WXDU Staffers Fail to Oust Marx; Budget to Be Reconsidered by DAN BRADY Speaker
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Partying during pregnancy? As little as one drink per day might cause problems. For more information on current THE CHRONICLE research, see page 4. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1992 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 126 WXDU staffers fail to oust Marx; budget to be reconsidered By DAN BRADY speaker. gued that the station did not have ASDU Speaker Geoffrey Marx Starrfield recruited 13 people, adequate chance to defend its avoided impeachment at Tues all of whom opposed cutting budget in front ofthe legislature. day night's meeting. WXDU's funding, to fill spots in "This amendment was sprung Last week Marx proposed an the legislature that have been on us the night before the meet amendment that decreased the open all year. Among them were ing at which it was supposed to be student radio station's budget by WXDU's general manager, pro debated," Starrfield said. more than $8,000. gram director and assistant mu The debate during both the In response, WXDU staffers sic director. Ofthe 16 legislators impeachment proceedings and stacked the legislature during who voted in favor of impeaching the reconsideration of WXDU's Tuesday night's ASDU meeting Marx, 13 of them were Starrfield's budget centered on the poor at and tried to impeach Marx, a Trin recruits. Thirty-two legislators tendance at ASDU meetings. ity senior. Their bid failed, but opposed the impeachment motion. The constitution allows for they did manage to re-open de Usually there is an application some 120 legislators. At no point bate on the station's budget. and interview process for prospec during the year were more than WXDU's budget, now planned for tive legislators, but Marx waived 80 members in good standing, $22,875, will be reconsidered at the rules for Starrfield's recruits. and at last week's meeting when next week's meeting. Marx said he will require pro WXDU's budget was slashed, only Trinity Senior Barry Starrfield, spective legislators to go through 50 legislators were in good stand a former chair of the Student the normal channels in the fu ing. Organizations Commission and ture. Critics asserted that the poor SCOn BOOTH/THE CHRONICLE one-time political rival of Marx, The faction that fought to have attendance means that ASDU is led the move to dethrone the WXDU's budget reconsidered ar See ASDU on page 7 • Some WXDU supporters were sworn in as new ASDU reps. Car crash Back-to-back champs come back to Cameron kills two By MATT STEFFORA to appreciate the moment, and mended the team for its emotional President Keith Brodie, who listed The men's basketball team not to expect the next moment." strength during the tournament. the team's various accomplish businessmen brought back its second straight The coach cited many players "The last two games we had to ments this year. national championship trophy to for the roles they played en route wait a half before we got emo "Playing against Kentucky [in By MICHAEL SAUL a nearly full Cameron Indoor Sta to the championship, but espe- tional enough," he said, "but there the regional finals], you gave us Two Russian business dium Tuesday. was still a lot of emotion left." the most exciting basketball game men participating in a "You all should cherish this. "[The team] met every chal in the 64-year history ofthe NCAA three-week business edu These things don't happen. This lenge, and in the Final Four it tournament," Brodie said. cation program at the isn't normal," senior co-captain showed its true personality by During the rally, the scoreboard Fuqua School of Business Brian Davis said to more than winning both games in the sec above center court displayed died in a car accident at 7,500 fans and media members ond half on defense." "Duke 71, Visitor 51," the final 2:10 a.m. Monday. inside Cameron. Laettner's second-half come score ofthe championship game. Massive head injuries Head coach Mike Krzyzewski back in Monday's game "made me The team entered Cameron with caused both deaths, said agreed. "For these guys to focus appreciate him even more," the clock reading 2:55 p.m., nearly Officer Stan McHenry ofthe so well and win against Indiana, Krzyzewski said, because most an hour after the scheduled start. Durham Police's fatal acci and then... beat Michigan is one players would not have recovered Fans passed the time waiting dent unit. of the most incredible things a so well from a bad first half. and reciting cheers such as "Five Yury V. Kondrashev, 30, team has done for me in my 17 Lgettner bade a nostalgic fare freshmen, no titles" in reference from Ryazan, Russia, was years of coaching," he said. well to the crowd. to Michigan's "Fab Five" start director of Mercury Ltd., a After complaining earlier this "There's a lot of things we're ers, and "Mike's got two, Dean's software company. year that students had become going to miss. ... We're going to got one," alluding to the number Alexander F. Zinoviev, 41, too complacent at games, miss Cameron, definitely," of titles won by North Carolina was deputy director of the Krzyzewski thanked the upper- JEN POTTHEISER/THE CHANTICLEER Laettner said. coach Dean Smith. planning and economic de class students for their support. Brian Davis thanked the fans. Hurley spoke after the coach But Krzyzewski disapproved of partment of the Samara He echoed Davis' belief that the and co-captaihs. the fans' belittling of other bas Metallurgical Plant, in Sa teams' recent accomplishments cially "the little guy up top and "The best thing about winning ketball programs. mara, Russia. should not be taken lightly. the big guy inside," referring to back-to-back for me is that I'll be "Let's just be happy with our Both were part of a group "One of the best things to re junior point guard Bobby Hurley back one more time," he said to a accomplishments," he said. See CRASH on page 3 • member is to pass on the hunger, and senior co-captain Christian roaring audience. "Can we say, 'We're number not to take anything for granted; Laettner. Krzyzewski also com Krzyzewski was introduced by one, twice'? Dozens injured after Clinton championship game wins in By MICHAEL SAUL pus. Dozens of injuries marred One student bumped into some New York Monday night's celebration after one and then fell face forward the men's basketball team won By ROBIN TONER into the fire. He sustained sec N.Y. Times News Service the national championship. ond-degree burns to his face and "We spent a whole year in third degree burns to his hands NEW YORK — Gov. Bill preparation to make this a safe and left knee. Another student Clinton won a bitterly contested celebration and the students who fell into the bonfire sustained Democratic primary in New York made our jobs as difficult as hell," second-degree burns to both on Tuesday, but more than half of said Chief Robert Dean of Duke hands. Both were taken to the the vote went to Paul Tsongas' Public Safety. "We weren't Out emergency room at Duke Hospi campaign from the sidelines and there to spoil their fun. Fortu tal. Edmund Brown Jr.'s anti-estab nately no one was killed." A visitor who tried to pull some lishment crusade. Public Safety has received three one out of the official bonfire in Clinton, battling to restore his reports of students burned by the the Intramural parking lot on status as the presumptive nomi bonfire and six reports of stu West Campus fell into the fire. nee, also prevailed in the pri dents struck by flying bottles. He sustained second and third mary in Kansas on Tuesday, and degree burns to his left hand, was in a tight race with Brown in Two students were burned in PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE the unofficial bonfire on both arms, left knee and nose. He Wisconsin, according to surveys Clocktower Quad on West Cam See SAFETY on page 7 • Public Safety officers tried to contain students' pyromania. See CLINTON on page 14 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1992 World and National Newsfile Arafat's plane lost, leader may be dead Associated Press By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM safely somewhere in the desert," said Yeltsin speeds army: Presi N.Y. Times News Service dent Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday seized Bassam Abu Sharif, a senior political ad the initiative from Jiis critics by PARIS — The Libyan radio said Tues viser to Arafat, adding that he had asked speeding up creation of Russia's day night that a plane carrying Yasir for help from Italy, France and Britain to army, reasserting control over the Arafat, the chairman of Palestine Libera help find the aircraft. Black Sea fleet, and warning of tion Organization, had disappeared from Officials reached at Arafat's office in "chaos" if parliament reduced his radar screens as it was crossing from the Tunis said 12 people were aboard the air powers. Sudan into southern Libya. craft. They included three crew members The radio said the plane was approach and a team of bodyguards and administra Military raids prison: Peru's ing the Kufra air base, where it was sched tive assistants. The Soviet made aircraft military intensified its crackdown uled to land, when it vanished. Helicopters was returning from Sudan. on the leading opposition party Tues attempting to fly over the area were Libyan authorities said they appealed day and raided a prison controlled grounded by a severe sandstorm in the to the International Red Cross and inter remote desert region, which is about 150 national aerospace organizations to help by hundreds of jailed leftist rebels in miles from the border with the Sudan, the locate the plane.