A growing experience For a different kind of Mardi Gras, a :: different kind of bowling and someavery THE CHRONICLE ' different pictures, see Weekend, p. 4. • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1998 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAI Residential life committee recommends vast changes Major section rearrangements designed to take effect by 2001 UPPERCLASS HOUSING F__ICV By JESSICA MOULTON Below is a list ofthe proposed changes to the housing policy for Chronicle staffwriter COMING NEXT WEEK upperclassmen: • Members ofthe Upperclass Residential Planning Group discuss Eleven months after begin­ Require that all sophomores reside on West Campus; ning its deliberations, the Up­ the rationale behind their comprehensive housing proposal. perclass Residential Planning • The undergraduate community reacts to the finer points ofthe plan. - Phase out Trent dormitory by Fall 2001 and increase Group released late Thursday capacity on West to 3,000 by constructing a new suite-style afternoon its housing propos­ munity and diversity. the plan would not take effect residence hall with dining facilities in the "Ocean" parking lot; al: an expanded, democratic for at least three years. The report, which contains Maintain the four-year housing guarantee, but change the West Campus in which hous­ six key propositions, is cur­ The report holds few sur­ ing price structures are equal­ rently under review by senior prises concerning facilities con­ on-campus housing reqirement to two years; ized and selective groups and members of the administra­ struction. In keeping with the • Revamp distribution of spaces to selective and independents live in inter­ tion and by members of the interim report issued last Octo­ Independent groups (see story); spersed blocks. student affairs and academic ber, the proposal recommends ~~ Temporarily keep Central Campus as an option for juniors and The report comes almost a affairs committees of the that Trent Dormitory be year after Vice President for Board of Trustees, which will phased out by the year 2001. In seniors desiring to live on campus in apartment-style units; Student Affairs Janet Dicker- meet jointly Feb. 27. At that its place, a new, suite-style, - Have one room-rate structure for both East and West son first charged the planning time, Dickerson said, the 575-bed dorm with dining facil­ Campus and a separate rate structure for Central Campus; group with the ambitious task trustees will discuss the report ities would be constructed in of recasting the upperclass but likely will not vote on it the "Ocean" parking lot on - Adjust the financial aid structure to be neutral with regard residential system into a for­ until their May meeting. If ap­ Wannamaker Drive. to residence choice. mat more conducive to com- proved, many components of See RESIDENTIAL on page 9 • SOURCE; UPPERCLASS BESIDENTIAL PLANNING Gl 7 ROSEN/THE CHRONICLE Commissioners Duke tops delay decision on State, clinches Durham Regional share of title • Durham county commissioners • Hilary Howard and Nicole will not choose a partner Monday Erickson scored 13 points apiece for Durham Regional Hospital nor as the Blue Devils beat N.C. will it trim the field of candidates. State, 65-62, at Cameron. By TIM MILLINGTON Chronicle staffwriter By YVONNE KRYWYJ To some, it's a let-down; to others, Chronicle staff writer a stay of execution. With less than one minute left in When Durham's Board of County its last regular-season home game Commissioners meets Feb. 23 to dis­ against No. 10 N.C. State (20-5,11-4 cuss the proposed partnership be­ in the Atlantic Coast Conference), tween Durham Regional Hospital the women's basketball team stood and another health care provider, one point away from making history. they will continue to debate the mer­ One jump shot and two free throws its of the three proposals, but an ac­ later, the llth-ranked Blue Devils tual decision remains months away. (19-6, 12-3 in the ACC) had gone A recommended course of action where no Duke women's basketball prepared by Public Consulting team had gone before. Group, a consulting firm hired by the After a nail-biting 65-62 victory county to examine the bids, had last night at Cameron, the Blue called for the commissioners to nar­ Devils were guaranteed at least a row the search to one final proposal share of the ACC regular season and then exhaustively examine that title, a feat they have never previ­ proposal until the summer, when a ously accomplished. final decision would be made. Junior Nicole Erickson nailed a The current agenda of the upcom­ jumper with 55.1 seconds remaining ing meeting, however, calls for the to give Duke a tenuous one-point board to "consider the conveyance or lead, 63-62. On State's next posses­ lease" ofDurham Regional—no men­ sion, Tynesha Lewis took the ball KELLI SHERAN/THE CHRONICLE tion of paring down the options, and down the court. After using up all board chair MaryAnn Black said but six seconds on the shot clock, she Nicole Erickson hit a 17-foot jumper with under a minute left In Duke's win. that no such trimming will occur passed it to am open LySchale Jones, free throws put the Blue Devils emerged with a 65-62 win. until the final decision in June. who failed to take a shot as the 35 ahead by three. Lewis and Nailah "I think we panicked a little," N.C. The commissioners conducted seconds expired. Wallace attempted to make what State coach Kay Yow said. "We didn't Wednesday an on-site visit at the Lewis fouled sophomore Lauren would have been the game-tying tri- penetrate and pitch it out. We just Medical Center, and the findings of Rice as Duke attempted to run out fecta. Both, however, only made air tried to take a shot, and in all honesty that and other on-site visits will be the clock, and Rice's subsequent balls as the clock ran out and Duke See WOMEN on page 17 •• under discussion Monday. See HOSPITAL on page 8 • • PRICE READY TO DEFEND CONGRESSIONAL SEAT, PAGE 6 • POINT GUARD RECRUIT TO VISIT DURING UCLA GAME: SPORTS, PAGE 15 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD AND NATIONAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1998 Newsfile From wire reports Clinton claims public support against Iraq Lawyers challenge: White House Government officials try to educate public about peace-keeping strategies lawyers prepared for a confrontation By JAMES BENNET N.Y. Times News Service hostile questions about U.S. strategy resistance to diplomacy. with prosecutors Thursday over mat­ toward Iraq. Speaking on the South Asked Thursday if Hussein might ters from grand jury examination of WASHINGTON — A day after Lawn of the White House Thursday, be emboldened, Clinton said: "Not if he Bruce Lindsey, President Bill Clin­ U.S. policy toward Iraq was passion­ Clinton called the meeting "a good old- understands the first thing about ton's friend and the closed-mouthed ately picked apart at a town hall fashioned American debate," and said: America." guardian of White House secrets. meeting in Ohio, President Bill Clin­ "I believe strongly that most Ameri­ Taking his public education cam­ ton tried to reassemble the pieces, cans support our policy. They support paign overseas Thursday, Clinton Glenn trains: John Glenn, the 76- Thursday, declaring that the country our resolve." videotaped an explanation of U.S. poli­ year-old U.S. senator from Ohio who would ultimately support a U.S. mil­ But some administration officials cy toward Iraq that was translated was the first American to orbit Earth itary assault. fretted that the event, broadcast into French, Mandarin Chinese, and 36 years ago Friday, took two success­ "If it's necessary for us to act, I be­ worldwide by CNN, could cause Iraqi Arabic and broadcast worldwide, in­ ful turns in the centrifuge Thursday lieve America will do what it always President Saddam Hussein to doubt cluding to Iraq. as part of his training for an October does," he said. "I believe it will unite." that resolve, and perhaps stiffen his See IRAQ on page 7 • mission on the space shuttle Discov­ Speaking after a telephone conversa­ ery to study the effects of aging. tion with French President Jacques Chirac, Clinton also moved to quell crit­ In last-ditch effort, France pushes for diplomatic Compagnoni leads: Italy's Debo­ icism that the United States has been rah Compagnoni, bidding to become half-hearted in its support for last-ditch solution in weapon inspections crisis with Iraq the first Alpine skier to win gold diplomacy by U.N. Secretary-General medals in three Olympics, took a lead Kofi Annan. Clinton called Annan's mis­ By CRAIG WHITNEY but would be accompanied by diplo­ of nearly a full second on the first run sion to Baghdad "a critical opportunity N.Y. Times News Service mats from all five permanent mem­ of the women's giant slalom. Com­ to achieve the outcome that all of us PARIS — Secretary-General Kofi bers, of the Security Council. pagnoni, the defending champion, fin­ would prefer: a peaceful and principled Annan, who is traveling to Iraq, got The United States has reserved ished the run Friday morning to take end to this crisis." firm backing Thursday from Presi­ the right to reject any compromise a lead over Sophie Lefranc of France. Clinton said he had asked Vice Pres­ dent Jacques Chirac for his last- that sets limits on what the inspec­ ident Al Gore to postpone a planned ditch effort to bring a peaceful reso­ tors may visit and when. trip to South Africa in order to remain lution to the crisis over weapons Annan arrived here from New in Washington.