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Keohane addresses student government By DAVID SCHWARZ some freshmen claim they feel Addressing the well-attend­ because of having to live on ed second general body meeting East Campus, Keohane said she of Duke Student Government hoped the Adopt-a-Quad pro­ Wednesday night, President gram, which pairs each fresh­ Nan Keohane opened the ses­ man dorm with an upperclass sion by saying that she wanted quad, and the Faculty Associ­ to cut down on costly bureau­ ates Program would help allevi­ cracy, recruit more faculty ate such anxieties. members and get to work on the After her address, Keohane most important fund-raising introduced David Ferriero, the initiative at the University, the University's new head librarian, Capital Campaign. who then made a brief speech Keohane, who said she will during which he asked for stu­ work with Executive Vice Presi­ dent input regarding future li­ dent Tallman Trask on revising brary policies. certain bureaucratic processes, After Keohane and Ferriero noted that a review of the Uni­ finished, members of the legis­ XANDY GILMAN/THE CHRONICLE versity's purchasing policies lature then turned their atten­ was in order "so we don't have a tions to electing students to the Sssmokin! policy where we spend $20 on a Student Organizations Finance box of pencils because of all the Committee and the Judiciary. A Some of Dining Services' finest chefs cook up some Mongolian Barbecue in the Great Hall forms that had to be filled out." Wednesday evening. large portion of the legislature's Referring to the Capital time, however, was devoted to Campaign, currently in its discussing the University's se­ silent phase, Keohane said she vere weather policy. Duke football player will soon be traveling around DSG—in a move that allied the country to speak to alumni it with the Student-Employee Keohane groups and to solicit funds. Relations Coalition and the charged with assault Listing another of her objec­ Graduate and Professional Stu­ tives, Keohane said she intends dent Council—passed a resolu­ to lead By JONATHAN GANZ last Saturday night sometime to turn her attention to upper- tion calling for reform to the pol­ Engineering sophomore after midnight. class residential life. "It is my icy, which came under fire a Brian McCormack, a line­ Todd and his roommate, impression that the housing of couple of weeks ago when the group backer on the Duke football Dennis Best, were outside of all first-year students on East administration upheld only team, voluntarily turned him­ the restaurant when McCor­ Campus has been a success," parts of it after Hurricane Fran. By STACEY VAN VLEET self into the Durham County mack and a group of his she said. "Now we must focus on The resolution, which the At the request of the Detention Center Tuesday and friends approached the restau­ the upperclass system." legislature unanimously ap­ Greater Triangle Region­ Wednesday after being rant, said Durham County The president said the cur­ proved, calls for the formation of al Council—a group of charged with two counts of as­ Magistrate Steve Speller in an rent residential quad system for a committee comprising admin­ business, political and sault and two counts of injury interview Wednesday. Todd, West Campus and the future of istrators, students and faculty education leaders—Pres­ to personal property. who had been vomiting due to North Campus' Trent Dormito­ to review the current policy and ident Nan Keohane has Robert Todd, a part-time drinking, and McCormack ex­ ry are two issues she and other to submit by Nov. 21 a draft of agreed to head an ad-hoc sportswriter at The Times- changed words and a skirmish administrators might revisit. revisions. Trinity junior Trang committee formed to News in Burlington, accused ensued, he said. After her presentation, Keo­ Nguyen, DSG vice president for study the possibility of McCormack of assaulting him hane opened the floor to ques­ community interaction, pre­ regional approaches to "There was an altercation outside of the Cosmic Cantina between Mr. McCormack and tions. Answering one legislator's sented the resolution, which solid waste management. restaurant on Ninth Street inquiry concerning the isolation See DSG on page 7 I*- The committee will See ASSAULT on page 15 • consist of researchers from North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central Univer­ Senator proposes bill Funding for the Medical sity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Education Fund Hill and Duke Universi­ to aid medical schools ty- Attempting to meet a By KEVIN DAVID ernment and the private sector. need for a new landfill If a Congressional bill intro­ "We must not allow competi­ site, Orange County offi­ duced this summer passes, tion to bring a premature end to cials last year named an graduate medical education in a great age of medical discovery, area located in Duke For­ this country could be looking at largely made possible by Amer­ est as their top choice, a huge financial boost. ica's exceptionally well-trained but protests from the Developed by Sen. Daniel health professionals and supe­ University have kept the Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y, the rior medical schools and teach­ plan from being imple­ Medical Education Trust Fund mented thus far. Norm ing hospitals," Moynihan said Act of 1996 would provide fi­ in a statement issued this sum­ Christensen, dean of the nancial support for the United Nicholas School of the mer. States' 124 medical schools and The hind, which Moynihan Environment, said that a 1,250 teaching hospitals. These (Current B 1.5% • Federal more regional approach said he hopes will operate for a institutions are currently five-year period beginning in Medicare Assessment Medicaid to solving the issue of threatened by competition from Payments on Premiums Spending See LANDFILL on page 7 • 1997, would provide a total of managed care and by a reduc­ $17 billion for teaching hospi- tion in funding from the gov­ See BILL on page 6 •*• SOURCE: SEN. MOYNiHAN'S OFFICE ERIC TESSAU/THE CHRONICLE THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1996 World and National Newsfile Syndrome may be due to U.S. Gulf raids From wire reports Reactor malfunctions: In a By PHILIP SHENON depot in March 1991, after the gulf war quickly, which means there may have near-accident reminiscent of Three N.V. Times News Service ended. been no trace of them by the time in­ Mile Island, workers at Connecti­ U.S. intelligence reports show that But the air strikes raise the possi­ spectors arrived at the depot, months cut Yankee nuclear plant failed for the United States conducted an exten­ bility that such agents wafted over after the bombing. three days to notice a growing gas sive bombing campaign during the Per­ thousands of U.S. troops in Saudi Ara­ Much ofthe rest ofthe depot was de­ bubble inside the reactor until it sian Gulf war against a sprawling am­ bia, where they were then preparing stroyed after the war by the engineers, had flushed out about 15 percent of munition depot in southern Iraq that for the ground invasion of Iraq, several many of whom have since complained the cooling water that keeps the was later determined to have then con­ weeks before the engineers' operation. of debilitating ailments that they link nuclear fuel from overheating tained chemical weapons. Both the Pentagon and the United to exposure to chemical or biological The Pentagon has previously ac­ Nations, which is responsible for agents there. Suspect arrested: A man knowledged the possibility that some weapons inspections in Iraq, say they Their symptoms, including chronic wanted for questioning in the U.S. soldiers might have been exposed have no evidence that air strikes on the fatigue, digestive ailments and joint drive-by slaying of rapper Tupac to Iraqi chemical or biological agents depot resulted in the release of chemi­ pain, are considered typical of the so- Shakur was arrested in a when U.S. combat engineers blew up cal weapons. called gulf war syndrome reported by roundup of 22 gang members be­ part of the Kamisiyah ammunition But many chemical agents dissipate thousands of U.S. soldiers. fore dawn Wednesday. Child reinstated: A 7-year-old Queens boy who was suspended from school for sexual harass­ President pleads for peace in Middle East ment after he kissed a classmate and tore a button from her skirt By SERGE SCHMEMANN Clinton may well have been right constituents, since the plan adopted was reinstated as chagrined N.Y. Times News Service when he said that given the deadlines was essentially the one he had come school officials weathered a wave WASHINGTON—What little the and violence, there was not much more with. But the more important question of criticism. emergency Middle East summit meet­ anyone could realistically expect be­ was whether he had recognized that ing of the last two days produced was yond the pledge of accelerated negotia­ further equivocation was impossible, best summed up in President Clinton's tions on Hebron and other issues. and that gaining a temporary advan­ anxious plea to Israelis and Palestini­ But that left Yasser Arafat with lit­ tage over Arafat was not the same as Weather ans: "Please, please give us a chance to tle to show his people beyond a new precluding the next explosion. Friday let this thing work in the days ahead." level of familiarity with Prime Minis­ Clinton's pleas forcibly reaffirmed High: 73 • Partly cloudy As yet another Palestinian youth ter Benjamin Netanyahu.

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