HOMECOMING SUPPLEMENT INSIDE SPORTS Quest for the endzone The football team hosts Vanderbilt tomorrow night with its third starting quarterback of the season. THE CHRONICLE See GAMEDAY in the Homecoming Supplement immitiwtiw^ WWW.CHRONICLE.OgKE.ED Couple gives Residential review plan evolves again Trustees will hear plan to build 350-bed dorm, move students to Trent during renovations University By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle The Residential Program Review The newest iteration ofthe Residen­ The newest version of the upperclass residential plan would follow the following schedule: $5.5 million tial Program Review calls for groups of Summer 2000 - A 350-bed quadrangle would be butt! behind and connecting to Few II Quadrangle. By GREG PESSIN upperclassmen to move into Trent Dor­ The Chronicle mitory while West Campus dorms are Fall 2002 - When the dorm is finished, sophomores would no longer be consolidated in Trent Dormitory. being renovated beginning fall 2002— Aubrey and Kathleen McClen- Trent would be used as swing space for students displaced by renovations when a new 350-bed dorm will open. Fall 2002 to Sum. 2006- don, two JDuke alumni living in Ok­ to each quadrangle. Given this timeframe, freshmen are lahoma Cily, have given the Univer­ the only current students who will be Fall 2006 -Trent would be converted to office space and all sophomores would live on West. sity a $5.5 million gift to support the affected. The plan will be presented to " ROSS MONTANTE/f HE CHRONICLE upperclass residential overhaul and the Board of Trustees next weekend. berlake and Harris, has a preliminary undergraduate scholarships, Presi­ vations will live in Trent for one year, model that calls for the creation of two dent Nan Keohane announced As recently as two weeks ago, orga­ while their section of campus is renovat­ L-shaped buildings connected by a Thursday evening. nizers planned to build a 250-bed dorm ed. The plan's ultimate completion has to be used, at first, to house students also been pushed back to Fall 2006. tunnel. Judith White, director of the Residential Program Review displaced by renovations and then to planners have spent the last several The plan is to build the dorm be­ Residential Program Review, said serve as traditional dorm space. months gearing up for their greatest hind Few II Quadrangle, where it that, essentially, they will be building could serve as a functional and psy­ challenge yet—gaining approval at Now they have decided to build a larg­ another quad on to the back of West. chological link to Edens Quadrangle. See GIFT on page .11 *- er facility to turn Trent only into swing The new location will also give ar- space. Residents displaced during reno- The project's architect, Kieran, Tim- See RESIDENTIAL on page 6 • ANNE STARLING/THE CHRONICLE FIRED FACTORY WORKER Lorena del Carmen Hernandez, right, and a translator speak out about working conditions in El Salvador. TO "^CHRONICLE The annual Homecoming step show celebrates tradition Workers discuss and highlights minority greek organizations group of 40 black students gathered on According to Stepping to the Blues, a book about the Chapel stairs 25 years ago to watch African-American dance, much of the step style labor conditions Athe rhythmic stomps, claps and chants of evolved from sub-Saharan African dances and By JAIME LEVY Duke's black fraternities. chanting. The Chronicle While the greek participants in the University's The body pounding mimics the "patting" done by Since the college anti-sweatshop movement began, first step show sported afros and fraternity t-shirts, African slaves who used their bodies as drums, the students have told each other about working condi­ today's steppers feature various wardrobe changes, book explains. And the use of canes in stepping tions in factories around the world. Now, 100 days be­ colored lights, lasers, music and special effects. resembles the staffs and canes used by the Mbuti fore the Duke deadline for full disclosure of factory ad­ Although the contemporary step shows are groups. More recently, steppers added military dresses, a group of two sweatshop workers and one much different from their predecessors, the basic drill-type stomping to the shows. union organizer from El Salvador have come to share moves stem from roots planted long before minori­ Since then, certain groups have developed sig­ their own stories. ty greek organizations existed. nature steps that they have maintained over the After meeting with senators and congressmen "It is our job as members ofthe black communi­ years. A 1989 Chronicle article listed some of those Wednesday, former Caribbean Apparel workers Lorena ty to carry on the traditions of the past," said signatures as AKA's "It's a Serious Matter" step, del Carmen Hernandez and Bianca Ruth Palacios, joined Vashondra Richmond, a Trinity senior and member Alpha Phi Alpha's "Alpha train," Phi Beta Sigma's by union organizer Jiovanni Fuentes, described their of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., one of six ripple movements and hand clapping and Kappa working conditions to a small crowd sitting in the grass groups participating in tonight's show. Alpha Psi's cane twirling. near the West Campus bus stop around noon. Richmond said this tradition is "a tribute to our The first Duke step show was held in 1974 when "When we enter into work and all the rest ofthe day, founders and all those who came before us. The "mouths fell open and food spilled on the floor as we suffer a hell inside the factory" Hernandez said, movements are just part of a river flowing from the audience witnessed the University's first offi- speaking through a translator. "They don't let us go to one source—Africa." See STEP SHOW on page 10 > the bathroom frequently—once in the morning and once See SWEATSHOPS on page 8 ¥• STAR MEN'S HOOPS RECRUIT VISITS DUKE, PAGE 19 • EXHIBIT COVERS MONET TO MOORE, SEE RECESS THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1999 NEWSFILE FROM WIRE REPORTS Russian planes bomb Chechen airport Mars orbiter vanishes Taiwan earthquake during maneuver will stunt growth Raids near the Chechnyan capital have added fuel to the Caucasus conflict After a trouble-free, The destruction from By MICHAEL GORDON nya by air and perhaps even to Despite the stepped-up attacks, nine-and-a-half month the earthquake in N.Y. Times News Service stage raids on the ground. military experts generally dis­ voyage from earth, Taiwan and its after­ MOSCOW — Russian war- Russian television showed the count the likelihood of an all-out NASA's Mars Climate shocks will significantly planes bombed the Grozny airport burning wreckage of an old biplane Russian invasion of Chechnya. Orbiter disappeared reduce the country's eco­ in Chechnya Thursday and set an at the airport and blown-out win­ The Russian military is still early Thursday as it was nomic growth for 1999, oil refinery ablaze on the out­ dows in nearby buildings. A pool of smarting from its stinging defeat maneuvering into orbit government officials said. skirts of the city, as the Kremlin blood lay on the ground where an in the Chechen war, and the gov­ around the red planet. Florida A&M reacts to took its military campaign aircraft technician was killed in ernment appears fearful of being Texas racist given second pipe bomb against Islamic rebels deep into the raid, the first air attack on drawn into a quagmire. death sentence After the explosion of a Chechen territory. Grozny since the end of the "We are planning no large-scale A jury decided that second pipe bomb at a The Russian bombing raids near Chechen war in 1996. military operation in Chechnya," Lawrence Brewer, a predominantly black col­ Chechnya's capital represented a "The bandits will be pursued Putin said Thursday. racist ex-convict, should lege, students at Florida major escalation in the fighting wherever they are," said Prime Min­ The fighting in the region began pay with his life for the A&M University ex­ and signaled a change of strategy. ister Vladimir Putin. "If that is at an in August when thousands of Is­ dragging death of a pressed fear and frustra­ Until now, the Russian military airport, then at the airport." lamic militants stormed into black man. Brewer will tion about the possibly has concentrated its attention on Chechen officials, however, said Dagestan and proclaimed their in­ join his accomplice on racial motivation behind bombing targets near the the propeller plane was used for tention to turn it into an Islamic re­ death row. the bombings. Chechen-Dagestan border. Now crop dusting and described the public. They were under the com­ Michigan blind man the Russian military appears technician, an ethnic Armenian, as mand of Shamil Basayev, a Hiker discovers ready to strike throughout Chech­ an innocent bystander. Chechnyan warlord. mountain of pot robs 2 stores A hiker stumbled A blind man has been across an estimated accused of robbing two 10,000 marijuana plants stores while carrying his House approves anti-class action bill growing in the moun­ white cane. Leon Grigsby By STEPHEN LABATON result, plaintiffs' lawyers have been making greater tains of Liberty, Utah, Martin, 33, of Muskegon N.Y. Times News Service and more successful use of state courts in recent years near the North Ogden Heights, Mich., was ar­ WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives in many kinds of lawsuits. Divide, in what could be raigned on an armed rob­ approved legislation Thursday that would make it dif­ Sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., Thurs­ the biggest pot seizure bery charge. He got $340 ficult, if not impossible, to bring successful large class- day's measure was approved 222-207 on a vote large­ ever in the state.