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Gold found Former Rice head football coach Fred Gold smith was tapped to lead the Duke pro THE CHRONICLE gram. See Sports, page 17 for details. THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 89, NO. 72 Keohane voices concerns to Secretary of Education By MICHAEL SAUL cation to designate an agency of the regulations that report ment of Education to achieve ing them the skills necessary President Nan Keohane and in each state to review institu edly give government agencies [accountability in administer to get jobs and pay back their 17 other university presidents tions of higher education. In the authority to investigate a ing federal financial aid funds] debt. The Higher Education Act voiced concerns about regula- 1991, loan defaults cost the gov school's curriculum, tenure pro should focus on correcting the guarantees loans and outright tions that could jeopardize post- ernment $3.6 billion, up from cess and graduation rates have abuses by a limited number of grants for post-secondary edu secondary schools' autonomy in about $200 million 10 years sparked an outcry of criticism institutions rather than ex cation, providing $11.7 billion a meeting with Education Sec earlier. from university officials nation panding the federal role into in student aid in 1992. retary Richard Riley Wednes The university presidents wide. the management of institu The presidents questioned day. told Riley that they supported The department is scheduled tional academic affairs," language in preliminary drafts Motivated by abuses in the the act but asserted that the to release the proposed regula Keohane wrote in a statement. ofthe department's regulations federal financial aid programs, new regulations being drafted tions for public comment in mid- Many for-profit trade schools that would obligate all institu the 1992 amendments to the by the Department of Educa January. have abused the federal stu tions, notjust those schools sus Higher Education Act of 1965 tion go far beyond the intent of "We believe the regulations dent loan programs, signing up pected of abusing the loan sys- authorized the secretary of edu Congress. Preliminary drafts promulgated by the Depart students for loans but not giv See KEOHANE on page 5*- Harassment policy takes effect By MICHAEL SAUL harassment prevention coordi i „ „ The University's new policy nator. White will be responsible for on harassment took effect Jan. 1 White said she is in the pro handling sexual harassment following three years of review. cess of searching for people in complaints, and Leonard The policy, approved by Presi terested in serving as harass- Beckum, vice president and vice • dent Nan Keohane, bans all mentadvisers, and people to join provost, will handle other ha te forms of harassment and covers a 30-member grievance board. rassment complaints. everyone who is enrolled or em- Members of the board, which The policy, approved by ployedat the University. Replac will includefive undergraduates, Keohane, contains revisions to a ing a 1987 sexual harassment five graduate students, 10 fac version unanimously approved policy and other statements on ulty members and 10 non-fac by the Academic Council last harassment, the new campus- ulty employees, would be respon spring. White reviewed the Aca wide policy defines sexual coer sible for adjudicatingformal com- demic Council's version and rec cion as one form of harassment. ommended changes to Keohane fA^t A Though passage of the policy This semester White plans to in the fall. reflects wide approval on an is educate the community about The most significant change is sue that has divided the campus, harassment, the new policy and a sharp distinction between ha f| §f J'' 181 some members of the commu its procedures. White will be rassment in the workplace and ..^jwJjl nity continue to disagree with meeting with various groups, harassment in the classroom. ji^^J^^""-*"'**'! sections ofthe policy. such as resident advisers, as well "Academic freedom does not The policy defines harassment as drafting a brochure on ha apply to all settings in the Uni f*^f™ and establishes a three-tiered rassment. versity community "Whitewrote grievance procedure that allows Victims of harassment at the in a memo to the Academic Coun for informal intervention, me University have in the past com cil. Freedom of expression is more C--K*-»i™" diation between the two parties plained about being "pinballed" limited in the workplace than in SHANNON COYLE/THE CHRONICLE and a hearing. from office to office without reso the classroom because of the need "It is a policy that affirms that lution of their complaints. To to comply with the Civil Rights Taming the Tigers we take harassment seriously," combat this problem, White said Act of 1964, she wrote. Grant Hill knifes his way through two Tiger defenders, said Judith White, special assis she wants to make the commu While different factions ofthe leading the Blue Devils to a victory. tant to the president and sexual nity aware ofthe complaint pro- See POUCY on page 6 • Landfill site in Duke Forest undergoes tests Reno plans By PEGGY KRENDL wanted to ensure that the sites were plan to bore into the ground to deter This is one test, the University doesn't geologically suitable for a landfill. mine how deep the soil is, where the to visit want to pass. Geological characteristics such as the bedrock begins and where groundwater Land in Duke Forest, along with three depth of bedrock, the amount of water is located. other locations in Orange County, is on a site its drainage pattern, the depth The Landfill Search Committee will University currently undergoing tests to determine of the groundwater and soil conditions review the results of the study in a can all affect how a landfill impacts on report due to be released in May. whether it is a geologically suitable site From staff reports for Orange County's new landfill. the surrounding area. The report will also identify federally The Duke Forest 853-acre site is Last year the testing was postponed protected wetlands on the four sites U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno located in the Blackwood Division ofthe because land owners on some ofthe sites under consideration. In June 1992, the will speak atthe University later this forest, east of Old NC 86 and north of feared that some of the tests would Army Corps of Engineers defined 33 month. Eubanks Road. damage their properties, making them acres scattered throughout the Duke Reno, appointed early last year by Orange County needs to open a new harder to sell, Wilson said. Forest site as protected wetlands. President Clinton, will speak about landfill to dump its trash before the However, after further study of the Wilson, who foresees other sites as the future ofthe criminal justice sys current Orange County landfill, adja impact the tests would have on the having similar problems, said the wet tem on Saturday, Jan. 22 at noon in cent to Duke Forest, closes in 2002, said properties, the land owners were lands would not exclude the University Page Auditorium. Gayle Wilson, solid-waste administrator reassured that the tests would not harm site from consideration. Reno's keynote address is part of for Orange County. their land, he said. "The information we have to date the three-day Frontiers of Legal A committee formed to select a site for Joyce Engineering, a Raleigh-based doesn't preclude havingalandfill there," Thought conference, sponsored an the new landfill began examining several firm, is overseeing the tests on the sites. he said. nually by the School ofLaw and orga sites in 1991. After months of hearings In November, geologists and engineers To place a landfill on the wetland nized by law students, according to amidst community protest, the surveyed the sites to identify large rock areas, Orange County would have to get Duke News Service. committee unanimously favored the formations, standing pools of water, a special permit from the Army Corps of Ticket availability will be an- Duke Forest site in spring 1992. Before rivers and streams. Engineers. Judson Edeburn, Duke For- See RENO on page 4 •• making a final decision, the committee This month, engineers and geologists See FOREST on page 4 p> THE CHRONICLE . THURSDAY. JANUARYS, 1994 World and National Newsfile Clinton plans policy-setting Russian visit By THOMAS FRIEDMAN bumper sticker would be about. Because before he embarked on his first Russia Objects: Lithuania said N.Y. Times News Service in reaction to the last election there, European mission, a 10-day journey, on Tuesday night that it wanted to WASHINGTON — After a long there were some people who were Clinton spoke in detail about not only join NATO, and Russia warned internal debate on America's Russian questioning whether, well, has reform Russian aid, but also the future of the Wednesday that an expansion ofthe policy, President Clinton plans to go to gone too fast or not fast enough, or Atlantic alliance and American relations alliance to include Russia's close Moscow next week urging continued whatever. with Eastern Europe. neighbors could give rise to tough economic reforms but with some "I think our slogan would be there Clinton devoted his opening "undesirable moods" among both the new ideas about how Western aid can needs to be more reform and more social statement to an attempt to assure military and civilian population here. be used to retrain Russian workers and service support," he added, "more Eastern Europe of continued American attempts to build a safety net to deal Bosnia bombed: Serbian cushion those left unemployed by support, despite Washington's economic changes, officials said with the consequences of reform but not opposition to immediate NATO gunners rained the heaviest an attempt to slow down the reform bombardment in months on Sarajevo Wednesday.

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