Two Women Assaulted on Campus University to Install Condom

THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 3 Federal commission files Two women assaulted on campus From staff reports T~. racial discrimination suit Two women were assaulted in unrelated incidents Sunday By CHRIS O'BRIEN night, according Capt. Robert The Equal Employment Op Dean of Public Safety. portunity Commission The first assault occurred at (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit on 10:15 p.m. in Parking Garage behalf of a former black law Two, located across from Duke student charging the Univer Hospital North on Aaron Road. sity with racial discrimination A female hospital employee in its hiring policies. was sitting in her car waiting for Maurice Taylor, a Law her shift to begin. As she left her School alumnus, filed charges car to walk to the hospital, she against the University last was approached by a stranger fall alleging he was turned who asked her the time, Dean down for a job as an instructor said. in the University Writing When she turned around, she Program (UWP) because he is saw he was holding a silver, black. Before attending law small calliber pistol at waist school, Taylor had received a level. The man made her get doctorate in sociology and had back into the car and empty her taught at two colleges. purse, Dean said. The EEOC is a federal com The man escaped with $3 and mission established to enfor JIM JEFFERS/THE CHRONICLE some change. The woman then ran into the hospital where she ces the standards of the 1967 George Gopen Civil Rights Act. reported the robbery, he said. CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE The woman described the as "We've been served with a EEOC cited with the hiring One of two attacks Sunday occurred inside Ronald sailant as a black male in his late lawsuit. We have not yet filed policy was the lack of objective McDonald House. our answer," said David Ad criteria for the interviews, 20's, approximately 6 feet 2 in cock, university counsel. said Humphrey Cummings, ches tall and 150 pounds, Dean struggle. The woman screamed rector of Public Safety. "Anytime "We're in the process of inves attorney for the EEOC. "Some said. He had close cut hair, was and apparently scared the at you have a major case, you react tigating the charges." of the rationale [for not hiring wearing faded blue jeans, and a tacker away, Dean said. to that," he said. He would not The University has twenty Taylor] didn't pan out," he ad white T-shirt. The woman was taken to the_ specify the precautions being days from the time the law ded. The case is under investigation Medical Center Emergency Room taken. suit is filed to respond to char However, George Gopen, di and there are no other leads, he where she was treated for her The assaults are the first on ges, Adcock said. rector of the UWP and asso said. cuts, he said. campus since students began ar The EEOC instigated a ciate professor of English, The second assault occurred at The only description author riving on campus. Last winter preliminary investigation last defended his decision not to 10:40 pm in the Ronald ities have of the man is that of a two women were raped in two March into the charges filed hire Taylor. Gopen said he McDonald House on Alexander white male. The case falls under days and several assaults have by Taylor. A determination of posted notices in the Law Avenue. A female in the laundry the jurisdiction of the Durham occurred in the Medical Center merit letter said the EEOC School soliciting applications room was grabbed from behind Police and is currently under in vicinity this summer. The rapes found "probable cause for dis from law students who had by a man holding a knife, Dean vestigation, Dean said. and assaults prompted student crimination." completed their first year for said. The man pushed her to the Public Safety will be taking ex protests and demands for in floor where she sustained some Among the problems the See EEOC on page 16 • tra steps to secure the campus, creased safety measures by the cuts from the knife during the according to Paul Dumas, di administration. University to install condom dispensers in dormitories By MARTHA CARSON Information on condoms will dry rooms of residence halls and Condom dispensers will soon also be distributed, he added. Central Campus laundry rooms, be installed in University resi The condoms will come in indi said director of housing manage dence halls and Central Campus vidual packages and will cost 50 ment Fidelia Thomason. After laundry rooms, according to the cents apiece, said Beth this point, decisions will be made University's vice president for Armbruster, assistant health as to whether dispensers should student affairs. educator for Student Health. The be installed in dorm bathrooms, The decision to install the ma money will pay for restocking the ASDU President Tommy Semans chines was made last spring, said machines and for information said. brochures, she said. William Griffith, University vice No definite date has been set "We do not recommend that president. "It was primarily for the installation, but it will be any student use [otherl condoms predicated by the recommenda done as soon as possible, made of lamb's intestine or non- tion by the AIDS Task Force here Thomason said. on campus and ASDU," Griffith lubricated ones without said. "Plus, we had been consid spermicide," Armbruster said. Funds for installing the $99 ering it administratively," he The plan is to install the con machines will come from the said. dom vending machines in laun See CONDOMS on page 15 • STAFF PHOTO/THtliJE CHRONICL E DownUnder becomes activities center Condom dispensers will soon be installed in residence halls By MATT SCLAFANI taurant space in Gilbert-Addoms The DownUnder restaurant The former DownUnder res dormitory will hold entertain closed in the spring because of taurant space will be turned into ment such as drama, music and the planned opening of the new Weather student activity space and in readings. During the rest of the East Campus Food Court. Inside structors' offices during the up week, the space will be available In addition, some of the 12,000 coming year, a University com for student organization meet square feet of space will be made Greenhouse effect: Peo NO CUre in Sight: Morning fog will hardly be the Cure for mittee has decided. ings. into offices for 15 to 20 Univer ple who live in glass houses The administration will set up The foyer will house a games sity Writing Course (UWC) in should not throw stones. Read the no-ticket woes, but highs a new committee this fall to plan room including table tennis, bil structors, said William Griffith, about Cable 13's new studios. in the 90s and a chance of rain how to permanently allocate the liards and video games. vice president for student affairs. Page 3. may cause disintegration. space. The space is expected to be The instructors will only be On weekends, the former res ready by October 1, Griffith said. See DOWNUNDER on page 15 • PAG. 2 TfoE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, AUGUST 29,1989 World & National Newsfile Associated Press Baltic Communist leaders stress balance By ESTHER FEIN U.S. meets Colombians: us N.Y. Times News Service lic's Central Committee on Monday that on local television, acknowledged that ex ambassador and foreign minister meet President Mikhail Gorbachev telephoned tremist elements existed in the republics, on extraditing an alleged finance man MOSCOW — Facing a crisis with Mos him on Sunday to caution against sepa but they dismissed the significance of ager for cocaine barons. Another sus cow over the growing nationalist move ratist tendencies in the republic. such groups and pledged their commit pect reportedly on U.S. wanted list is ments in their republics, Communist According to Vitas Tomkus, a member ment to achieving greater freedom. captured, 4.5 tons of cocaine seized. Party leaders in Estonia, Latvia, and of the new Soviet congress in Moscow who Vaino Valjas, the head of the Commu The meeting follows weeks of violence. Lithuania issued statements on Monday was at the meeting, Brazauskas reported nist Party in Estonia, said in his state that straddled the line between the Krem that Gorbachev said "Lithuania was, and ment: "We fully understand Moscow's UN talks tO COntraS: Secretary- lin's demand for restraint and local cries should be, in the Soviet Union and one concern about these extreme groups." But General Javier Perez de Cuellar says for more radical changes. mustn't think about secession." he emphasized that "extremism is not the he will soon contact the U.S.-backed The separate communiques were issued On Saturday, the Soviet Communist main thing," and he promised the Esto Nicaraguan rebels to obtain their coop after emergency sessions of the Central Party leadership summarily denounced nian people "we will go on." eration with a peace plan calling for Committees in each of the Baltic republics the Baltic nationalist movements, accus It is not known whether Gorbachev also their disarmament. convened to discuss Moscow's warning ing them of extremist views and saying called Valjas, a close associate he has over the weekend against the Baltics' call that they had created a crisis in the coun known since university days, or Janis Cambodians seek peace: Dele for greater independence. try. Vagras, the party chief in Latvia. gates at an international peace confer The party chief in Lithuania, Algirdas The three Baltic Communist Parties' While local party leaders sought to ence hold last-minute, desperation Brazauskas, told a meeting of his repub responses, which were read Monday night See BALTIC on page 8 • talks searching for a compromise in the apparently irreconcilable positions held by warring Cambodian factions.

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