Students on the run for office Campus organizations try to gain community THE CHROMCLE support for their respective candidates. ! UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH ___HT!R_fiai_!l^ Publication acts as free newsletter By MICHAEL SAUL Merri Rolfe, chair ofthe Publi­ The first issue of the Guide A new campus publication cations Board, and Paul Hudson, provided free space for more than seeks to improve communication ASDU vice president for student 20 organizations to print notices between University-affiliated or­ affairs, are seeking alternative of general interest, she said. Al­ ganizations and the Duke com­ sources to fund the new publica­ though much of the Guide ap­ munity. tion. Hudson is scheduled to meet peared to be advertising rather The Duke Guide, which was with several administrators Fri­ than features on organizations, first distributed on campus Mon­ day to evaluate how resources Rolfe said she hopes to see more day, serves as a free calendar and could be pooled to finance the information conveyed in the form newsletter for organizations on Guide. In the meantime, Rolfe is of stories . campus. Under the auspices of trying to recruit students to act The genesis ofthe Guide stems the Undergraduate Publications as the publication's coordinators, from discussion among members Board, the Guide received $1,400 responsible for collecting stories of a student advisory committee from the Office of Student .Affairs and notices from different cam­ this summer. Different organiza­ to publish its first two issues. pus organizations. tions on campus including Auxil­ Although the second issue is "[The Guide] is in no way a iary Services, ASDU and Student scheduled to be published next newspaper," Rolfe said. "It is a Affairs were each planning to week, the future of the Guide is newsletter." upgrade their newsletters. uncertain because additional The Guide provides a forum for Rather than upgradinga bunch funding has not yet been secured. campus organizations and admin­ of separate newsletters, Hudson Janet Dickerson, vice president istrators to directly communicate said the logical conclusion was to for student affairs, said she with the community about gen­ compile the information into one funded the publication to support eral information that The publication. PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE a student venture. The funding, Chromcle as a news source would Rolfe said the new publication however, ends after the second not usually print, Rolfe said. is similar in nature to The Stu­ Cable 13 anyone? issue. Although impressed by the "I'm happy with the idea that dent Guide, which was published An anonymous student In an anonymous room wires his first issue, she said, her office The Chronicle's job is to bea news­ in 1987 by the Publications Board anonymous television for cable. cannot afford to fund it further paper, but I think there is room and in 1991 by ASDU. The new nor is it her office's duty. for something else," she said. See GUIDE on page 5 •- Medical Center, University face parking woes By GEOFFREY GREEN Space in the First Union park­ than $330. said. The Medical Center and the ing lot on Main Street has been Medical students and staff cur­ Parking is also inadequate for University are facing parking dif­ leased to accommodate overflow rently have their own parking students who work at other hos­ ficulties. parking, he said. lots which cost them only $55 per pitals but must return to the The Medical Center does not "For the first time well have year, but these lots have become Medical Center for meetings and have enough parking spaces at adequate parking on the Medical very crowded after spaces were lectures, he said. the moment, but a new garage Center campus," he said. destroyed for the new garage. Additional construction may will give the Medical Center suf­ Medical students do not believe More and more cars are being cause parking problems for the ficient parking, said Harry Gen­ the parking garage will address forced to park in the First Union University as well. try, manager of transportation their needs, said Andrew Muir, lot. /Mthough University officials services for the Medical Center. president ofthe Davison Council, Bus service to and from the lot have allotted enough space for The new parking garage, which which represents medical stu­ is provided from 5:30 a.m. until 7 the additional cars expected when will have 1,700 spaces, is being dents to the administration. p.m., and security vans are avail­ the Science Research Center and built on Fulton St. near the Students will probably be al­ able to drive Medical Center em­ the Public Policy building are com­ Durham Expressway, Gentry lowed to park at the new garage, ployees and staff to and from the pleted, the current number of said. The garage will help re­ but the price will be too high for lot at other hours. The vans usu­ par kingspaces will beinadequate place the 200 parking spaces dis­ the medical students who are on ally take about 15 to 20 minutes if more buildings are constructed, located by the Medical Center's financial aid, he said, Spaces in to deliver personnel. said David Majestic, director of STAFF PHOTO /THE CHRONICLE new research building on Re­ the Medical Center's two existing "We just sometimes feel like we transportation services. David Majestic search Drive. parking garages now cost more don't have the safest parking," he See PARKING on page 4*- Local bookstores offer lower prices on various textbooks By PEGGY KRENDL The Bookshop is not the only other stores, he said. Last year, Not all students need to buy competition for the textbook store. for example, the textbook store every textbook from the Univer­ At Ravena's on Ninth Street, stu­ lowered the price of a law dictio­ sity. dents can buy a copy of Mein nary because the Book Exchange Students who do not need a Kampf for as low as $5.40. A used sold it cheaper. specific edition of a book for class edition of The Adventures of The University prices its used may find it profitable to shop Huckleberry Finn cost $1.50 at books according to the Publisher's around local used books stores the Book Exchange located on W. Suggested List. If prices are lower before resorting to the Univer­ Chapel Hill St. and $3.00 at the at other stores it could be for sity textbook store. textbook store. several reasons, Savage said. "Students often comment when But the cheaper book prices are First, the prices may be for dif­ they come here that books are not always for the same editions ferent editions of those books, the more expensive at the University that professors request for class. stores may be unaware of the store," said Bill Loeser, one ofthe Editions used in class are more changes in this year's prices, or co-owners of The Bookshop lo­ difficult to find cheaper. The Uni­ they are selling them for less cated on 400 W. Franklin St. in versity of Chicago edition of Adam money intentionally, Savage said. Chapel Hill. Smith's Wealth of Nations costs Loeser disagrees, citing the The Bookshop sells a used copy only five cents less at the Book publishers as the reason for the of Adam Smith's Wealth of Na­ Exchange than it does at the text­ differences in prices. tions for $5.00 while the textbook book store. "Historically the student is a store's used price is $12.75. A "If people find price variations, captive customer and doesn't paperback copy of Addf Hitler's they should tell us," said Jim Sav­ know any better," he said. The Mein Kampf sells for $ S. 25 at the age, assistant director of Text­ publishers know they can get [the higher prices]. I don't think the textbook bookstore, but a hard­ book and Medical Store Opera­ STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE back copy costs $5.00 at The tions. The textbook store tries to Duke University bookstore is plot- Bookshop. compete by checking on prices at See BOOKS on page 4 W*- Some students find book prices can add up. THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1992 World and National Newsfile California legislature passes tough budget Associated Press limiting the ability of local governments to from local governments in order to balance Sears Settles: Sears, Roebuck raise property taxes and shifting much of the state budget, many local governments and Co. agreed Wednesday to settle the burden of government to the state. are likely to try to raise taxes and fees. charges that it cheated customers SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's protracted budget crisis sputtered to an That was followed by other voter initia­ The end came shortly after midnight by doing shoddy or unnecessary work unhappy end early Wednesday morning tives reserving fixed amounts of state sup­ sifter a day of intense negotiations during at its auto repair shops. It said the when the weary State Assembly capitu­ port for schools and other purposes. Now, which the Democratic and Republican lead­ settlement could affect 933,000 lated to Gov. Pete Wilson and approved with revenues falling and the economy of ers, Assembly Speaker Willia Brown Jr. transactions and cost Sears $15 mil­ the final elements of an austere budget 63 the state mired deep in the post-cold war and Assemblyman Bill Jones, tried to ob­ lion after tax adjustments. days after the state ran out of cash. recession with little hope of speedy recov­ tain some facing-saving concessions from But the final package was so tenuous, ery, the entire house of cards is collapsing. Wilson to make the legislative surrender Wave hits Nicaragua: Splin­ seem less ignominious than it was.