Drama Students Act As Teachers Putman Addresses GPSC's

ACC Basketball '94 For an in-depth look at how Duke Will rate in the •• •• conference, THE CHRONICLE see the spec aside. •• l.ll.l.liJ.U_.l|.U.UML_ ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90. NO, 62 All fun and games until. Putman addresses GPSC's concerns By ROSE MARTELLI [graduate students] out of the Executive vice president thinking process." Charles Putman outlined some Putman said graduate stu administrative goals for im dents will likely receive future proving the quality health coverage un of graduate student der a managed care life at a meeting of system. Students ex the Graduate and pressed concerns that Professional Stu the current system is dent Council Mon too costly for gradu day night. ate students with Putman addressed spouses. such issues as health "There's a penalty care, housing, recre for being married with ation, transportation no kids," said TVacey and dining at the Dr Charles Putman duLaney, a graduate meeting. student in the center "Do [graduate students] have for biochemical engineering, not access to solving the issues they ing that a family health-care STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE face?" Putman asked. "We've package costs.the same regard- The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity faces charges that may halt parties like this one in 1988. got to be sure we don't leave you . See GPSC on page 13 • ATO party sends students to ER Local leaders speak By SANJAY BHATT and Vansant's visit to the frater ended yesterday, said Trin DENISE DUNNING nity section is part of an on ity senior Todd Latz, presi about housing crisis Alpha Tau Omega frater going effort by University ad dent of ATO. nity may face disciplinary ministrators to keep closer The Oct. 29 party came By JENNIFER YOUNG Edgemont Community Cen action because of injuries tabs on student alcohol abuse to an early halt when a For many Durham resi ter, shared their knowledge of sustained to student guests and alcohol policy violations. freshman rushee slipped dents, a good, affordable the Durham housing situation at its "Prison" party during Paul Bumbalough, associ and cut himself near his house is hard to find. with about five students. Halloween weekend. ate dean of students and ad eye. The student had to be Community leaders met Only one of four Durham ATO will be the subject of viser for judicial affairs, said transported by ambulance with students last night in a families can find housing de a judicial hearing to be held he could not comment on the from the ATO section to the discussion focused on fined as affordable—that after the Thanksgiving case "due to possible disciplin emergency room where he Durham's affordable public which costs less than 30 per break, said Chuck Vansant, ary action to be taken against received stitches, said housing crisis. cent of the family's total in associate dean for stu the fraternity." Trinity senior Pilar In the discussion, held at come, Skillern said. In addi dents, in an interview Mon ATO members said they Viccellio, an area coordina the Community Service Cen tion, families are spending an day night. Vansant, who at have held progressives for tor for the injured ter on East Campus, Peter increasingly large amount of tended the fraternity's Oct. several years. Although the student's dorm. Skillern, a member of money on housing and less 29 progressive party, de recent party was not held spe ATO decided to shut Durham's Housing Authority, money on basic needs like food clined to comment on that cifically for rushees, it did fall down at about 11 p.m. fol Matt Bouchard, Trinity '94 and health care, he said. evening's events because of within the rush schedule, lowing this incident, Latz and an employee of the Sufficient public housing for "issues [still] to be re which started about a month said. "We called 911... we Durham Companions pro low-income families is lacking solved." into the fall semester and See ATO on page 13 • gram, and Roger Sample, pro in Durham, Skillern said. "It gram manager of the See HOUSING on page 6 • Drama students act as teachers By MELISSA BARNETT about an hour and a half with a University students who par Several University drama number of University drama ticipated in the workshop said students are helping Durham majors. they thought they were good children to decide whether to "My students enjoyed doing role models for the younger stu be, or not to be . actors and the work and the kids enjoyed dents. "I think when they get actresses. it too," Allen said. to see what we're doing it gets On Nov. 13 drama instructor Allen said this was an excel them very excited," said Trin Devon Allen and a group of lent opportunity to meet Presi ity sophomore Jennifer Gross. drama students performed dent Nan Keohane's recent The workshops consisted scenes from Shakespeare's challenge for students to inter mainly of theatre games that plays at a holiday fair fund act more with the Durham com promoted creativity and acting raiser for the Emerson Waldorf munity. skills, Allen said. "Games are Middle School in Durham. Many people involved with also played to create ensembles Other students have been work the Carrington Middle School and create cooperation among ing with members ofthe drama workshop said it was a success. young people," she said. club at Carrington Middle "We loved it. The kids had a University students said School. great time," said Kathleen they also benefited from inter The programs began in the Graves, a drama teacher at the acting with the children. fall when many ofthe students school. "There was a real energy "I personally get trapped up burst in the room that day. [The in going to rehearsals and pro from the Carrington Middle SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE School drama club attended an Duke students] really con gressing with my acting, so it arts open house on East Cam nected with the kids in a way was neat to branch out and feel Trinity seniors Jen Gross and Jen Sneider play theater games pus. These students worked for that I cant." See DRAMA on page 6 • with drama club students at Carrington Middle School. THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1994 World and National Newsfile NATO bombs Serbian air base in Croatia Associated Press By ROGER COHEN straint reportedly gave some NATO offi calls for big NATO air strikes against the Quake destroys: An earthquake N.Y. Times News Service cials misgivings. jolted a far east Indonesian province Serbs, combined with its refusal to put Monday, destroying 12 houses and ZAGREB, Croatia—NATO warplanes But Smith said the commander of U.N. American troops on the ground, have injuring at least 28 people. The bombed a Serbian-controlled air base in forces in the former Yugoslavia, Lt. Gen. caused persistent tension with British quake, with a magnitude of 5.6, hit Croatia on Monday, destroying its run Bertrand de Lapresle of France, had in and French officers in the U.N. peace a northeast province of Jakarta. way and its .antiaircraft defenses and tak sisted that aircraft not be hit. keeping force in Bosnia. ing the Western alliance's political in "This is a limited strike," the admiral Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Lawyer resigns: Elizabeth volvement in the Bosnian war to a new said. "We clearly could have taken those the former Yugoslavia, and de Lapresle Birch, director of litigation world level. aircraft had we chosen to, but we have a justified their request for the NATO air wide and chief human resources Adm. Leighton Smith, the American dual United Nations-NATO key." strike on Monday on two main grounds: counsel of Apple Computer Co., re who commands NATO forces in South The French Defense Ministry issued a the threat to civilians within the Bihac signed Monday to take over leader ern Europe, said that 39 aircraft from the statement saying that "after neutraliza "safe area" from the Serbian air raids, and ship of the nation's largest lesbian and gay rights organization - the United States, Britain, France, and the tion of the ground-to-air defenses, the the plight of more than 1,000 newly ar 80,000-member Human Rights Netherlands had taken part in the attack runway, which was the raid's main objec rived U.N. troops from Bangladesh Campaign Fund. against the Udbina airfield in Croatia. tive, was put out of action." trapped in the area and fast running out The base was used three times in the The Clinton administration's repeated of food. State orders study: The New last two weeks by nationalist Serbs to Jersey State Dept. of Education send aircraft — some carrying napalm hired Applied Data .Services Monday and cluster bombs — against the Mus Republican team proposes to conduct a six-month study of the lim-held Bihac area of Bosnia, 22 miles racial make-up of schools in away. Englewood and 19 nearby eastern The NATO bombing was the largest air Bergen County towns. The company major cuts in welfare bill is to produce plans to reduce the raid in Europe since the end of World War H and the biggest mounted by the alli By ROBERT PEAR grams with a lump sum payment to each large percentage of black and His N.Y. Times News Service panic students in these school dis ance since it was established in 1949 to state. tricts. counter Soviet military power. With it WASHINGTON - The Republican The Republicans would consolidate 10 came a warning to the Serbs that the team talking over the House of Repre nutrition programs into a "food assis United Nations and NATO were prepared sentatives in January will propose a tance block grant," cut the available to use force again if provoked.

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