Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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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.

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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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