European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday april 8.1938 300 stage protest at Duke University demonstrators urge school to hire More Black instructors Black faculty members Durham . A about 300 people staged a protest at Duke University saving there arc not enough Black faculty members and calling the prestigious school a racism ins Titu  about a dozen speakers at the Demon stration also accused he school of giving janitorial and food service workers inadequate pay raises. Black student Alliance chairman Christopher Foster said that in 1968. Duke had two Black faculty members. Today there arc 31. Thai s not enough. We need More he said. University president Keith h. Bro told demonstrators that 18 Blacks have been offered jobs for the fall semester and that he supports a Resolution to add 50 Black faculty members by 1993. We arc on the right track Brodie said. The rally stemmed from a March 17 vote by the academic Council which softened a Resolution by the commit tee on Black faculty to increase the number of Black professors. The Reso Lution said the administration should require each department and program to add at least one Black faculty Mem Ber by rail 1993. All seven committee members re signed in protest april that action generated a petition of 2,551 Signa Tures including Brodi asking the Council to reconsider at a meeting this thursday. Joseph Dibona an education depart ment associate professor who resigned from the committee said the shortage of Black faculty members Means that Black Duke educators Lead disembodied  structurally this institution it a racist institution said Dibona who at tended the protest the Resolution eventually passed by the academic Council instructed the administration to provide incentives to meet the deadline. There Ait 75s minority students among the 6,42 undergraduates and 530 minorities among the 4,368 graduate and professional students at Duke according to school officials. At Fri emf my. Coho Fri Home rtt to a x Colt Aow Una Wigim or a Rem Hunt of 1977 43% 19m 9.616 at Kniffi uttam 1877 54% .4w 4.645 at tour it a per la lilt front 4.eei ism 4,133 att we yer part not 1877 4.8% 221 950 3.4% 1977 70 "81 e3 -8s stack to Cutty h Powch c lieu Ity i Mem University president quits denies racial link Granville Ohio a the part Sid Cal of Denison University said his resignation  not have anything to do with student protests Over a racial Inci Dent and called the timing a curious and fateful irony Andrew g. Do Rocco submitted his resignation after four years As president of the 2,100-Studcnt school. Charles a. Rickman. Chairman of Denison s Board of trustees said this Board accepted with regret. On tuesday Lac Koneca suspended two White students for he rest of the current academic year. The University s judicial Board had found them guilty of racially harassing a Black student. The Board had ordered the students suspended for the fall semester but Blacks who said the punishment was too lenient staged Tallin and called for class boy coils last wok. The protest was called off after de Rocco ordered the two White students off Cam pus. My Atonic about the next stage of my career began some months ago. It s a curious and fateful irony that the other events were coincidental with the Resig nation de Rocto said. It s Accident but not causal Denison spokesman Stewart b. Dyke said de Rocco was not pressured by the trustees. The Board voted a Resolution fully supporting the actions Andrew do Rocco took Dyke said. De Rocco 58, became president of the Central Ohio Liberal arts Coil eee in 1984, he came to Denison from Trinity col lege in Hartford conn., and had been a research physicist. As the time draws near for implementing unison s Long Range plan ii he became Clear to me that the commit ment needed to realize it would be More than i could reasonably give and still contemplate future career options for myself de Rocco said in a news release issued Friday. Brickman said that trustee Wiliam t. Mcco Nncel president of the Park National corp. In Newark would head a committee to search for a successor. Trustees Rule freshman is still the Correct term Oxford Ohio a trustees at Miami University on saturday unanimously Defeated a proposal by several student organizations to eliminate the term freshman for first year students. Trustees also voted 5-3 against changing uie words of the school s Alma mater to strike male references from the 19 to lyrics. The trustees said changing the Label to first year students would cause confusion. And alumni Dis approved of altering the school song the trustees said i m disgusted and i m glad i m graduating said Elizabeth Braeman a senior from Washington d.c., who proposed the changes. She said it would have been appropriate to make the change this year which Marks the 100th anniversary of women being admitted to the school. Bra nun. Also a student government Lender said the student scow the student affairs Council and the University Senate had earlier approved the recommendations. It was t just Liz Braeman on a rampage. It was approved by Ilie three governing bodies of the University said Braeman who is a member of a Cam pus group called the association for women Stu dents. The feminist organization recently sued a sit in picketed a Campus Beauty Page jul and criticized the administration for nut doing enough to prevent sexual harassment or to assure the safety of women students walking on the Campus at night. University officials say they Are dealing with those issues. The women s group has about 30 members on Miami s i  main Campus at Oxford in southwestern Ohio about 30 Miles North of Cincin Nati the changes in the Alma mater old Miami new Miami would have convened while thy sons have Quested from thee to All thy students questing from thee " men shall Ever seek thy guid ing to we shall Ever seek thy guiding and youth and Maiden throng thy Gate to men and women throng thy  Braeman said the references Are sexist and dated because they refer to male Only and should be eliminated As part of a program is remove such terms from use in official University publications. Paul Pearson Miami s president recommended the trustees approve changing the song but tools no position on Lite Tern  right to sue May reduce paddling Philadelphia api a supreme court  Sion upholding a child s right to sue a school principal Over Corporal punishment could drastically reduce us of the paddle not so much because of the court but because of insurance companies an in pert said. As a result of the court i decision last month said Temple University psychology professor Irwia Hyrum More cases will come to the courts and into once companies will question the use of Corpora punish ment in the Icho Oti and pct ably raise rate for Kabob which i twice  the decision also Means teachers will now be More vulnerable to litigation because the existence of bail Tor Legal Challenge a been Retog need he Aid. Hyman u director of Temple s National Center for the study of Corporal punishment and its Alten tits. On March 21, the supreme court let thud without comment a new Mexico appeals court decision that said indents could Challenge excessive Corporal punishment in the Federal courts on the basis of their i4tb amendment right to due process. Although the Ewe could Biag insurance Oom Puy pre Tun to Beer on school districts thai practice puddling Hyman hid there still ii tradition to contend with. Then is a Strong religious and historic precedent for inflicting physical pain As a form of discipline in to country he said