Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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FEBRUARY MARCH The Residential Policy Committee made its Edens Quad decision on February 1st: thirteen spaces from Mirecourt would be given to the Delts. Mirecourt resi- dents celebrated the decision. Seniors began their all- night vigils outside the Placement Office as Job inter- views began. The basketball team won three games and lost five, ending the month 11-14. Women’s basketball won one and lost one, now 13-6 for the season. Gymnast Rona Riggs set a new Duke meet record of 36.05 points; wres- tler Jake Cecere won the ACC crown, and the women's swim team competed and finished last in the ACC tour- nament. New head football coach Steve Sloan an- nounced signing 19 top recruits, Duke Ice Hockey beat UNC to close their season at 9-5, and the baseball team lost its opening game. Symposium '83, entitled Me and Them: Narcissism in an Age of Disengagement, was held during the first weekend of the month. Jewish Awareness Week was observed; IFC sponsored a black white greek forum to stimulate interaction between black and white greek or- ganizations. The Bryan Center’s first birthday was cele- brated on Valentine's Day with jazz in the Rathskellar and a Mardi Gras festival. Playboy magazine’s recruitment of women for a Girls of the ACC” spread stirred controversy on campus and the debate raged over whether or not the Chronicle should have advertised for Playboy. Delta Kappa Epsi- lon fraternity was given permission to open a chapter on campus, while the Hideaway reopened in the basement of the Old West Union. Andre Watts performed in Page. Spring break started on March 4th, and while many students headed for South Florida to spend the week in the sun, others traveled to Washington to take part in a financial aid protest on Capitol Hill for the third annual National Student Action and Lobby Day. Back at Duke on the 14th, students counted the remaining days and decided that work on those term papers and projects should probably get under way. A Nuclear Awareness Symposium entitled Peace- making in a Nuclear Age” featured Nobel-prize-winning Professor Andrew Wald speaking against nuclear pow- er and for disarmament. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity hosted singer Ellen Lange as part of the Residence Hall programming campaign to increase education at home.” The Blackburn Literary Festival presented singer-danc- er-historian-producer-actress-author-poet Maya Ange- lou as this year's featured artist. Mary Tyler Moore spoke candidly to a packed audience, and the English Beat performed in Page. Duke's women’s golf team was ranked 2 in the na- tion and Mary Ann Widman was ranked 1. Men’s bas- ketball ended its season with two more losses; one against Virginia in the ACC tournament was the worst recorded loss in Duke's basketball history. The baseball team split a pair of games, lacrosse beat Ohio State and lost to Virginia, and men’s tennis beat Georgia Tech, Maryland and Virginia Tech. The weather in March followed the typical Spring ’83 pattern: lots of rain. Snow fell on the 24th and the 26th

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merit. As Duke students expressed dismay over finan- cial aid cuts and their consequences, the Board of Trust- ees increasd next year's tuition by 9.2%. WDUK was granted an FM license this month; Duke Players presented Uncommon Women and Others.” The Pitchforks performed in Reynolds Theater; Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty spoke about their writing, and Joe Jackson performed in Page. At the end of December, the Board of Trustees de- layed decisions concerning the fate of the swimming and fencing programs and the dorm proposal, and the family of Luis Ferrer acquired a Durham attorney to in- vestigate the circumstances surrounding the fresh- man's death. Island meet, and soccer star Joe Ulrich signed a one- year contract with the New York Arrows. The Black Student Alliance commemorated Martin Luther King's birthday with a series of demonstrations and services, while Hoof 'N Horn presented the musical Working,” based on Studs Terkel’s novel, and the Psy- chedelic Furs played in Page Auditorium. Satisfaction,” a new restaurant and bar, opened in Lakewood Shopping Center and quickly became Duke's latest student-run nightspot. DUFS, in order to cover increases in food costs, announced plans to decrease breakfast and increase lunch prices, and later increased prices in the Rathskellar and Snack Bar due to a project- ed deficit caused by decreased usage of board plan operations. In an attempt to avoid abusive” behavior by some Duke fans (that's you, BOG), a buffer zone was set up in Cameron. Sorority rush, complete with the traditional controversy via Chronicle letters for and against sorori- ties and rush, lasted from the second week to the end of the month. In response to a lack of conservative activ- ism on campus, interested individuals formed Campus Young Americans for Freedom. The senior class of 1983 decided on a class gift of a permanent Major Speakers fund with a goal of $20,000, and the Conference on Career Choices was held, featuring Duke alumni in var- ious fields talking to and answering questions from in- terested students. Lastly, Duke's latest controversy came before the Residential Policy Committee: the dispute over housing space in Edens Quad between Mirecourt and Delta Tau Delta fraternity. The Delts wanted to trade places, Mire- court residents opposed. JANUARY Classes began for the Spring Semester on January 10th and students found themselves once again in line for books and Drop Add. January freshmen, numbering 239, were welcomed to Duke, most of them moving into rooms on East Campus. The University announced that the swimming and fencing teams would be retained in- definitely, and Dean Wasiolek headed a newly-formed Office of Student Affairs Task Force to investigate the death of Luis Ferrer. The men's basketball team, having won three games and lost one over break, lost four games this month — three of them to neighbors UNC, NC State, and Wake Forest — but beat Clemson and Maryland despite the loss of junior Doug McNeeley. Women's basketball kept winning, pushing their record to 9-2. The gymnastics team posted a school record 172-point score in a Rhode

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Snow fell again on the 18th of April, and similar bad weather pushed this year's Springfest, complete with crafts, food, and music, into the Bryan Center. Class officer elections were held, and ASDU announced new officers for its legislative committees. Hoof 'N' Horn ended its season with the opening of Music Man, and Duke Players presented Bent, a controversial play for mature audiences only. A Humor Extravaganza Comedy Competition was sponsored by Jabberwocky and won by Steve Fogelman. PET Ice Cream filmed a commercial on East Campus and fetured the Duke Choral and Chapel Choir. The Chronicle announced the proposal of a new Peace and World Policy Studies major by senior Walter Christman, who called the major pre-reality. Voices’ last issue this year contained perspectives from seniors, and the last issue of Tobacco Road featured profiles of selected students. DUFS cut back meal plan hours for next year, and all board plan operations were threat- ened with elimination by September, 1984. Keppa Alpha fraternity was questioned about its upcoming Old South parties by individuals concerned with race relations. The end of the year came clearly into view as the Chronicle reminded us of final exams, and advertised storage space. Its last issue included 2Vfe pages of Per- sonals in the Classified section. The sun finally appeared, and the weather was beau- tiful as students hibernated in Perkins, Mudd, East Campus Library and any other quiet place for one last grind before Myrtle Beach. In the confusion of finals and packing up, some goodbyes were left unsaid, but gradu- ation did come at last, and the 1982-83 year at Duke, for many of us not just another year, came to an end. was sunny and 70°. Campus minister Robert Young de- cided to resign after ten years at Duke, While Terry Sanford led lobbyists at the North Carolina General As- sembly to raise annual subsidies to private institutions for in-state students. The Ferrer family filed suit against Duke University for gross negligence and attempting to cover up medi- cal malpractice. National officers of Phi Mu sorority came to Duke and launched a recruiting campaign. Playboy magazine came to campus seeking models and 60 Duke women showed up to be photographed. The Chronicle an- nounced the ressurection of Latent Image. Duke's pho- tography magazine, ASDU s check-cashing service opened in the Bryan Center, and the last week of the month was observed as Alcohol Awareness Week. APRIL The Chronicle's April Fool edition and Easter week- end marked the beginning of the last month of this year. Early risers made it to the gardens at 6:30 A M. for the Easter Sunrise Service on the 3rd. An Energy Sympo- sium was held on campus, beginning with a half-hour black-out attempted for conservation efforts. ASDU cut publications budgets drastically, including banning all honorariums for editors and staffs, with the exception of the Chronicle editor. NC State beat Houston in the NCAA basketball finals and claimed the title from the 82 winner, UNC. The baseball team beat Wake Forest, but was rained out for the 13th time of the season. Men's tennis won their matches against Wake Forest and NC State and were defeated by UNC; women's tennis beat Maryland. Golf- er Mary Ann Widman won the Peggy Kirk Bell Invita- tional Tournament, and freshman basketball player Bill Jackman decided to return home to Nebraska. Gymnas- tics coach Ken Miller and soccer coach John Rennie both announced the signing of top recruits for the '83- 84 year.