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ACC Basketball Preview Inside It's tipoff time The men's basketball team plays its first regular season contest tonight THE CHRONICLE against St. Joseph's. See Sports, p. 13. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 199G ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL 92. NO. 56 DSG legislature to Actor visits Children's Hospital re-evaluate request James Earl Jones gives reading from 'The Lion King9 By JENNIFER YOUNG 1969 and 1970 performances "Fm in a learning process By MARSHA JOHNSON funding—which would have Children in the Medical in both the play and movie here myself and I'm asked to Controversy surrounding amounted to $746.47-—to Center Children's Hospital versions of "The Great White participate in the Make-A- the Duke Student Govern help finance Kwanzaa, its were treated to the warm Hope," earned him a Tony Wish foundation program," ment's decision to reject the annual cultural event. The baritone of King Mufasa him Award, and the Golden Globe Jones said. "It's important to Black Student Alliance's re group cited unexpectedly self, as James Earl Jones Award, respectively. come out and see pediatric quest for additional funding high costs of catering and its read to them from "The Lion Jones, the spokesperson care. My involvement is a bit could be eased at Wednes Homecoming events as justi King" during his visit Tues for Bell Atlantic Communica more informal. It's not just day's general body meeting fication for the request. day morning. tions, came to the Medical something I'm doing, going to when the legislature rehears The Student Organization A veteran of more than 50 Center as part of the Make- the children—it's wonderful the group's proposal. Finance Committee, which movies and countless televi A-Wish Foundation of East stories of great bravery." "It's going to be thrown in submitted the request on be sion shows and theater pro ern North Carolina and his At the breakfast, Jones the pot again," said Trinity half of BSA at last Wednes ductions, Jones is best known visit was sponsored by Bell talked about the responsibili senior Takcus Nesbit, DSG day's general body meeting, for his booming voice that Atlantic. He attended a ty of organizations to the first addressed the group's pe characterized such memo breakfast at the Searle Cen community and encouraged The issue aroused contro tition Nov. 10. SOFC then rec rable roles as Darth Vader in ter, a reception and book everyone to help make a dif versy Nov. 14 when DSG de ommended that the legisla the "Star Wars" trilogy, and signing and then read to and ference in the lives of those nied BSA's proposal that the ture pass the measure at the the Terrence Mann character visited with children in the they know and love. "It is im- group receive additional See DSG on page 7 •* in "Field of Dreams." His hospital. See JONES on page 5 • Local eateries help to support soup kitchen By HELEN WOLFF Betsy Rawlings, director ofthe Several Durham County soup kitchen. She also said eating establishments partici that the kitchen serves break pated Tuesday in "Eat Out, fast, lunch and dinner to all Help Out," a program that who choose to show up. raises money for a local soup The program has existed kitchen. for the past five years, and has The event, which helps St. raised as much as $5,000- Philip's Community Kitchen 6,000 per year. All the money fight hunger around the Trian raised, Rawlings said, goes di gle, collects 10 percent of the rectly to the soup kitchen. She proceeds from the entire day. added that each meal at the Thirty-four restaurants and soup kitchen costs 50 cents to eateries chose to participate make and therefore the pro this year. gram raises enough to make at St. Philip's has been located least 10,000 meals. in downtown Durham for the Pie Works, Inc., a new pizza past 18 years, and serves from restaurant off of East Cam- ALEX BELSKIS/THE CHRONICLE 300 to 600 meals a day, said See CHARITY on page 6 • George Vaughan (I.), Bridge Thacker and Jon Whitney dine for charity at Ravena's Tuesday night. Teach for America sends graduates back to class By JESSICA FAINMAN fields. Participants have ma Each year, college seniors Program sends young teachers to schools in needjore d in everything from rush to fill out graduate school Spanish to Biomedical Engi applications, impress job re teachers and receive the same and New York City. ested seniors are invited to neering—all that is required cruiters and figure out what to salary as a first-year employ Five hundred outstanding apply to the program. Applica is a bachelor's degree and a do with the rest oftheir lives. ee in the district, usually be individuals are chosen each tions are then carefully evalu desire to help. Some soon-to-be graduates, tween $17,000 and $30,000 a year to enter the program ated by the program's organiz Teach for America places however, find themselves tak year. through an intense screening ers, Johnson said, who look for participants in teaching posi ing a different route on the Part of the Americorps Na process. Last year, 12 of these students who exhibit "leader tions in grades K-12, teaching path to their futures. tional Service Network, the participants were Duke grad ship, strong critical thinking everything from mathematics Since 1989, Teach for program is designed to equip uates. skills, adaptability, and, above to special education. America has been offering re participants with professional "We look for students who all, a willingness to help." Participants, however, cent college graduates a experience while providing have a strong commitment to Students, however, need must be flexible and able to unique opportunity to spend well-educated and effective the program and share our vi not be education majors in deal with assignment changes two years instructing in teachers to under-staffed sion," said Carlin Johnson, order join the corps. To attract on very short notice. "We want under-resourced school dis schools in 13 areas through Teach for America's field direc a pool of people who may not people who are willing to go tricts as full-time teachers. out the country, including Los tor. have considered teaching, anywhere and teach anything Participants function in the Angeles, the Mississippi Following annual general Teach for America prefers to to fulfill our mission," Johnson same capacity as regular Delta, Eastern North Carolina informational sessions, inter accept candidates from other See TEACH on page 5 P- THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1996 World and National Newsfile U.S. reduces plans to aid Rwandan refugees From wire reports By GREG McDONALD Canada to assist in the delivery of tatively approved the deployment of Planes Collide: Two commuter N.Y. Times News Service humanitarian supplies and to help 1,000 combat-ready troops to Goma, planes collided on a runway Tuesday WASHINGTON — The Clinton ad organize the repatriation of hun Zaire, and an additional 3,000 support in Quincy, Illinois, killing all 13 peo ministration has scaled back plans to dreds of thousands of refugees who personnel to neighboring countries as ple aboard both planes, officials said. send a large U.S. combat force to cen fled to Zaire to escape the ethnic vio part of a proposed Canadian-led A United Express plane with 11 peo tral Africa as part of an international lence that killed an estimated 1 mil multinational force of 15,000 to help ple aboard collided with a smaller rescue mission but will dispatch about lion people. Rwandan Hutus trapped in Zaire. But commuter plane with two people 800 logistics personnel to help with the relief mission was put on hold aboard. "This force will require consider repatriation of Rwandan refugees. ably fewer troops than originally envi after the refugees began returning to The decision was announced Tues sioned and will operate chiefly in Rwanda by the thousands. Fire Strikes: Eight people were day by Defense Secretary William Rwanda," Perry said. "Our current George Moose, assistant secretary overcome Monday night by smoke Perry, who emphasized that there thinking is that [the] U.S. contribu of state for African affairs, told re from a fire in the westbound tunnel of would be no combat troops involved in tion to this effort will be less than a porters that an estimated 600,000 the Chunnel, which runs under the the smaller deployment near the bor thousand troops. And these will be refugees, most of them Hutus, will English Channel. It took eight hours der of Rwanda and Zaire. support —logistics troops—rather have crossed from eastern Zaire into to put out the fire. He said the mission would still be than combat troops." Rwanda by Wednesday, with thou part of a United Nations effort led by Last week, President Clinton ten sands more expected to follow. Quotas challenged: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a 13-year-old white girl named Julia McLaughlin, who was denied admis Careers compromised in CIA security breach sion to the Boston Latin School de By TIM WEINER That, for starters, is the damage be spite scoring higher than 103 black Officials suspect that Nicholson sold lieved to have been done by Harold and Hispanic students. The case N.Y. Times News Service his Russian contacts the names of Nicholson, the CIA officer arrested Sat was dismissed once school officials WASHINGTON — The careers of every student who prepared for under urday by the FBI and charged with sell guaranteed her a seat at the school.