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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY. JUNE 21. 1990 c DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 8.000 VOL. 86, NO. S6 Graduate students upset at loss of housing By ERIN SULLIVAN house freshmen in Aispaugh dor merly allotted a total of 273 a "very conservative estimate." As a massive freshman class mitory on East Campus, leading spaces on Central Campus. Ev "If it's a one-year thing and it's squeezes graduate students out to therelocation of up ery year there is a waiting list of 10 or 15 spaces then we could of campus housing, members of perclassmen. Some of these stu approximately 60 graduate stu swallow it and not make a big the Graduate and Professional dents will be placed in three- dents for those spaces, said Ann- deal out of it, but 40 spaces is a Student Council (GPSC) are con room suites on Central Campus, Marie Lynch, GPSC president. significant number," Lynch said. cerned about the lack of quality apartments usually reserved for At least 40 spaces will be reallo The University has a commit living spaces. graduate students. cated to undergraduates next ment to provide undergraduate fall. Lynch said that 40 spaces is See HOUSING on page 15 • STAFF PHOTO 'THE CHRONICLE The University has decided to Graduate students were for Ann-Marie Lynch Mandela receives Cortez linked to male grand welcoming upon U.S. arrival pornographic movie ByJUDIEGLAVE Associated Press By BEN PRATT Rothschild for two years until NEW YORK — Nelson Throughout his years of name- September, 1989. He is now in Mandela received a hero's dropping, identity-switching and custody in North Carolina on welcome Wednesday as he ar alleged money embezzling, charges of fraud and embezzle rived for his first visit to the Mauro Cortez most likely never ment stemming from his finan United States. The South Af convinced any athletic coach that cial activities while at the Uni rican freedom fighter was he was fit for competition. versity. feted with a ticker-tape pa Yet in 1985, he appeared in In one of the photos, Cortez rade, the keys to the city and Jock magazine. stands in front of four other an outpouring of support by Jock does not cover athletic young men, all of whom are nearly 1 million people. events. Rather, it is a porno wearing only red bikini briefs. The African National Con graphic magazine catering to gay Cortez, arms folded and smiling, gress leader, responded with a men. sports only black bikini briefs. plea for continued economic Cortez, then posing as Maurice The other photo shows Cortez sanctions against his home De Rothschild at the University reading documents, one of which land — a theme he has of California at Berkeley, ap bears the heading "Rothschild sounded throughout his peared in two photos and was File." worldwide tour. featured in an accompanying The story, written by Jock As "We appeal to you in all MATT SCUVFANI /THE CHRONICLE story in the April, 1985 issue of sociate Editor Jim Grizzle, reads humility and in all sincerity Jock magazine. The magazine "low-key San Francisco college that you must join us in the The duck stops here said the ertswhile baron ap student known to most as internal actions that you are peared in a pornographic film. Maurice de Rothschild, purpor These killer ducks lie in wait for their next unsuspecting vic taking to force the govern tedly from the famed grape- tim in the Duke Gardens. Cortez, 37, duped the Univer ment to abandon apartheid," sity into believing he was de See BARON on page 16 • Mandela said shortly after landing at Kennedy In ternational Airport. There and at City Hall, Program recruits black students for academia Mandela thanked Americans for their support of the anti- apartheid movement. After By MATT SCLAFANI solution. The Dana Foundation academia. Students work indi The students' research spans receiving the key to the city, The small number of minority Program on Preparing Minorities vidually with a faculty "mentor" two years at Duke and their he declared: "Apartheid is professors at the University has for Academic Careers is attempt in their chosen areas of study. respective colleges. The fruits of doomed. South Africa shall be sparked protests and a resolution ing to increase the pool of avail Sophomores from Hampton, their work during the six-week free. The struggle continues." requiring an aggressive recruit able faculty by enticing black Morehouse, Spelman, Tuskegee stint at Duke will be presented in He told the City Hall crowd ment program, making Duke students to enter academic ca and Xavier of Louisiana were a conference in the fall at the that he envisions a new South very familiar with the nation reers. chosen by a selection committee University. Africa, one "which banishes wide shortage of black faculty. Thirty black students arrived chaired by John Hope Franklin, forever racism in all its forms Now the University is coopera on campus two weeks ago to pur professor emeritus of history. The program hopes to encour and becomes a truly non- ting with five predominantly sue independent research with The program will continue to age students by "removing disin racial, non-sexist society." black colleges to attack the prob University faculty and to get a operate at these five schools in centives to go on to graduate lem in hopes of a long-term taste of what life is like in the future. See DANA OR page 9 • Down Under may house computers By ADRIAN DOLLARD Ideally the cluster would house be in the space that was the DU's Plans are in the works to in between 10 and 20 IBM PC and food locker. stall a new computer cluster in Macintosh computers and would Because the University Union the space formerly occupied by be open around the clock or as plans to use the multi-purpose the Down Under (DU) cafeteria long as access to GA is available, space for bands, comedy groups in the Gilbert-Addoms dormito said Dr. Alton Brantley, director and other cabaret-style events, ry- of academic computing. Aca the addition of the computing demic computing is currently cluster has raised concern among evaluating the feasibility of the some members ofthe Union. proposed cluster, he said. Beth Budd, assistant director Weather The proposed cluster will be lo for Union programming, ex cated in the DU's old dishwash pressed reservations that noise It'S here: The first day of ing room, a space previously des generated by performers and summer that is. But summer ignated as a green room or hospi cluster users would interfere term 1 is almost gone. Oh tality lounge for artists perform with performances and computer well. High in the 90s. ing in the multi-purpose space. use. Brantley said there will be STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE The green room is now slated to See COMPUTERS on page 13 • The Down Under will undergo further changes PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 21.1990 World & National Newsfile Gorbachev fears upcoming party election Associated Press By BRYAN BRUMLEY Carrier explodes: A fire on Associated Press pects other candidates to surface as well. transformations" under way in the Soviet Wednesday raged for hours aboard the MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gor In recent months, Gorbachev has trans Union, said Ligachev. U.S. aircraft carrier Midway, injuring bachev came under fire from hard-line ferred some of the Communist Party's "The Socialist community has disinte 16 crewmen, at least nine seriously, Communists on Wednesday and acknowl powers to elected legislative bodies, grated, while the positions of imperialism and blocking attempts to find two edged that he could lose his party post at thereby protecting himself somewhat have been dramatically consolidated," missing sailors, the Navy said. a national congress in less than two from personal political damage that could said Ligachev. His remarks were reported weeks. result if he lost the party leadership. by the state news agency Tass. Georgia seeks freedom: The Critics at a party meeting castigated Moreover, he was elected in March to a Gorbachev has acknowledged making parliaments of Georgia and Uzbekis the national leadership. They did not five-year term in the new post of presi mistakes, but he said in a speech to dele tan begin charting courses toward in mention Gorbachev by name but said they dent and has wielded considerable power gates Wednesday that his accusers were dependence. did not think one person should be Soviet in that job. poorly informed and disrespectful. president and general secretary of the The 28th Congress of the Soviet Com "The comrades seem to suspect the gen Baker proposes aid: Secretary of Communist Party. Gorbachev holds both munist Party is to consider structural eral secretary of the Communist Party of State James Baker III will sound out jobs. changes and elect a leader when it con some vacillation, hesitation, and so forth," U.S. allies on a proposed Western aid venes July 2. Gorbachev said angrily. package to boost the faltering Soviet "It is impossible to run the party, this The 2,700 delegates to the current Rus "Some of the comrades are being too ca economy, but President Bush said guiding force, without devoting full time sian conference will also attend the na sual with the general secretary, with the Wednesday he sees "formidable obsta to it," said Yegor Ligachev, the most tional congress, where they will form a president of the country," he said. cles" to such assistance. prominent Soviet hard-liner. He spoke at majority ofthe 4,700 votes. "It is not a question of me, personally," a meeting called to found a new Commu he said.