similar hearing Aug. 22 the county Richards, told the council that he ac­ ficials in a "non-traditional learning envi­ Burke hosts the film series planning board recommended that all cepted the LRC report as "a well-rea­ ronment." Forest land in Orange County be soned, sensible scheme:" Especially im­ The first episode of the 10-part film se­ portant, he said, is the characterization of Each episode of the series will be shown rezoned as public interest district in a different commons room on campus ries, "The Way We Are: It Started with (PID), which would prohibit commer­ the Forest "primarily as an academic and the Greeks," aired on campus Thursday research teaching facility first and fore­ and hosted by a guest presenter from cial or residential development. But in night in Alspaugh Dormitory commons most." Duke or the University of North Carolina October, responding to a request by the at Chape! Hill. See UNIVERSE on page 7 • University, the commissioners agreed "We stand behind the LRC report," to delay rezoning until after the LRC Richards said. "It may need to be adjus­ Burke, a teacher, writer, and television report was released on Dec. 9. ted, may need some tinkering, but I do author, will be at Duke on March 30 for a think the basic plan is sound." presentation which will be the culminat­ Following the public hearing, the ing event of the series. planning board is scheduled to formu­ Richards, however, said the report Weather late a recommendation to the commis­ needs to place more emphasis on the "The Day the Universe Changed," sioners by their March 20 meeting. The newly created role of a Forest director, a which has been aired in the United States The weather thing: High in the commissioners will then make a final full-time position that would have execu­ on the Public Broadcasting System, is the upper 50's for George's big day. We're recommendation on the rezoning, prob­ tive authority over the Forest. "From my third part of a trilogy by Burke which in­ all in deep doo-doo later though, with ably at their April 3 meeting, according perspective and that of the academic con­ cludes the 1977 series and accompanying lows tonight in the 20's. See REZONE on page 5 ^ cerns subcommittee, there wasn't enough book, "Connections," and the 1980 series See FOREST on page 5 • "The Real Thing." THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, JANUARY 20,1989 World & National Newsfile Bush's budget appointee says no hidden taxes Associated Press up for inflation, each year over the next they had a range of economic assump­ five years because not enough money will tions. Hostages trouble Ron: Ronald WASHINGTON — Richard Darman, be available. —Federal budgets should cover two Reagan leaves the White House with the chief architect of President-elect —No significant new money will be years, not one as they do now. an unshaken belief that Americans are George Bush's budget policies, told Con­ spent on education, although Bush will —He is concerned about the large sums the "custodians of freedom for the gress on Thursday that the new adminis­ try to highlight "more effective needed to resolve the crisis in the savings world" but frustration that he could tration opposed all measures the public education." and loan industry and to repair and clean not obtain that freedom for his coun­ might perceive as tax increases and would —Bush will send Congress his own bud­ up plants that make nuclear weapons. He trymen still held hostage overseas. not disguise tax proposals in euphemistic get plan by the middle of next month. It will meet on Monday with James Wat­ terms. will be quite detailed and will provide "a kins, the energy secretary-designate, to discuss the weapons plant problems. FBI lOOkS for fraud: Trading re­ In his first public statement since he very clear sense of what the Bush cords of the Chicago Board of Trade was chosen by Bush two months ago to be priorities are." and Chicago Mercantile Exchange budget director, Darman said the Bush —The Bush administration will accept Meanwhile, the Senate Labor and Hu­ have been subpoenaed in an FBI probe administration would not, for instance, the relatively optimistic economic fore­ man Resources Committee voted unani­ of alleged widespread fraud involving try to call a gasoline tax a "user fee" or the casts of the. Reagan administration, but mously Thursday afternoon to approve abolition of common tax deductions millions of dollars at the nation's two such projections are basically worthless the nomination of Elizabeth Hanford Dole "definitional changes." biggest futures exchanges.