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RECESS It's what Willie does No, the stories really aren't about Willie, they're more about that which Willie smokes. THE CHRONICLE He's a great American. SEE RECESS, p. 6 Emaaamm English Dept. names 5 potential hires • The University approved preliminary offers to five "If we get a goodly number of [acceptances]... it'll really get the top scholars Thursday, pois attention of the English world. ing the embattled depart ment for revitalization. JIM SIEDOW, DEAN OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT, ON THE OFFERS EXTENDED TO FIVE TOP SCHOLARS By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle The University's English "If [my wife and I] were ever department is planning a re going to make a major move, markable hiring binge. Yesterday morning, Provost there wouldn't be a better oppor John Strohbehn and President tunity than the one provided by Nan Keohane approved the extension of five offers to top Duke this year." STAFF SGT. ANDREW A. RAMIREZ, left, Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone and Spe English scholars from around VISITING PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH HOUSTON BAKER cialist Steven M. Gonzales were captured by Yugoslav troops Thursday. the country. When added to Wednesday's hiring of renowned African-American Well-known African-American Serbs capture 3 American literature scholar Houston Baker (see story, this page) literature scholar joins University soldiers, plan military trial and the ongoing search for a By RICHARD RUBIN who teaches in the women's new chair, the five offers could The Chronicle studies program. She will join tal, Pristina, said that the court mark the beginning of the This week, the University's the Duke faculty as an associate investigation of the three could troubled department's rebirth English department took a big research professor of women's BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — begin as early as Friday. The department initially step toward recovering from its studies and African and African- Three American soldiers cap The U.S. government said a planned to hire one American recent tumble by luring American studies. He will be a tured along the Macedonian Yugoslav court-martial of the ist and one British literature renowned African-American full professor in the English de border will appear before a Yu Americans would violate inter specialist. However, the pool literature scholar Houston partment with a secondary ap goslav military court that national law. for the latter search was Baker away from the Universi pointment in AAAS. could charge and try them, the The men—Staff Sgt. An deep that the department re ty of Pennsylvania. "Baker is an absolute leader state news agency, Tanjug, drew A. Ramirez, 24, of Los quested three additional facul Baker is currently a visiting in the field of American and said Thursday. Angeles; Staff Sgt. Christo ty spots, said Dean of Facul- professor at Duke, along with African-American literature, According to the report, a ju pher J. Stone, 25, of Smiths See OFFERS on page 7 • his wife, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, See BAKER on page 8 * dicial officer in the Kosovo capi See KOSOVO on page 9 §*- University reflects on all-freshman East Campus By NORM BRADLEY The Chronicle When the Class of 1998 graduat ed last May, it took with it the mem ories of an East Campus far differ ent from the current model. Now all current undergraduates have lived on an all-freshman East, and although administrators herald the de cision to change East as a success, some questions ^•——— remain INSIDE: EAST CAMPUS HISTORY about the The formerWomen's College has policy's im- had shifting identities over the years. SEEffCE14 '• THE CHRONICLE pact on both East and West campuses. WESLEY MAGAT served the University for 25 years. Creating an all-freshman. East was President Nan Keohane's first major decision at the University. Long-time Fuqua She said the realignment has ac complished the goals set forth by professor dies the administration. "Many first-year students report re By KATHERINE STROUP ONCE HOMETO SOME SELECTIVE HOUSES AND FRATERNITIES, East Campus has been popu The Chronicle ally enjoying the camaraderie on East, lated by freshmen since the (all of 1995. Professor Wesley Magat, a dedicated getting to know their classmates, hav member of the University community ing a chance to revel in the facilities freshman year," said engineering se "There is less variety in housing for more than two decades, died in his that are all theirs," she said. "Students nior Jon Dement. now," said Trinity senior Howard Chapel Hill home Sunday after an ex find it a good beginning for their col However, some seniors—who were Stroupe. "You would have gotten tended illness. lege years. And it has clearly helped thrown into the residential controver more of the Duke experience as a develop class unity." The 50-year-old was diagnosed with sy three years ago as the first class to freshman, instead of the freshman an inoperable brain tumor one year ago. Many students said the all-fresh live on the reconceptualized East— Duke experience." This is a great loss for Duke and for man East created close-knit dorms said they wished they had had the op In interviews, freshmen and sopho the nation," said President Emeritus and long-lasting friendships. "My portunity to live on the multi-class mores were generally more supportive Sec MAGAT on page 8 *• best friends are still the people I met East Campus. See EAST on page 14 • • NCCU PROTEST FOCUSES ON FUNDING, PRIVATIZATION SEE PAGE 4 • SNYDER RUMORED FOR MISSOURI JOB SEE SPORTS, PAGE 15 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL FRIDAY, APRIL 2.195 NEWSFILE Western officials discuss plans for safe haven FROM WIRE REPORTS : Missourians to vote on concealed weapons policy Despite NATO's repeated refusals to use ground forces, officials say it may be possible In what both sides of the gun debate are calling a momen from the province. Washington said in a telephone in tous showdown, Missouri will be the first state to let voters But Western officials say that terview that much would depend decide in a statewide referendum next week whether to BRUSSELS, Belgium — Western NATO ground troops may be called on whether the ground force will be allow people to carry concealed weapons in public. officials are discussing a plan under in if air strikes eventually succeed able to enter Kosovo without facing Proponents of the measure have outspent opponents by a which NATO troops would escort in driving back the Serb military to serious military resistance from re ratio of three-to-one, with the National Rifle Association ethnic Albanians back into Kosovo bring back the refugees and to set maining Serbian troops. spending almost all of the money on the efforts to pass the after Serbian forces there have been up what the official called a "pro "The line that has not been measure, with a blizzard of television ads, including one fea routed by bombing, and would set up tectorate." They say this might be crossed in Washington is whether turing a victim ofthe notorious "South Side Rapist." a self-governing enclave under allied possible even if a formal peace we would deploy such a force in protection, a senior NATO diplomat agreement with Belgrade has not anything but a permissive environ *> Russian president calls for emergency meeting said Thursday. been reached, as long as it was ment," the official said. That is, an President Boris Yeltsin fired off another peace offensive NATO officials have repeated clear that the Serbs could not environment in which hostile Thursday; appearing on national television, he called for an ly ruled out an invasion force to mount serious resistance. forces have been removed." emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the world's halt the brutal campaign by Deliberations on the plan are Officially, NATO has continued seven leading industrial powers, plus Russia, to seek a polit ical settlement in the Balkans. Since six members of the President Slobodan Milosevic's still in the early stages and still to back the plan presented to the group are now involved in the NATO bombing campaign, Serbian forces, which have driven under discussion in Washington. Serbs and ethnic Albanians at the Yeltsin's latest proposal seemed as unlikely to be successful almost 190,000 ethnic Albanians A senior American official in See PROTECTORATE on page 5 • as the diplomatic mission earlier this week to Belgrade and then to Germany led by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Northern Ireland talks pause inconclusively • Federal agents search for computer virus author By WARREN HOGE for clearing the main obstacle. That is the dispute over Federal agents hunting for the author of the Melissa com N.Y. Times News Service whether the Irish Republican Army must start dis puter virus obtained a court order Thursday seeking back HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland — Talks to re arming as a condition for the members of its political ground information from America Online; this action comes solve the last issues blocking the formal start-up ofthe wing, Sinn Fein, to take their seats in a new Northern one day after the seizure ofa computer from a Florida inter Northern Ireland peace plan adjourned inconclusively Ireland Assembly cabinet. net access provider that may contain clues to the origin of Thursday, but Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain The showdown over arms decommissioning had the virus. The Melissa virus, which emerged last Friday, can said he thought they had established a "satisfactory provoked gloomy predictions this week that the whole spread exponentially because it automatically sends itself basis" for a final settlement. painstaking peace process, which has passed through from one recipient's e-mail account to as many as 50 others.