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Shelling the Terps The men's basketball team will certainly try to, as the Blue Devils travel to College Park, THE CHRONICLE Md., for an ACC match up. See page 19. DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLIN Three found guilty of academic dishonesty By MICHAEL SAUL suspended suspension. Three student life. begin this semester, administra The Office of Student Life in cases are still pending. From the fall of 1984 through tors are hoping the instances of vestigated nine students for al The board does not release the Dec. 8, 1992, the Undergraduate academic dishonesty will decrease.. leged academic integrity violations names of students involved in Judicial Board heard 135 cases of Richard White, dean of Trinity following the 1992 fall final ex cases, but does release the issues academic dishonesty and found College and chair of the Univer amination period. hearing s ummaries which i nclude 110 students guilty. The board's sity Honor Code Committee, is The Undergraduate Judicial the verdict, sanction and reason precedented sanction for academic mailing every undergraduate and Board found two students guilty ing for the panel's decision. dishonesty cases is suspension for faculty member a booklet that of plagiarism and one student The number of academic dis one semester and frequently the details the proposed honor code. guilty of cheating. Two of these honesty violations for fall 1992 summer sessions too. The honor code committee, students were suspended for the increased slightly in comparison With the campus-wide debate formed by President Keith Brodie, STAFF PHOTO/ THE CHRONICLE spring semester and the summer to the previous fall, said Paul concerning the implementation of finalized a draft ofthe honor code, Richard White terms, and one student received a Bumbalough, assistant dean of a new honor code scheduled to Sea UJB on page 15 • Second Senate Democrats offer jogger compromise on gay ban assaulted By RON FOURNIER suspect there will be some final announcement by the president From staff reports WASHINGTON — Senate tomorrow.'' Another jogger was assaulted Democrats, trying to head off a The congressional proposal while running in Duke Forest congressional backl ash thatcould duplicates Clinton's plan to stop Thursday morning. weaken the week-old recruiters from asking This incident is the second such administration, offered about sexual prefer assault in less than a week, and President Clinton a ence but stipulates the descriptions of the assailant compromise proposal only a "partial mora match, smd Chief Robert Dean of Thursday for suspend torium" on discharg Duke Public Safety. ing the military's ban ing homosexuals. The University student was on homosexuals. However, in a nod to assaulted at 10:35 a.m. when she The proposal, worked the Pengaton, the pro entered the jogging trail near the out in a Capitol Hill posed compromise Washingteni J^uke Inn. An uni meeting late Thursday, would allow a com dentified male approached her appeared to retain key mander to temporarily from behind .and grabbed her by elements of Clinton's transfer a homo the hips, Dean said. The assailant stated plan for ending sexual. threw her to the ground and kept the 50-year-old ban Exon said the Demo on running, he said. The student while offering only mild conces crats worked out an agreement was not seriously injured. sions to the Pentagon. "to strike and eliminate the ques The assailant was described as It was endorsed by the most tion of sexual preference for a six- a 5-foot-1 1-inch white male, clean influential congressional oppo month period." In addition, the shaven and between 16 and 25 nent of Clinton's proposal, Sen. agreement calls for a "partial years old. He was wearing a white Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and by Senate moratorium on proceeding with shirt, dark pants and a dark base Majority Leader George Mitchell, procedures to remove people from ball cap. D-Maine. the service while it is further stud The description closely matches Nunn and Mitchell rushed the ied by the Chiefs of Staff and the one provided by a Durham resi agreement to the White House. further studied in the hearings." dent who was sexually assaulted There was no immediate word on Clinton had been expected to while jogging near the Duke Faculty the development from the White make an announcement Thurs Club last Friday. CINDY STANFiELD/THE CHRONICLE House, but aides had been on the day on the gay ban, but it was The Durham resident reported telephone with senators through postponed for a second straight thata man grabbedherfrom behind. Moving right along out the day trying to resolve dif day. When she turned around, the man Trinity freshman Mark Brode found a way to bypass the bus ferences over the gay ban. Whatever their sexual orienta began fondling her body. He then system without worrying about where to park his wheels. "We pretty well agreed," said tion, Clinton said, "Americans pushed her into a gully and fled. Sen. James Exon, D-Nebraska. "I See BAN on page 17 • Sky diving devils decide to emulate Superman's flying skills By RUSS FREYMAN demonstrations, says Bill Ander for a week," Anderson says. Have you ever wanted to fly son, an experienced local "It was an awesome through the air like Superman? skydiver. experience," says Jeff Johns, a Or do you remember wanting to Anderson should know, as he Trinity freshman who recently did be part ofthe flying five-ring for does about 50 demonstrations his first dive. Johns plans to con mation in the Olympics? each year, including stunts for tinue his jumping habit. Such fantasies are not as far Domino's Pizza and Michael While skydiving provides ex away as you think. In fact, the Bolton rock concerts. In total, he citement, many are scared of its University Sky Devils can help has logged over 1,100 jumps in dangerous reputation. But, you get there. Amit Shalev, Engi his lifetime. Anderson says, skydivingis actu neering junior and president of There is no shortage of adjec ally pretty safe. "We take more the club calls skydiving "just like tives to describe the increasingly care than people do in learning to flying—ifyou could picture being popular sport of skydiving. Many drive." like Superman—it's like that!" would cali it insane—but not the Paul Fayard owns Carolina Sky Even the five ring formation Sky Devils. From exhilarating, Sports and advises the Sky Dev can become a reality. Trinity jun to relaxing, pure freedom, incred ils. University students dive at ior Kendra Bankston and Trinity ible, even addictive, jumping out his drop zone in Lewisburg where senior Shannon Huffman are ap of a plane and falling 98-120 over the past 10 years he cites proaching the ability level needed m.p.h. has to be one of the more only eight leg injuries. This in to accomplish such a stunt, interesting activities offered at cludes thousands and thousands SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE though they probably lack the the University. There's a buzz a of jumps with and without Uni- level of experience needed for such first time jumper gets that lasts See JUMP on page 17 >• Kendra Bankston (I.) and Shannon Huffman pose in uniform THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1993 World and National Newsfile Angola spirals rapidly towards anarchy Associated Press Angola, or UNITA, never managed to hold Texaco and Chevron, operate out of Soyo Bomb kills: A Protestant para any major city. But it has recently seized or Kabenda, a northern Angolan enclave military force said they planted a LUANDA, Angola — Angola is sinking nearly two-thirds of Angola's territory and between Congo and Zaire. Oil from the two bomb that killed a 25-year-old Ro ever closer to disintegration as it confronts now. effectively controls 105 of Angola's areas produced about 550,555 barrels a man Catholic man Thursday in the worst crisis of its nearly 30 years of 164 municipalities, the United Nations day and 90 percent of Angola's export Belfast, the first fatal bombing since armed conflict, economic hardship and estimates. earnings. the 1970s by so-called "loyalists." political strife. Last week the rebels recaptured The situation, already complex and un Fighting between government and guer Huambo, their political and ethnic strong certain, became more so early this week Alien leaves: An illegal alien rilla forces in the last three weeks, the hold in the central highlands, and gained when the U.N. Secretary General Boutros who once worked as a nanny for most intense in years, has left tens of control of Soyo, 186 miles north of Luanda Boutros-Ghali recommended that the Se former Attorney General-designate thousands dead. The 1991 pact between on Angola's oil-producing northern Atlan curity Council set an April 30 deadline for Zoe Baird has agreed to voluntarily the warring factions, which was meant to tic coast. the warring parties to make peace. He said leave the country, an immigration end the civil war and prepare Angola for Five foreign oil companies, including See ANGOLA on page 16 p> official said. free elections and Western-style democ racy, appears on the brink of coming apart. Economy booms: A burst of Moreover, millions of people have been High Court upholds deportation Christmas time spending propelled forced from their homes by the conflict and the nation's economy to its fastest more than 1.5 million face the prospect of growth in four years, the govern starvation, U.N. officials say. of 400 Palestinians to Lebanon ment said Thursday. But analysts "Things are worse now than they've ever warned the revival will sag without been," Sorge Chikoti, Angola's deputy for more jobs.