UWC Instructors Voice Complaints Patients of Infected Doctor Tested for HIV Donor to Visit Locations Lawyers Find Jobs Entertain
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THE CHRONICLE Welcome to Cai THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1992 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL 87, NO. 97 UWC instructors voice complaints By STEPHEN HIEL Graduate students vented an ger at the administration's deci sion to move all future Univer sity Writing Course sections to 8 a.m. in a meeting with Dean of Trinity College Richard White. About 70 graduate students, most involved with the UWC pro gram, packed a room in Perkins Library Wednesday night and criticized the administration for failing to consult them before the changes were enacted. Students also complained about anticipated time conflicts and the message sent to UWC students and instructors. Dean White emphasized that the changes are part of a larger strategy to ease logistical strains on campus facilities. PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE Graduate students com UWC instructors are not happy with their new schedules. plained, however, that their dual role as student and teacher makes graduate student in English. worthy of self-representation the change especially burden Nearly all students expressed than the hypothetical beer-guz some. Most attend late afternoon concern about not being consulted zling freshman the University or early evening classes as part of when the decision to switch the hopes it can make clean and so PHOTO COURTESY OF RON FERRELL their long day. schedule was made. ber," said Bill Maxwell, a gradu "If Fm asked to teach an 8:00 "The message is clear: students ate student in English. Leading the way class... when my son's classes at like myself are invisible or at least The belief that administrators Trinity senior Dave Bucchalter and friends show who and elementary school start at nine, do not count," said Martha Brooks, were trying to use the new sched what the senior class gift is helping. it will be almost impossible for a graduate student in English. uling to curb freshman drinking me," said Sheila Smith McKoy, a "We are apparently no more See UWC on page 5 • Patients of infected doctor tested for HIV Donor By MICHAEL SAUL Cobo's patients free of charge. until Friday. cal Center. Both of these patients to visit Eighty-four people were One of Cobo's patients was "If I had a choice between a were informed last week. tested for the HIV virus after known to be HIV-infected before surgeon who is infected with HIV Cobo stopped practicing medi receiving a letter from the Medi Cobo operated on him, but the and one who is not, I would choose cine Jan. 17 after notifying offi locations cal Center informing them that Medical Center does not know of the one who is not," Johnston cials at the Medical Center of his their ophthalmologist is HIV- any other patient with the virus. said. "[Cobo] is not the only good condition. He is planning to con By HANNAH KERBY positive. Many ofthe patients wrote let surgeon in the area." tinue teaching and researching at The primary donor for the All 84 tested negative, said ters to the Medical Center prais Cobo operated on Johnston in the University, Yaggy said. proposed new art museum Duncan Yaggy, acting director ing Cobo, Yaggy said. March 1990 to treat a condition Current Medical Center policy will soon be on campus to of Medical Center communica "The really striking thingis the that causes chronic eye irrita calls for any health care worker examine possible sites forthe tions. number of people who have writ tion. who tests HIV-positive to report building. The Medical Center mailed ten in to say that [Cobo] really Johnston said she is consider that condition to Employee Occu However, the sites he is 1,481 letters last month to pa took great care of them," he said. ing filing a lawsuit against Cobo pational Health Services. The considering may be prob tients of Dr. L. Michael Cobo "He is exceptionally competent even if she tests negative. "I be policy was approved Jan. 17. lematic. informing them that their doctor and exceptionally well-liked." lieve in informed consent," she Noted sculpture collector has had the HIV virus since 1986. Some patients, however, are said. "He put me at risk." Yaggy declined to comment as and Dallas businessman and Among the 84 people tested, angry and feel deceived. Laura In addition to patients at the to whether any other Medical trustee emeritus Raymond 33 were tested outside the Medi Johnston, a former patient of Medical Center, Cobo assisted in Center worker had informed the Nasher, Trinity '43, will visit cal Center. The tests, which cost Cobo, was tested for HIV on Mon surgery on two patients at the administration of an HIV-posi See MUSEUM on page 4 • about $30 each, were given to day and will not know the results Veterans Administration Medi tive condition. Lawyers find jobs entertaining By MATT STEFFORA business," he said. Public taste is fickle, Downs When the Red Hot Chili Pep Large firms find it hard to said, and many artists aware of pers went looking for a lawyer, discard the book and therefore this fact try to sign large deals they found one that did not charge cannot handle musicians well. with record labels to make money a retainer fee. Many bands cannot pay for ser as quickly as possible. That lawyer was Eric vices according to strict billing R.E.M., one of Downs' clients, Greenspan, Trinity '72, who spoke schemes, Greenspan said. "A lot of has been so successful for so long along with University of Georgia small bands really don't have any because group members took time law professor Bertis Downs money . you have to invent a to develop into a good band in Wednesday night at the Griffith billing relationship. stead of immediately signing a Film Theatre. "You have to create your own large contract. Because of the rapid changes rules as things go on." When R.E.M. started out and artistic nature ofthe indus Small firms are more adaptable around 1979,"they said they were try, entertainment law is differ to musicians' needs while "large going to take their time... There ent from most other legal prac law firms think about billing wh an were a lot of songs that they threw tices, Downs said. you are sleeping, going to the bath away that are only available on "In the entertainment indus room; when you dream about your bootlegs," Downs said. PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE try, there's not a book you really client [you should] keep a contract In addition to the constant risk go to [to] look up about entertain sheet by your bed," Greenspan involved with signing new acts, Eric Greenspan (r.) and Bertis Downs ment law or the entertainment said. See LAWYERS on page 4 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1992 World and National Newsfile Thomas: job preferences for women illegal Associated Press By NEIL LEWIS to show that its sex-preference policy is 5-4 ruling, Justice William Brennan Jr.'s Inhalers found dangerous: N.Y. Times News Service substantially related to achieving diver last opinion before retiring, said the court People who overuse a common kind WASHINGTON— In a decision written sity on the airwaves," he wrote. was obliged to defer to Congress in estab of inhaled drug used to relieve by Justice Clarence Thomas, a divided Wednesday's ruling may also presage a lishing such affirmative action programs asthma attacks face a greatly in federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday shift in the Supreme Court's tolerance of if "they serve important governmental creased risk of death, a study con that the federal government may not give affirmative action programs, even if they objectives within the power of Congress cludes. preferential treatment to women in award are approved by Congress, because ofthe and are substantially related to achieve ing broadcast licenses even though it does change in the court's members. ment of those objectives." Leukemia linked to radiation: so for blacks and other minority groups. Thomas was joined in the lower-court Mikva wrote: "In striking down the pref Radiation can cause a previously un The opinion revealed considerably more opinion by Judge James Buckley. erence policy, my colleagues have done recognized genetic change in cells of Thomas's approach to affirmative ac In a dissent, Chief Judge Abner Mikva precisely what the Supreme Court forbids that produce blood cells, perhaps tion programs than he offered in confirma complained that Thomas had misinter them to do. They have rejected Congress's setting the stage for leukemia later tion hearings on his nomination to the preted a 1990 Supreme Court opinion that conclusion that more female owners of on, a test-tube study suggests. Supreme Court last fall. He said in the narrowly upheld an FCC policy giving pref broadcast stations will lead to more di decision that the Federal Communications erence to blacks and other minorities. The verse programming." Ozone brings angst: A height Commission's policy of giving preference ened sense of urgency is pressing to women was unconstitutional because it scientists as they complete their in denied equal protection ofthe laws to white spection of what looks like the start men. Bush adjusts to Buchanan's of an ozone hole over the Northern The unusual circumstance ofthe ruling Hemisphere, a discovery so alarm by Thomas, now on the Supreme Court, as ing it's already changed U.S. policy. part of a lower court panel came about strong GOP primary support because he heard the case in January Bugsy SCOreS big: Warren 1991, when he was a member ofthe Court By ANDREW ROSENTHAL Bush aides acknowledged that the Beatty's "Bugsy" led with 10 nomi of Appeals for the District of Columbia N.Y.