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Duke blows past Greensboro The baseball team rallied for a 8-7 victory over Greensboro College THE CHRONICLE Wednesday. See Sports, p. 13. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1996 = ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSIT DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 91, NO. 96 Blue Devils conquer streaking Cavaliers By WILLIAM DVORANCHIK It was a game that both In a surprise change of teams desperately needed to venues, WrestleMania held its win, but neither team wanted feature event in Cameron In to take. The matchup kept door Stadium Wednesday both teams mired in the mid night. dle of the ACC pack with iden In other sporting news, the tical 5-7 conference records. Duke and Virginia men's bas Duke's NCAA chances received ketball teams were able to a boost with the win, as the squeeze in an important At Blue Devils improved to 14-10 lantic Coast Conference con overall, while Virginia's hopes test between bouts. In a game dimmed even more as the team that featured 54 personal dropped to 11-11 on the season. fouls—33 in the second half- Duke came out flat from the Duke outlasted Virginia for a opening tip, scoring only 10 79-69 victory. points in the first 13:28 of play JOHN BURK/THE CHRONICLE "Everybody was getting and shooting only 30.8 percent 9 banged around a little bit," from the floor in the first half. 'I think I can, I think I can, I think... I'm in trouble sophomore Steve Wojciechows Despite a 12-point halftime ki said. "But that's the way lead, Virginia was never able A truck driver apparently miscalculates the size of his trailer while traveling down Erwin Virginia plays, and we re to put the Blue Devils away, Road toward Ninth Street Wednesday afternoon. sponded well to that." See WAHOO WIN on page 13 • Dinner focuses on leadership 'Kiss the Girls' not By DENISE DUNNING have the privilege of time," with various aspects of Red- At a Tuesday night dinner Young said. "Your choice is to bord's speech and encouraged sponsored by Spectrum Orga answer your calling and ac students to look for the simi to be shot on campus nization, student leaders, fac cept your gift. You can choose larities between themselves By HARRIS HWANG quad and in Duke Forest. ulty and administrators chal to make a difference or become and the people whom they con University officials in Filming for the $30 million lenged freshmen to take an indifferent." sider to be different from formed Paramount Pictures movie, which stars Morgan active role in the University Trinity junior Ari Redbord, themselves. He emphasized late last week that they Freeman, would have taken community and to take full ad editor of The Duke Review, the need for students to learn would not allow the major place during two Saturdays vantage of their opportunities stressed the importance of from all people they come into motion picture company to in April, said David Rober to shape the future ofthe Uni unity. He also encouraged stu contact with—not just Univer use the campus to film any son, director of University re versity. dents to stand up for their be sity faculty, but also employ scenes of the upcoming lations. Trinity senior Kim Young, liefs and values. "Ideas, good ees. movie "Kiss the Girls," based But due to the violent na president of the University's and bad, are what influence "Speak to the person who on best-selling author James ture of the book and public Big Brother & Sister Program, our decisions and drive our de serves you food or cleans your Patterson's 1995 novel. protest to negative exposure emphasized students' account bates and discussions," Red dorm. They can tell you about About three weeks ago, ofthe campus, Roberson said ability and the importance of bord said. "Our ideas are the a lot of things you don't see Paramount approached the the two-day taping would not community service. "You are lifeblood of this University; everyday." Corders also chal University and requested have been beneficial to the responsible for your communi they are its future." lenged students to fulfill their permission to shoot several University community. ty. You are accountable to an Maurice Corders, a Medical ideals. "A lot of the high ideals scenes on the West Campus See MOVIE on page 6 • swer your calling while you Center employee, disagreed See DINNER on page 12 • The 'no nonsense' outsider Trinity junior Thomas Bender says he will stand up for students By JESSICA KOZLOV said. "But he should not just deal and the easiest way to do that was to Duke Student Government presi with problems; he should have a pos run myself." dential candidate Thomas Bender itive plan of action." A chemistry and biology major, plans to take a "no-nonsense ap Despite the fact that Bender has Bender said that he sees four prima proach" to student govern /v no prior experience with ry concerns on campus that he plans ment as the first part ofT\QfY^ \ ££/ DSG, he does not see this to address if elected to the presiden his two-plank platform. \ iSlx as a handicap. "If I were cy. The second planplank in- DREC1 nrfUTI AI runrun£ ™r a vice"Presi- First, he will address the alcohol volves Bender, a Trinity : ciential osition l could policy, particularly his concern that - TIT Ti>'>fr*i r/\Ti7 P junior, serving the student ly I L LAW fi \hj see where my lack of expe- a student can still be written up for body with a positive agen- LlJUlJ tM I \fl T rience would be more of a alcohol policy violations even after da as opposed to a reactionary one. problem," he said. "The president is going to the emergency room. Ben "The president should be able to lead more of a sounding board for the stu- der said he thought that such a poli with positive and creative ideas for dents.... I wanted to make sure that cy would potentially discourage stu- DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE change in response to problems," he there was someone worth voting for See BENDER on page 5 • Thomas Bender THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1996 World and National Newsfile Gramm quits, takes shot at Buchanan Associated Press Italian reform fails: Hopes for By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT night—Gramm left the campaign trail Some advisers had urged him to pull a reform of Italy's political system Associated Press Tuesday and returned to Washington the plug on his moribund presidential collapsed Wednesday after Prime WASHINGTON—Texas Sen. Phil to huddle with his advisers. campaign and focus on the Senate Minister-designate Antonio Mac- Gramm bowed out of the Republican Having spent at least $20 million in race, worried that his weak national canico abandoned his two-week- presidential campaign Wednesday, but the race, Gramm said he wasn't quit performance could hurt him at home, old effort to form a new govern not without taking a parting shot at ting for lack of money. Figuring into but Gramm rejected arguments that he ment. His action indicates that the rival who more than any other the deliberations was his other race: is vulnerable in Texas. parliamentary elections are likely, pushed him out of the race: Pat re-election to the Senate seat he has Four Texas Democrats are vying for which may be held this spring. Buchanan. held since 1985. their party's nomination to take him Even as he set his sights homeward Gramm has taken advantage of on, complaining that he has short Pentagon blamed: The Penta on a Senate re-election campaign that Texas' unusual "LBJ Law" to run con changed the state during his White gon has complicated investiga has been in mothballs, Gramm current presidential and Senate cam House flirtation. tions into Gulf War illnesses by its promised to continue fighting against paigns—though the Senate effort re Smiling and upbeat, Gramm said, poor record-keeping, delayed out protectionism "until I am lowered into mains bare-bones, with only one "It is my goal now to become a great reach programs and faulty chemi the grave." worker on the payroll. See GRAMM on page 7 > cal and biological warfare equip In a clear jab at Buchanan, who is ment, a presidential committee fiercely critical of trade agreements, said Wednesday. the Texan said: "Our party can never follow the path of protectionism." Dayton accord difficulties Brother denies: The brother of "We have always been wise enough Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assas to reject it, and I reject it now and I al sin pleaded innocent Wednesday ways will reject it." Gramm said at a prompt weekend summit to conspiracy charges in connec packed Capitol Hill news conference tion with the prime minister's with his wife, Wendy Lee Gramm, at By PAUL QUINN-JUDGE problem with implementation," said slaying. his side. N.Y. Times News Service Nicholas Burns, the department Buchanan had gotten under WASHINGTON—Amid signs that spokesman. The meeting will try to Gramm's skin, handing him a humili the Dayton peace agreement was run reestablish some order in the process, ating loss in the Louisiana caucuses ning into serious trouble, the Clinton he said. last week and laying claim to the administration called a high-level At the moment, Burns and other of Weather Christian conservatives Gramm had meeting in Rome late this week in an Friday ficials say, all three signatories to the wooed in Iowa. effort to put peace efforts back on agreement—Bosnia, Croatia and Ser Hlgh:50 • Showers track, the State Department an Low: 38 • Winds: Slammin' After an embarrassing fifth-place bia—are showing a disquieting tenden showing in the Iowa caucuses Mon nounced Wednesday.