Dean to Aid Grad School Granville Suspended Indefinitely from Team

Seahawks smashed The men's soccer team rolled over UNC- WUraington 7-1 in a home match THE CHRONICLE Wednesday night, See Sports, p. 13. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,1995 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 Dean to Granville suspended aid grad indefinitely from team By ALLISON CREEKMORE and coaching staff and Granville. JOHN SEELKE "[Goldsmith] talked about Trinity junior and inside [how] it's a very unfortunate in school linebacker Billy Granville was cident," said Trinity sophomore By MISTY ALLEN suspended from the Duke foot and free safety Jason Kasarda. In an effort to increase mi ball team Wednes "He said it all comes nority recruitment and improve day for disciplinary down to discipline of relations between graduate stu reasons, according to the team." dents and administrators, the several members of Trinity freshman Graduate School recently ap the team. free safety Eric pointed a new assistant dean He will not play Jones also said that for student affairs and minority against North Car although he programming. olina State Saturday, thought the suspen Ayanna Boyd-Williams, who and the length of his sion was "unfortu hails from Columbia Universi suspension has not nate," Goldsmith ty, where she held a similar po yet been determined did what he felt was sition, took the job at the begin by head coach Fred Billy Granville necessary. ning of this academic year. Goldsmith. Granville, a 6-foot- Although she said the decision One player said that Gold 3, 235-pound junior from to move to Durham was a per smith was yelling at Granville Lawrenceville, NJ, is ranked sonal one, she added that she on the field and told him at that second in total team tackles was influenced by what the time that he was suspended this season. Granville was University has been able to ac ALEX BELSKIS/THE CHRONICLE from the team. Goldsmith given second team All-Atlantic complish in terms of graduate called members of the team to Coast Conference honors for his student programming. "I knew These Pals can swing! gether after practice Wednes performance last season, lead Jackie Looney [Boyd-Williams' Trinity senior Kenny Uy demonstrates the finer points of day and told them that the ing the team in tackles with See GRADUATE on page 6 > golfing to his Duke Pals little brother Carlos Spain. problem was between the 115. New state law to require parental consent for abortion By ROD FEUER consent." Durham, agreed that the new and its underlying philosophy. Robin Hayes, R-Cabarrus, As of Oct. 1, minors seeking Previously, a woman of any law is a bad idea. "It would "If children can't receive as who also supported the law, an abortion in North Carolina age could obtain an abortion create some problems in North pirin in school without said that it is a significant step will first have to obtain con without any type of consent. Carolina if that individual parental consent, and they toward restoring traditional sent from their parents or Beth Ising, executive direc would seek unauthorized can't go on field trips without family values and that it will legal guardians. tor of the National Abortion means of health care. The parental consent, then would encourage communication and The new law passed by the and Reproductive Rights Ac long-term effects of the law we want them to get an abor cooperation between parents state General Assembly states tion League of North Carolina, will drive a wedge in families." tion without parental consent? and children. that "a female under the age of questioned the government's The law would create health I think not," said Mike Decker, Minors who cannot gain 18 must have written consent role in legislating abortion problems that would normally R-Walkertown and the prima consent from their parents or from: a parent with custody of rights and said that mandato not arise, he said. Some oppo ry sponsor of the bill. "We hope who are unwilling to tell them the minor; or a legal guardian ry parental consent will put nents ofthe law have said that it will bring parents back in to may petition a judge for per or custodian of the minor; or a young women in a dangerous it could drive young women, the decision-making process." mission to abort. Once the pe parent with whom the minor position. "The people who are afraid to ask for parental con The child is acting in a mature tition has been filed, the judge is living; or a grandparent introducing the law are people sent, to seek illegal and dan manner when she is engaging has no more than seven days with whom the minor has been who want abortion illegal gerous abortions from unau in sexual intercourse, so going in which to rule on the case. living for at least six months under any circumstances," thorized practitioners. to a judge to get an abortion Currently, 25 other states—in immediately preceding the Ising said. Many legislators, however, should not be a significant cluding California, Pennsylva- date of the minor's written H.M. Michaux Jr., D- said they stood behind the law problem, Decker said. See ABORTION on page 7 > Medical school acceptances rise | RATE OF ACCEPTANCE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL | By SANJAY BHATT This is a strong showing for In 1995, 80 percent of the Preliminary data indicate University students in light of 193 senior applicants were ac that University applicants to the greater competition they cepted to at least one medical medical schools continue to face nationally, said Kay school, Singer said. fare well in gaining admission Singer, assistant dean for The national picture mir to the nation's top-ranked health professions advising rors trends at the University. schools despite increasingly and director of the center. Be Applications hit an all-time cause the past four years have high this year when the na tough national competition. I National For the second straight witnessed a steady increase in tion's 124 medical schools saw year, a record 155 University the number of University stu 46,312 applicants for the ap • Duke Seniors seniors were accepted to med dents who apply to medical proximate 17,000 spaces .- Duke Past Grads ical school, compared with school, however, the rate of ac available. Since 1988, the last year's record of 148, ac ceptance has fallen from number of applicants has in S2 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 cording to the University's about 95 percent seen in the creased nationally by 73 per 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 Health Professions Advising late 1980s and early 1990s to cent. As a result, the national Year Center. a range of 71 to 82 percent. See MED SCHOOL on page 5 > SOURCE: DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1995 World and National Newsfile Republicans prepare for Medicare vote Associated Press Britain compromises: Prime By ADAM CLYMER al Thursday. and then charges and countercharges, Minister John Major and his Irish N.Y. Times News Service • Although House Speaker Newt Gin on a temporary increase in the debt counterpart John Bruton plan to WASHINGTON—On the eve of a grich, R-Ga., cheerfully described the limit. meet this week amid signs that crucially important Medicare vote, bargaining as "a little bit like Christ The Treasury Department says an Britain might ease demands that House Republicans on Wednesday mas shopping," his closed-door efforts increase must be enacted hy early No the IRA begin disarming before opened a vote-trading bazaar to line up were the most serious business of the vember, when, it says, the government peace talks can start. a majority and joined their Senate allies day. Medicare is the bloodiest political will reach its current, $4.9 trillion ceil in accusing the Clinton administration battlefield of this fall's budget wars, and ing on public borrowing. Cure found: A substance found in of playing political games with the na the first test of the Republican effort to But Gingrich, after suggesting a tem rodent testicles may hold the key to tional debt. balance the budget by the year 2002. porary increase in the debt limit, preventing the rejection of trans After tinkering with Medicare al Even so, there was still plenty of time backed off and complained that the ad planted organs, researchers said lowances for rural areas and dealing for intense posturing over the national ministration was playing political Wednesday. A research team found with complaints about other measures, debt, as each side demanded that the games. that a molecule called CD95 ligand from lobbying to nursing-home pay other abandon political advantage in "We have no belief the Treasury has in the testicles of mice appears to ments, Republicans expressed confi the national interest. accurate figures," he said. "I want to prevent the rodents' immune sys dence that they had persuaded enough All day long the White House and look at the facts. Who knows what the tems from killing transplanted cells. doubters to pass their Medicare propos Gingrich traded offers and nonoffers, truth is? I don't have a clue." Ambassador responds: Pamela Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to France, responded Wednesday to French authorities increase safety measures charges by her late husband's heirs that she has squandered $30 million By AMY BARRETT on the subway. main thoroughfares and tourist attrac of their inheritance on bad invest Associated Press Increased security has become a fa tions. ments. PARIS—Some are resigned, others miliar feature as authorities try to After Tuesday's bomb injured 29 terrified, but one day after the latest stem a bombing wave has left seven people on an underground commuter terrorist bomb ripped through a Paris people dead and 180 injured since late train in the heart of Paris, the govern subway, all have the same grim as July.

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