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Smashing success The No. 3 women's tennis team breezed past No. 16 South Carolina on Tuesday-... THE CHRONICLE afternoon. For details, see Sports, p. 17. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10. 1996 , ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 91, NO. 130 Stand-out basketball recruit denies Duke By JONATHAN GANZ make a decision, sitting on the The spring signing period fence as he weighed the pros for high school basketball and cons of each school. With players to sign letters of intent the signing period fast ap to attend college proaching, Hol starts today, but the loway decided to men's basketball narrow his list. team got a major re "Duke is out of jection notice on the picture," St. Sunday night when Patrick's head highly-rated point coach Kevin Boyle guard Shaheen Hol said. "Shaheen sat loway decided to down Sunday night cross Duke off his and just decided list of perspective that he was going to schools. Shaheen Holloway rule it out. St. Holloway, a se John's is trying to nior 5-foot-10 guard at St. get involved now at the last JASON LAUGHUN/CURRENTS Patrick's High School in Eliza minute, but officially, the only beth, N.J., had narrowed his two left are Seton Hall and Seems easy enough... but it's not list of schools to Seton Hall, California." Members of the dance, percussion and In a word, Incredible, troupe STOMP perform one of their California and Duke in late Holloway's decision to axe sketches in Page Auditorium last week. Read about their show and their background in CURRENTS. February. For nearly two the Blue Devils was based on months he was hesitant to See HOLLOWAY on page 19 • News & Observer wins Pulitzer Prize for public service From wire reports sonify the industry dubbed room in large boxes. for the paper and agreed to as rick, said they were honored by RALEIGH—Champagne "Boss Hog" by the newspaper. Project editor Melanie Sill sume $123 million of debt. the award, but added their and pork rinds were the order The News & Observer's five- said the series, not the "I think it's fitting for Uie work did not end with the of the day Tuesday after The part series showed that hog la Pulitzer, was the real reward. Daniels family to win the Pulitzer. News & Observer of Raleigh goons were posing environmen The Pulitzer is a symbol— Pulitzer in their last year of "Ill celebrate for a day or won the Pulitzer Prize for pub- tal danger to water and air the real prize is the impact the ownership," McClatchy chair two then get back into the val he service journalism. quality and documented the po story has had on the state," Sill man and chief executive Erwin ley and raise some more crops," "If you all don't mind 111 litical connections between said. Potts said to thunderous ap said Stith as he held high a T- drink a toast to Wendell Mur powerful industry leaders and The prize tops a long line of plause. shirt with "Pulitzer Pigs" phy," publisher Frank Daniels state politicians and regula awards won by The News & McClatchy will continue The across the front. "It was an op Jr. told about 200 staffers as he tors. Observer under the ownership News & Observer's commit portunity to make a difference. held high a glass of cham In addition to the bubbly (a ofthe Daniels family, who have ment to public service, Potts We did the best we could." pagne. "Without him we would very good French champagne, operated the paper since 1894. said. "I hope to return to Warrick said he was amazed n't have the prize." said Anders Gyllenhaal, the The newspaper was purchased Raleigh again for another that the story refuses to die. Wendell Murphy is one of paper's senior managing edi by McClatehy Newspapers Inc. award ceremony," he said. "We didn't expect this story the most powerful hog farmers tor), staffers snacked on pork on May 17. California-based The reporters who wrote the to continue to have an impact in the state and came to per rinds brought into the news McClatchy paid $250 million series, Pat Stith and Joby War See NANDO on page 9 *• Protestors confront Lawsuit defies service requirement UNC Public Safety Students question community service requirement By JON JACOBS ment. which they are going about it, By JUSTIN DILLON to enter the party after A pending lawsuit will soon Students at Chapel Hill " John Reinhard Jr. said. CHAPEL HILI^-Dressed that time were turned determine the fate of Chapel High School have the opportu Three federal judges in Bal to the nines in suits and away by campus police, Hill High School's community nity to participate in more timore recently heard the sportcoats, 13 University which prompted some of service requirement. than 350 activities, said Beth case, but have yet to render a students met yesterday the would-be partygoers— The high school currently Ansley, service learning coor decision. The judges should with UNC-Chapel Hill's di many of whom were not requires all students to per dinator at the school. Such ac rule on the suit before the end rector of Public Safety to from UNC—to become form at least 50 hours of un tivities include HeadStart, ofthe school year, Ansley said. discuss police behavior at rowdy and belligerent, paid community service in Habitat For Humanity, March School officials said they do a March 30 fraternity said Trinity junior Jamaal order to graduate. The law of Dimes, church services and not expect the requirement to party at UNC. Adams, who attended the suit, filed in 1994 on behalf of student tutoring. be overturned. The judges did The party, sponsored by party. In an April 8 letter students John Reinhard III Reinhard's father, one of not seem to have any problem the UNC chapter of Kappa to The Chronicle, Adams and Aric Herndon, claims that those who filed the suit, said with the educational value of Alpha Psi fraternity, was outlined what happened at the requirement violates the he objects to the implementa the requirement, and did not held in UNC's Great Hall, the party and elaborated due process of the 14th tion ofthe policy, not its inten think it exploited students, and the 822 available tick on his explanation in an Amendment and the ban on tions. "I am not opposed to .Ansley said. ets to it sold out about interview yesterday. involuntary servitude con community service. I am op Chapel Hill High School 12:30 a.m. Students trying See PROTEST on page 8 • tained in the 13th Amend posed to the coercive means by See LAWSUIT on page 16 »- THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. 1996 World and National Newsfile Associated Press Clinton signs line-item veto into law American jailed: U.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley urged the U.S. By ALISON MITCHELL made the line-item veto a plank in merous pens to sign his name to the ambassador to Mexico Tuesday to N.Y. Times News Seivice their "Contract With America." legislation. He said the first four would intervene on behalf of a Boston WASHINGTON—In an important But the National Treasury Employ be sent to former Presidents Gerald R. man who, according to a Mexico shift of power from Congress to the ex ees Union has filed a suit in federal dis Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan human rights group, has been ecutive, President Clinton Tuesday trict court challenging the measure as and George Bush—each of whom had wrongly imprisoned for 3 1/2 years signed into law a line-item veto bill unconstitutional. "It violates the doc sought the ability granted by the bill to on drug trafficking charges. which he said would allow presidents trine of separation of powers," said strike out specific parts of spending to fight "special interest boondoggles, Gregory O'Duden, the union's counsel. bills and some tax measures passed by Names found: The names of tax loopholes and pure pork." "It gives the president lawmaking Congress without vetoing the entire Unabomber victims have turned The bill signing, staged with cere powers the framers intended for the legislation. up in Theodore Kaczynski's writ mony in the Oval Office, was a legisla Congress," O'Duden added. "Also, the "For years presidents of both parties ings found at his wilderness cabin, tive triumph for Clinton—who had long framers said Congress should be have pounded this very desk in frustra- and federal agents have discov sought such authority to cut specific supreme in powers of the purse, and tion at having to sign necessary legisla ered possible casual contacts be items in spending and tax bills—as this transfers huge amounts of power tion that contained special-interest tween him and four victims, offi well as for many congressional Repub to the president." boondoggles, tax loopholes and pure cials said Tuesday. licans who in the 1994 election had As is traditional, Clinton used nu pork," Clinton said. Rostenkowski pleads: For mer Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Americans evacuated from Liberia's capital once-powerful House committee chairman, pleaded guilty Tuesday MONROVIA, Liberia (AP)—The been wracked by civil war since 1990, Some 15,000 people, many of them to two counts of mail fraud and first U.S. helicopters flew into Mon the fighting broken occasionally by foreigners, have crowded into a U.S. was sentenced to 17 months in rovia on Tuesday and began evacuating truces that collapse within a matter of embassy compound since Monday seek prison and fined $100,000.