The Chronicle 78th Year, No. 82 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, January 21, 1983 Brodie offers optimistic assessment of University By Michael Nolet botany. chemistry, questioned Brodie After six months in his post Brodie cited the vacancies in on $40 laboratory fees which as chancellor, Keith Brodie is the offices of provost and students in engineering design offering a positive assessment engineering school dean as two classes pay while chemistry, of Duke and its chances for opportunities to shape Duke's botany and zoology laboratory growth. future, adding that the two courses have no such fees. Brodie, in his monthly positions can alter the Brodie agreed to investigate the meeting before the academic directions the University takes. funding for the courses. council on Thursday, said Brodie also called the fund In other business, the council Duke's strong points included drive for the Trinity School of decided to allocate space for an "excellent student body," Arts and Sciences a chance for professors emeriti who wish to PHOTO KY DOUG OWEN "great medical center" and a major development. carry on work in University POPPIN' PAGE — Richard Butler and his Psychedelic "dedicated" faculty. Richard Walls, professor of buildings for external groups. Furs invaded Page last night. Story on page 7. Brodie added he was pleased with the high rankings awarded the departments of microbiology, zoology and New internship program established botony in a recent study. The report was made by the By Michael Sayko much of outside world." The three interns will be personal staff." Conference Board of Associated The first program of its sort at According to MacDonald, the selected by four administrative Funderburg said he wants Research Councils, an ad hoc any major American university administration is looking for heads: John Pivas, vice students who show "a love of will enable three seniors to work three seniors who will split their president of Development and Duke and enthusiasm for the as interns in Duke staff time between two of the three University Affairs; Andrew job." positions for a year after offices. Parker, director of University According to Parker, the graduation. MacDonald, who is hoping Development; Laney Funder- program is not inended to be a The graduates will hold for "a couple hundred burg, director of Alumni means of recruiting Duke salaried administrative posts applicants", said the interns Affairs; and Jean Scott, director graduates into administration directly under administrative will be selected on the basis of of Undergraduate Admissions. but may be "a potential feeder heads in the offices of Alumni their application, three faculty Pivas said he is looking for system". • ' .: Affairs, University Develop­ or staff recommendations, and ' "people of multiple interests "This is an excellent program STAFF PHOTO ment and Undergraduate their ability to express willing to take the time to have which will provide the Keith Brodie Admissions, and will learn themselves orally and in this experience . each opportunity for three Duke committee composed of overall management skills writing. She stressed that the intern's program will be shaped grads to be involved in the members of the American through hands-on-experience. program is not confined to around his interest." He said external affairs of the Council for Learned Societies, The program will begin July 1. certain majors, but to anyone the interns will take on a University," said Parker. the American Council on "Their job responsibilities who is interested and feels specific project so that they will Parker said he will be looking Education, the National will range from routine office he/she would benefit from such gain experience doing in-depth for a "well-rounded individual Research Council and the work to participation in an experience. work. who believes in higher Social Science Research planning," said Susan According to MacDonald, the Funderburg said he will use education and what higher Council. The five-volume MacDonald, executive assis­ salaries are "very competitive the same criteria for selecting education stands for." survey was released Monday tant to the provost and for the Southeast." The jobs are the interns as he does for Applications for the intern­ and ranked Duke tenth in coordinator of the program. ranked as level nine administ­ selecting regular applicants ship program are available in microbiology and zoology with "Th£ interns will have the rative positions, which, at adding, "I'm going to treat that the provost's office and must be an eleventh place finish for opportunity to travel and see Duke, normally start at $14,350. person just like a member of my submitted by Feb. 15. Islamic students offer diverse religious views By Susan Balk on these purists with suspicion, fearing Students raised on Judea-Christian that they will try to convert others. ethics may associate Islam merely with A Japanese person may worship in a white-robed Arab shieks and Buddhism church, temple or shrine. "A shrine is with round-bellied, cross-legged deities. the religious place of Shintoism," Saito Yet the complex teachings of these very said, adding that the role of the shrine in religions have influenced students Japan is similar to that of the church in within our own gothic walls. the United States. Hajime Saito, a native of Tokyo, Japan, arrived at Duke in August to "The temple is different from the study international relations in a one- shrine," he said. "The shrine is more year exchange program. Although his familiar. We don't go to the temple as parents are Buddhist, he practices often as to the shrine, but when we go to Catholicism. temple, it is more religious. We believe Saito attributes the religious our ancestors are sleeping in the temple. dichotomy within his family to the We go to the temple to pray for our ancestors." religious atmosphere in Japan. "Most PHOTOS BY DOUG OWEN Japanese people do not have any Hajime Saito Mahmond Sayani Saito explained that the temple and religion, any god. To us there is no Japan, there were many gods — God of with Buddhism itself. We use Buddhism shrine mingle in Japanese religious life. difference between gods. Japanese are the Ocean, God of the River," Saito said. for funerals, but nobody worries about "People go to the shrine and temple to Buddhist in name only," he said. "It is very important to understand that Buddha," he added. pray or give an offering. In their mind, Japanese history helped develop a we can accept any gods. Some Japanese do practice strict there is no concept of'We are praying to fusion of religious beliefs which lingers "There are many sects of Buddhism in Buddhism, Shintoism or Christianity, Buddha, Shinto.' All gods are the same." today. "In the traditional culture of Japan, but we are not really familiar but many of the country's citizens look See RELIGIOUS on page 4 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, January 21, 1983 Public post keeps freshman on the go By James Winter addition of a writing sample test requiring students to Most people are so involved with adjusting to Duke compose a paragraph supported with facts. life during their first semester that they find little time The commission also must annually determine the for activities outside the realm of academia. That's not pass/fail cut-off point for the test. "It's based on a the case for at least one Trinity freshman who was curve and we decide what a passing score is . recently appointed by Gov. James Hunt to a three-year basically, the state wants a certain percentage to pass, term on the State Competency Testing Commission. but we can't let it drop too low." Despite the extra workload and constraints on her Meanwhile, Troy is also concerned about her own time, Leslie Troy, a Chapel Hill native, has managed grades. The background reading that the committee to form a favorable opinion of government. "I've really regularly sends her has been taking up a considerable been surprised, there isn't as much red tape as you'd amount of time. The committee also meets in think." Greensboro on the second Thursday and Friday of On the committee — which determines graduation each month. requirements for all public secondary school students "So far I've had to miss lab and some of my Chem in the state — she has found that, despite her age, her quizzes. .1 think [Professor of Chemistry James] opinions count. "The other committee members Bonk's going to start sending the quiz along with me definitely take us [Troy and Julie Chiu, a junior at the and make me take it there!" University of North Carolina, the two student representatives on the committee] seriously ... At PHOTO BY DOUG OWEN times, they'll specifically ask us what we think." Leslie Troy Judge says riot Dr. James Hemby, chairman of the 18-member not gratuitously be placed on committees simply commission and provost at the Atlantic Christian because they are students, he added that age is not a College, agreed. "In the limited time Leslie's been on factor in the making of a good committe member. board, she's definitely been of benefit to us. She has "Leslie would make a good committee person whether testimony OK been particularly responsive and helpful in generating she was 19 or 49." DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Testimony about race riots in test questions — partly because she is nearer in age to Troy admits that the fact that her father is a lawyer Miami in 1980 would not prejudice the all-white jury the group that takes the test." may have influenced her to apply for the position, but that is hearing a $21.3 million civil rights complaint Students in North Carolina high schools must pass she doesn't foresee a career in law or government for stemming from rioting in Wrightsville, Ga., the same a minimum competency test to qualify for diplomas.