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By STEPHANIE VON ISENBURG
Staff Writer
A new program funded by the New
York-based Dana Foundation with
Duke University and five black
colleges will encourage black students
to work for doctorate degrees and will
increase the low number of black
college instructors, say officials at
Duke and the Dana Foundation.
The idea for the program devel
oped out of an earlier Dana Foun
dation program in which students
worked with professors, said Marilyn
Baldwin, higher education program
director at the foundation.
The five black colleges chosen for
the program Hampton College,
Morehouse College, Spelman Col
lege, Tuskegee University and Xavier
University stood out because they
traditionally produced a large
number of black college faculty, she
said.
A successful recruiter of minority
students, who is now at Duke, drew
the foundation's attention to Duke,
Officials contemplate
possible N.C. response
to oil spill emergency
By KIMBERLEY MAXWELL
Staff Writer
The threat of an oil disaster like
the one in Valdez, Alaska, occurring
off the N.C. coast is minimal, but
officials are still concerned about how
the state would react to a similar
tanker accident.
"At present, it's reasonably
unlikely that we'd have an oil spill
of magnitude," said Jim Sheppard,
spokesman for the N.C. Division of
Environment Management.
But it is possible that the oil tankers
that routinely pass the N.C. coastline
could have an accident and cause a
situation similar to the one in Alaska.
"As long as the tankers are out
there, there is a potential for a spill,"
said Derb Carter, attorney for several
N.C. environmental groups.
There have been minor oil spills
in North Carolina in the past, but
the largest oil spill the state ever had
was at Cape Fear in Wilmington, said
Steve Benton, consistency coordina
tor for the N.C. Office of Coastal
Management.
The spill was attributed to human
error, Benton said. A worker turned
a pump on and accidentally left it that
way.
There is no oil drilling off the N.C.
coast at the present time, but Mobil
Oil Corporation is preparing to
submit a plan to the federal govern
ment to allow exploratory drilling for
natural gas, said Mike Kimmitt,
public affairs manager of Mobil
Exploration and Producing U.S.
Corp.
"We are working on an exploratory
plan along with seven other compa
nies who have an interest in explor
atory drilling in federal waters."
But the plan is still contingent on
a few details, he added. Mobil is
conducting studies for area currents
and doing surveys of the ocean
surface.
Mobil expects to find five trillion
cubic feet of natural gas off the N.C.
coast, and there is also a possibility
of finding petroleum.
This will not be the first time
exploratory drilling has been done in
North Carolina, Kimmitt said. One
well was placed in Pamlico Sound in
Cape Hatteras in 1950, and two were
set up west of Hatteras Island in 1965
both by Mobil.
But the previous drilling took place
on theN.C. shores, not in the coastal
waters; Kimmitt said. The proposal
will involve drilling in federal waters
40 miles off the coast. If the explor
atory drilling yields enough natural
gas or petroleum to make it a
worthwhile venture, Mobil will look
into setting up permanent structures.
Mobil will consider supply and
demand, current prices and antici
pated future prices when making its
final decision, Kimmitt said.
Before Mobil can begin drilling,
there are several steps the company
must take, Kimmitt said. The plan
will be submitted to the U.S. Minerals
Management Service, which will have
30 days to act on the plan.
The proposal must then be sent
back to Mobil to give it time to
correct any problems. The state
government receives a copy of the
proposal and can make general
comments about it.
After the Minerals Management
Service approves the plan, the state
will formally receive it. The state must
act within 90 days on the proposal
and can ask for an extension if
necessary. If the state refuses to accept
the proposal after revisions are made,
Mobil can appeal the decision to the
U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Since these steps are so compli
cated, it is hard to predict exactly
when the exploratory drilling will
begin, Kimmitt said.
An oil spill contingency plan will
be included with the proposal sent
to the federal and state governments,
even though natural gas is gaseous
ana thus would n t pose an environ
mental risk (since it wouldn't spill),
Kimmitt said. This plan will outline
in detail the steps Mobil Oil Corp
will take in case of an oil spill.
Mobil plans to have on-site equip
she said.
"Duke wanted to be involved,"
Baldwin said.
The program will cost Dana Foun
dation $1.4 million. Each black
school will pay $200,000, she said.
Duke will pay around $240,000.
The total cost will be $2.8 million,
she said.
The first group of students is being
selected now and will learn in May
if they have been chosen, she said.
All of the participants will work
for a year with a mentor at the schools
they now attend. They will then spend
six weeks in a special summer pro
gram at Duke. The next year they
will return to their original university,
she said.
Students will receive the same
amount of money during the program
they would have made working, she
said.
But the program is not need-based,
she said. "Some students will receive
zero dollars while others receive
more."
Kimmitt said.
But the place an oil spill occurs
determines who is supposed to clean
it up.
Usually the company responsible
for the spill is involved, Sheppard
said.
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is that it is all positive incentive," she
said. "We're just trying to make this
a very very attractive career
possibility."
Not all of the participants are
expected to go into college teaching,
she said, but any improvement in the
number of minority professors will
be a success.
"The bottom line for black students
is that industry is going to woo them
and at much higher salaries," said
Carol Reuss, assistant, UNC provost
and professor of journalism.
But as university instructors, they
will be challenged and offered the
opportunity for research, she said.
"There's a real need for this type
of program," said Allan Kirschner,
vice president for progress and public
policy at the United Negro College
Fund.
"We need black role models at
every step of the process from pre
school to post-graduate study. This
is the type of program that fills the
vdid of too few black professors,"
Kirschner said.
"There has been a 20 percent drop
in the number of black doctorate
degrees in the past 10 years," he said.
"That means that there will be fewer
black professors and fewer black role
models."
This decline is not only the fault
of the universities, Kirschner said.
"There has to be an effort that goes
beyond the university."
Universities cannot always attract
undergraduates to work for higher
degrees. Undergraduate schools must
encourage their students to go on for
degrees, he said.
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incentive for black students to go to
graduate school, he said.
"Without these incentives many
students wouldn't think about going
on," Kirschner said. "Fellowships
dramatize the need for blacks to go
on to graduate school." .
Other foundations have established
programs to increase the number of
black graduate students. But this is
one of the first programs to focus on
encouraging students to teach, he
said.
The program was initiated by
Duke, said Henry Dearman, asso
ciate dean of the UNC Graduate
School. All of the schools involved
are private schools.
UNC has its own programs for
encouraging minority students to
work for a post-graduate degree, he
said.
Many universities have created
initiatives to increase the number of
minority students who receive doc
torates and become professors, he
said.
"The Duke program is important
but it's not the only one," he said.
The University created a program
last year, in which students spent six
weeks on campus doing research with
professors, said UNC Provost Dennis
O'Connor. The program is offered to
rising senior minority students.
"The program seems to be work
ing, but how effective it will be
time will tell. Well see how many go
to grad school," he said.
Duke had programs for recruiting
both minority undergraduate and
graduate students before the Dana
program was established, said Tim
Warmath, assistant to the senior vice
president of Duke.
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Merger, name change
considered
By JANNETTE PIPPIN
Staff Writer
North Carolina Memorial Hos
pital (NCMH) may join the N.C.'
Children's Hospital and the N.C.
Neuropsychiatry Hospital to
become the University of North
Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill
if a bill passes the state Senate.
"Making people more aware
that we are associated with the
University is something that weVe
been trying to do for several
years," said John Stokes, director
of Institutional Relations at
NCMH. "We want to reflect the
fact that we are the University
hospital."
By combining the three hospi
tals and changing the name,
Stokes said the hospital adminis
tration hoped to let people know
the three facilities were the Uni
versity's teaching hospitals.
UNC is recognized nationally
and internationally as a high
quality learning institution, Stokes
said. But as it is now, the hospitals
are not as highly recognized
outside the state. "We want to be
recognized as part of the
University."
"The changes called for in this
master facility plan have been in
the works for two years, but this
is the first time the plan has been
introduced by the legislature,"
Stokes said.
The bill was introduced to the
House by Rep. Joe Hackney, D
Orange, on March 15. Since that
time, the bill has passed the House
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and is now being discussed in the
Senate Human Resources Com
mittee, according to Judy Cave
ness of the House Clerk's Office.
No date has been set for when the
Senate will vote on the bill, she
said.
Along with the name change to
the University of North Carolina
Hospitals at Chapel Hill, the
master plan also calls for construc
tion to be done in the 1990s,
Stokes said. The plan calls for the
neuropsychiatry hospital to be
built east of NCMH.
No information on the expected
costs of the name change was
available.
The bill also realigns the terms
of office of the hospital's board
of directors, Stokes said. The main
change is the length of terms,
Stokes said. "Up until this point,
directors served until they retired."
According to House Bill 584,
the UNC Board of Governors
(BOG) would create a board of
directors consisting of 12
members. Nine of the directors
would be appointed by the BOG,
and three would be ex officio
members.
The nine members would be
appointed from the professional
public-at-large, and the ex officio
members would be UNC vice
chancellors for health affairs,
business and finance and the dean
of the medical school. All
members would serve a four-year
term for no more than three
consecutive terms.
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