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Grad Students Can Get Housing Deal Bush Says Soviet Plan Is Insufficient D. Halt Sophomore David Hall was just one of five winners as the men's tennis team swept I ^f\ THE CHRONICLE Campbell. Results on page 14. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL, 86. NO. 101 Grad students can get housing deal Reading and recycling ByTODDKICE the committee on undergraduate Graduate students will be of­ enrollment. fered discount rates at Chapel The committee's report calls program helps workers Tower Apartments next year in for stabilizing class sizes and an effort to compensate for the limiting total undergraduate en­ By MICHAEL SAUL displacement of graduate stu­ rollment to 5,900 students. The The Duke Medical Center dents from University housing. enrollment cap is 5,700 under­ has developed a unique way to graduates now, but current en­ Triangle Communities, the op­ use recycling funds to support rollment is well over 6,000. a literacy project for hospital erators of Chapel Tower, apart­ Graduate student housing on ments, will make available 96 employees who wish to Central was not taken into great sharpen their reading and spots in four complexes on account when making the Evans Moreene Road for graduate stu­ writing skills. report. Off-campus housing is The "Recycle and Read" dents next year. Students will be just as convenient as Central offered the apartments at $353 program sponsored by the Campus housing, Evans said, general services division of per month, which is over $50 less and therefore the graduate stu­ than the current monthly rate. the Medical Center was dents will be not be inconve­ recently named the 1990 Most The new spaces should help STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE nienced without campus space. Innovative and Creative Adult promote graduate student iden­ Martha Nichols "Our charge [in forming the Education Program by the tity and community, said Martha Evans Report] only dealt with North Carolina Adult Educa­ Nichols, president of the Graduate students lost even undergraduate students," Evans tion Association. graduate and professional stu­ more apartments when this said. Project coordinators are dent council. year's record-size freshman class GPSC approved a resolution now searching for donations of PAUL ORSUUVK/THE CHRONICLE Several years ago, the Univer­ forced 29 graduate students out recommending undergraduate used computers to start a sity reserved all Central Campus of Central Campus to house un­ class sizes be kept small to guar­ computer lab and provide bet­ Robert O'Connel Apartments for graduate stu­ dergraduates. antee graduate student housing ter educational services. training for general services. dents, while undergraduates Graduate students were told on campus. "The program started as a "There are 1,100 employees mainly lived on East or West they would receive Central Cam­ "Graduate students have no decision to fill two simultane­ in the general services campuses. As undergraduate en­ pus housing next year, although guarantee by the University. Al­ ous needs — the landfill waste division and most are excel­ rollment increased over the undergraduates will receive though it is convenient to have problem and adult literacy," lent service employees. These years, graduate students lost priority in filling the apartments, housing available, there is no said Roberta Cote, director of See READING on page 6 • these apartment spaces. said Lawrence Evans, chair of commitment," Evans said. Bush says Soviet plan is Rugby team avoids the beaten path insufficient to stop war By ERIC LARSON ternoons in the Fall generally consider themselves "misfits," They flatten their ears with result in University students the rugby club offers "a unique electrical tape, smear vaseline on pouring into Wallace Wade to place to fit in," he says. their faces, and run around in cheer for rugby's bastard son, Rugby clubs have been scrum­ By ANDREW ROSENTHAL While it was not clear winter wearing shorts singing a American football, rather than N.Y. Times News Service whether Gorbachev's propos­ ming it up at the University for song called "Syphillis" to a popu­ enjoying a fine match ofthe origi­ over 25 years, playing mostly WASHINGTON — Without al, even if accepted by Iraq, lar Beatles' tune. nal European sport. disclosing the contents of Mos­ would end the fighting with­ North Carolina schools like Uni­ Certainly a group like that de­ The lack of support might versity of North Carolina at cow's formula for an Iraqi out a bloody allied ground of­ serves some respect. But ifyou're seem disheartening, but few on withdrawal from Kuwait, fensive, it immediately in­ Chapel Hill and Davidson. The part of the Rugby Club on cam­ the squad of 25 see it that way. season consists of fall and spring President Bush said Tuesday creased the pressure on Bush pus, you make do without it. "The people who are playing that the plan "falls well short not to begin the much-dis­ semesters, plenty of occasion to "We have no fans," says David really want to be there," says play — and play some more. of what would be required" to cussed land assault on Iraq Stevens, a Trinity senior and John Gregory, a Trinity senior stop the war with Iraq. and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. Tradition has it that after a captain ofthe team. Saturday af­ and team member. For those who See RUGBY on page 4 • But Bush did not reject the Foreign Minister Aleksandr offer outright and sent Presi­ Bessmertnykh of the Soviet dent Mikhail Gorbachev a Union told reporters in Mos­ detailed response. cow that a ground attack Baghdad did not reply pub­ "would tremendously compli­ licly on Tuesday to Gor­ cate this process before we bachev's plan, and Soviet offi­ have received a response from cials said Iraq's foreign minis­ Baghdad." ter, Tariq Aziz, was expected Administration officials to return to Moscow on said it was just that sort of Wednesday. pressure that Bush had hoped Gorbachev presented his to mitigate by offering his plan to Aziz in Moscow on critical public response to the Monday. The Iraqi official Soviet overture. then flew to Tehran and made The allied aerial bombard­ his way back to Baghdad on ment of Iraqi military posi­ Tuesday by car from the Irani­ tions continued unabated, and an-Iraq border. the Bush administration said While Iraq gave no formal it was pressing ahead with response to the Soviet plan, preparations for the start of a Aziz, during his stop in Teh­ ground campaign. ran, reaffirmed an offer made Bush's public comments, by Baghdad last Friday to which he read from notes dur­ withdraw from Kuwait, but he ing a photo session in the reiterated conditions unaccep­ White House with congressio­ table to the allies. nal leaders, seemed intended After meeting with Presi­ to keep his options open for ei­ dent Hashemi Rafsanjani of ther stepping up the war with the onset of major ground Iran, the Tehran radio said, PAUL 0RSULAK/THE CHRONICLE Aziz declared that the offer combat or dealing with the made Friday "was a serious possibility that Iraq might step on which we still insist." See BUSH on page 5 • Calm amidst the maelstrom Did Kasparov and Karpov do crazy things like this in college? PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1991 World and National Newsfile Supreme court to hear desegregation case Associated Press Gorbachev OUSter?: Boris Yeltsin By LINDA GREENHOUSE Justice David Souter, who joined the in Moscow made an unprecedented N.Y. Times News Service televised appeal Tuesday for the resig­ court after the Oklahoma City case was WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme nation of Mikhail Gorbachev, accusing argued, did not participate in that Court agreed Tuesday to try once again to decision. the Soviet president of sacrificing define the point at which formerly segre­ reforms in a drive for personal power. It is possible that Chief Justice William gated school systems may be released Rehnquist, who wrote the opinion, and from federal court supervision. the other justices in the majority may TO Serve Or not: The Supreme Barely a month after their ambiguous have been eager to tackle the issue again Court said Tuesday in Washington it and tentative 5-3 decision in a school de­ with a full Court. will decide whether employers ever segregation case from Oklahoma City, the The DeKalb County case, Freeman vs. may bar their workers from serving in justices placed the question on their Pitts, No. 89-1290, reached the Court last the military or military reserves. docket once again by accepting an appeal year along with similar appeals by school from a school district that serves subur­ boards in Topeka, Kan., and Denver. Energy strategy needed: Con­ ban Atlanta. The justices deferred action on all three gress is at severe odds over whether it The court agreed to review a 1989 fed­ until they could decide in the Oklahoma should stress conservation or increased eral appeals court ruling that the DeKalb City case, which they had already ac­ domestic production in a much-needed County school district, after more than 20 cepted for review. new energy strategy for the U.S., years of federal court supervision, had not This situation occurs frequently when which is dependent on foreign oil sup­ yet sufficiently erased the legacy of offi­ similar cases reach the court within the UPI PHOTO plies jeopardized by the Gulf War. cial segregation to be considered inte­ same term. Chief Justice William Rehnquist grated. Carrots do help eyes: older peo­ The court's decision to revisit the issue ple who consume plenty of vitamins by so soon may reflect a recognition by the Bush wary of Soviet proposal eating healthy or taking daily supple­ justices that their decision last month in ments run a far lower risk of cataracts, the Oklahoma City case, Board of Educa­ the leading cause of blindness, re­ tion vs.
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