THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 99 Amtrak line to connect state cities Superpowers agree on By HARRIET SHELLEY Catching a train to go home for the holidays has never been ex­ plan for German unity tremely convenient for Univer­ sity students. By the time they sit through the unavoidable By PAUL LEWIS many and its allies want, or holiday gridlock and fork over N.Y. Times News Service be neutral, as the East Ger­ the $30 taxi fare to the Raleigh OTTAWA — The four major mans and the Soviet Union train station, many students feel World War II Allies agreed prefer. that riding the rails may not be Tuesday on a framework for The turnaround on the is­ for them. negotiating the reunification sue of troop reductions was The headaches caused by train of Germany, which has been striking. travel for University students divided for the last 45 years. Last week in Moscow, Sec­ may be over. As a result of a The agreement, announced retary of State James Baker study done by Eric Pas, associate at the end of a three-day East- III was told by Gorbachev that professor in the University's West conference of foreign the two sides could each have Department of Civil and Envi­ ministers here, came as Mos­ 195,000 troops or 225,000 ronmental Engineering, a new cow accepted the proposal troops, but the United States Amtrak train route has been made by President Bush last could not have 30,000 more scheduled to run through Char­ month on Soviet and U.S. than the Soviet Union as lotte, Greensboro, Durham, Ra­ troop reductions in central Bush proposed. leigh, Rocky Mount, and various Europe and elsewhere in Eu­ The meeting of the foreign towns of North Carolina in be­ Education, the study was done fory-five minutes to the Raleigh rope. ministers here had originally tween, on its way to New York between August and October of train station. This represented a sudden been called to begin negotia­ City. 1989. Targeted to run beginning May reversal by President Mikhail tions for an "open skies" Pas analyzed data taken from The train will be the only pas­ 15, the train will arrive in Dur­ Gorbachev of the Soviet agreement between the two a survey conducted at four malls senger line in North Carolina ham northbound from Charlotte Union, who only last Friday alliances under which each around the state, and concluded running east to west, connecting to New York at 11:15 a.m. Going had insisted on absolute side would open its air space that there would be enough cus­ with the four passenger train southbound, the train will stop in parity in troop strengths. for aerial inspection by the tomer demand to support two routes running north to south Durham at 6:00 p.m. Under the plan agreed to other. trains travelling east-west North through the state. Because no The train station is located at here, Soviet and U.S. troop But the talks quickly be­ Carolina per day. Contracted passenger trains run through the corner of Mangum and Pet- levels in central Europe would came dominated by Western through the North Carolina Durham, University students tigrew Streets in downtown Dur­ be limited to 195,000, but the efforts to negotiate on German Department of Research and have had to travel approximately ham. United States could have an reunification. The schedule for the new train additional 30,000 troops in Under the plan for German will be fairly convenient for day­ other parts of Europe, in ac­ reunification, the two Ger­ time travellers, and the prices cord with Bush's original pro­ manys would work out the in­ Union nominates 17 for will be competetive, said Cliff posal. ternal aspects of unification Black, Public Affairs officer for The agreement on German themselves as soon as a demo­ Amtrak. "As a general rule, unification set up a two-stage cratic government has come to standing committee spots Amtrak prices are more than bus process by which West and power in East Germany after ticket prices, and less than air­ East Germany would first dis­ elections on March 18. line prices," Black said. cuss the details for the domes­ The Germanys would then From staff reports teraction; Trinity sophomore A one-way train ticket from tic unification and then meet start to negotiate their future The University Union nomina- Tom Talbot, Performing Arts; Durham to Charlotte would be with the United States, Brit­ security arrangements with tioned the new chairs for its 17 Trinity sophomore Adam Joyce, around $30, as predicted by Bob ain, France and the Soviet Britain, France, the United standing committees on Sunday Programming for University Grabarek, head of the North Union on more controversial States and the Soviet Union night. Bars. Carolina Department of Trans­ questions relating to postwar — the four World War II vic­ The following students were The nominations will be pres­ portation (DOT). There is a pos­ security issues. tors who still retain legal nominated: Trinity sophomore ented to the University Union sibility for special lower fares for A central issue is whether a rights over Germany. Steve Reissner, Freewater Prod­ Board (UUB), the Union's gov­ students, said Grabarek. united Germany would Despite the importance of uctions; Trinity junior Madra Al- erning body, at the end of March As of this week, the price of a remain a member of the the agreement, the announce- vis, Finance; Trinity junior Julie for approval, according to Rodney Greyhound bus ticket to Char- NATO alliance as West Ger­ See UNITY on page 7 • Nichols, Special Events; Engi­ Freeman, president ofthe Union. See TRAINS on page 8 • neering sophomore Douglas Decker, Facilities; Trinity junior Sheara Wall, Executive Secre­ tary; Trinity sophomore Mar- DUFS battles image problems, price conceptions garette Shim, Art Events; Trinity junior Beth McClure, posters describing DUFS loca­ Galleries; Trinity junior George ByREVABHATIA tions to every student. Plamondon, Cable 13; Trinity ju­ "Fast-food gourmet." But whether or not the public­ nior Chris Kempczinski, Major That's how Barry Scerbo, di­ ity has helped is still up in the Speakers; Trinity junior Bella rector of University Food Ser­ air. "The number one image Kang, Freewater Presentations; vices (DUFS) likes to describe problem we've experienced has Trinity junior Laura Tawney, the burgers, fries and burritos at been the pricing question," Publicity; Trinity junior Mujeeb the Rathskellar. Scerbo said. "We're still per­ "so hip" Shah-Khan, Major At­ "Too damn expensive." ceived as being overpriced." tractions; Trinity sophomore Jon That's what Trinity freshman Keeping on-campus prices in Vogel, Vice-president of Adminis­ Parmelee Thatcher has to say line with off-campus ones has al­ tration; Trinity junior Max Day, about them. ways been a high priority for Vice-president of Programming; Thatcher and students who DUFS. "Joe Pietrantoni [assis­ Trinity junior Julie Brooks, In­ share her view of DUFS prices tant vice president for Auxiliary have created an image problem Services, which administrates for the Rathskellar and other STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE DUFS] has three cardinal rules: campus restaurants. DUFS competitive prices, quality of ser­ Weather Students savor DUFS food. eateries lost over $100,000 last vice and quality of product. Go to hell Carol ina: So year, primarily because large tasteless and over-priced started said. Those are the three goals we maybe it's not The Carolina numbers of students began to this trend, but it's all just a mat­ To change its image, DUFS work for," Scerbo said. we're sending there tonight, buy food at campus convenience ter of bad publicity, according to has tried to start a little of its "I think when you compare the rolina. A stores like Uncle Harry's on Cen­ Scerhp. "I think that we start own hype going, printing a taste total cost of eating at Duke for a but at least it's a Ca tral Campus, rather than eat at warm day will complimentth e from a negative situation in that test of the East Food Court's semester to eating at another r campus DUFS restaurants and cafete­ we're a college food service, as Mexican food versus Taco Bell school, fDuke] is a lot cheaper . warm feelings all ove rias, Scerbo said. this Valentine's Day. compared to outside places with and Del Taco in its monthly but the prices are still unreason- Stereotypes of DUFS food as a lot of hype going for them," he newsletter and giving four-color See DUFS on page 4 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1990 World & National Newsfile Renewed rioting in Soviet Union kills 37 Associated Press ByJOHNIAMS Reagan to bar public: Ronald Associated Press cartons of milk. had fled the city aboard special flights to Reagan's lawyers asked a judge Tues­ MOSCOW — A crowd stormed Commu­ Violence broke out in Dushanbe on Yerevan, the Armenian capital, and many day to bar reporters and the public nist Party headquarters in the Tadzhikis­ Monday after rumors spread that thou­ others had left on regular flights. from the courtroom when the former tan capital of Dushanbe Tuesday in eth­ sands of Armenian refugees — already Zaniddin Nasreddinov, an editor at the president gives videotaped testimony nic rioting that has killed at least 37 peo­ fleeing ethnic clashes with Azerbaijanis Tajiktass news agency, reported another Friday in the Iran-Contra case of his ple and injured 108, news reports said. in the Caucasus — were being given pref­ rally in the center of Dushanbe Tuesday former national security adviser, John Armenians fled the city by the hun­ erence for scarce new housing.