UJB Votes to Dissolve

Jam with R&R's Best of 1993 Clip and .save this one. Our picks for the THE CHRONICLE best albums, films and books ofthis year. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1993 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 89, NO. 70 Trustees to discuss UJB votes to dissolve SPE By RUSS FREYMAN Janet Dickerson, vice president rence I have ever seen." and PEGGY KRENDL for student affairs, on charges Though disorderly conduct two-tiered tuition The Undergraduate Judicial that the fraternity was denied charges generally do not war By MICHAEL SAUL to the trustees a 4.9 percent Board dissolved the Sigma Phi due process. Derman made the rant dissolution, the board had The administration will tuition increase for return Epsilon fraternity in a unani board's decision public Tuesday. warned the fraternity last spring propose a two-tiered under ing students in Trinity Col mous decision last month. Dickerson said she hopes to that any further infraction be graduate tuition structure lege. Trinity College's cur The board found the frater review the appeal and make a fore May 1994 would result in nity guilty of disorderly conduct decision before winter break. If dissolution because of SPE's ex that would raise millions of rent tuition rate is $16,720. tensive judicial record. dollars for Arts and Sciences Incoming Trinity students and not guilty of assault and Dickerson upholds the board's at the Board of Trustees' would face an additional battery in a 5-0 decision released decision, Derman said he will "They were in control of the meeting this weekend. $1,000 charge plus the same to the SPE president Nov. 22. appeal it to President Nan situation; all they had to do was Roy Weintraub, actingdean 4.9 percent tuition increase, The hearing was held Nov. 10. Keohane. stay out of trouble," said Engi ofthe faculty of Arts and Sci according to Weintraub's pro- Trinity senior Keith Derman, "It was far from being a fair neering senior Doug Jarrard, ences, said he will recommend See TUITION on page 18 p> SPE president, said he plans to trial." Derman said. "It was lit chair ofthe panel that heard the appeal the board's decision to erally the most pathetic occur See SPE on page 9 • Intellectual debate seeks focus By ALISON STUEBE At University gatherings rang life will be working together this A year after a renowned pro ing from meetings of the Board spring to formulate a set of rec fessor lambasted the of Trustees to frater ommendations. University for stray nity fireside chats, "We want to broaden that dis ing from its educa community members course and move it toward mak tional mission, stu have discussed the ing a University-wide conversa dents, faculty and ad University's mission tion, a regular and unsurprising ministrators are still and its responsibility feature of Duke life," said Peter debating how to solve to promote intellectu Burian, associate professor of the problem. alism. classical studies and chair ofthe At the annual "This is the liveliest intellectual climate task force. Founder's Day ad ongoing conversation Burian said that in February, dress last December, involving students, the committee wants to set out James B Duke pro- Win wmimon faculty and adminis objectives that could guide dis fessor oi English trators in the last 20 cussions about residential life Reynolds Price said that the years," said Tom McCoIlough, and the greek system. University had failed its students associate professor of religion. The Arts and Sciences resi by sustaining "a prevailing cloud Although this debate is not dential life task force has been of indifference, of frequent hos new, Price said, "[this is] the first charged to develop an overall tility, to a thoughtful life." time that I've been aware of vision for campus housing by the Price's remarks, coupled with people having an almost desper May meeting of the Board of an exhaustive report on student ate tone in their voices about it." Trustees, and the greek life task life by Will Willimon, dean ofthe To address concerns raised by force is also scheduled to pro Chapel, set off a maelstrom of Willimon and Price, three com duce a report next semester. debate last spring about intel mittees dealing with residential While committee leaders are lectual life on campus. life, intellectual life and greek See DEBATE on page 19 •- Psychiatrist supports Seagroves From staff and wire reports cycle and golf clubs. He testified tives. He was driven by an in STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE A University psychiatrist tes Tuesday he was terrified when tense fear for his own life," March tified Wednesday that Michael he discovered four people had said. "The idea was shoot or die." Reynolds Price has spent the last 42 years at the University. Seagroves acted in an under broken into his house March 18, He added that the aiming ofthe standable way when he shot teen but doesn't know how many shots rifle was not directed by thought, agers who broke into his garage. he fired or why he gave police "as if he was shooting at a skeet," Author, professor "All the alarm signals go off at conflicting statements. but was unconscious. once," said Dr. John March, as The trial began Nov. 29 and March also told Prosecutor sistant professor of child and attorneys for both sides said clos William Farrell that it was nor defines intellectual adolescent psychiatry and an ing arguments could begin mal for Seagroves to sound calm expert in post traumatic stress Thursday. and composed when calling 911 By IVAN SNYDER an anti-intellectual atmo disorder. "Mr. Seagroves was March said Seagroves' deci after the shooting and during his Reminiscent of a museum sphere. Price proposed drastic operating under the assumption sion to get a .22-caliber rifle and statement to police, both ofwhich with ornate, antique furnish measures to remedy the cam he was about to be killed One later to fire it were consistent were taped and played for the ing and walls covered with pus climate, such as removing responds automatically ...it's a with reactions to stressful, life- jury- masks and paintings spanning the greek system from campus fight-flight response." or-death situations. In the 911 tape, Seagroves cor myriad times and cultures, and switching to a residential March was paid $200 an hour "It's absolutely characteristic rects the dispatcher's spelling of Reynolds Price's living room is college .system, causing a major by the defense for his work on the to have these little bits of memory his street and his last name. almost a shine to intellectual uproar in the community. that are missing," March added. March said Seagroves voice had case, a total of "around $24,000 "exactly the same emotional tone pursuit. "For many Duke students, to $25,000," he said. Earlier in On cross-examination, March The renowned southern au the word 'intellectual' has an said that Seagroves knew right one sees in all trauma survi the trial Larry Fletcher, an inde vors," including rape victims. thor and James B. Duke Pro almost perjorative tone to it," pendent firearms expert, was from wrong, and that he inten fessor of English has long Price said. "I think of an intel paid $500 per day by the defense. tionally went to his closet to get In the police interview, he tells epitomized intellectualism. lectual as being one of the Seagroves, 37, is charged with a rifle instead of going to a tele a detective he fired two separate Last December, in his millions of human beings who manslaughter and assault in the phone to call police. bursts of gunfire, one at fleeing Founder's Day address, he ac pays very close attention to shootings of two teens who broke "He was not driven by the ra teens out his garage door. On the cused the University of having See PRICE on page 10 p> into his garage to steal a motor tional consideration of alterna See SEAGROVES on page 8 •- THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1993 World and National Newsfile Court weighs abortion protest measures By LINDA GREENHOUSE - were motivated by a desire for The lawyer for the anti-abortion groups, Visitors lobby: The Ivory Coast's N.Y. Times News Service economic gain. Robert Blakey, a law professor at the self-proclaimed president saw WASHINGTON — The argument that Two lower federal courts, finding that University ofNotre Dame who wrote much visitors Wednesday, lobbyingto con abortion clinics can invoke the federal the groups' actions were aimed at driving ofthe RICO legislation while serving as a solidate his constitutional claim as racketeering law to sue violent anti-abor abortion clinics out of business rather Senate staff counsel, had an uphill battle the military pledged to support his tion protest groups got a receptive hear than making money for themselves, held in which he never found his equilibrium. rival, the prime minister. ing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. that RICO did not apply and dismissed a The question of whether the law re As their past decisions indicated, the jus suit brought by the National Organiza quires economic motive, and whether it Reservation expressed: Pres tices appeared reluctant to write into the tion for Women on behalf of two abortion can apply to abortion clinic protests, has identClinton expressed reservations Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Orga clinics. been in the lower courts for years. Wednesday that "a full-blown crisis" nizations Act any limits that Congress But "Congress didn't say a word about This case, which began in 1986, as with North Korea can be averted did not put there when it passed the law economic motive" when it wrote the law, sumed particular significance eariier this and said that if conflict conies he is in 1970.

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