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•JUKE UTUDENTUDENTI UOVERNMENU T Famous engineer shares tales of near-disaster Election '98 Structural engineer describes how miscalculations almost led to collapse of two famous skyscrapers TODAY'S ISSUE: QUALIFICATIONS By ROSS MONTANTE partments of civil and environmental Chronicle staff writer engineering, LeMessurier discussed The Chronicle asked the presidential candidates Unforeseen problems often appear his involvement with the John Han to discuss two issues that each have stressed in in even the best laid plans, but rarely cock Tower in Boston, Mass., and the their campaigns. Today, they answer the ques do they endanger many city blocks Citicorp Building in New York City. tion, "What best qualifies and prepares a vice and countless lives. But such was the The mistakes and problems that president for the presidency? What, then, makes situation William LeMessurier ad often plague massive construction you qualified?" dressed in a presentation Tuesday. projects were a main component of LeMessurier, who gave this year's LeMessurier's speech. "Engineers can annual Structure and Society Lec make big mistakes even when they > Bianca Motley ture, is a world renowned structural are seriously competent," he said. One of the mosl important factors that qualifies a vice president for the presidency is her knowledge of engineer who has studied and taught In his account of the construction Duke Studenl Government. As a vice president one at both Harvard University and the of the Hancock Tower, LeMessurier must leam the inner workings of DSG and discover Massachusetts Institute of Technolo described how a famous structural de how to circumvent problems. gy. His designs include the Treasury signer declared the rectangular- A vice president prepares for the presidency by dealing with the challenges dealt to her throughout her Building in Singapore, the Boston shaped building safe from high winds. term. By solving the problems that are mosl important City Hall and the Terry Sanford Insti Two months later, the designer real to students, a vice president is able to establish KARYN SINGER/THE CHRONICLE tute of Public Policy. In his "Tale of ized he had not considered the effects relationships with administrators and gain respect William LeMessurier Two Towers," sponsored by the de See LEMESSURIER on page 8 • trom the entire campus. I have the relationships with administrators that will allow me to hit the ground running. I earned the respect of my peers and f accomplished goals with Graduate student my tenacity and experience. These qualifies and Former CIA head addresses more make me the best candidate tor DSG president. group eyes new I Jeri Powell current security concerns Being a Vice President in DSG gives me the best possfcle preparation for the Presidency. In my housing changes By HELEN WOLFF campaign, I have been wary of stressing experience Chronicle staff writer as the most important qualification because 1 do Q The group, which is examining believe that my genuine interest in improving student "The world is changing, and life, as well as my strong desire to represent the true the housing concerns of graduate changing very quickly," said Stans- voice ol the students, should be most important and professional students, plans to field Turner, director of the Central However, there is no doubt that my record in two Intelligence Agency during the years with the organization could stand alone. I sit on a submit a recommendation to the Board of Trustees committee, and my committee has Carter administration, in a talk made significant headway on such issues as road provost by the end of the semester. Tuesday afternoon. "Who is the improvements on Central Campxis, parking and safety leader for this change? The U.S., and lighting. Thus, through a combination of strengths, I am best prepared, and certainly qualified, to be DSG By KADZI MUTIZWA that gives us a lot of responsibility." President Chronicle staff writer Turner's talk, titled "National Se With an eye toward the recently pro curity Issues and Insights," explored The two candidates for student affairs vice pres posed residential changes for under the retired general's views on the ident responded to a similar question: "What graduates, graduate and professional shifting role of the United States in best qualifies you for the position of vice presi students are currently discussing their reducing threats to the global com dent for student affairs?" own housing concerns. munity. The auditorium of The For Last fall, Provost John Strohbehn est at Duke, in which Turner spoke, | Sean Murphy and the Office of Student Affairs creat was crowded with people who came Vice President for Student Affairs is the combination ed a housing task force that has been to hear his views on nuclear defense of two important qualifies: experience and student examining general graduate student and international relations. HELEN WOLFF/THE CHRONICLE involvement Having been an elected student housing issues, with a primary empha For Turner, the primary responsi Stansfield Turner legislator tor two consecutive years representing both sis placed on the on-campus housing bilities ofthe United States are lead East and West campuses, I'm aware of Ihe internal organization and policies of DSG. situation. ing the international community by up in details in this treaty process Furthermore, one must have a character and point Heather Hayter, Graduate and Pro example and finding ways to reduce and be bogged down forever," he ex of view respected by both peers and the fessional Student Council president and the number of nuclear weapons the plained. "The only way ia quicker administration. The students need someone who will member of the committee, said the task United States stores. cutback] is achievable is ifyou and I represent their needs and concerns—one that will be force has examined residential concerns, start showing indignation." accessible and listen to them. My social nature, While America currently has understanding ot university life and genuine concern such as security, current housing costs 15,000 nuclear warheads, in 10 Turner explained he worries that tor making We more enjoyable here is what makes me and the state of housing information dis years it plans to cut back to 10,000. while countries with nuclear capa the best candidate. tributed to graduate students. The task To Turner, however, this cutback is bilities negotiate amongst them- force hopes to present a recommenda- not sufficient. "You can get wrapped See CIA on page 9 • I Sheri Shepherd See HOUSING on page 8 • My experience and proven leadership on the DSG Student Affairs Committee, coupled with my genuine desire to improve student life, qualify me for the office of Vice President for Student Affairs. As a legislator, I lave made proactive changes for students through :.. my creation and chairmanship of the financial aid car policy subcommittee. If elected, I plan to join Panhel in their quest for free Vote in the DSG The Marketplace meeting space. As a member of a selective house, I PRESIDENT VP-STUDENT AFFAIRS support the preservation of Sving groups. I also care runoff election from Trent Lobby about independent He and wil work to improve the 9 am-7 pm today - outside the C.I. independent residential experience. I will increase Jeri Powell Bianca Motley Sean Murphy Sheri Shepherd at these locations: a a a a campus-wide social events, such as Springfes[, which - outside Burger King ;,: : a .;,: ; :a,::.a MtfT ROSEN/THE CHROMCli benefit the entire student body.
• GPSC DISCUSSES HOUSING, PAGE 3 • DSG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES OUTLINE THEIR PLATFORMS: COMMENTARY, PAGE 11 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD AND NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998
Newsfile Clinton accepts apology about Jones article Associated Press Bomb Injures: The third bomb in Magazine writer regrets inappropriate examination of president's personal life two days to explode in Pakistan tore By JAMES BENNET The president read the article," said she had rejected an advance by Clinton, through a train as it pulled into the N.Y, Times News Service Lahore station. Ten people died and Jim Kennedy, a White House spokesman, and declared that she would clear her more than 80 were injured. The gov WASHINGTON — It was a brief and "and he appreciates and accepts Brock's name. Clinton denied the account and re ernment blamed all three blasts on mild statement that underscored but left apology." He left unaddressed the possi fused to apologize. agents from neighboring India. The unspoken a thousand could-have-beens bilities of a Paula-Jones-less presidency. The rest is still becoming history—a Indian government has denied such about the Clinton presidency. In a December 1993 article in the fact, Brock said, that has become deeply claims in the past. With one sentence passed on by a American Spectator, Brock in passing troubling to him. spokesman, President Bill Clinton Tues mentioned a woman who he said was "re If s really bizarre," he said Tuesday. "I Investigators scrutinize: Feder day accepted the apology of the man who membered only as Paula"—but who came think I made a major misjudgment, in ret al regulators are taking a hard look at wrote the article that mentioned the to be remembered as so much more. In an rospect." In addition to forswearing his in whether WorldCom's proposed woman named Paula, who hired the article examining Clinton's sex life when vestigation, Brock said he should have takeover of MCI Communications lawyers, who filedth e subpoenas that led he was governor of Arkansas, Brock said omitted the name Paula. would dampen competition. The $37 to Monica Lewinsky, whose relationship the woman named Paula had had an en In his article this week, published in billion merger—biggest in U.S. histo to Clinton now threatens his presidency. counter with Clinton and then volun Esquire, Brock addressed the president as ry—would control 50 percent of do Clinton was responding Tuesday to an teered to be his girlfriend. he wrote: "As the first reporter who leered mestic Internet traffic and 25 percent article by David Brock expressing mourn After the article appeared, Paula into your sex life, I do loiow that I didn't of the nation's long-distance business. ful regret for starting that chain reaction Jones, a former Arkansas state clerk, learn a damn thing worth knowing about with an investigation of Clinton's sex life, identified herself as the woman, said that See APOLOGY on page 7 • Women SUe: Two women are suing Mike Tyson for $22.5 million, claiming the former champ verbally and physi Serbs deny proper burials, autopsies to Albanian victims cally abused them during breakfast at a Georgetown bistro after a night out Q The hasty burials of 51 families a chance to have autopsies shortly after the United States envoy March 1. The women are seeking performed and to hold funerals, some to the Balkans, Robert S. Gelbard, vis damages for assault, battery, defama Albanians add to the ethnic ten thing the Serbs have sought to avoid in ited Pristina Tuesday. tion and emotional distress. sions already raging in the Kosovo a province now seething with frustra The latest victims, nearly all killed in tion and anger. the village of Prekaz in an attack that province of Yugoslavia. "About 300 police arrived at the began last Thursday, were turned over to garage where the bodies were being held local community leaders by the police in By CHRIS HEDGES tonight and loaded them on a truck," Srbica late Sunday night. The Serbian Weather N.Y. Times News Service said one witness in Srbica, 25 miles west police had warned the survivors that if Thursday SRBICA, Yugoslavia — The Serbian of Pristina, who asked not to be identi the bodies, laid out on the cement floor of High: 42 • Sunny police seized the bodies of 51 ethnic Al fied. "There were 12 Albanians and a a old garage, were not buried Tuesday Low: 30 • Winds: rebellious banians killed in a sweep of separatists Muslim cleric allowed to go with the po they would do the job themselves. in Kosovo province, loaded them onto lice to Prekaz. The bodies were put in That decision is bound to inflame trucks, dumped them into graves and the graves. The graves, dug this after Happy birthday, Elton Brand! tensions here. Foreign diplomats and bulldozed the earth, witnesses said. noon, were filled in by a bulldozer." local people have expressed fears that The forced burials Tuesday denied The forced burials were carried out See KOSOVO on page 7 >
a solo program of six works performed by LI Chiao-Ping WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1998 THE CHRONICLE GPSC representatives discuss future of on-campus housing By KADZI MUTIZWA time employee to aid incoming students [committee] report comes out," Hayter more welcoming place for students." Chronicle staffwriter in their search for affordable and conve said.'"Right now, it's very ambiguous." "The top priority of students [on the At a sparsely attended meeting nient housing, (see related story, p.l) IN OTHER BUSINESS: Fifth-year board]," he continued, "is that they did Tuesday night, the Graduate and Pro "This is a short-term thing that can be graduate student in cell biology Michael n't want the Bryan Center to turn into a fessional Student Council discussed the done immediately," she continued, "It's TinQ, one of GPSC's representatives to mall." future of its constituents' on-campus often a complaint that first-yearstudent s the University Union Board, presented As the University focuses on a com housing. do not get good housing information," the council with proposals for the upcom prehensive rearrangement of Bryan GPSC President Heather Hayter, Hayter also presented several tenta ing Bryan Center renovations. The Center space, Tino announced that one fifth-year graduate student in cell biolo tive housing options that the committee Union's board, which comprises under of GPSC's main priorities during the gy, announced that a committee on grad has discussed. One option suggests that graduates as well as graduate and pro project should be the relocation of the uate student housing will make its rec the University invest in a private firm to fessional students, serves as the voice of council's office, which is currently locat ommendation March 25 to Provost John build additional housing in the Central students in these negotiations. ed on the lower level of the Bryan Cen Strohbehn. The committee's main prior Campus area. Another option posits re Tino said the renovation effort, ter. Tino recommended that GPSC seek ity since it was formed last fall, Hayter placing the Lincoln town houses adja though temporarily on hold until resi a relocation to the middle level, where it said at the meeting, has been to recom cent to Central with a new complex. dential life issues are resolved, is an at could be in close proximity to the Duke mend that the University hire of a full- "This will be a lot more clear when the tempt to make the Bryan Center "a Student Government office. University to host N.C. teachers' conference on communication From staff reports Carolina system. In addition to creat Twenty-five public school teachers ing the program, the center selected from across North Carolina will travel participants by identifying schools to the University this weekend to re with an interest in forming interna ceive training on communication tech tional school partnerships. nologies and building cross-cultural Currently, 15 North Carolina schools understanding. have formed partnerships with other While on campus, the teachers will countries including Norway, Japan, attend seminars on topics including ef India, Denmark and New Zealand. fective Webpage design and interna tional perspectives on cross-cultural understanding. NEWS BRIEFS The goal of the conference is to in troduce teachers to telecommunica In addition to the University, ISPT tions technology,whic h will allow them received support from the Mary Biddle to interact directly with teachers and Duke Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds students from other countries. Foundation, A.J. Fletcher Foundation, This same group of teachers attend Beattie Foundation, Open Door Society ed a similar workshop last fall and will and University of North Carolina Gen be returning to share their progress on eral Administration. various projects. Both conferences are run through the International School Exhibit tO Open: The documentary Partnerships Through Technology pro photography exhibit, "Fields Without gram, which was designed to create op Borders/Campos Sin Fronteras," will be portunities for North Carolina teach displayed at the Center for Documen ers and students with limited tary Studies' Porch Gallery from March international exposure. 22 through April 23. An opening recep The ISPT program was developed by tion, featuring readings from farm the North Carolina Center for Interna workers' oral histories, will be held from Midterms loom in Weaving 101 tional Understanding, a public service 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 22. Trinity sophomore Jessica Tomkovik weaves yarn at the Craft Center in the program in the University of North See BRIEFS on page 9 • Bryan Center.
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THE CHRONICLE • p MEDICAL CENTER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 Expert predicts increased importance for extended families By TIM MILUNGTON parents and grandchildren has grown in families]," he added. As an example, tion than ever before. Chronicle staff writer importance. Bengtson said his grandfather was one of An ongoing study of 2,004 grandpar As the baby boom generation inches "We're not doing a good job of dis 17 children, his father one of 10, while he ents, parents and children begun through closer to retirement and nursing homes, cussing the strength of the intergenera- has only three children. Kaiser Permanente in 1971 furnished the the issue of an aging society is set to be tional family," Bengtson said. "Beyond Gazing into his "crystal ball," Bengt data to support Bengtson's hypotheses. come a critical medical, social and eco the nuclear family, intergenerational re son issued a number of predictions about The study found that the majority of fam nomic issue. The changes in family struc lationships are stronger than ever." the future of the American family. Call ilies ties remain strong, and closeness in ture set in motion by this trend have led Bengtson illustrated the trend with ing his ideas "incautious and unwarrant the family structure remained relatively politicians and the media to bemoan in- several examples. For example, the num ed by current data but something I be consistent over time, Benagtson said. tergenerational bickering and the sup ber of children in the United States lieve strongly," Bengtson argued that by "Even in a fast-changing society, inter posed breakdown ofthe American family. raised primarily by their grandparents 2010 longer life expectancies would lead generational family effects appear to be Nevertheless, Vern Bengtson, a pro has increased from 3 million in 1989 to to greater intergenerational interaction. far stronger [than anticipated J," Bengt fessor of gerontology and sociology at 8.5 million today as parents have been Closer ties between generations could son said. "The ties that bind do so in com University of Southern California and lost to crime, AIDS or other early killers. bring both unity and conflict, he said. plex but consistent ways." past president ofthe Gerontological Soci "There's a veritable plague of intergener While current generations are likely to While he said that policy-makers do ety of America, thinks there is compelling ational careagiving," he joked. receive financial support from their par not consult gerontologists as often as they data to suggest that hope should out The aging population of the United ents—baby boomers will inherit some should, Bengtson stressed that his mes weigh concern as American prepares to States means that the number of elderly $10 trillion between now and 2000—they sage is being heard. "Being a gerontolo- face the 21st century. people is closer than ever to the number will also be faced with the burden of sup gist is a lot of fun," he said. "I open up the Bengtson delivered an address titled of young people, Bengtson said. "The pro porting a growing elderly population. newspaper each morning and wonder "Families, Aging and Social Change" gression from a 'pyramid' to a 'pillar' has These two concerns, Bengtson said, will what [the media] will discover today that Tuesday evening before an audience of a parallel at the microscale [of nuclear lead to more intergenerational negotia we as gerontologists already know." about 60 Medical Center employees, fac ulty and students in the Searle Center lecture hall. The talk was part of an an nual lecture series honoring the career of Glaxo Wellcome grant aids anti-cancer research George Maddox, former director of the From staff reports Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. try depend on the support of academic University Center for the Study of Aging The Medical Center's corporate Ralph Snyderman hailed the company's medical centers in the development of and Human Development. neighbor, Glaxo Wellcome Inc., is set offer as "yet another of many examples new drugs, and that the Medical Center The importance ofthe nuclear family to provide $1.5 million in gifts toward of the remarkably effective research was one of the forerunners in that effort. has decreased in both structure and func the establishment ofa new professor partnership with... Glaxo Wellcome." He The new professor will work in the tion during the 20th century, Bengtson ship of pharmacology and cancer biol said he was proud that a company with Leon Levine Science Research Center, said. From a legal, economic and religious ogy. The grant will allow the Medical Glaxo Wellcome's distinguished history and will collaborate with colleagues unit in the 19th century, he argued, the Center to hire a renowned expert in of outstanding research should choose from the Comprehensive Cancer Cen family has become today largely the site the prevention, detection and cure of the Medical Center for such a grant. ter, the School of Engineering and clini of procreation, education and adult com cancer, said Anthony Means, chair of Glaxo Wellcome's vice president for cal departments including radiation on panionship. At the same time, the multi- the department of pharmacology and research, Robert Bell, noted that his cology, medicine, surgery and generational family comprising grand cancer biology. company and the rest ofthe drug indus pediatrics. 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But that does not mean the merce Committee will hear testimony smart money is necessarily on a bill from senators representing various being passed. factions, and the Labor and Public The differences in what the parties Welfare Committee plans to draft the want in legislation are so vast and the section ofthe overall legislation involv degree of trust between some of them ing regulation of tobacco by the Pood is so slight that it is difficult to fathom and Drug Administration. what the bridges are that can bring The tobacco companies want the them together. predictability that legislation would "If we get anywhere, and that's a 9-lOS oz. give them about how much money they huge 'if,'" said Sen. John McCain, the will have to spend to settle legal claims chairman ofthe Commerce Committee, Orville Redenbacher's in the years ahead. They favor a bill it's going to be because "we move to along the lines of the agreement they gether with the White House and the signed last June with 40 state attor Democrats and the attorneys general Popcorn neys general. and the public health community." 'mm.;;:;,, .•••.:..,•....•,...... • The industry is beginning a nation McCain, R-Ariz., was tapped last week wide advertising campaign this week by the Senate Republican leadership to on television and radio and in newspa draft a bill that falls under the jurisdic pers and magazines touting the June tion of his committee and several others. agreement. He said he hoped to have finishedwritin g Public health advocates believe that a bill by the end of this month that would a tough new law regulating tobacco is command enough support in the Senate the best way to reduce the number of that its passage would not be in doubt. teen-agers who get hooked on smoking. 'There's no way we're going to put President Clinton and nearly all ofthe out a package that will be defeated on Democrats in Congress see a political bo the floor," he said in an interview. nanza in the issue. They think legislation Work in the House of Representatives to limit smoking would be enormously is moving more slowly. The Republican popular, and they believe they will get leadership may be waiting to see what credit if such a measure is enacted. happens in the Senate. If the Senate can The Republicans who control Con not agree on a bill, there is little point in gress also favor passage of a bill, in the House taking up an explosive issue in part because they fear they will be an election year. But if the Senate does faulted if legislation fails. pass a bill, a top Republican staff assis So this is one of the rare instances tant said, "we will certainly move quickly in Congress when inertia is not a cen- and decisively." 6 pk. 12 oz. cans 64.64 oz. 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Those McKinney defense lawyer lawyer said Tuesday, pleading for ac similarities, from women who did not quittal at a court-martial that illumi know each other and were stationed at scribe the layout of the apartment ment. The defense said there was no nated the military's awkward integra different posts around the world, in where the sergeant major was stay proposition but rather a rebuke when tion of female soldiers. cluded McKinney's use of his son's ing. To the defense, it was fiction be the petty officer rubbed against him se "In military law, character does death as a seduction tool and his habit cause in one account she says he ductively at a luncheon. count, and character alone may be of leaving messages under identical as grabbed her by the shoulder and in Staff Sgt. Christine Fetrow was the enough to cause reasonable doubt," sumed names. another by the hips. accuser in 10 of the 19 charges. Was said the defense lawyer, Charles Git- With closing arguments complete, Sgt. Maj. Brenda Hoster, the first she a chronic liar who "benefited be tins, in a closing argument that re after five weeks of testimony and 119 accuser, was dismissed by McKinney— yond her wildest expectations" as a re counted the sergeant major's rise from witnesses, the case goes to an eight- not molested, as she said—because she sult of her allegations, as Gittins said, the peanut fields of his childhood to the member jury, which will decide McKin was incompetent as his public rela flying around the country on govern Army's top enlisted post. ney's guilt or innocence. If convicted, tions aide, the defense argued. But the ment jets and winning a transfer to the "Character does count," agreed the the same jury will decide his punish government contended that had she base where her boyfriend was sta lead prosecutor, Lt. Col. Michael Child. ment, which could include more than been dismissed, McKinney would have tioned? Or was she a soldier stalked for "But Sgt. Maj. McKinney apparently 55 years in prison, dishonorable dis told others on the staff and Hoster years by a superior, who asked for sex had two," the one he revealed in public charge and loss of benefits. The jury is would have stopped socializing with at the Pentagon, the Lincoln Memorial and the one he showed in secret to comprised of four officers and four en his family. and the Mount Vernon bike trail and women he was trying to seduce, the listed soldiers. Two ofthe panelists are Sgt. Christina Roy, the only woman then coached her to lie to government prosecutor said. women and one is black. to charge that she and the sergeant agents in a recorded conversation, as the government said. In its closing statement Tuesday, The spine of both closing arguments major had had sexual intercourse, the government cast doubt on McKin was a review of the six accuser's sto must be telling the truth, the govern None ofthe women were perfect wit ney's character, calling his alibi a ries, a classic he-said/she-said, with ment said. Some 30 telephone calls nesses. All had inconsistencies in their carefully constructed lie. A critical the defense believing one version of from the Army's highest ranking sol accounts. All waited to come forward document, a sign-in sheet at an auto events and the prosecution another. dier could not be considered business with official complaints. Some testified repair shop where the sergeant major To the government, Maj. Michelle as usual. Quite the contrary, the de only under grants of immunity. All had claimed to be at the time he was Gunzelman's account of sexual assault fense said, because intercourse with a others called to the stand to question charged with having sexual inter was believable because it was followed woman seven months pregnant in the their integrity. course with a pregnant soldier, was by a distraught telephone call to a configuration described was "physio The accusers stepped forward one manufactured, the prosecution said, friend. To the defense, it was suspect logically impossible." by one, beginning with Hoster. Their eiting forensic evidence. because Gunzelman had a history of And so it went with similarly con allegations were made in the context of "He knows he's guilty, that's why he misinterpreting the behavior of men. flicting interpretations of the testimo an unfolding sex scandals in the Army, doctored the document," said Child, ar To the government, Sgt. Rita Jecza- ny of Naval Petty Officer Johnna Vin focused on drill sergeants abusing guing that McKinney was motivated la's account of a sexual advance must son. The government said McKinney young female recruits at the Aberdeen by a desperate attempt to protect his be true because she was able to de- propositioned her during a golf tourna Proving Ground in Maryland.
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For information about the UIC Summer Session, call 800-625-2013 or, in Chicago, (312)996-9099. oomnnun/fy UICSUMMER Or, send us e-mail at: [email protected] service center SESSION hup //www uic.edu/depis/surnmei DUKE UNIVERSI UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO wsn^^^wi^rsrww^rw^rwwwwwwsi THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, MARCH il, 1998 News of danger to Citicorp Building blocked by paper strike • LEMESSURIER from page 1 ty this imposed, the construction com and workers began welding the joints release, The New York Times contact of wind against the short sides ofthe pany used bolts instead. which had been bolted. "I had a ed LeMessurier. building. He notified the owners, and After the building was in full use, scheme which I thought of before I Though he worried the full story five million dollars worth of reinforc LeMessurier discovered the change. opened my mouth. That's terribly im might cause bad publicity and undue ing was done to prevent the building's He realized the use of bolts made the portant," LeMessurier said. "You panic among the citizens, LeMessuri possible collapse in a major storm. building more vulnerable to high don't just cause havoc without having er returned the call. "A machine an "You will never be able to avoid winds. If the advanced balancing a solution." swered: 'The New York Times at 6 o' making mistakes, but what matters is system inside the building failed due During the first week of Septem clock has gone on strike for an how you deal with them when you to lack of electricity, a powerful ber—before the work was complet indefinite period.' Every newspaper in make them," LeMessurier said. storm could cause the building to ed—a hurricane began to move up the New York went on strike until the end In his second story, LeMessurier topple onto its midtown Manhattan Eastern coast toward New York City. of September," he explained, drawing emphasized how even a minor and neighbors. Fortunately, though, the storm veered a laugh from the audience. well intentioned change can cause LeMessurier made this discovery off to sea and the retrofitting of the The story of the Citicorp building significant problems. As the structur in the beginning of the worst part of building was completed. has been featured in documentaries al designer ofthe Citicorp Building in hurricane season—August and Sep One of the more ironic aspects of on the Discovery Channel and the New York City, LeMessurier worked tember—and quickly notified the in the situation concerned a fortunate BBC. In addition, LeMessurier said on a very unique design: a 59-story surance company and Citicorp. "We press blackout. "[Citicorp] put out a he expects to receive his first check building supported at the base by had to be prepared to evacuate 10 press release that said that their en for the option on the movie rights only four pillars. In his design, blocks, in all directions [of the build gineer had advised them that... for a soon, even if he is a little unsure how LeMessurier employed two-story-high ing]," he said. "All this preparation minor amount of money, the build anyone could make a movie out ofthe diagonal steel crossbeams to add sup for total disaster was in place." ing's strength might be improved," situation. port. Emergency electrical power was in LeMessurier said. "There is no evil person in this Originally, these girders were to be stalled to keep the balancing system Believing the situation was more story. How do you make a movie out of welded in, but because ofthe difficul operational during a power outage severe than that stated in the press that?" he asked. Task force plans to incorporate results of recent housing survey • HOUSING from page 1 avoid dorm life, but mostly because campus The survey addressed specific issues, including tion to the provost before May. housing is too expensive. The real problem whether graduate students were satisfied with then- "We are addressing the issue in two is that first-year students get lost in the current housing and what they perceived as barriers to ways: Investigating options for more on- shuffle. Some departments and schools do a on-campus living. "Most [survey participants] cited campus housing—especially for internation good job getting housing information out to cost, noise problems associated with proximity to un al students—and we are also frying to cen incoming students, others not so much." dergraduates and leasing issues such as pets and re tralize these efforts so that all students get One of the committee's more success quired furniture," Hayter said. the information they need to make housing ful projects to date was a housing survey The Office ofthe Provost declined to comment on the arrangements before arriving at Duke," distributed to grad students in December, task force or the survey before meeting with the task GPSC secretary and fifth-yeargraduat e stu Hayter said. force on March 25. dent in experimental psychology Jeff Lam John Strohbehn "We distributed a survey to try and Committee Chair Liz Clark, director ofthe graduate oureux said. find out about some of the key issues," program of religion, reiterated that the task force is still "There don't seem to be enough spaces to fill gradu Hayter said. "It was very helpful in identifying quali in its initial planning stages. "We've had some lively ate student needs," Lamoureux continued. "It seems ties that on-campus housing for graduate and profes conversations," she said. 'We're trying to take into ac that most students would rather live off-campus to sional students should have." count different variables [affecting graduate students]," Dr. Chi Schive Attention Vice Chairman, Council for Economic Planning and Development Sophomore and Executive Yuan - Taiwan, Republic of China Junior will speak on The Regional Financial Crisis VV$ Kajorttl and Economic Prospects: apply for the Asia and Taiwan Public Policy Studies Thursday, March 12,1998 PPS Glasgow Program 12:15 p.m. Study Abroad, Fall 1998 226 Perkins Library Duke University, West Campus Application Deadline: Sponsored by the Taiwan Forum at Duke University, the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Center {or Business Friday, March 13 Education and Research, Fuqua School of Business, and the Duke Business Club See Phyllis Rorex LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 205 Sanford Institute For more informaiion, please contact the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at 684-2(504. or Professor Emerson Nioti at [email protected] WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11. 1998 THE CHRONICLE Retired general lays out plan to lower threat of nuclear launch • CIA from page 1 nuclear weapon is not a deep secret, he proposed to defuse the nuclear sion, the paperwork had been mis selves in a bureaucratic fashion, the and you can probably rent a Russian threat. Turner advocated removing placed, causing a momentary scare. risk of rogue states or terrorists gain nuclear scientist if you need one," he warheads from missiles and storing "[Russian President Boris] Yeltsin was ing nuclear weapons grows. Caught up warned. "The U.S. cannot control this them a distance apart, again lessening actually on the line [with the White in the relative calm following the Cold threat alone. They must make interna the hazard of rash decisions or acci House] before it was figured out," he War's end, he worries people are for tional alliances based on trust and dents. explained. "It's in everyone's best inter getting the urgency of cutting back nu compromise." The beauty of this system, Turner est not to have firing capability avail clear arsenals, he said. He offered several ideas for quicker explained, is the chance to decrease able at instant notice." "Tbday I find our public almost indif methods of reducing nuclear stores and risks rapidly. "Moving weapons to stor Turner argued that more rapid cut ferent to the problem," Turner explained. increasing solidarity between nations age can be done by the commander-in- backs in nuclear weapon capabilities "I'm almost ready to suggest we ought to with nuclear arsenals. De-alerting—• chief," he said. "It doesn't take a treaty and better international cooperation thank Saddam Hussein because he reducing the degree of readiness in and it doesn't require the bureaucracy." will reduce real risks. "The problem keeps our attention on this problem." which nuclear weapons are placed— Demonstrating the danger of bu with Iraq is not just that Saddam Hus The former CIA head emphasized can lessen the threat of accidents, mis reaucratic slips, Turner cited a recent sein has ambitions to gain these the importance of the United Nations calculations or misunderstandings. U.S. rocket destined for outer space weapons, but that he can gain assis in helping to control the possibility of Such a stand-down, he added, can be that created a panic in Russia when tance from nations we consider respon nuclear capabilities getting in the as simple as turning off switches or re they mistakenly thought it was headed sible," he said. "It is going to take in hands of terrorist states, either moving parts. toward their country. Though Russian ternational cooperation to beat this through sale or theft, "How to make a Strategic escrow is another strategy officials had been alerted of the mis threat." Exhibit to feature rural farmworkers • BRIEFS from page 3 The exhibit—which explores farm workers' immi gration to the United States—is a collection of pho tographs by interns with the Student Action with Farmworkers, a non-profit organization created to SENIOR SALUTE build a network of campus-based projects focusing on farm-worker issues. Each summer, students primarily from universi ties in the Carolinas participate in SAF's Into the Graduates! Order Your Fields Summer Internship and Leadership Develop ment Program. These interns coordinate educational presentations about pesticides, mentor farm-worker students and inform farm workers of their rights and Announcements Now. responsibilities regarding employment laws, immi gration policies and housing regulations. Call (919) 660-3652 for additional information about the exhibit. Happy 21st Birthday to Leslie Deak, senior editor extraordinaire... (but still the baby ofThe Chronicle) Application Forms Now "*-*°>*M^ Available For: • Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarship (Tuition Award) • Janet B. Chiang Grants (for student projects including: house courses, travel grants to educational conferences, independent research, publication development, study in Asia) Information, Application Forms and Guidelines Available from: JOSTENS COLLEGE GRADUATION ACCESSORIES™ The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Sponsored by Duke University Stores* 2111 Campus Drive 684-2604 Date: March 9-12 Time: 10-4 Deadline for Applications: Piace. Von Canon, Room "C" - Bryan Center March 31,1998 Letters to the Editor THE CHRONICLE Vote for Shepherd ensures exceptional year MARCH 11, 1998 I am writing to endorse the candidacy With innovative ideas, Shepherd ofSheri Shepherd forthe position ofDuke promises an exceptional year that will Student Government vice president for ultimately benefit the entire University student affairs. Havingspent the last two community. I can recommend her as a weeks working closely with Shepherd, I strong advocate of student concerns, an Poor []ing have come to respect her tenacity and experienced student leader with strong unyielding respect for other students. character and as a thoughtful represen Shepherd's tenure in DSG has given her tative for the individual student and NCAA tournament committee disappointsth e knowledge to make her campaign campus groups alike. Pack your bags, we're going to and Connecticut are playing in their promises become reality. More impor Look out for the University's future and Atlanta!No... what's this? Lexington?! respective conferences, Duke and tantly, however, remains her truthful com vote Sheri Shepherd for vice president Putting Duke in the South brack North Carolina are forced to play fur mitment to malting the University a bet for student affairs. et in the NCAA men's basketball tour ther from home so the former two ter place. Time and again, she points out nament came as little surprise, but teams will not be playing in their that she is running because she has an Jordan Bazinsky putting Duke in the same bracket as respective homes. The two best teams honest concern for life at the University. Trinity '01 Kentucky and forcing the team to play in the country should not be travel •Take the time to speak with her and you The writer is chairman ofthe East in Lexington was well beyond the ing 600 miles to play first-round tour will findthi s to be true. Campus Council. realm of anyone's expectations. nament games. As it stands now, the Blue Devils Beyond the travel inconveniences, are slated to play their first two games one must consider where Duke will be Murphy noted for wide range of abilities in Lexington, Ky., after which, con playing its first game. The team would There is no better candidate than impressed with Murphy's ability to con tingent upon their success, they will havebeen better off playing in Moscow Sean Murphy to be our next Duke tribute to discussions on a wide vari journey to St. Petersburg, Fla., to do during the height ofthe cold war than Student Government vice president for ety of topics ranging from alcohol to battle in the third and fourth rounds playinginLexington'sRupp Arena. Still student affairs. With two years experi housing. ofthe tournament. resentful over Laettner's last-minute, ence as both an East and West Campus A sophomore this year, he has already There are several very serious prob game-winning miracle shot in 1992, legislator and a member ofthe commu demonstrated an understanding of our lems with the way that the tourna Kentucky will probably take every nity interaction and facilities and ath attitudes.and needs. In meetings, he com ment was structured. Kentucky is opportunity to make Duke's stay as letics committees under his belt, Sean mands the respect of administrators and widely recognized as the best of the utterly unpleasant as possible. has designed a handful of plans to other campus representatives and with second-seed teams. Historically, the The brackets would have been much improve campus life next year. their attention, convincingly delivers a committee matches up the best ofthe more equitable if Kentucky and His ideas for an intra-campus Safe well-thought out opinion. His voice is first-seed teams against the worst of Connecticut had been sent to the Rides program, improvements on the heard. Let yours be. the second-seed teams, which would Midwest and West, and Cincinnati and current housing policy and realistic imply that the committee either Purdue had been bracketed in the East ways to keep kegs on campus are all Justin Klein believes that Duke is not one ofthe and South. This way the focus would attainable proposals. As a class rep Trinity '99 three best teams in the country, or have been returned to the first-seeds, resentative, I have attended several The writer is vice president ofthe someone wasn't thinking straight. where the attention belongs. DSG meetings and been consistently Class of 1999. The Tar Heels also have to deal with Granted, if all goes as planned, Duke a similar problem—as probably the will make the Final Four and this will number one team in men's college bas all be moot. Powell 'will promote interests of students' ketball, they should not be in the same Even though it probably isn't all that I would first like to encourage all under that many people who seek the DSG pres bracket as Connecticut, considered the important, it would have made for a graduates to vote in today's run-off elec idency do so for the wrong reasons. Powell second best ofthe second-seed teams. better experience for the fans and the tion. Throughout the year I have worked has the best interests ofthe students Furthermore, because both Kentucky teams to have had fair bracketing. extensively with both of the Duke at heart and has the character to pro Student Government presidential can vide solid leadership for the student body. didates, and through my experiences I This election is about choosing some On the record can say that Jeri Powell is unequivo one who has the guts to work with oth cally the best choice for DSG. We all ers and promote the interests ofthe stu Engineers can make big mistakes even when they are seriously competent. want a competent person who has the dents. Jeri Powell is this candidate. knowledge and wherewithal to be pres William LeMessurier, in this year's annual Structure and Society Lecture, on ident, and while both candidates have Lino Marrero the fallibility of engineers (see story, p. 1) this, there are still more important Trinity '98 aspects to the job, Tke writer is president ofDuke I agree with the Tossed Salad Men Student Government. THE CHRONICLE Motley improved food options, car policy Devin Gordon, Editor Ed Thomas, Managing Editor You wanted Wendy's. You voted for the recent proposal she wrote to keep Jonathan Angier, General Manager it, and now some ofyour Duke Student kegs on campus. Her interactions with Jon Huntley, Editorial Page Editor Government representatives are in the administrators through these projects David Schwarz, Editorial Page Editor process of bringing it to campus. You have allowed Motley to make valuable relationships which will help herif she .Jessica Kozlov, University Editor Jessica Moulton, University Editor wouldn't have been able to vote on this Michael King, Sports Editor Alex Gordon, News Features Editor issue ifBianc a Motley hadn't suggested becomes president of DSG. Ali Korein, City & State Editor Tim Millington, Medical Center Editor putting the fast food referendum on As DSG legislators, we have seen the Norbert Schiirer, Arts Editor Denise Dunning, Features Editor the ballot. Motley is currently work great amount of work and time that Jennifer Liu, Features Editor Adam Winer, Weekend Editor ing on the committee that will bring Motley has put into working on issues Misty Allen, Senior Editor Leslie Deak, Senior Editor Wendy's to campus, and as you have that directly affect the student body. Marsha Johnson, Senior Editor Kerry Garland, Photography Editor probably heard, she is also one ofthe After working with her, it is clear to us Tom Hogarty, Senior Photography Editor Matt Rosen, Graphic Design Editor people who brought Han's to the that Motley has an excellent feel for the Eric Tessau, Creative Services Manager Scott Hardin, Online Editor University as well. concerns of students and will work her Jay Kamm, Systems Manager Sue Newsome, Advertising Director But Motley's impact on campus hardest to resolve them. Her three Catherine Martin, Production Manager Adrienne Grant, Assistant Production Manager goes beyond our food options. She has years of DSG experience will only serve Mary Tabor, Operations Manager David Garcia, Advertising Manager to aid her in these endeavors. Therefore Ashley Altick, Advertising Manager worked on changing the controversial financial aid car policy and has final it seems obvious that Bianca Motley is The Chronicle is published by the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., a non-profit corporation ly succeeded in getting concrete results the best candidate for president of DSG. independent of Duke University. The opinions expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those on this issue. She is also one of the ofDuke University, its students, workers, administration or trustees. Unsigned editorials represent most knowledgeable people on cam WIN Simmons the majority view ofthe editorial board. Columns, letters and cartoons represent the views of their pus about residential life issues. As a Trinity '01 authors. member ofa selective house and ofthe Phone numbers: Editor: 684-5469: News/Features: 684-2663: Sports: 684-6115; Business Office: Residential Housing Committee, Priya Mulgaokar 684-6106; Advertising Office: 684-3811; Editorial Fax: 684^696; Ad Fax: 684-8295. Editorial Office (Newsroom): Third Floor Flowers Building; Business Office; 103 West Union Building; Business and Motley realizes the significance of liv Trinity '01 Advertising Office: 101 West Union Building, Duke University. Visit The Chronicle Online at ing groups on campus; however, she http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/. is equally workingfor the rights of inde and three others ©1998 The Chronicle, Box 90858, Durham, N.C. 27708. All rights reserved. No part of this pub pendents. Furthermore, she is con The writers are East Campus lication may be reproduced inany form without the prior, written permission of the Business Office. cerned about social life, as shown by legislators. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11,1998 THE CHRONICLE Commentary Duke Student Government '98 'A True Student Voice' When I was first given the opportu Presidential Runoff Election nity to write this column supporting my campaign, my first instinct was to write Guest column what people have come to expect from us politician types: Jeri Powell "I am running because I can best rep resent student concerns to the admin position and I know I have done a good ^Their Own Voices^ istration, I have two years of experience, job. In a year or two, there will be fresh I've done so much already, (just fill in ly paved roads on Central Campus and the blanks), blab, blah, blah." more lighting around East. Campingout But 17 days into the campaign, I am in Krzyzewskiville won't be so long and no longer interested in delivering what will make a lot more sense. Parking on A Wealth of Experience is expected. Thus, what follows are a few West Campus... well that will probably thoughts and reflections, and, ifyou like never be convenient, but it will get a lit what you read, I would most appreciate tle better because I was once vice pres For the past two and a half years, I your vote in this runoff election. ident for facilities and athletics. have had the opportunity to be involved ^noct rnlumn I am not in Duke Student Government I have all ofthe experience that it takes in Duke Student Government. «•«*»•• *»UIUIIIII ! I enjoy ^— to be DSG presi Throughout that time, I have learned a Dion f"CX IV/lr^tl OX/ Dlc 1 IOcJ politics. Being at dent, and a whole great deal about policy matters, lead- * 'VHJlltfy the right place The unique path that I lot more. I work ership and myself. I have grown in ways : (Duke Summer have taken makes me well with all types that I could not have imagined. Now, I hasplacedahaltonthebanningofkegs Session) at the of people, and I want to take the next step. I am run- on campus. I want to expand the issue right time (the qualified in a way that am in touch with ning for DSG president, in order to serve even more, however, and work withcam- beginning of is quite uncommon. many segments of Duke students at the next level. pus groups to ensure a better balance Takcus Nesbit's ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ the diverse popu- Currently.Iamvicepresidentforstu- of on- and off-campus social life, con- presidency) has dent affairs. One ofthe achievements sideringthatmanypartieshavemigrat- lation we have at everything to do with why I'm in the orga of which I am most proud is the work ed off campus. We need viable social tbe University. What does this mean? nization today. But I see that as one of that I have done with the financial aid outlets on campus that will be attrac- It means that, as a black female, I am my greatest qualities. I have never been car policy. Because of the diligence of tive to students from all sectors ofthe concerned about what life is like here completely sucked into the vacuum, and students across the University, the pol- community. for women and for minorities. I am also even as vice president for facilities and ver^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^y involved in the Greek community^ icywaschangedtoallowstudents to bring Because ofthe shift to more off-cam- athletics, I have maintained my sense and feel a strong responsibility to rep- cars worth less than $3,000 to campus pus parties at bouses in the surround- of awareness and perspective. A lot of resent Greek interests to tbe best of my without penalty. Many of my predeces ing neighborhoods, our relations with the problems we have as an organiza ability. And, as a former resident of Trent, sors have worked on the policy as well, permanent Trinity Park residents have tion stem from a lack of this perspective. I know how important a new dorm on and we carried a lot of their momentum become strained in recent months. There Our highly motivated, hard-working West really is. I could go on, but I think into the process •—.... ^^^^—^^^^— is a point at which freshmen and sophomore legislators I make my point; the unique path that this fall. students and their become disillusioned, and typically, only I have taken makes me qualified in a neighbors can In addition, I / have a vision for DSG the politically motivated, resume-driven way that is quite uncommon. have had a great compromise, and people are left behind. This is where all Finally, I am not afraid to say what I deal of experi because I have a strong we shouldencour- ofyour esteemed executive members tend think and stand firm on my beliefs, and ence with din age movement grasp of its past to come from. yet, I am not stubborn and will not push ing issues. *S^_^^^^^^^^^_ towards that Somehow, I slipped through the cracks. a random, personal agenda at the stu chaired the sub- — — — point. I was never a star within the organiza dent body's expense. committee that ultimately recommended The University must also be a leader tion and I worked my way up quietly. In me is the rare opportunity to elect Han's for the University Room space. I in the discussion of residential life. Taking the minutes at legislative meet someone who will be a true student voice, am working to bring a Tex-Mex option However, the largest obstacle in mak ings made me wonder what I might con someone who will not dilute or edit the to campus that would also serve as a ing this happen is the existence of Trent tribute to the organization. Innocent to message. That's what a president is sup late-night option, to fill a void that cur dormitory. As a member ofthe Upperclass the fact that I was at a disadvantage, posed to do—let's face it, I am no more rently exists. Residential Planning Group, I under never having run a campaign before, I an expert on student life than any ofyou. stand the importance of pushing for a I have been a member ofthe line mon decided to run for a vice presidential posi We are all experts on our own experi new dormitory in the ocean parking lot. itoring review committee, which is work tion, and facilities and athletics struck ence. My job is to carry as much of that It is a decision that simply makes sense. ing to ensure that students do not have me as an area in which I could excel. message as is possible. What matters is to camp out for six weeks for the UNC As president, I would sit on the Business A year later, I have real experience that the president can be trusted, that game in the future. I have had the chance and Finance Committee ofthe Board of under my belt and a legitimate shot at you as students know that I will do my to see where mistakes were made this Trustees. I would be an advocate for a being DSG president. I have upset some very best to act wisely on our behalf. year, and I know where improvements new dormitory there, just as I have been people by running because I am not your I can and will breathe life into an orga should take place. on the Student Affairs Committee ofthe typical DSG president type. A few peo nization few believe in anymore. I am As president, I want to take my Board. I have already let the trustees ple don't think my experience counts for truly excited about leading the student diverse experiences and build upon know that a new dormitory is a vital much because I deal in buildings and body through DSG. I hope I aget the chance. them for greater success. I want to broad next step, and I would continue to be a roads. But I have worked hard in my en my scope and address several larg proponent of such a facility. Jeri Powell is a Trinity junior. er topics, such as the capital campaign. The role of president is one that takes With the University's efforts to raise $1.3 a great deal of knowledge, leadership WAT BDIHEY PSK YOU.VEPN billion, it is vital that students have a VWATM-^uTaLTHErA' and courage if one is to do it right. In I HOPE VGU KNOW TUW TUE leader who can convey the most impor addition, the bonds that I have formed FWENPSHIP 6ETWEN TOt tant concerns to the campaign volun with administrators from around the PKKIDEHT tvND VERNON teers. We must ensure that priorities JOKDfcN IS ft< ENt>uRlaM6 University guarantee that I will be able ONE., Rl6Hr,VERN" such as enhancements to Perkins and to navigate the bureaucracy that so often the Bryan Center, a new residential facil weighs down decisions. I ask that you ity and financial aid are addressed. support me on March 11 for DSG pres Through my prior experience with tbe ident. I have a vision for Duke Student campaign leaders, I am known as a per Government because I have a strong son who can clearly articulate the needs grasp of its past. I am the person who of undergraduates. has, with her experience, changed the I have spent a great deal of my time lives of Duke students for the better. I this year on social options for the cam- hope that you will allow me to contin- pus community, including the alcohol ue my work, policy. I devised a proactive plan that Bianca Motley is a Trinity junior. More Letters on Page 14... 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For UNC, the contest with Duke would appear to was winless in the conference last year. be its best chance for a conference victory. "The mistake we make in the Carolina-Duke rival By NEAL MORGAN ry every team makes—we get caught up in the rival Chronicle staff writer ry and not play the game," Duke coach Mike Pressler Imagine the importance and emotions associated said. "From the first face-off, we have to play the with any Duke-Carolina matchup. Now imagine that lacrosse game as if it were any other game." there are only four teams in the Atlantic Coast Con This win is almost a must for the Tar Heels, who ference. Suddenly, a big game becomes that much big last season finished with a losing record for the first ger. time in 29 years. They did not notch a single ACC win For the men's lacrosse team, this scenario is a re and finished as the conference cellar-dweller for the ality. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., No. 7 Duke (2-1, 0-1 in the first time since 1967. For a program that has won four ACC) takes on its arch-rival, eighth-ranked North NCAA tournaments and 11 ofthe last 18 ACC titles, Carolina {2-1, 0-0) at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill. last season's mediocrity was unacceptable. While the season is still young, this game has To make matters worse, the Duke game kicks off a ALEX BELSKIS, THE CHRONICLE major conference implications and, ironically, could See LAX on page 20 •• Duke barely edged UNC last year, 8-7, ii i Durham. Krzyzewski questions Lexington as NCAA site Duke's Langdon NCAA sends Duke to faraway sub-regional site, home of hostile Kentucky faithful named third-team By RACHEL COHEN cats travel to Atlanta, much to the was booed at its practices before fac Chronicle staffwriter dismay of Blue Devil coach Mike ing Kansas in the national semifinal Many people felt that Saturday's Krzyzewski. game. But that was the Final Four, All-American game in Greensboro between Duke Lexington may be farther from he said, and the situation was un and North Carolina would not only be Durham than Atlanta is, but chances avoidable; this year, Krzyzewski felt, From staff reports a battle for the Atlantic Coast Con are Krzyzewski would rather play in the NCAA Selection Committee Junior Trajan Langdon was named ference Tournament crown, but also Alaska than the Bluegrass State. Few should have avoided sending the Blue an Associated Press third-team men's for a possible return trip to Greens college basketball fans will ever for Devils to Lexington. basketball All-America Tuesday. boro for the NCAA Regionals. The get the last time Duke and Kentucky Though the committee could have Langdon, who average 15.2 points and consolation prize, however, turned met—when Christian Laettner's placed Kentucky in a region other shot 41 percent from three-point out to be particularly disappointing buzzer-beater in overtime sent the than the South, it seemed intent on range, is Duke's first All-American for the men's basketball team. Blue Devils to the Final Four in keeping the Wildcats close to home. since Grant Hill earned first team hon With the victory, the Tar Heels 1992—and Wildcat fans are known Even if Duke was playing in Atlanta, ors in 1994. were given the top seed in the East for holding grudges. Krzyzewski would not be pleased by Langdon also led the Atlantic Coast Region and an opportunity to play "I don't think you should put our having Kentucky in his region. Tradi Conference in free-throw shooting at their third- and fourth-round contests team in that situation," Krzyzewski tionally, the committee has placed 90.2 percent. right down the road from Chapel Hill. said Monday. "We've already told our the top No. 1 seed with the worst No. Other ACC players included on The third-ranked Blue Devils, as ex team, it's a road game.... For four or 2 seed. This year, based on the cur the AP All-America teams were pected, had to settle for being No, 1 in five days we're there not necessarily rent Associated Press rankings, that Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter of the South. And with No. 5 Kentucky enjoying the NCAA. Do you take your hasn't happened, and Krzyzewski North Carolina and Matt Harpring saw it as giving precedence to the No. seeded second in the region and pro people out to restaurants, where of Georgia Tech. Jamison earned 2 seeds. hibited from playing on its home someone's like, 'Remember '92'?" first team honors after being named court, Duke will spend its first two At the 1988 Final Four in Kansas "It doesn't really look like the No. 1 to the second team last year. He was rounds in Lexington while the Wild City, Mo., Krzyzewski recalled, Duke See LEXINGTON on page 19 • one vote shy of being a unanimous selection. Carter was named to the second Duke ice hockey wins first-everconferenc e tourney team and Harpring joined Langdon on the third team. From staff reports The Blue Devil ice hockey team, AP AU-Americans reached new heights this year as it captured its first ever Atlantic Coast First Team Collegiate Hockey Association Tour nament championship. Antawn Jamison, Jr., UNC Third-seeded Duke upended top Mike Bibby, So., Arizona seed Virginia, 4-3, in the champi Raef LaFrentz, Sr., Kansas onship game, held Sunday, March 1, Paul Pierce, Jr., Kansas in Charlottesville, Va. It was a Cin Miles Simon, Sr., Arizona derella run for the Blue Devils, who finished the regular season 6-5-1 in Second Team league play, as they defeated the two Richard Hamilton, So., UC onn teams they were previously winless Ansu Sesay, Sr. Ole Miss against en route to the title. - SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Mateen Cleaves So. Mich St. "For me, it was incredible," said Next year, the Blue Devils hope to advance to the national tournament. senior Mike Riley, the team captain Vince Carter, Ji ., UNC who scored three goals on the week freshman Jeremy Zuker gave the only in the tournament but through Pat Garrity, Jr. Notre Da Tie end and was named the league's Most Blue Devils an insurance goal in the out the season, was the play of fresh Valuable Player. "I've been on this third period. The Cavaliers added a man netminder Mike Bredehoeft. For Third Team team for four years. To have the late goal but it did not matter. his efforts all season, Bredehoeft was Lee Nation, Jr. TCU buzzer sound and be league champs, In the semifinals, Duke downed the named the league's top goaltender. is just incredible," Matt Harpring, Sr., Ga. T _ch No. 2 seed, Hampton Roads, 5-2. Riley The players also see the win as step Trajan Langdon, Jr., Duke trailed early against Vir notched two goals while Zuker added up in terms of recognition both on cam Duke ginia, 1-0, but rallied for a 3-1 lead on another. Sophomore Mike Glotzbecker pus and nationally. Next year, the goals by sophomore Jamie Evans, and junior Jason Goldman supplied Blue Devils will be eligible for national Michael Dicker son, Sr,, Riley and junior Chris Henderson. the other Blue Devil goals. postseason play in the American Col Arizona After a UVa goal cut the lead to 3-2, Also key to Duke's success, not lege Hockey Association Tournament, Bonzi Wells, Sr , Ball St. PAGE 16 THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 Otti Domtntoo 1 1998 NCAA Women's Basketball 1 Tennessee I New Mexico 8 Dayton Arena 8 W-KerstucHY Davton. Ohio Nashville, Tenn. { 3 StC(* F, Ao*ti* Memphis 5 5 Rutger* N. Carolina St. 4 4 lowaS*. 1 j,-. Virginia 6 EAST MIDKASt 6 Vamtecbiit Arizona ^ 3 Illinois —1 ii v_i " -rs S«orflia 7 7 Florida toft Geo.Wash iu] Kemper Arena UComi 2 Kama* City, Missouri 2 N, Carolina March 29 • ' Mattofia! 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All entries must be retrieved by tisp of f of thefirs9t gam e of the 1998 NCAA | HAIHCUT 1 SLOW DRY 1 men's basketball tournament. Child/Senior: $8 TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 THE CHRONICLE PAGE 17 Lady Vols remain unbeatable but rest of NCAAs look wide open There has been much dialogue about the parity be 18-11 record and a four-game winning streak into tween teams this women's basketball season. Obvious Cameron Saturday to face the Blue Devils. ly, someone forgot to inform Tennessee about this notion "Bullet" Bob Utah is led by Julie Krommenhoek's 19.9 points and of parity. Tennessee has sliced through the opposition Bob Wells 3 assists per game. Alii Bills contributes 11.2 points, 5.9 like a hot knife through butter and this weekend they rebounds, and 7.9 assists per game. Angie Thill's 13.3 will begin its quest for a third consecutive national Arkansas and Hawaii will both be looking for some points and 7.6 rebounds force opponents to recognize championship when the NCAA Tournament begins. respect in the tournament, A second -round upset of her inside presence. Despite Tennessee's dominance, this year's tourna Stanford would do it, Nani Cockett (Hawaii) and Sytia Mideast: Tennessee and North Carolina are the ment should be very exciting. Several teams are with Messer (Arkansas) have to bring their A game in order class ofthe bracket, but it could be Vanderbilt and Ten out their star players, making upsets more inevitable to have a chance. Florida may have a Sweet 16 date nessee in the Elite Eight. North Carolina's talented core this year. Ofthe top four seeds, Tennessee is the only with Duke. Duke will have its hands full with trying to of Nikki Teasley, Chanel Wright and Tracy Reid will one that is completely healthy. Here is a region-by-re stop the Gators' explosive Murriel Page. carry them to the Sweet 16, but there they could be am gion look at the tournament. Duke, though, will have to take care of business first bushed by Vanderbilt in Nashville. East: N.C. State, led by Tynesha Lewis and Chasity with Middle Tennessee State and then the winner of Illinois is highly regarded, but their lack of speed Melvin, is a very solid team but they could be knocked the Utah versus Louisville game. Middle Tennessee and depth make them prime for an upset by Vandy. Be off by upstart Maine, Maine features Cindy Blodgett, State features a balanced attack with Dana Burrell, sides, the Commodores desperately want a rematch the nation's leading-scorer, and they are a very danger Joanne Aluka, Cortney Neeley and Carlita Elder each with Tennessee. ous team. Georgia is another team that has much tal averaging nearly 10 points a game. MTSU will bring an See WOMEN'S NCAAS on page 20 »• ent but they have been Jekyll and Hyde this season. Connecticut, playing without injured superstar Nyke- sha Sales, has struggled as of late. They dropped to a No. 2 seed despite a 31-2 record. Svetlana Abrosimova should provide some help, but Connecticut likely won't reach the Final Four. Old Dominion is the favorite to reach the Final Four Spring Break in, but they have some obstacles to overcome. Ticha Penichero and Nyree Roberts are spectacular perform ers, but without Natalie Diaz they'll struggle to make it Free Airport Shuttle to Kansas City. Look for the No. 3 seed, Arizona, to make the cut. Midwest: Arguably the best region, the midwest FRIDAY MARCH 13,1998 features some heavyweights: Texas Tech, Louisiana Tech, and Alabama. Texas Tech has superb performers in Alicia Thompson, plus they would be at home until WEST TRENT EAST AIRPORT the Final Four. Louisiana Tech won a squeaker in their conference final. Tamicha Jackson and Monica 12:00noon 12:10pm 12:20pm 12:45pm Maxwell are clutch players, but they may be emotion ally exhausted. 2:00pm 2:10pm 2:20pm 2:45pm Alabama may be the most prepared to make a run. 4:00pm 4:10pm 4:20pm 4:45pm They have great athletes in Dominique Cant and Tausha Mills, and they play stifling defense. They held 6:00pm 6:10pm 6:20pm 6:45pm Tennessee to a season low 67 points in a 67-63 loss in the SEC final. Alabama sweats out a close one against Texas Tech but they advance to face Arizona. West: This region boasts the most impressive ath SUNDAY MARCH 22,1998 lete in Kristin Folk! fromStanford . She has a 3.46 GPA in economics and is an All-American in two sports. She 12:00noon was the national player of the year as her volleyball The bus will make a stop at all team claimed the national championship, Folkl was 2:00pm terminals on each trip. also named the scholar-athlete of the year for both 4:00pm Honda and GTE. She, along with Olympia Scott and Vanessa Nygaard, are the reasons that Stanford has made its impressive run into the tournament. Mandate Meeting Duke Transit Spring Break Bus Schedule Monday, March 23 130 Soc/Psych Buildin MONDAY MARCH 16 - SATURDAY MARCH 21,1998* 7:30 AM - MIDNIGHT 6:00 pm Two-Pitch Softball EAST ALEX. NORTH ANDER. WEST ANDER. NORTH ALEX. SWIFT Tournament :00 :04 :06 :08 :15 :18 :20 :22 :25 6:15 pm Softball Regular :30 :34 :36 :38 :45 :48 :50 :52 Season •REGULAR SERVICE TO DUKE MANOR Open to all Duke undergraduate SUNDAY MARCH 22 and graduate students 8:20 AM RESUME NORMAL SCHEDULE THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 Re5kSK.l1 Semtf.fiBls SemlRsali Regionals Second Rosifti first Rosi-wl RMt-ilareti H fcit.-Ma.ct. 12 1998 NCAA Men's Basketball Witt-Mo.eft 14 WttJ-Morcli 3 __ Tournament Pr»i£i*_V!£wJI>j- Rhod» Island 8 Niel Center Greensboro Coliseum 8 MCChartotla St. Louis, Mo. Greensboro, N.C. Ulutrm y St. j » Hl-Crii-.gra. 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Union Building • 684-3811 TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 THE CHRONICLE Brockett, Manchen lead Duke fencing at NCAA Regionals By JAMAL MIDDLEBROOKS make it to Nationals." fencers, finished 31st and 33rd respectively Chronicle staff writer After the first three rounds, the 12 best fencers The men's team sent three members to compete at Attack, parry repost, second attack, counterat square off against each other in a round-robin for James Madison. tack, remiss, attack, touche, point. mat. Brockett finished 10th after the first three The Blue Devils were led by junior foilist Bob These were some of the sounds heard this past rounds, going 8-5. In the finals, Brockett went 4-7 Manchen. Manchen like Brockett placed eighth weekend as the fencing team traveled to James against top competition, including the defending and most likely will qualify for Nationals. Also Madison University to compete in the NCAA Region champion from Penn State, to finish eighth. The participating for the men was sophomore Mike als. top six qualify for nationals but since each team Baughman. Baughman, who fences saber, placed The Duke women's team was led by senior Jenn can send a maximum of two people from each di 14th at Nationals and 10th at Regionals last year Brockett who placed eighth in foil. Brockett will most vision and Penn State had four, Brockett moves but was only able to manage to finish a 13th-place likely advance to Nationals at Notre Dame later this up to sixth. finish this year. Freshman foiler James Wright year. Brockett had made Regionals her first three Other fencers for the women included junior Sarah fenced well for her first time at Regionals and years but had never advanced to Nationals. Hamilton, who after placing eighth at Regionals and placed 19th "I had been training really hard this year," 18th at Nationals in foil last year, managed only a The next meet for Brockett and Manchen should Brockett said. "It was my last year and I had never disappointing 14th. Katherine Nichols fenced well in be in Nationals at Notre Dame on March 19-22. Both made it to nationals before. So after the opening epee and was ended up 20th. Sophomore Katherine fencers, if they are selected, should have an excellent rounds I knew I had to pour it on, if I wanted to Isyanik and freshman Beck Weathers, both epee opportunity to place well. No. 1 Tar Heels receive similar Letter to the Sports Editor snub, sent to Hartford over D.C. AD organizes buses, hotel rooms for students • LEXINGTON from page 15 ington, D.C, for its first two As everyone knows, our basketball all transportation to and from the seeds were taken into considera rounds team has been assigned to Rupp games only. This will include 4 games tion," he said. "It seems ironic that "You're not thinking about the Arena at the University of Kentucky on Friday, March 13 and 2 games on we're going to play on Kentucky's No. 1 seeds," Krzyzewski said ofthe in Lexington, Ky. for the first and Sunday, March 15. Tickets for all 6 home court, and I would assume selection committee. "If you start second rounds of the NCAA men's games are $90 and can be purchased that they're the top No. 2 seed. How out thinking about where am I basketball tournament. This will be by calling 1-800-928-2287 or (606) we can go into the last week, the going to place the No. 2 seeds, that a very hostile place for our team to 257-1818. Hotel rooms are also being last game being the top RPI, the top happens." play and we need to get as much sup arranged with AAA Travel. More in team in the country, and all of a But the Tar Heels and UConn port for them as possible. formation can be found on the web at: sudden we're in Lexington on their have only faced each other once: a One way that we can do this is to www.duke.edu/~dmm4/ccaa.html. home court?" UNC regular-season victory in actually join them at the game. Aa of Ifyou are interested in going, you UNC is in a similar situation. 1990. Most Husky fans probably Tues, March 10, there were still plen MUST call the DSG office at 684-6403 The top-ranked Tar Heels have No. don't wake up in the middle of the ty of seat available to watch our men by 4 pm on Wed. March 11. These 6 Connecticut, theoretically the night and scream, "Don't let Rick play, but it is at least an eight-hour buses will only go if there is enough in second-best No. 2 seed, in their re Fox get the ball!" Tar Hell coach Bill drive and will be hard to get there. terest. gion; because the Huskies can't Guthridge said on Tuesday that he Thus, we have put together a plan to play in Hartford, UNC will travel didn't see much difference between get more students there on chartered Joe Alleva to New England instead of Wash playing in Hartford or D.C. buses (subsidized) that will provide Director of Athletics SWIM pll__/ __D JI are open until _., , _ 5:oopm. March 24 Wednesday March 25 Aquatic Center 7:30 pm a^______S_____fl______H______-_____i_§'' Open to all Duke undergraduate and grad students. NCAA Tourney Headquarters RESTAURANT & BAR • 3 wide-screen TV's Senior Salute • great pizza, subs, burgers Date: March 9-12 Time: 10am - 4pm • huge beer selection Place: Von Canon, Room "C" - Bryan Center Brightleaf Square. Main St., Durham 682-7397 Sponsored by Duke University Stores® THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1998 Blue Devils, Tar Heels both desperately need ACC win now • LAX from page 15 fortable in the cage and continues to improve, along last two games is looking to exploit Carolina's inexpe stretch of six games that includes matchups against with the defenders in front of him. rienced defensive unit. The Blue Devils will try to five ofthe nation's top seven teams. "[Harkness] struggled in the first game of the score early and force the Heels out of their controlled Still, the Tar Heels aren't hitting the panic button. year," Pressler said. "They have tightened down de offensive set, which starts with UNC's success on UNC's seven losses last season included a string of fensively and are making more saves at the goal. face-offs. The game could be determined by the mid four consecutive one-point defeats. Things continued "Carolina's certainly rebounded since the loss to dies as both Carolina and Duke boast two ofthe most to go wrong for the Heels in this season's opener, an Butler. They certainly feel a lot better about them athletic midfields in the country. upset loss to then-No. 23 Butler. Carolina has selves than they did two weeks ago." "We have to create the tempo," Pressler said. "We bounced back, though, beating Navy and shocking Duke has also rebounded from its opening 15-9 have to run defense to offense to get numbers. They're then-No. 4 Loyola, 12-6, last Saturday. loss to Maryland. It destroyed Boston College, 20-2, going to try to sit on the ball, and we can't let them do Since the Butler loss, the Tar Heels have played on Wednesday and defeated then-No. 13 Brown last that." much-improved defense. They lost their starting Saturday, 19-6. The rebound stems mostly from im Duke has won three ofthe last four against the Tar goalie and two strong close defensemen to gradua proved defensive play—both at the close defense and Heels, including an 8-7 win last year. This year's tion. To keep the pressure of its defense, UNC now between the pipes—and from two key lineup changes. matchup could be another close contest, and Pressler plays a slow-tempo, ball-control offense. After initial Junior Palin Archer is now a part ofthe first-team believes it will come down to fundamentals. hardships, new goalie Jarron Harkness is more com- close defense, and sophomore Jared Frood has moved "If we just concentrate on playing Carolina, we're from the midfield to the attack. Since the move, Frood going to lose our attention to details," Pressler said. has scored 12 points on 10 goals and two assists. "If we do that we'll stop doing the things we need to Tennessee crushed all The potent attack that has propelled Duke in its do to win." 15 ranked opponents • WOMEN'S NCAAS from page 17 The surprise team could be Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights have a lot of athleticism and they should make it to the sweet 16. It was this athleticism that allowed Spring Break Sale them to knock off UConn with Sales. However, they lack discipline and will likely get blown out by Tennessee. Tennessee is head and shoulders above the competi tion. The "Meek" trio of Chamique Holdsclaw, Sameka Randall, and Tamika Catchings has been sensational this season. Quoting another writer, "They may sound like a law firm but they have been a mortuary for op ponents". Just ask the 15 ranked opponents that they AH clothing and beat by an average margin of 21.1 points. Against the top contenders during the regular season, the Volun teers beat Stanford by 18 and Old Dominion by 24. The way I see it... When the bracket was announced, I picked Duke tc meet Tennessee in the Final Four. However, recent off the court problems may have distracted Duke, paving the way for a Florida-Tennessee rematch. hats 15% ©ff. Final Four. Alabama gets a stellar performance from Tausha Mills to eke out a two-point double over time win over pesky Arizona. In the other semi, Ten nessee crushes Florida by 25 to meet Alabama for the title. Alabama is intent on stopping Holdsclaw and they do a relatively good job. She only scores 18 but it is un likely star Kellie Jolly's five three pointers that make Have a safe break! the difference. Tennessee wins by 15 and cuts down the nets for the third time in three years. Sale prices effective Wednesday, March 11 Bob Wells is a Trinity junior. He would like to re- mind everybody that Tennessee wants their rent check. thr©ugh Saturday, March |A, W8. 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Fuqua School of Business and The Law School Offices: 101 West Union Building, Duke University MARCH 11, 1998 ARTSPACE CURRENTS•PAGE 3 Loki A chilling tale about the God of Mischief by Raja Raghunath black as darkest Africa, and sweated like the hordes Afrikaans, and this English; they're such mongrel he convoy of three minibus taxis trun of workers his parents employed to burn and har tongues." dles down the road, their brows low to vest the sugarcane they grew. Erich nodded. the brown cloud of kicked-up mud and His father just has sold his operation to the Loki's smile flickered across his face. "Okay, clay. They drive along a ridge line, the Hulett sugar company. The financial arrangement is well it was nice talking to you. See you around, endless rolling green creases of the extraordinarily generous. Erich's expected retire then?" Valley of a Thousand Hills sloping down around T ment now is such a golden prospect that all of his Erich muttered, "Yes... yes," as he walked away. them. In the distance, the shining surface of the remaining desire for police work has evaporated. Inanda Dam peeks from between the nooks of the He will be taking the government's retrenchment steep hillsides. The day is dry, and hot enough to oki is the God of Mischief, the bastard son package and moving out to the farmhouse next paste the grey summer haze low to the hillsides. of Odin, the All-Father of the Norse gods. month. This taxi excursion probably is his last such As a child, Erich learned from his parents Erich swivels his head to take in the bright view expedition. all about Asgard and the ancient beings peering in through all of the windows of his taxi, The taxi excursion is part of the ongoing desta- who dwelled there. His parents were last in the convoy. The seats behind him are bilization strategy formulated by the old apartheid Lchurch-going, but ihey had a keen awareness of the crammed with 15 African men, dozing indifferently state. They are bringing Inkatha Freedom Party gods. Erich's friends often made fun of the lovely in the heat. members to attack an African National Congress- carved runic totems scattered throughout his farm Immediately behind him, Sergeant Van Wyk affiliated community in the valley, giving the assault house. The dark wood furniture his father had explains the workings of the uzi with which he is the appearance of "black-on-black" or "tribal" vio imported at great cost, in fact, was specially-carved gesturing. The African man listens, his blank eyes lence. to pay homage to various deities and to the Norns, fixed upon the policeman but his thin fingers skit Erich was recruited into the Third Force, the the fates. tering over the gun, touching and jerking back as if special unit of the police and military that worked Once, as a teenager, Erich had glimpsed Thor, scalded. with organizations like the IFP on "destabilization" the God of Thunder. He was in Denmark visiting for In the far back corner, squeezed between the measures, by an old schooling friend soon after he the summer before he began high school. He went window and the shoulder of the man beside him, received his commission. He never knew precisely out to an island near his uncle's house with a girl he wearing a startling gold Kaizer Chiefs jersey and a why he joined. It just seemed glamorous and excit was trying to get at, a lovely North Sea beauty with beadwork neck-choker woven in horizontal stripes ing, he supposed, as if he were James Bond afield long blonde hair that tossed in great curls in the of red, white, black, green, gold, white and red, sits in Natal. crackling, briny sea wind. Loki, the Mischief-Maker. He was at the Elandskop farm early during his The island he rowed out to was nothing more His complacent gaze is fixed upon a distant spot tour of duty. They shot four soldiers of Umkhonto than an asymmetrical slab of old granite placed on somewhere on the taxi's roof, but he notices Erich, weSizwe, the armed wing of the ANC's liberation end in the icy waters. They were making love on and his eyes drop down. He smiles, a thin blue struggle, there. The soldiers refused to reveal the the narrow strip of pebbles that was the beach compression of the lips. Erich turns around again in names of the Operati6n Vula activists who had they'd put ashore on as a thunderstorm raged near discomfort. It is a friendly, disaffected look he has brought them into Durban from the Swaziland bor by, battering the leeward slope. been given, but coming from Loki, Erich presumes der. it to be pure evil. Erich looked up and saw a figure perched upon It was crowded that day. During the late 1980s, the edge of the highest cliff above them, a bulky "Now look, see? One last time," Van Wyk slaps there was a great deal of traffic as independent man with long red hair and a beard like a bramble the magazine into the butt, his finger firmly on the police units came in and out of the various farms hedge guarding his face. He was sitting on a rock, safety. "Just trigger this, and you're golden," The that the larger Third Force units established as their gazing glumly at the thunderheads receding over African man nods. The sergeant hands him the gun, bases. the water. He held a sledgehammer with a short which he places in his lap, fingers resting in eager ened handle, ness on the black metal. Erich's unit—mostly younger officers like him who were relatively new to the Third Force and of Erich gasped, and the girl smiled and wrapped The people walking on the side of the road ner non-Afrikaans or mixed descent—captured, tortured her arms tighter around him. He whispered, "No, vously step down the slope as the vehicles pass, and executed the soldiers by themselves. But they no, look!" She tilted her head back and stared, their faces purposefully innocuous and wary. They milled around at the edge of the field by the big open-mouthed, as a bolt of lightning shattered the know what this sight means, this odd procession of trees as a few of the African policemen from anoth rock, and Thor vanished. They gaped at the empty combi "taxis" driven by stern white men, packed er unit dug the graves. spot, sparkling with orange St. Elmo's fire, for a suc with young Africans, an odd AK-47 towering from a cession of minutes, and, then, in their thrill, began seat back or a knobkerrie tapping absently against a A number of thin, sullen white men slouched lovemaking with furious intensity again. Erich window. around the scene: SBs. Special Branch were always around, but no officer could usually say why they enjoyed that summer a great deal. Some of the people watch the taxis' passage for were there. When they made their presence known, a few seconds, then begin to hurry down the foot it was like the tinny whine of the mosquito by your fter the encounter at Elandskop farm, paths out of sight. None dare bolt in sight of the ear. If you were not careful, they would draw blood. Erich began seeing Loki on various policemen. If the police thought there was advance An SB strolled over to Erich, smoking a cigarette occasions during the years. He warning of their approach fleeing ahead of them on away from the others. The agent had a sallow face appeared no more frequently than any dusty bare feet, they would shoot without hesita and hook nose, but his eyes shone like glaciers in other particular SB, wandering along tion. the midnight sun. He began speaking to Erich in Aon convoys ferrying "Zulu warriors" to eliminate Erich does not know why Loki chose to come Danish. activists, sitting in upon strategy meetings with IFP along this day. He never can predict when the god "Well, it's nice to see a friendly face," he said. warlords. He even saw Loki once in an armored would be a part of their team. Everyone treats Loki Erich looked up into his face and recoiled. Hippo, riding herd on a late-night township "patrol" like any other Special Branch agent, this odd thin of officers in camo-fatigues, on bulging dirt bikes, pale man with the immense hook nose. "Eh... hello," Loki's eyes crinkled in amusement. "Surprised machine guns slung over their chests. The taxi jolts through a ditch filled with water to see me?" Once, Loki helped torture a former UDF activist, the color of tea. The man beside Loki falls against Erich never had imagined encountering a Norse who was agitating about the causes of the "political him, and gives a broad apologetic I-don't-speak- god in South Africa. He said finally, "Yes,., what are violence" in his home community in the run-up to English-or-Afrikaans-bra grin. The god treats him to you doing here?" the 1994 democratic elections, Lokt followed the a brief, icy, bemused glance. "I came down here, eh?" He passed his hand lead of the other officers and struck the prisoner a Erich's parents emigrated to South Africa from over his forehead. He was sweating, a curtain of few times, mincingly, with a sjambok. Denmark before he was born. He was raised on the water streaming down his face. "Damn hot, this generous hectares of the farm his parents bought in He then straddled a chair in front of the prison Africa. I didn't think Yggdrasil's roots came down Northern Zuiuland. The staid luxury of their farm er, peering past the man's bloody, half-lowered eye this far." house took on a smoky ancient mystery through the lids. Erich and the rest of the officers glimpsed the presence of dark wood antiques brought over from "Hmm... oww!" Erich had been staring dumb, fiery blue of Loki's eyes and turned away. The the old country, alien northern wood that sweated and the cigarette dangling in his hand burned down Afrikaners didn't understand why they did so, but heavily in the tropic humidity. The antiques were as to his fingers, the activist began screaming, and soon after "It's nice to speak a proper language again. This continued on page 10 PAGE 4•CURRENTS ESCAPES MARCH 11, 1998 Deep r* Inside *>• dount3euil Nearby Chatham County is home to one of the most notoriously scary sites in North Carolina. story and photos by Leslie Deak he Duke Blue Devils aren't 1700s were puzzled by it: the only Spirit himself keeps the path clear to the most popular and enduring leg the only underworld figures bare patch of land for miles. It was honor the moccasin-clad feet that end: the Devil's nightly walk. Rumor that inhabit the heart of especially curious because of its made the path in the first place. has it that the Devil goes to the circle T shape—a ring of infertile soil with Another Tramping Ground legend every night to pace around as he North Carolina. Buried deep in a remote section of Chatham County, grass and trees growing abundantly theorizes that the circle was the site thinks of troubling new schemes for located about an hour southwest of both inside and out. Residents tried of an epic battle between rival Native humanity. His constant pacing keeps Durham, is an area feared by many to plant grass and other plants in the American tribes. After a short but bit the circle free from any plant life; the due to its... unusual inhabitant. path, but nothing worked. People ter conflict, the warriors stained the sticks and stones that disappear from Welcome to the Devil's Tramping placed sticks and stones in the path, area with the blood of fallen com the path are kicked away as the Ground. Located along one of North often secured with string, but all of rades and buried their leader, Chief Prince of Darkness treads the familiar Carolina's Scenic Byways—about 10 the items were gone by the next Croatan, at the exact center of the cir walk. miles outside of Siler City—there's a morning. Stories began to circulate cle. The survivors named the spot in Dogs shy away from the site as curious patch of land that has as about the origins of the circle, and honor of their fallen hero and tied to well, beating a hasty retreat with many legends and tall tales as about why il had endured for so the Eastern Coast to avoid further their tails between their legs. There is Chatham County has residents. Every long. conflict with their enemies. The spot no hunting game to be found near child in North Carolina is terrified by One legend postulates that the cir in Chatham County may have been the site, not even the birds that can the legend of the Tramping cle was the site of ancient Native where Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost be heard singing a quarter of a mile Ground—arguably the state's most American tribal dances. Before white Colony fled when they carved the down the road. Travelers stay away famous ghost story—thanks to books settlers came to Chatham County, ever-mysterious "Croatan" into a tree from the site after nightfall, and dar and articles about the mysterious cir Native Americans roamed the area, trunk before disappearing from ing campers who have tried to spend cle that appear each year at known to them as the Great Flats. Roanoke Island forever. the night always are spooked away Halloween. To this day, however, The worn-down circle was an impor Still another legend contends that before morning. few plausible explanations exist for tant meeting place where thousands the circle is impressed into the the mysteries of the Tramping of tribesmen danced around a fire to ground because of the relentless ntrigued by the myth but terri Ground. call the Great Spirit to protect them. treading of horses' hooves as they fied of spending non-daylight White settlers who came to the Why is it still there today, then? The circled to provide power for a I hours in any such location, I rich farm country during the late legend hypothesizes that the Great ancient molasses mill. The vegetation opted to take a friend along—I sure never has returned because the wasn't going by myself—one rainy hooves made such a pronounced afternoon to the Tramping Ground to tread. Other such circles, however, see if reality lived up to legend. have demonstrated the ability to Chatham County's Route 902 grow vegetation after some time—a curves through pastures of lush green feat that makes the Tramping Ground grass, rolling rivers and plenty of cat so baffling. tle farms. The landscape is filled with But one can glean from the name evidence of a bygone era; A chimney stands alone in a field of cat tle, and an abandoned barn, minus a side wall, stands sen try next to a watering hole. After about 30 miles of meandering through the countryside, I began to won der if we ever would find the legendary Tramping Grounds, I stepped out of the car to ask a local resident directions to the site and my nose was assaulted by the pungent eau de cattle. "The Devil's Tramping This patch of land, otherwise known as the Devil's Tramping Ground?" smiled one Chatham County trucker who Ground, mysterious has been barren since the 18th century. ESCAPES CURRENTS • PAGE 5 declined to offer his name. "I can tell you where it were going to sic the Devil himself on nie if 1 inter Agriculture took a soil sample from the center of is, but there's not much left to it no more. It's all rupted their meal again, _ quit the joint and head the path. The tests found that the soil is loo sterile tore up by the people who go visiting there." ed out of town. and acidic to support any sort of plant life. The people visiting the site must have a knack Although that explanation is good enough to for finding spooky places: Despite the Tramping espite the legends, there is a sturdy sci explain ihe path itself, how does one explain the Ground's notoriety, the unmarked site is located entific explanation for the Tramping trees and grasses that grow right up to the edge of on private property along the aptly-named Devil's D Ground's barrenness: a lack of plant- the Tramping Ground? Soil rebuilds itself over time, Tramping Ground Road, about a mile from the supporting minerals in the soil. Scientists have using nutrients from decomposed tree leaves and nearest intersection. There's not much on Devil's found the remains of salt licks once used by'buf- grasses to restore its growing power. But this land Tramping Ground Road, save for a few houses and falo and deer that roamed the county long ago. In has remained barren for at least 200 years, which one of about a hundred cattle farms in Chatham addition, they have found evidence of vegetation means thai the residents of Chatham County, along County. that thrives on brackish water usually found only with the rest of the world, are no closer to solving A small clearing on the left side of the road near the coast. The scientists postulated, therefore, the mystery of ihe Tramping Ground than the 18th- along with some trash strewn along the pull-off are that the Tramping Ground simply is an area of land century farmers who settled the land. the only things identifying the site. Three radiators, with an excessive salt content that cannot support countless cans of Budweiser, a tin of Bush's Baked plant growth. Leslie Deak is a Trinity senior and senior editor Beans and several cartons of cigarettes lay along Years ago, scientists from the Soil Testing of The Chronicle. Her last story was about the the 75-foot trek from the road to the clearing in the Division of North Carolina's Department of Durham Bulls. woods. The trucker was right: There are more signs of humans than spirits at the Tramping Ground nowa days. Indeed, reality doesn't come close to living up to legend. The reputed 30- to 40-foot circle actually is about 20-25 feet in diameter and is lit tered with more trash than the Bryan Center walk way on a Friday afternoon. The circular path itself Don't be late for this was clear of trash, but the trail's borders have been blurred with the passage of time and sightseers. There is evidence of fire in the center of the cir cle, probably left behind by daring campers trying very important date! to stay warm during the night. The right side of the circle is marked by a charred tree stump about Join us in Center Court for the Easter Bunny's three feel high. It's true that trees and grass grow in abundance right up to the edge of the circle and arrival on Saturday, March 14, at 10:00 a.m. that vegetation long since has stopped growing in the center—but it's probably due to the fires. Through April 11, bring your family to South Square Mall to enjoy a stroll through our beautiful Springtime flower gardens, meet the enchanting "Sophie the Storybook Bunny," and let the kids pose for a picture with the Easter Bunny. Rumor has it that the Devil Photo Hours are Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., goes to the circle every and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Remember, the first 300 kids who purchase any photo package night to pace around as he will receive an invitation to join the Easter Bunny at his fun-filled breakfast party on Saturday, April 11! thinks of troubling new schemes for humanity. Disappointed, I followed a few small trails deeper into the woods hoping for something more dramatic, or at least bigger. Finding nothing, I trudged back to the mini-circle and tramped It's great to be a kid! around a bit myself, daring the Devil himself to make an appearance. He must have been busy during my odious visit, however, as he failed to Join our new show his horns and tail. Okay, so the circle itself was a disappointment. Kids Club! Maybe the businesses on the next corner would be hawking "I Survived Devil's Tramping Ground" T- Beginning Saturday, March 14, shirts and shot glasses. Surely there would be the first 400 kids who visit our ' someone to talk up the legend and the stories sur Customer Service Center to rounding the Tramping Ground. join our exciting new Kids Alas, Chatham County residents, who have Club can choose to receive grown up with and are accustomed to the site, are pretty tight-lipped and unimpressed by the legends either Hippity, Hoppity or and tall tales that surround the Tramping Ground. Floppity - the Easter Bunny The counter clerk at the nearby Corner Grill— Beanie Babies® - Free." where everybody except me was a regular—gig No matter which one you gled at the inquiry and solicited a customer's help choose, they're sure to bring in answering Tramping Ground questions. a smile. Plus, new Kids Club "You wanna hear some tall tales?" she asked. "1 members will enjoy special tell you what—go ask that gentleman right there, member savings and surprises I'm sure Terry's got a story or two." throughout the year. But Terry—who, in typical small-town fashion, declined to give his full name to a stranger—said he knew no more about the site than what the typ ical tales offered. "I don't know anything really except where it's at," he said, rolling up his shirt sleeves as he pre pared to delve into the day's blue-plate special. "I've heard about people camping out and gettin' stuff missin', but I don't know if it's really true." 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They scream ed unloading the cars T with laughter as clowns douse each and wagons in a spectacular display bulbs frame wagons full of paraphernalia proclaiming other with water while doing acrobat of elephants, lions, tigers—even sea the arrival of "the Greatest Show on Earth." And even ic tricks from a burning house. There elephants were part of the show. after almost 100 years of existence, the Ringling Brothers is a strange mystique about the circus. There were well-dressed women and Barnum and Bailey Circus still delivers. It mesmerizes, it enthralls. It is the their parasols, bespangled musicians As the circus made its way around North Carolina ultimate entertainment. and their shiny instruments. Balloons But, physically speaking, the circus of all sizes and color were released throughout the last month, children, parents and grand at least looks like it has changed since into the sky as clowns danced through parents delighted in its spectacular sights, smells and the beginning. The big top has turned the streets accompanied by dogs, sounds. It's a show like no other. into a technologically-advanced coli ducks or roosters. Others rode into town stuffed into tiny red wagons No matter what is happening in [he resl of [he world, magic manages io per seum; old-fashioned clowns with red pulled by ponies. Everything was dec vade under [he big lop. Kids' eyes still sparkle and their mouths kill drop open noses and curly wigs have been orated, garnished with sparkle and in awe as a man dressed in spangled tights does a quadruple somersault "high replaced by clowns playing basketball glitter. As the elephants were enlisted above the ground, in a teat as yet unknown to mankind." They clap as two on unicycles imitating the Harlem Globetrotters and now, instead of to erect the center tent pole and drag graceful dancers pirouetting around heavy canvas into place, a regular old the center ring, the "Baryshnikov of dirt lot where kids played softball— the Circus" leads audience members the entire town, in fact—was glorified. in the Macarena. The traditions of the From beginning to end, it was circus have grown up since it started enthralling to all. 1 • so long ago. John Ringling was one of those fi The Grealest Show on Earth has a captivated by this display. The rain long history. Starting as traveling bows of color, the prancing sounds of menageries in ihe early 1800s, circus the music, the human cannonball's * ' mm es became larger and more complex streak across the sky all left an indeli t or with the addition of performers will ble mark on Ringiing's brain. He was . mm ing to thrill audiences with great feats the sixth son of a carriage factory wg^^* ^m± of derring-do. RT. Barnum and the owner. Seven boys in all, John grew railroad took circuses mainstream. up part of a team constantly encour Movies like Walt Disney's "Dumbo" aged lo make music, travel and laugh. embody the fee! of Barnum's circuses: Together the boys brought together Lift « " F a train full of an eclectic combination every aspect needed to do anything. of wild animals, props, shrewd busi The anything that resulted was a ness-men, deformed 'freaks' and flam grand scale circus, the show of all /*^^S v^ ;. boyant performers. Each stop was shows. The Ringlings became a announced by a calliope fanfare. The dynastic family of the Big Business ^5c whole affair was a "fairyland of lights, era, but their business was making music, and a hundred displays of fero kids smile. Making money was impor cious beasts from foreign lands," says tant, but the performance, the show, Gene Plowden, a biographer of the the essence of the circus remained Ringling family. It brought towns the priority. After the Ringling ' PiUf '*•* everywhere together in fascination Brothers Circus bought Barnum and and delight. Bailey's after Barnum's death, the *-• brothers firmly established them- IF""! In days of old, the circus train CURRENTS • PAGE 9 selves as imposing and necessary a fixture to the circus world as the ele phant. As the years have passed, the cir cus has magnified itself to maintain its "Greatest Show" image, keeping up with modern tastes. New specta cles and bigger, more breathtaking stunts have been attempted. "Goliath the Mammoth Sea-elephant" and "the Giraffe-Necked Woman" served as major draws as the circus grew; and the Ringling Flyers became a main attraction for their death-defying stunts on the trapeze. Performers and executives alike contributed to make the circus a more efficient business, but only behind the scenes. To the audience, the show remained magi cal. But the display before the circus started—the glittering unloading of its elements—slowly dwindled away. The circus no longer travels by train and no one is there to watch as the tractor-trailor trucks are unloaded. But the mystique certainly persists, and Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey leads the way in keeping it so.I witnessed this mystique first hand. My journey to the circus in Fayetteville began tumulttiously. After getting lost then locking my keys in my car, my mood was far from excit bruise on her upper arm. ed as I entered Crown Coliseum. Absentmindedly rubbing the area, she While waiting for a locksmith in the began exchanging gossip with the kitchen with Tim, the executive cater other girl. Neither looked older than ing chef, I got my first taste behind 20, and their talk centered on one's the scenes. As Tim showed me the boyfriend at home in New York and richly decorated hospitality rooms the annoying girl who stood next to filled with gourmet food, I could them during the "elephant number." hardly believe 1 was at the circus. Ice Taking a tube of salve from the Capades, a sports demonstration, a counter, the second girl pulled off her big-name concert, yes, but the circus? shoes and dabbed smail amounts on "Hey, clowns gotta eat, too, you to her inflamed heel. Even from my know," he said.Well, I guess, but my standpoint, her feet looked red, raw image was still of the circus-per and pretty gross. "God, if I get former family throwing tin plates full stepped on one more time... ," one of food' across a mess-tent, not of complained. "Yeah, you'd think work clowns sitting down to a delectable ing with elephants, they would be the snack of steak sandwiches and twice- ones we fear. But no, our feet get baked potatoes. trampled by the uncoordinated prop man," the other responded. I almost After getting my car situation stepped out of hiding to join their straightened out, Tim pointed me in conversation, but before 1 could the direction of the center stage and move, a whistle sounded from some went back to work. I could hear where on the other side of the door screaming and clapping nearby, but from which they'd entered and the before I sat down to partake of the girls left. Greatest Show on Earth, I wanted to meet some of its performers. But vis Curious, I followed. What I saw itors were not allowed to be back was a bustling backstage area. stage during a performance. Dressing rooms lined a hallway and I was not to be deterred, however. people in varying stages of dress and Sneaking through a nondescript make-up were hurrying around former," he said. "It's not door, I found myself in a room full of laughing, practicing scales, stretching like a thing, like a career— round metal stands, rolled up carpets, their legs out against walls and doz tall poles lined up on the ground, and ing in corners. Sitting down on the it's just a job." a carefully folded rope net. Against floor next to two people eating some one wall was a case of flame retar- of the steak sandwiches I'd seen in dant and a full length mirror was the hospitality room, I introduced "Well, why do you do it?" propped up on a counter-top. Mass myself. The two guys smiled briefly amounts of make-up and costume and turned back toward each other. accessories littered the area. I con "Hey, um, I was wondering if "It's a kick. A high. Like cealed myself behind a large wooden you'd mind talking to me?" I asked. acid." storage box and waited for something "About?" one of the guys asked to happen. bluntly. Several minutes later, two women "About, you know, your life as a in red leotards, silver tiaras and jazz circus performer," I responded. shoes came through a door on the "I'm not a circus performer," he opposite side of the room. Collapsing said. "It's not like its a thing, like a on a folding card chair, one of the career—it's just a job." girls pulled down the shoulder of her red outfit to reveal an ugly purple continued on page 11 PAGE 10 • CURRENTS ARTSPACE MARCH 11, 1998 slumped over dead. cer jersey and wildly inappropriate neck choker in Loki waves him down impatiently. "Listen, lis That was how Erich could tell when Loki was the Inkatha colors. Whenever they meet up and ten. We came because we're to have a great festival around—by his eyes. He could feel them singeing speak Danish, it causes consternation from whoev in Asgard. Thor went on a hunting expedition and him as the god's gaze drifted past, and when he er is sitting near enough to hear. encountered Fenris. He was forced to slay the hell turned to locate Loki, they speared out at him lasers "Is it this black government now and all? Don't hound, of ice, flecks of blue glaciers housed in a sunken like working for them?" "This caused a great uproar, as you might imag face. "No, no. They don't mean much to me either ine, since it upset the Ragnarok prophecies. We The minibuses pull off the road, onto a plot of way. I rather like Mandela. He's a good fellow, consulted with a number of sages, and with the dead grass before the top of the hill. Their doors seems like. Politics doesn't concern me much." Norns. They told us that the'Midgard Serpent had slide open, and the men pour out. The men sitting There are staccato taps of gunfire creeping over spoken to them on the matter as well, and there was around Loki hurry out a little bit quicker than the the ridge, and thin distant screams. A few pillars of no cause for concern. others. foul, thick smoke pile up into the sky. Loki gestures "So, naturally, Asgard rejoiced in Thor's tri Loki is rather short, and the Africans encounter at this and flashes a smirk, "That's a rather amusing umph. Odin declared a feast for the occasion." ing him often think he is a tokoloshe, which Erich thing for you to say." "And so? Why are you here?" understands to be a local hobgoblin of sorts. Erich tries to conceal his expression. Although "Sh! Listen.... Odin wanted everything to be spe The Africans mill around, comparing their rifles he may act like an unfunny court jester at times, it cial. We came down here to procure gold and dia and clubs. The few with firearms are carrying non- would do no good to show annoyance at the God monds. The flagons at the feast are to be made of South African-manufactured guns: uzis, galils, and of Mischief. pure gold, rimmed in a circlet of diamonds. We kalashnikovs. These are weapons taken from MK "Yes, well. Anyway, what it is, is that my father thought this would be the best place to get the raw soldiers. The Third Force units have access to the just sold the farm's sugarcane for a tidy sum. Tm materials for the dwarf artisans." central stockpile of these guns. well set-up now, so there's no more reason for me Erich stares at him in unexpected silence. "So," Most of the men are carrying "traditional to go gallivanting around." he finally says. "That's why you came here? For dia weapons," like knobkerries, stabbing assegais and "You want to stay here, in South Africa? Don't monds and gold to drink your mead from?" machetes. One dandy has brought along a full- want to go north, perhaps?" "Yes. Why clo .you look so confused? Surely length Zulu warrior's shield, the kind Shaka made Erich shrugs. "I would like to, yes. Eventually. you've read about great feasts before? Asgard thrives obsolete with his innovative military tactics. Erich But the exchange rate, you know. What is money on these occasions." thinks the shield poor. The fellow probably picked here is not in Denmark." "But you've been here for 40 years!" it up at the Victoria Street Market, where the tourists There is a high crack, and then a long, deep "Time doesn't pass for us as it does for you. flock for souvenirs. boom muffled beyond the ridge. Someone has We're not mortals, dear boy." He pats Erich's shoul They are hidden in this spot, the hill massive exploded a gas stove, or else one of the men was der kindly. "You may consider that one of the rea behind them, the ridge an eroded wall ahead. None carrying a thermite grenade that the policemen did sons we don't mind y'our little fellow on the cross. of the scenic expanse of the valley or the soft, scal not know about. He's just a passing phase to us." loped horizon can be seen, only the vast empty Loki is silent for a bit, and then he says, "I'm dome of sky, white with heat. going back soon, myself." rich remembers something he had not The sergeant strides up to a man wielding an Erich turns on him in surprise. "Really?" thought of from his childhood lessons: AK-47, the leader of this impi, or war-party. He "Yes, Tm fairly well done here. Time to return. that the God of Mischief also is consid asks, "Ready?" and runs through the operation It's too damn hot, anyway." ered the God of Evil. "I'm afraid I'm still again. The leader nods, answers him in English, "Done? Done with what?" not clear on your function. You're simply then turns to two subordinates and rattles off in Loki grins. "Oh, come now. All this." He sweeps Ehere to... uh, to destabilize?" quick Zulu. his arm to the ridge ahead. "'Destabilization,' as "Look, you have your businesses, right? Then They stand around for a few more minutes, talk you'd call it." you have, oh sorry, you had your government, and ing as the sergeant stands impatient alongside. "You know, there's something," Erich contem you have your police, army and courts. It's more of Whites call this "African time;" the utter lack of any plates the useless butt of his cigarette, smoldering the same thing. Odin has me to help him procure sense of urgency in matters-at-hand. The men move red. He thinks he can smell the faint, sticky and gold and diamonds in sufficient quantities in a quick off finally, walking up the road. sickening smell of burning plastic. He is reasonably and efficient manner." A boy comes running over the ridge from the sure that it is caused not by the filter melting in his Erich exhales at length. He looks at the ridge, other side, yelling and laughing behind him at his hand but by the shacks burning in the distance. the low haze riding latticed with curling smoke and chasing friends. He sees the armed impi and stops "There's something I've been wondering. 1 don't the intermingled faint sounds of cries and dull- short, horror widening his eyes. He swivels and suppose I'll get another chance to ask." impacts, wood and metal on bone. bolls back, yelling to his friends in a very different He pauses, choosing his words. "What is it "What is it, dear boy?" Loki asks. tone. A tangle of heads bobs just over the rise, hes about being the God of Mischief, anyway? I mean, "Frankly," Erich is finding breath a little difficult. itates, and disappears. what's the point? I've read tons of stories in my "Frankly, I'm amazed." The gig's up, Erich ihinks. He hears muttering time. All this plotting and so forth. Do you really "By what?" around him from other officers to that effect. The think you're getting somewhere? That you'll beat "By the sheer... excuse me, the sheer audacity war-party sprints forward. The man in the lead Odin, or Thor or anyone like that?" He smiles a of this." catches up lo ihe boy and swings his machete. The timid, reconciliatory grin, trying to deflect meekly "Audacity?" Loki sits up straight, his sizable nose boy slides forward into the ground, flailing, a chunk any perceived insult. quivering. "What a thing to say! We're gods, child. of his skull careening away to flop onto the dead Loki shakes his head. "That's the trouble with We'll do as we please." He stands up, shoves his grass. The men surge around his twitching body and this Christianity of yours..." hands into his pockets and gazes down at Erich. disappear over the ridge. Botha suddenly jolts up from his seat, yanking "I've grown fond of you. We'll see each other out his sidearm. He yells, "Hey! Voetsek! Fuck off!" again." He slouches off toward Botha, who has lit rich settles back in the doorway of the A little girl is peering around the bend at them. She up another reefer. combi and calls to an officer nearby. turns and begins to scurry away. Botha aims and Erich gazes at the God of Evil's gold-covered "Hey Muller, you got some cigarettes?" fires. Blood shatters from her chest, and she slumps back, flashing in the oppressive sunlight, and then Muller tosses him ihe pack. Erich lights a to the ground. looks up. The sky is bluer than before, although still cigarette and throws it back. One of the "Kak! Go clean that up!" the sergeant yells. burned clear directly overhead by midday. Over the Eyounger officers, a crewcut rooinekker (redneck) Botha holsters his pistol and glares at him. He ridge, black smudges still smear up from the settle from the Transvaal with a flat, triangular face grabs one of his friends and, dragging him stum ment he cannot see. burned deep by the highveld sun and ihe ubiqui bling behind, walks over to the girl. Some of the men are drifting back. They hump tous surname of Bolha, sits in the driver's seat of "As I was saying,'.' Loki continues. "This over the ridge, backs arched low. The weary ones another combi, legs propped on the dashboard, and Christianity you have nowadays, it muddles your always come first. The exuberant ones will stay lights up a reefer. thinking. You think I'm just some prankster, some longer, rampaging through the carnage. Erich Loki strolls over lo the boy, nudges him. Botha fool?" Erich shakes his head vehemently. The god watches a particular man, not so young anymore, a glances up in annoyance, then quickly hands over doesn't sound very angry, but he cant be sure. "We beard draping his chin, come plodding back to the the reefer. Loki takes a deep drag and hands it back. all have roles, dear boy. I came down here with the lounging policemen. An assegai droops impotently He walks over to Erich, exhaling smoke grandly out All-Father, to assist him." from his arms, slapping low against his leg. of his nose like a dragon as he comes. "Odin?" Erich drops his cigarette, "Odin is here He is sweating heavily in the torrid African sun He sits down beside Erich in the doorway. "So, in South Africa?" light. His beard is matted to his jaw and neck. As he what's this I hear about you leaving soon?" Loki nods. "In Johannesburg, with Anglo- comes closer, Erich realizes that it is not sweat run "I'm taking the retrenchment package, moving American, I suppose I can tell you this, now that ning down his cheeks, dripping onto his shirt, to my parents' farm." we're done. Don't speak so widely of this, hmm?" splashed in haphazard swaths across his body. The "What, are you getting tired of this?" Erich nods mutely. "We came down here in the fluid is too dark and thick. It is not sweat, but blood. "A bit." An officer peers at them in confusion. 1950s. I came at the All-Father's request." Loki is a sight by himself, sloping around in his soc "Why did you..." Raja Raghunath is a Trinity '98 graduate. PAGE 11 • CURRENTS "Well, why do you do it?" "It's a kick. A high. Like acid." A clown on acid? This was quickly ruining my magical feeling. I gave the would-be-with-make-up clown a glance that somehow managed to snap him out of his joke. He started laughing and told me that it was a job; it took clown college and a lol of con nections to be a clown in Ringling Brothers. "I guess the days of running away to the circus are long gone, huh?" I asked. "Sure thing. And it's work. Just like any other performance. We work long hours and are on the road constantly. It's no different than a Broadway show or something. But I love it, I really love making those kids smile and cheer. And when they start wav ing those neon sword things crazily... it makes it worth it, you know?" he said, "What's your name?" I wondered. "John." "No. Your clown name," I "We need new outfits," he said. That's how it used to be. When in a mini show of their own. The girl demanded. "And new shoes," he added, glancing someone joined the circus in patted my arm and ran off but not "Don't have one." down at his huge clown saddle Ringiing's heyday, he or she became before issuing me a warning about "But you have to. I always thought oxfords. He got up and followed his ingrained in a way of life. But that trespassing. that clowns had names." friend into the dressing room. seems to have all changed. Maybe So much for the whole town being "I don't, sorry." I guess I must have Left alone, I wondered about these the circus is just a show now. Maybe involved. looked upset at this lack of clown- men. I wanted to know how and it doesn't have that aura of mystique With this feeling of disenchant name because at that moment he why they were part of the circus. I around it like I imagined. It's just ment, I wandered on. Peering down grinned and said, "well, OK, it's, uh, still had the idea firmly planted in my entertainment, like TV. No bringing a long hallway, I saw the hazy fuzz Blooper." I looked at him question- head that it was a way of life. I towns together as the people danced of a pink spotlight. Moving closer to ingiy with a half-grin on my face. thought of the circus performers as in the streets with the clowns who the arena, I looked up. Three stories "Made you smile, didn't I?" he threw one big family who traveled around had clown names. No one even saw above my head, the flying trapeze at me before he got up to go get together entertaining the world. It the arrival of the 18-wheelers at the artists were spinning and flipping dressed for his upcoming number. I wasn't just a cast of characters who coliseum. And I'm sure no one and eliciting gasps of awe from the turned to the other man, who had, by took off their make-up at night, went cared. audience. this time, finished his sandwich and to their hotel rooms and called 1 decided to go try to find the wild Captivated, I suddenly didn't care was studying the frayed edge of a red •home. They were each other's fami animals. They couldn't be modern what went on behind the scenes. sleeve. ly. Right? ized, at least. But door after door was Even though I was surrounded by a locked. I stopped a girl of about 20 priceless amount of high-tech equip wearing a reel and black unitard and ment, even though I was in a colise asked her where the animals were um not a tent and even though the kept. She gave me kind of a bemused performers were no more than actors, look. "Who are you?" she asked. they still put on a show that would "No one, I was just wondering," I have left John Ringling spellbound. said. Yes, the circus may have modernized, "Well, you can't just see them," she but the illusion is still "The Greatest said. "They are animals. You think we Show on Earth." And there is no way let everyone who wanders in here go Ringling wouldn't be proud to look play with the tigers? Even elephants— up into that audience and see thou they may look nice out there, and sands of kids with cotton-candy they are pretty tame, but we also have smeared faces waving neon swords tons of trainers who make sure they and smiling. act the way they are supposed to." Well, then. That ended my hope Christie Fontecchio is a Trinity that the animals at least were parad junior and associate edit page edi ed off their trucks and into the arena tor of The Chronicle. We carry Duke textbooks! 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