Spinning records The women's basketball team broke both team and individual records in THE CHRONICLE Tuesday's win. See Sports, pg. 15. TUESDAY. JANUARY 28, 1997 © ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Councils Blue Devil Ventures sponsor unveils project plans pep rally By ROD FEUER with us," Niemann said. Blue Devil Ventures show­ Niemann said that Trask, cased its "grand vision" to revi­ executive vice president of the By MISTY ALLEN talize downtown Durham University, wants to use the Tb help usher in a day that when it unveiled architectural West End Village apartments is sure to focus on one of the plans to convert the Liggett & to house visiting faculty, pro­ best known rivalries in colle­ Meyers Tobacco Company fessors, graduate students and giate athletics—the Duke- warehouse buildings into hun­ Medical Center employees. Carolina men's basketball dreds of residential units last BDV is working on similar game—the class councils from night at the Durham Chamber ventures with North Carolina each student class will spon­ of Commerce. Central University and sor a pep rally Tuesday night Tom Neimann, the manag­ Durham Technical College, he from 8 p.m-11 p.m. on the con­ ing partner of BDV, said that added. course of Wallace Wade Stadi­ BDV has received many in­ Blue Devil Ventures was um. quiries about leasing the formed just over two years ago The Blue Devil mascot, pep apartments and has already and includes four principals— band, cheerleaders and an­ established a deal with the brothers Dan and Tom Nie­ them singer Frances Redding University and Glaxo-Well- mann and former Duke bas­ will initiate the festivities, come. ketball players, Brian Davis and men's basketball coach "As of today we have a com­ and Christian Laettner. The Mike Krzyzewski will speak to mitment from Glaxo-Well- group's decision to renovate members of the audience af­ ALIZA GOLDMAN/THE CHRONICLE come—CEO Bob Ingram—and the Liggett property, Niemann terward. Dr. Trask of Duke University, said, is simply an extension of Following the coach's re­ speaking on behalf of Duke work already in progress, such marks, Herb Neubauer—oth­ Who ya gonna call? University and the Medical as the revitalization plan of erwise known as "Crazy Towel The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man greets Main Quadrangle Center.... All three of those en­ 1990, the Durham Central See RALLY on page 8 > In front of Wayne Manor's section. tities are going to master lease See VENTURES on page S • Black greek groups undergo various changes NCALE By MARSHA JOHNSON is one of the fraternities whose Evans, president of NPHC and nity, for whom pledging will not In an effort to improve pre­ processes will be altered this member of APA, because the be practiced. dominately black fraternities year, as mandated by its nation­ choice has essentially been "There's some opposition to charges and sororities, some national al chapter. taken out ofthe hands of under­ changing the policy," Evans greek organizations have al­ Under the alterations, inter­ graduates. said, adding that after 20 years tered their rush and intake ested students will apply direct­ As a result of the change in of practicing the old policy, it students processes. The changes come at ly to the national headquarters procedure, Evans predicted that may be difficult for the sections a time when the University is of the fraternity instead of to a divide may spring up between to adjust to the changes. By MISTY ALLEN considering establishing guide­ the members of the University current members of the frater­ "There's an old-school/new- Three freshmen were lines of its own. chapter, as was previously done. nity—who went through pledg­ sehool mentality," he said. charged by the North Car­ Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity— "The degree of selectivity is ing and were all approved by The changes may have been olina Alcohol Law En­ which is organized under the decreased a tremendous the fraternity members—and enacted in response to recent at- forcement Agency Friday National Panhellenic Council— amount," said Trinity senior Ah the new members of the frater­ See RUSH on page 7 • night with underaged pos­ session of alcohol, pur­ chasing alcohol by using false identification cards 1997 Panhellenic Officers and presenting a false University establishes identification card to an officer. ; for this year's positions, The latter offense, said North American center arsh, K.KI Ron Gilliard, an agent with NCALE who issued By LAURIE CARR ical institutions, patterns of » Executive Vice President* Kristen Ryals. Xft the citations, is a misde­ Although numerous people migration, culture and the en­ • Treasurer: Julie La tier, A Oil meanor offense that could and institutions throughout vironment as a result of potentially be punishable the world have been studying NAFTA—will be located in • Secretary: Beth Cockerham. Xil by a $500 fine and/or a the economic implications of the building formerly dedicat­ • Parliamentarian: Nlcolle Gentile, Xil six-month prison sen­ the North American Free ed solely to Canadian studies. tence. Trade Agreement since its "Now when you drive by • Rush Chain Harriet Scott, AOn One of the students passage three years ago, the 2016 on Campus Drive—at • Assistant Rush Chair: Heather Wheeler, Xfl was charged with the two University this week will be least on sunny days—you will • VP - Housing: Hillary Holmes, KKI" false identification card the first to launch a center see three flags flying instead transgressions, while the specifically designed for the of just one," said Frederick • VP • Public Relations: Mica Glod, AOH other two students were study of the broader conse­ Mayer, professor of public pol­ • VP - Special Events: Kimm Firetag, A* charged only with the un­ quences of NAFTA on Cana­ icy and the center's director. deraged possession of­ da, Mexico and the United The center will not replace • vp - Programming. Jennifer Marchetti, KAt) fense. Canadian Studies, but will • Vp - Greek Week: Elizabeth Alsbrooks, AF The gamut of penalties The new Center of North "gradually transform Canadi­ for the underaged drink- American Studies—which an studies into one of the • VP - Publications: Jessie Strauss, AE<f> See ALE on page 7 • will focus on changes in polit­ See CENTER on page 8 • /THE CHRONICLE THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 World and National Newsfile Chechens crowd polling places in election From wire reports Cats rampage: A plague of By ALESSANDRA STANLEY Maskhadov, 45, chief-of-staff of the as more brazen and intransigent. He is killer housecats has multiplied N.Y. Times News Service Chechen forces in the war and the the candidate most likely to affront through Australia's deserts, forests GROZNY, Russia — Voters pushed leader who signed the peace treaty— and enrage Moscow. and urban alleys, driving indige­ and jostled in crowded polling places now says independence cannot wait Some voters, particularly among the nous species to extinction as they all over the secessionist republic of that long. young, like that about him. "Basayev, go. Parliament member Richard Chechnya Monday with the kind of Voters on Monday were not choosing he's a mujik," said Loma Dudurkayev, Evans called for the "total eradica­ anxious zeal usually reserved for air­ between sovereignty and fealty, but 20, using the Russian expression for tion of cats in Australia," putting port check-ins and white sales at rather a style of leadership. The two "real man." He said he could not vote the issue on the national agenda. Macy's. leading candidates, Maskhadov and for Maskhadov because "the Russian "For independence, of course," Zare- his chief rival, Shamil Basayev, 32, the like him too much." Diplomat resigns: Switzer­ ma Amerkhanova, 22, said when asked rebel commander who led the daring, Maskhadov, who in the last days of land's ambassador to the United why she and so many others had deadly hostage raid in Budyonnovsk in the campaign tried to shake the image States, Carlo Jagmetti, resigned shown up to vote in the southern vil­ southern Russia in June 1995, share that he is too congenial to Moscow, Monday after the publication of a lage of Shalazhi. She was bobbing in a the same goal of independence. But would vigorously object. But many vot­ long diplomatic cable in which he sea of people lining up to register and Basayev, considered a terrorist and ers said they liked the fact that he was advised his government to make up pick up their ballots. public enemy in Russia, is viewed here See ELECTION on page 6 • its mind about how to deal with dis­ closures about its role as banker to "This is incredibly important," she Nazi Germany. said. "These are our first democratic elections. This is freedom." State officials call for limit After 21 months of devastating war Yeltsin Cancels: Boris Yeltsin with Moscow's forces, Chechens are in called off a Feb. 4 trip to the Nether­ lands Monday, another sign that he a hurry to pick a new president and on campaign expenditures is not recovering as quickly as ex­ speed on with the moment of reckon­ pected from the pneumonia that hit ing. They are racing down an almost By DAVID STOUT that unlimited campaign spending him three weeks ago. inevitable collision course with N.Y. Times News Service threatens the integrity of the election Moscow. WASHINGTON — The top law-en­ process," the 24 officials said in a Russia, which withdrew its last forcement officials of 24 states are statement released Monday night. troops in December, still maintains calling for the reversal of a 1976 The statement, to be made public Weather that Chechnya must remain a part of Supreme Court decision that equated Tuesday, comes amid a growing na­ Wednesday Russia and stipulated in a peace treaty limits on political-campaign spending tionwide clamor over the amounts signed in August that the issue of sov­ with limits on free speech and there­ spent by candidates running for of­ High: 50 • Showers by undid some of the spending curbs Low: 35 • Winds: Tarheel fresh ereignty should be delayed five years.