WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION Thursday June 20, 1985 Volume SOB, Number 7 Duke University Durham. North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Duke to host major film project By ED FARRELL the season. A movie that producers hope will be the next "Chariots Duke campus was chosen not only for Cameron but of Fire" will be filmed on campus in September. "When the because of Duke Hospital South, where many of Billy Ray's Trumpet Sounds," the story of the 1958 University of scenes will be set. The office of Adolph Rupp, Kentucky's Kentucky basketball team that won the NCAA champion­ long time basketball coach, will also be recreated at Duke, ship, will use Cameron Indoor Stadium as the scene for Penland said. The entire film will be shot in North the championship game. Carolina. Some footage will be shot at another college, "We're excited because the whole University will benefit," possibly Elon, he said. said Tom D'Armi, director for game operations and facili­ ties director for the athletic department. "We're trying to Different stadiums are needed for home games, away make it a real Duke situation." games, high school games and the championship game, Van Allen said. A local high school is being sought and Cornerstone Productions of Glendale, California chose the University of North Carolina may be used for away Duke over other universities for several reasons. The games. Duke will most likely double as the home and producers, Tim Penland, William Van Allen, Jr. and Doug championship courts, he added. Dean, made their decision because of the favorable shoot­ ing conditions in Cameron, the "period look" of the campus, Filming will take place at Duke for approximately two the cooperation of athletic director Tom Butters and weeks "probably right after Labor Day," Penland said. The D'Armi and the guidance of the North Carolina Depart­ production company will set up local headquarters in about ment of State film bureau, Penland said. six weeks. "The location right now is a toss up between Raleigh and Durham," he said. The film is expected to cost "in the area of $4 million" to produce, according to Penland. "Butters and D'Armi really understand the problems of The lead actors for the film have not yet been chosen. filmmaking," Finland said. "They were extremely coopera­ George C. Scott, Ernest Borgnine and Ed Asner have all tive." been suggested to play Rupp. The roles of Ed and Billy- .1 ICE ADAMS/THE Ray Beck will probably be taken by less well-known actors The film will relate an account of the unheralded '58 and should be "career pivotal" roles, Penland said. My kind of town Kentucky team, who dedicated its season to the wife of Tbe director will use thousands of extras along with the Look out, Chicago. Hideway bartender Danny Meagher, a team member, Ed Beck. Billie Ray Beck was a nurse who actors. The filming of the recreated championship game who also played on the men's basketball team, was cared for black patients in the '50s when they were not will take" place in Cameron after Duke's first home football selected by the Bulls in the sixth round of Tuesday's admitted to hospitals in Macon, Georgia, where she was game. Duke students will be able to appear in the film, NBA draft. See story on page 13. born and raised. She died of Hodgkins disease a year before Penland said. Duke Forest residents react to office tower decision By PAUL GAFFNEY I'm concerned about its site," he said. Plans for a 17-story office tower in the Duke Forest area, "I basically wasn't against it," said John Hanks;, professor approved by the Durham City Council Monday night, have of music. "But I think they're dreaming when they say they evoked a mixed reaction from University faculty and don't think it's going to be a problem [for the Duke Forest administrators who live in that neighborhood. area]." The neighborhood, many of whose residents are affiliated "It represents a monument to poor planning, pool- with the University, would be adversely affected by development," said Chancellor Keith Brodie. He does not increased traffic volume and would change from a pre­ in Duke Forest but is on the board of directors of dominantly residential to an increasingly commercial area Durham Academy, whose upper school campus is in the if the office tower is built, according to several people Duke Forest area. interviewed. It is a bad idea for a city that wants to develop downtown But most of those interviewed disagreed only with the to have a project like this far from the city center, Brodie location of the project and not the building itself, which said. they agreed would help the local economy. "I fear a high-rise foreshadows further development in Increased traffic on Chapel Hill Boulevard, Pickett Road that area," he said. and other access roads to the project is the primary prob­ Not everyone disagreed with the proposed location of the lem, said Richard Leach, political science professor. But building. Barbara Smith, associate director of University he said he was not surprised by the council's decision. development, thinks building the building there would be "We don't have a city plan in Durham," he said. "We're a "good opportunity" for Durham. just stuck with outside developers doing what they want The traffic problem in the Duke Forest area will get to do." worse even if the project is not built, Smith said. She added STAFF PHOTO The proposed building would sit on a 5.88-acre site that downtown Durham should concentrated on attracting Richard Cox, dean for residential life, lives near the between Pickett Road and Chapel Hill Boulevard across individual proprietors and becoming an arts center. proposed site of the 17-story office building. from the South Square shopping mall. It is the project of Smith is a member of Proprietors of Colony Hill, a Ibmmy Stone, a Dallas businessman and father of Tommy the balance over 15 years at seven-and-a-half percent neighborhood near the site, and chairman of the city- Stone, Jr., a Trinity sophomore. interest. He can also use the lot as collateral for a home- county committee on Interstate 40. "The traffic problem, I am positive, will have to be building loan. If the buyer ever decides to sell the house, The project is only in its planning stages, so there is hope addressed," said Patricia Skarulis, vice chancellor for the University has the first right of refusal to buy it. for Duke Forest residents who want the project moved. infomation systems. "It's going to be a traffic jam." Many Duke Forest residents feel the office building "Lots of plans get laid but don't get carried out," Leach said. Many Duke Forest residents feel that downtown Dur­ would ruin the residential nature of the neighborhood. The ham, where revitalization efforts have been underway for building would drive up the price of the surrounding land, several years, would be a better location for the building. making it too expensive for homeowners to build there, Weather "I'm just very disappointed," said Richard Cox, dean for according to Cox. "I think it's going to stop that neighborhood," said Cox residential life."Why wouldn't it be equally appealing BlOW it Off: What good is studying going to do now. of the area next to the proposed site. He said his immediate downtown? Today should hit a pleasant eight-oh degrees with neighborhood, several blocks from the site, would not be "If they really like the building it shouldn't matter where westerly zephyrs of 10 mph. Tomorrow, the beginning of affected by the building. it is," he said. "I have never understood why it had to be finals, and the last day of school for even high school built there." Most opposition to the project is directed at its site and tykes nationwide, will be sunny with highs in the mid Duke Forest, home of the Duke Homesites, has been not the building itself. 80s. "I think it's going to add a lot in terms of tax base popular with faculty and staff members for many years. When school gets out, of course, it may be partly cloudy viability," said Charles Huestis, former senior vice The University develops the infrastructure - roads, street on Saturday. Temperatures should be in the 80s. lights, sewers - for the homesites and sells the lots to president for business and finance. "I'm sorry its going to Duke-affiliated individuals at fair market value. be in southwest Durham. July, by the way, i ally a lot hotter than June. The buyer can make a small down payment and pay the "I'm delighted Durham is going to get the building, but Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Thursday, June 20, 1985 'Initiate Life Flight' Practice runs, community education part of hospital helicopter's success By JENNY WRIGHT other helicopter traffic, like Eastcare or 8:50 p.m., Tuesday night. The Vance military helicopters. County Rescue Squad receives a call. A Yet there are no plans for another heli­ garbage truck hit a car in front of the copter in the immediate future, she said. YMCA. Four people are injured. At 8:55, the "Our focus right now is getting Life Flight first ambulance arrives, the Emergency very solidly established within the Medical Technicians inspect the injured and community." phone back directions The success of the service exceeds ex­ "Dispatch two units reference 10-50 pectations. Originally, about 20-30 flights [accident].