THE CHRONICLE Dominated Two Foes in Chapel Hill This MONDAY

Game, set, match The No. 3 women's tennis team THE CHRONICLE dominated two foes in Chapel Hill this MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1997 c ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAR( Officials suspend housing mandate Decision comes after semester's worth of evaluation By MISTY ALLEN bara Baker, dean of student housing lottery. Janet Dickerson, vice pres development, and several Still, Baker noted that "it's ident for student affairs, said Duke Student Government hard to talk about one hous she and other University ad and Campus Council officials ing issue without getting in ministrators are going to an have been working during the volved in the others." nounce formally the suspen past semester to collect data Trinity senior Takcus Nes sion ofthe three-year housing and examine not only the two bit, president of DSG, said mandate in the coming planks in contention, but the that during the course of its weeks. entire upperclass investigations into "I would say that a consen residential experi the housing lottery sus has emerged that the ence and students' process, the com three-year housing mandate housing needs. mittee came across be suspended for members of "Sowers'/TFC's a couple of other is the Class of 1999 to relieve report has come in sues that it wanted crowding in the residence dependently and to address as halls," Dickerson said in an e- late in the process," well—namely the mail message Friday. "A for Dickerson said. three-year housing mal announcement of that Baker, who sits mandate and the decision was/is in the process on Housing Assign housing rotation of being prepared." ment Process Com Janet Dickerson requirement. Dickerson's response came mittee, said the "When the [resi after a story appeared in The group has met every Friday dential plan] was put into ef Chronicle Friday, which stat morning since midway fect, which occurred at the ed that her decision to sus through last semester to look same time that the alcohol pend both the aforemen at the way in which housing policy w-_is changed, many tioned plank and the housing spaces are assigned. Actions were uncertain that students rotation requirement came the committee discussed, would continue to choose to after the Interfraternity Baker said, pertained to a live on campus," Dickerson MICHAEL KING/THE CHRONICLE Council and its president, gamut of residential life is said. "As this year's housing Trinity junior Tom Sowers, sues—including the potential statistics reveal, more stu Dipsy-doo, dunk-a-roo had submitted a report to closing of North Campus' dents are on campus, and we Freshman Chris Carawell takes it to the hole Saturday. her. Trent Dormitory—but fo have a significant problem But Dickerson said Bar cused primarily on the new See SUSPENSION on page 4 • Cumber makes push for diversity Activist blazes trails This is the first installment graduate Distinguished Speaker of a three-part series profiling series, is one of three finalists for with pointed humor each of the three finalists for the position of tke position of young trustee. young ™. ' i Tomorrow's story will focus on yg trustee—one By ALEX GORDON ken and dynamic as ever. Trinity senior Brian Daniels. Ycj of whom will For four decades, comedi Gregory brought his rou be nominated * an and civil rights activist tine to the Levine Science By PATRICIA YEH He by Duke Stu 1 Dick Gregory has been Research Center Friday Trinity senior Husein Cum dent Govern telling it like it is. A provoca evening with a performance ber wants, as the 1997 young ment Feb. 19, tive, biting brand of humor that showcased his trade trustee, to create a University and either be and impassioned protests mark pointed social criticism confirmed or have been his tools of choice and sharp wit. For nearly environment that will allow fu t ture students to "create their denied by the and, at age 64, Gregory still two hours, Gregory kept the Board of Trustees during its MATT COLLIN/THUE CHRONICLE spiritedly employs both—he audience roaring and—when own success stories." __ • is, by all accounts, as outspo Cumber, chair of the Under See CUMBER on page 11 • Husein Cumber See GREGORY on page 5 • Superintendent brings in experience This is the first installment "wealth of experience in the a junior high teacher and assis of a three-part series on the fi North Carolina school system." tant principal in Greensboro. nalists for superintendent of Educated at From 1982 to 1984, he was an Durham Public Schools. To the Universi assistant principal in the St. morrow's story will feature a ty of North Paul's school system. And from profile of Dr. Ann Denlinger, Carolina at 1984 to the present, Cockman superintendent of Wilson Greensboro has served as principal, assis County Schools. and East Car tant superintendent and now olina Univer superintendent in Thomasville. By ALI KOREIN sity, Cockman Additionally, Cockman was Daniel Cockman, superinten has worked in awarded as Superintendent of dent of the Thomasville City a number of the Year for the 1995-96 school school system, brings to the pedagogical year, a statewide honor given by ERIC GO TTESMAN/THE CHRONICLE Durham superintendent candi capacities in North Carolina. the North Carolina School Civil rights activist Dick Gregory speaks at the LSRC. dacy what he describes as a From 1975 to 1982, he served as See COCKMAN on page 4 • THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1997 World and National Newsfile South Korea reacts to assassination attempt From wire reports Albright tOUrs: Secretary of By ANDREW POLLACK cent steps toward easing tensions. he stepped out of the elevator into the State Madeleine Albright began a N.Y. Times News Service "If it's a North Korean hit, it's going landing in front ofthe 14th-floor apart world tour in Rome Sunday, trying SEOUL, South Korea — South to be hard to keep the other things ment in which he was staying. It was to consolidate NATO's position on Korea went on a terrorism alert Sun going," an official of the U.S. Embassy the first shooting of a North Korean de its relationship with Russia before day as the police and soldiers fanned in Seoul said Sunday. fector in South Korea. she gets to Moscow on Thursday. out in an intensive hunt for two men, But he added that both Washington Lee, 36, is the nephew of Sung Hae- suspected of being North Korean and Seoul hoped that the recent events rim, who is usually described as the Immunity lifted: In a rare move, agents, who shot a prominent North would not set back efforts to arrange former wife of Kim Jong II, the North the Republic of Georgia lifted immu Korean defector Saturday night. peace talks with North Korea, to con Korean leader, though it is unclear if nity for the second ranking diplomat The brazen assassination attempt, struct nuclear reactors there or to provide the two were actually married. in its Washington embassy, clearing as well as the defection in Beijing last new food aid for the starving country. Because of his connections, Lee's de the way for his arrest in a fatal car week of a senior North Korean official, The defector, Lee Han-young, was fection in 1982 had been kept a secret, crash, the State Department said have dramatically intensified the cold near death Sunday night in a hospital and he had even changed his name and Saturday. war animosity on the heavily armed in Bundang, a southern suburb of undergone plastic surgery to conceal Korean peninsula and could derail re Seoul, after being shot in the head as his identity. Engineer kidnapped: Gunmen kidnapped a U.S. oil engineer and his pilot at a fishing camp in west ern Venezuela, U.S. and Venezuelan Scientists find evidence of asteroid impact authorities said Sunday. National Guard Gen. Dagoberto Losada said By PAUL RECER mistakable signature of a asteroid im penetrated up to 300 feet beneath the the kidnappers were thought to be Associated Press pact about 65 million years ago. The sea bed, drilling past sediments laid members of the National Liberation WASHINGTON — Scientists who drill cores include a thin brownish sec down at the time of the dinosaur ex Army, one of the two main leftist drilled core samples from the ocean tion that the scientists called the "fire tinction. rebel groups in Colombia. bed said Sunday they have found ball layer" because it is thought to con Norris said the deepest layers con "smoking gun" evidence that a huge as tain bits ofthe asteroid itself. tain fossil remains of many animals teroid smashed into the Earth 65 mil "These neat layers of sediment and came from a healthy, "happy-go- lions years ago and probably killed off bracketing the impact have never been lucky ocean" just before the impact. Weather the dinosaurs. found in the sea before," Norris said in Just above this is a layer with small Tuesday "We've got the smoking gun," said a telephone interview. "It is proof posi green glass pebbles, thought to be tive ofthe impact." High: 61 • Sunny Richard Norris, leader of an interna ocean bottom material instantly melt Low: 38 • Winds: awakening tional ocean drilling expedition that The scientists, working on the drill ed by the massive energy release ofthe probed the Atlantic Ocean floor in ship Joides Resolution, spent five asteroid. search of asteroid evidence. weeks off the east coast of Florida col Next was a rusty brown layer which "I'm giving up Catholicism for Lent." Norris said the expedition recovered lecting cores from the ocean floor in Norris said is thought to be from the "va three drill samples that have the un about 8,500 feet of water.

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