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Homecoming Edition Inside Taming the Tigers Duke goes for its first win of the season as it faces Clemson at home this THE CHRONICLE Saturday. See GAMEDAT '96 for details. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 199G DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION; 15,000 VOL. 92, NO. 30 Treatment for 10-year- old girl remains unclear By BRIAN HARRIS of Rachel's parents, however, Doctors at the Medical Cen­ Kinder said she could not say ter may be just hours away from exactly what course of action Dr. beginning treatment for 10- Treem had recommended. year-old Rachel Stout, who ar­ Kinder added that under the rived at the Medical Center terms of a joint custody agree­ Sunday to have a final evalua­ ment between CPS and Rachel's tion of her case of severe ulcera­ parents, CPS would use its au­ tive colitis, an inflammatory dis­ thority to consent to the pre­ ease of the colon of unknown scribed treatment if the parents cause. Exactly what that treat­ failed to do so within the 48- ment will be, however, remains hour grace period. Kinder esti­ unclear. mated that the deadline would Robin Kinder, a spokesper­ fall sometime late Friday morn­ son for Child Protective Ser­ ing. vices—a Dallas organization Rachel, who is from Fort that now holds joint custody of Worth, Texas, first became the Rachel—said Dr. William focus of a custody battle Sept 1, Treem, director ofthe division of when her father, Steve Stout, re­ NECIA MCREE/THE CHRONICLE pediatric gastroenterology and moved her from the Children's nutrition, had issued a recom­ Medical Center in Dallas 'Got any change?' mendation Wednesday after against medical orders. Steve refused to allow his daughter to Trinity junior Evan Hicks entertains passers-by from the House C bench. more than two days of tests and evaluations. Due to the wishes See STOUT on page 8 • New law Council approves new Perkins may revamp center to deanships at meeting cataloging structure By JES5ICA KOZLOV he will reassume the position of The decision to create two dean of Trinity College, as well By MARSHA JOHNSON dealing with changing to open new administrative positions- as maintain his current posi­ Currently among only the LC system, which he dean of undergraduate affairs tion. three major universities to helped perform in 1964 at By DAVID SCHWARZ and dean of faculty or faculty The new deans will divide a still catalog its books using the Massachusetts Insti­ Pamela Gann, dean of development—was announced number of the responsibilities the Dewey Decimal Sys­ tute of Technology. the law school, announced at the Arts and Sciences Coun­ between them that White had tem, the University's "It looks like there's Wednesday that a new cil meeting Thursday afternoon previously handled. While the Perkins Library may soon general agreement on cam­ as a result of Richard White's dean of undergraduate affairs convert to the Library of pus that we need to con­ Center for the Study of the will assume the majority of Congress will be estab­ retirement as dean of Trinity Congress system. vert," he said of Duke's College next year. White's duties, the dean of fac­ David Ferriero, the Uni­ lished to address that insti­ ulty will be primarily responsi­ system. "One of my chal­ tution's negative public William Chafe, who current­ versity's head librarian, lenges, one of my priori­ ly serves as dean ofthe faculty ble for developing faculty rela- image. See A & S on page 8 • who replaced Jerry Camp­ ties, is to figure out exactly The new center will be of Arts and Sciences, said that bell Oct. 1, was hired part­ how we're going to do it." chaired by Ted Kaufman, ly for his experience in See UBRARY on page 10 • senior lecturing fellow at the law school, and Chris Raleigh pinpointed for Schroeder, professor of law. "I am excited about the prospects for this new Cen­ possible NHL franchise ter for the Study of the Congress," Gann said in a By LIANA ROSE tives from the Raleigh Cham­ statement, "to contribute to Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer ber of Commerce—including a better understanding of recently announced that his Chamber President Harvey the erosion of respect for city is interested in acquiring a Schmitt; Fetzer; Carl Moore, one of our most significant National Hockey League fran­ chair of the Centennial Au­ public institutions and to chise. thority's professional sports help develop strategies to The mayor's mid-September committee; and other members address the situation." announcement follows the re­ of the Authority—met with Kaufman said the cen­ cently released plans of the NHL officials to discuss the op­ NHL to land two new expan­ portunity of an NHL team ter's activities will focus on being housed in the new arena. research into the American sion teams. If a Raleigh fran­ chise is obtained, the city The Centennial Authority is a public's complaints against group charged by the North Congress. "We will attempt hopes to place the NHL team Carolina General Assembly to to answer the question, in the planned entertainment design, finance and build the 'Why do people have such a and sports arena in Raleigh, new arena. low level of confidence in which is scheduled to open in JOSH MILLER/THE CHRONICLE See CENTER on page 18 *• 1999. The Raleigh contingent pre- Graduate student Daniel Welt searches for a book. Last August, representa­ See NHL on page 18 >• THEGHRONICLE FRIDAY,'OCTOBER 11/1996 World and National Newsfile Republicans question Bosnian arm shipments Associated Press Safety questioned: Alarmed by By STEVEN LEE MYERS mittee's Democrats issued their own Europe" with the shipments. the thousands of safety problems N.Y. Times News Service report, disputing most of the Republi­ In the summary, the Republicans discovered at Millstone nuclear WASHINGTON—The political con­ cans' conclusions. The subcommittee called the policy "duplicitous, if not out­ power plant in Connecticut this troversy over President Clinton's deci­ was investigating the president's tacit right deceptive," but while referring year, federal regulators ordered sion not to block Iranian arm ship­ approval of the arms shipments to the the matter to the Department of Jus­ every nuclear reactor in the country ments to Bosnia in 1994 was rekindled Muslim-led Bosnian government dur­ tice for a criminal investigation, the re­ to begin an exhaustive review of its Thursday as House Republicans re­ ing an arms embargo. port's summary stopped short of accus­ safety performance. leased a report accusing administra­ The Republican majority's report—a ing any officials of perjury. At a news tion officials of lying to Congress and sharply worded summary of a longer conference, the subcommittee's chair­ Cholesterol benefits: Choles­ called for a criminal investigation into report that remains classified—ac­ man, Rep. Henry J. Hyde, a Republican terol may be a heart disease villain the matter. cused Clinton and his senior aides of from Illinois, said he was not accusing in adults, but researchers say the Administration officials quickly de­ "intentionally misleading" Congress anyone but asking for an investigation fatty substance is needed when nounced the report, which was issued and the public and of damaging Ameri­ into what the report described as dis­ cells are starting to form a new life. by the Republican majority members of can strategic interests by allowing Iran crepancies in testimony by administra­ A study in the journal Science a special subcommittee. The subcom­ to gain "an unprecedented foothold in tion officials. shows that cholesterol is important in forming organs, tissues and body structures in an embryo. Two Afghan factions sign military agreement Beer Offered: Beer 101 is offered By JOHN BURNS time in three years, at an old Soviet scored the uncertainties surrounding for the first time at the renowned N.Y. Times News Service guesthouse in the Hindu Kush moun­ the Taliban's ability to consolidate culinary school, Johnson & Wales KHINJAN, Afghanistan—The last tains. power in Kabul. University. School officials say two military commanders holding out The pact was also signed by Abdul One of those waiting outside the teaching students to make and against the new rigorously Muslim Karim Khalily, a leader of the Shiite guesthouse during the meeting was serve good beer is a natural exten­ government in Afghanistan forged a Muslim minority in Afghanistan, the Russian consul general in Mazar- sion of its mission. formal military alliance Thursday. whose forces control a 10th province. i-Sharif, Oleg Nevelyaev, whose pres­ They vowed to set up a nonfundamen- The government proclaimed by the ence signaled the strong diplomatic talist government in the nine north­ Taliban in Kabul, the capital, controls support that Dostum and Massoud ern provinces under their control. all the other 19 provinces, except part have received from Russia. Weather Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and of Parwan province north of Kabul The document also pledged the Saturday Ahmad Shah Massoud, military com­ that is held by the Massoud forces. leaders to the formation of a body to High: 62* Sunny mander in the government that fell But events on Thursday in the area be called the Supreme Defense Coun­ Low: 39* Winds: Buffalo-bliizardllke! when the Islamic movement called the immediately north of Kabul, where cil of Afghanistan, and bound all three TIB better to have loved and lost than to Taliban captured Kabul two weeks Taliban forces came under attack for groups, and any others that may join never have loved at all." ago, signed a document creating the the second time in three days, with them, to come to the defense of each new alliance.

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