The Chronicle 78th Year, No. 122 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, March 25, 1983 Spring brings snow to Duke UFCAS acts on teaching quality By Martine DeVos • Appoint a committee to In keeping with its recent study criteria for determining report citing "an alarming quality of teaching and merit. trend away from teaching and • That the University seek toward research," in judging funds to establish chairs to be the quality of Duke faculty, an called, "The Distinguished UFCAS committee Thursday Teaching Professorships." endorsed six recommendations • Establish 10 annual awards to re-emphasize teaching of $1,000 each to be given to ability. members of the faculty for The meeting of the Under­ excellence in undergraduate graduate Faculty Council of instruction. Arts and Sciences, chaired by «That the council appoint a Dean Ernestine Friedl, distinguished professor as a addressed issues raised by the teaching consultant to orient Ad Hoc Committee on the new members ofthe faculty and Quality of Teaching. Appointed advise at the departmental level in 1981 by Friedl "to focus when consulted, faculty attention on teaching •That the University re­ and . recommend establish a special fund to aid program for faculty develop­ faculty through small grants to ment in teaching," the enhance the teaching and committee yesterday passed six planning "innovative courses." recommendations toward that end: Informal discussion panels • That the Academic Council and assemblies comprising study the criteria for tenure and both students and faculty promotion in the University, members were proposed to gain with special and serious a better understanding of these attention to the role that issues. teaching should play. See UFCAS on page 16 NRC member backs nuclear freeze drive By Josh McDonald debated by Congress will Emphasizing the need for jeopardize U.S. national informed and realistic input, security. "You can't seriously John Ahearne, Nuclear guess which side is strongerfthe Regulatory Commissioner, U.S. or U.S.S.R] unless you called for non proliferation believe there can be a winner agreements and a verifiable and a loser in a nuclear war. nuclear arms freeze in a speech "There would be no fire­ here last night break," Ahearne said, to stop a "I'm for a freeze but I don't small nuclear confrontion from trust the Russians," Ahearne escalating into a holocaust. said on the eighth night of the "The smallest nuclear "Peacemaking in a Nuclear weapons possessed by the Age," symposium. superpowers have about 5,000 Ahearne refuted critics who times the explosive force of most contend that the freeze large conventional weapons," resolution currently being said Abearne, a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 1978. Evans discusses feminist movement "I'm sure Russia mistrusts us By Sheon Ladson feminist movement." To Women's Studies Program. In University of North Carolina, just as much as we mistrust Expressing her belief that, ameliorate current conditions, introducing Evans, history Evans used history as a major them," he added. "there is a bias in feminism she said, "we must cross the professor William Chafe called theme in her speech. She Concerning the spread of toward white, middle-class, boundaries between women of her "a major influence in the expressed the view that "in nuclear weapons, Ahearne said, American, educated women, different races, classes and activist presence at Duke in the order to lay claim to the future, "Proliferation is definitely since they are essentially the ethnic groups, because there is a '60s." women must recognize their something to worry about. ones who started the movement," women's subculture above these A fundamental relationship role in the past." Small nations can, and will, use feminist author Sara Evans other subcultures." between scholarship in nuclear weapons." urged greater racial, ethnic and women's studies and the According to Evans, since Based on the current spread class unity among women in a Author of Personal Politics, a politics of feminism was "women's submission has been of nuclear weapons world-wide, speech here Thursday before recent review of the women's established at the outset of sustained by a tack of recorded Ahearne predicted that some approximately 100 students in liberation movement in the Evans' address. "Feminism has participation in history," she small nations in traditionally Zener Auditorium. context of civil rights, Evans always been political," she said expressed the belief that it is volatile regions will use nuclear Evans cited a "lack of agency delivered a speech entitled, in her opening statement. important for women to realize bombs against their neighbors which may make women feel "Toward a Useable Past," Having received a master's that they have significantly sometime in the 1990s. they are not free to join the which was presented by the degree in history at the See EVANS on page 10 See NUCLEAR on page 4 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, March 25, 1983 Duke prof bolsters armed forces1 recruiting By Grissim Walker marketing input. I'm actually in the field of budget around got out of it." In the coming years, whether the U.S. Armed Forces allocations." Because of the current high unemployment rate, succeed in getting enough qualified recruits at a price In addition to the continuing work with the Navy, "recruiting commands have never had it so good," Congress is willing to pay may have a lot to do with the Morey has begun work for the rest of the Defense according to Morey. The services can meet numerical work of Richard Morey, a professor at the Fuqua Department. The current $35,000 contract is a quotas for recruits with little difficulty. However, School of Business. comparative study of the Army and Air Force while there is a flood of unemployed high school In the four and one-half years during which Morey recruitment programs. dropouts, Morey reports "keen competition" for the has been with the Fuqua School, he has collected in The principal research concerns of the "supply-limited group" needed in the technically excess of $900,000 in research grants from the Navy Navy's budget. Beyond determining the relative complex modern military. and other U.S. defense departments. merits of television advertising and traditional station Director of the Center for Applied Business recruiting, Morey has examined alternative One technique that Morey's work has shown to be Research at the Fuqua School, Morey has benefitted strategies. One promising technique involves placing surprisingly effective is that of a delayed entry from Congress' concern about the roughly $1 billion classified ads that omit the name of the military program. According to Morey, such programs "work spent by the various services to entice enough recruits employer. Morey said, "Of course a lot walk away but a very well. something like 80 percent ofthe recruits to enlist for the all-volunteer force. lot had never thought of the Navy as a career. use it now." Morey's involvement began in the late 1970s, when Morey cited two major factors responsible for the the Navy took the lead in utilizing alternative Regarding his role in the selling of the military, success of delayed entry programs. First, the period recruitment strategies. Prior to his arrival at Duke, Morey said "I don't have any qualms about it." between enlisting and reporting to boot camp counts Morey was the head of a private management His background in military work includes toward time served for pay and retirement purposes. consulting firm that received one of the research vulnerability studies on naval weapons systems Second, the recruiting officer keeps up with the new contracts to analyze the effectivness of the various which he carried out prior to his entering private recruit and may attempt to encourage him to bring in programs. Morey said that fellow Fuqua School consulting. He said that "the draft had a lot of his friends. 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Times News Service almost certainly the residue of these other deficits, far NEW YORK — Dr. Barney Clark's 16 weeks of more than any problem with the artificial heat, that survival with a device of plastic and metal pumping finally brought his life to an end. his life's blood gave him little semblance of normal But the four months of life sustained mean that life, but was a history-making advance in the long Clark's courage under pain and the continual threat of research effort to develop a practical artificial heart.