The African Queen Julie Hams plays Isak Dinesen, the author of "Out of. -eR&R THE CHRONICLE for deta THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL 86, NO. 92 Students upset by loss of seats at UNC game By BRIAN DOSTER dium by the athletic department. recruit and the host are permit­ because it was the only weekend Several individuals who had But some students claim that ted to attend any athletic event ,ome basketball game prior to not waited in the undergraduate recruiting hosts sat in prime on campus when they visit, Al­ the national letter of intent sign­ student line sat in the under­ seating space in violation of seat­ leva said. ing period for football players, graduate student section during ing policy. For men's basketball games, which began Feb. 6. the men's basketball game The weekend of the Carolina these individuals do not have to Normal athletic department against the University of North game was, like every weekend wait in line with the rest of the practice is to schedule multiple Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan. 19, this semester, a weekend when student body. There is to be one football recruit visits around upsetting many fans who had several athletic recruits were host for every five recruits from a home basketball games. D'Armi waited in line. visiting the campus, said asso­ single athletic team at basketball said most Division I-A colleges These individuals include ciate athletic director Joe Alleva. games, according to a policy by and universities do the same graduate students who had seats Coaches assign each recruit a facilities director Tom D'Armi. thing. in a separate section, and several host from the respective varsity D'Armi admits that a large D'Armi estimated that 150 athletic recruits and their hosts, athletic team, according to ath­ number of prospects were on more students may have gotten SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE who were allowed into the sta­ letic department policy. The oampus for the Carolina game See RECRUITS on page 4 • Facilities Director Tom D'Armi Air attacks Renovations improve East Campus buildings hurt elite By BRYAN GARNER toration of the Carr Building, came in about three weeks ago Renovations planned for the Although the University has which was called "short-term" in . we're still firming up the Art Museum have also been Iraqi guard completed numerous renovations the Feb. 22, 1990 edition of The financial package," he said. delayed due to discussion of on East Campus in the past year, Chronicle, is still in the Some of the funding for this building a new art museum. "designing process," said Tom By R.W. APPLE other improvements have been project will come from outside Safety considerations played a N.Y. Times News Service delayed while many more are in Dixon, vice president of adminis- gifts to the University and from major role in the improvement of . rative services. SAUDI ARABIA— Senior the planning stages. loans that have not yet been public lighting and the installa­ "The architectural designs allied officers argued Wednes­ Most recently, Facilities Plan­ received, he said. tion of emergency phones on East day that weeks of day-and- ning and Management renovated Campus, as part of a two year night bombing raids had sig­ bathrooms in Wilson House with program completed in 1990. Uni­ nificantly weakened Iraq's funding from Housing Manage­ versity President Keith Brodie elite Republican Guards, but ment. The $1.2 million project, gave high priority status to these most said that more aerial at­ including asbestos removal and improvements in response to the tacks on the troops' positions plumbing repairs, was completed threat posed by campus assaults. would be needed before a in September. President Brodie redistributed ground offensive could begin. Facilities Planning and Man­ other University funds toward this project, which cost in excess Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly, the agement is responsible for the of $500,000, said Ron Blickhahn, Pentagon operations chief, design, construction, mainte­ .assistant vice president of ad­ said in Washington that nance, renovation and operations ministrative services. "there has been damage done" of buildings on campus excluding to the Guards, but declined to the Medical Center. In the past two years, the Uni­ say how much. "We would like Workers from FPM completed versity has upgraded electrical to see more damage" inflicted Baldwin Auditorium renovations Airing in many buildings, ex­ on the units, he added, "which last summer. The auditorium panded the Dope Shop, replaced is why we're continuing with received a complete interior windows in the East and West the bombing campaign." painting, re-upholstering of Duke buildings and improved seats, a new ceiling and floor, Defense Secretary Dick landscaping in front of several new windows, light fixtures and Cheney and Gen. Colin dormitories. a new exterior doorway, totaling Powell, the chairman of the Funding for these projects about $500,000. comes mainly from the budget for Joint Chiefs of Staff, are STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE scheduled to leave on Some renovations have been deferred maintenance, which See GULF on page 2 • planned but have yet to be com­ The interior of Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus was reno­ amounts to about $1.1 million, pleted. A $5.1 million dollar res­ vated this summer. Blickhahn said. Who ya gonna call? Institute investigates spooky questions By ERIC LARSON knows," admits John Palmer, one institute's Journal of Parapsy­ A woman in Iowa experiences of the institute's four research­ chology, all performed under con­ a strange and sudden burning ers. What Palmer is sure of is trolled, laboratory conditions, he sensation in her hand, only to that there exists firm basis for says. find out later in the day that her trying to find out about the "It's a tough mystery, but I like twin sister in California had an paranormal, whether it's extra­ to crack tough mysteries," he accident near the stove that very sensory perception, says. same day. psychokinesis or any other "psi" To the die-hard skeptics of And how do you explain this? occurance that can be tracked in things that go bump in the night Eyewitnesses of UFOs from all the laboratory. (or in the mind), serious talk over the world, when asked to "We don't do much in the way about such matters is ludicrous. draw their encounters, all of investigating hauntings, or But despite the skeptics, the idea produce pictures of beings that poltergeists." Instead, his re­ of "psychic as science" is not a are strikingly similar. search involves testing subjects, new one, and has found credibil­ And how do you explain this? many of them University stu­ ity at more than one academic in­ There is a place in Durham dents, for signs of psychic stitution through the years. that asks those same questions phenomena. Before becoming part of a pri­ concerning the "paranormal," "What's clear is that there are vate foundation in 1965, the in­ though without the drama of a certain people who tend to do stitute was situated on East Time-Life Books sales pitch. Re­ better on these tests than they Campus and known as the Para­ searchers at the Institute of are supposed to. We're interested psychology Laboratory of Duke. Parapsychology believe a book of in stuff that's not so dramatic, The laboratory was created by answers to seemingly psychic but more reliable," Palmer says. the late J.B. Rhine, a member of CHRISTINE KEPMER/THE CHRONICLE phenomena has yet to be written. He points to the hundreds of pub­ the University's psychology Researcher John Palmer in his lab at the Institute of Parapsy­ "What's going on, no one really lished "psi" studies, some in the See PSYCHIC on page 10 • chology in Durham. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1991 World and National Newsfile Allied air strikes weaken Iraqi elite guard Associated Press • GULF from page 1 Union must hold: Mikhail Gor­ Thursday on a fact-finding mission to bachev made a television appearance Saudi Arabia. The New York Times Gulf War Roundup Wednesday, Feb 6 to declare his determination to hold reported that Pentagon officials said the In another day of nonstop aerial the country together and urge full par­ In Jordan: well-entrenched forces, which constitute ballistics, the United States shot ticipation in the Kremlin's referendum President Saddam Hussein's main strate­ King Hussein appealed on the union. gic reserve, have not yet been substan­ down at least two fleeing Iraqi jets for a cease-fire in the tially weakened. and Iraq blasted the sky with intense war, which he says is Terrorists strike again: Ter­ A ranking American officer challenged anti-aircraft fire. destroying Iraq. rorists bombed two more American the officials quoted in the Times article, and French targets in Athens on commenting: "We aren't ready for an of­ Wednesday, apparently in reaction to fensive yet. That's what Cheney and the coalition forces fighting Iraq, Powell will hear this weekend. bringing the total of bombings to 8 over "But our bombing attacks, especially the last 10 days. the B-52s, have hurt the Guards phys­ ically and psychologically, cut their effec­ Baker stalls on treaty: Secretary tiveness a lot, and it's nonsense to suggest LEBANON IRAN of State James Baker called for a delay we haven't." Baghdad ISRAEL— Persian in ratifying a landmark weapons In Washington, members of Congress •••'/ Amman IRAQ Gulf reduction treaty and accused the were told in a briefing that the Guard JORDAN Basra Kremlin of turning "down a path of no divisions had been signficantly damaged SAUDI benefit" in the Baltic Republics.