Angelou Speaks to Class Of

FALL SPORTS PREVIEW INSIDE Preparing for battle Head coach Fred Goldsmith is relying on an improved defense to slow down THE CHRONICLE Florida State. See Sports for details. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1996 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 92, NO. 2 Angelou speaks to Class of '00 By MARSHA JOHNSON orientation week tradition, teacher by asking questions Maya Angelou, a poet, civil Angelou welcomed the fresh every time something is un rights activist and professor at men to the University and de clear. "Before you know it you Wake Forest University, wel scribed the incredible opportu will have reminded the comed members of this year's nities they have as students teacher why she got into it in freshman class Sunday after here. "It is amazing to have the first place," Angelou said. noon with a zealous prescrip this chance to walk in these Angelou acknowledged the tion for their present and fu rooms," she said. difficulty that all students will ture roles in the world. Angelou emphasized the face during the course of their Stepping out into the sanc value of the education the lives. "I am ashamed to have tuary of the Chapel to enor freshmen are about to receive. you brushing against the mous applause, Angelou As she reminded her audience brutishness, the vulgarity," bowed politely to each side later, "There's a world of dif she said. and then began the afternoon ference between being educat But Angelou went on to ex with a stirring rendition of a ed and being trained." plain that others have en spiritual, her voice reverberat She emphasized that it is dured hardships to provide op ing throughout the cavernous the student's role to learn, ex portunities to the students. DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE Gothic architecture. plaining that a good student She reminded the audience Maya Angelou delivers a speech to freshmen in the Chapel. As has become a freshman can improve a mediocre Sea ANGELOU on page 29 • Students blast housing officials for move-in mishaps By MARSHA JOHNSON not tell them that they would be Shannon Gayk, who was placed does not have complete statis original roommate transferred Housing administrators living in a room that is normal into a double with the two tics at this time. at the end of last year. With this drew heavy criticism from a ly designated for one person. roommates with whom she had Because selective living in mind, he brought his own handful of students in the past "It's not as bad as we requested to live in a triple. groups remained in the same lo furniture and moved the extra month when they changed sev thought it was going to be," she She said that the housing of cations—unlike last year—this University fiirniture out into eral room assignments, putting said as she and her mother re fice kept her posted throughout year's assignment process actu the hallway. But at 3 p.m. on former wait-list students into arranged her belongings to fit the summer on the status of ally went more smoothly, Burig the day he moved in, his new rooms to which they were not into the single room, in which her housing assignment. And said. "Last year was a tumul roommate arrived. "I had no previously assigned and assign the roommates have installed considering that she and her tuous year for all of us," he said. clue I was going to have a room ing students to smaller rooms lofts so as to maximize space. roommates were second to last Most residents, however, are mate until he showed up at my than they had expected. "We were just glad to have on the wait list, she said, "It's not as concerned about living door," he said. In House DD, Trinity sopho housing after being on the wait pretty amazing that we even with more roommates as they Although Berlin said that he mores Sarah Hughes and Re- list for so long," she said. "I know had a room." are with the short notices they and his roommate are getting bekah Agner are living in a that space was really tight." Despite the obvious housing received regarding their hous along well and that his room room designed to be a single. One ofthe primary problems crunch, Bill Burig, assistant ing situations. mate, who is a foreign exchange After spending all summer on with more people living in a dean of student development, Engineering sophomore Neil student, has been welcomed by the wait list, they each received room than it was designed to said the number of expanded Berlin, a member of the Alpha Berlin's fraternity brothers, he a letter Aug. 14 informing them hold is the lack of adequate eth- rooms does not yet seem to dif Epsilon Pi fraternity, had was disappointed with the ab of their housing assignment. ernet connections and electric fer greatly from last year's fig planned on living in his double sence of adrninistrative commu- But the letter, Agner said, did plugs, said Trinity sophomore ure. He added, however, that he room by himself because his See HOUSING on page 28 • Merchant on Points loses 3 restaurants By NtCO TAO said Anne Light, marketing University students now and research specialist for din have three fewer places to call ing and special events. Oper for that late-night pizza on ating with that commission food points, as Wild Bull's, cost, said Wild Bull's manage Papa John's and Sicilian De ment, is simply no longer vi lights all opted not to renew able. their Merchants on Points con "When we originally went tract with the University. into the points (six years ago], The Merchants on Points it seemed reasonable that we program was established in could do that and give up 18 1990 by the Office for Auxil percent to Duke," said Shar- iary Services to offer students ron Barnett, co-owner of Wild a wider variety of food options Bull's Pizza. "Last year, it be for late-night delivery of piz came pretty evident that if we zas and sandwiches on stu were to remain in business, we dents' meal plans. needed to give up on the points DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE According to its contract system. We've probably given with the merchants, the Uni up $65,000 last year to the Dance fever! University—that was part of versity receives an 18-percent A group of dancers perform In front of the Chapel following Maya Angelou's address to commission from the vendor's our profit." freshmen Sunday afternoon. gross profit of sales on points, See POINTS on page 16 • THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1996 World and National Newsfile Associated Press Iraqi troops retreat, Clinton unsatisfied Candidate Strips: Alessandra Goncalves, 22, a city council candi By YALMAN ONARAN no signs of an Iraqi withdrawal from Saddam does not believe that unjusti date in western Brazil felt her cam Associated Press Irbil—and in fact had evidence that fied behavior of this type is cost free," paign was not getting enough at SALAH AD-DIN, Iraq—Iraqi troops Iraq was moving deeper into Kurd-con McCurry said. "Our concern here is tention, so she took off her shirt. pulled back from the northern Kurdish trolled areas. what Saddam believes he has gained Goncalves went topless in a TV city of Irbil Monday, but not enough to McCurry said it appeared Saddam's from a strategic viewpoint." campaign spot and zoomed to the satisfy the Clinton administration as it objective was Sulaymaniyah, an ad Pentagon officials said the prepara top of the polls for the Oct. 3 mu prepared punishment for Iraq. ministrative center for the Kurdish tions for any military steps ordered by nicipal race in Varzea Grande, a Clinton approved military and eco area. Iraqi troops appeared to be hunt the president had been completed. The city of 160,000 residents 1,000 nomic retribution against Iraq, a U.S. ing down and killing political oppo 20,000 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf miles northwest of Rio. official in Washington said, speaking nents in the areas they seized, McCur region were on high alert. on condition of anonymity. The United ry said. Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman Firefighters progress: Fire States readied its forces and sought "Our interest is in making sure that See RETRIBUTION on page 12 *• fighters finally gained ground Mon support from allies for a military offen day on the last of dozens of range- sive, but there was no indication when land fires that have burned more it would act. than 300,000 acres across northern In Iraq, refugees who fled to a near Netanyahu to meet Arafat Nevada over the last week. by town described the terror of Saddam Hussein's biggest offensive since the Activists protest: Animal rights Persian Gulf War. for first time since election activists disrupted the Labor Day "It was very frightening. Boom here, pigeon shoot in Hegins, Pa., locking boom there. Taka-taka-taka. We were By DAN PERRY leader by an Israeli premier from the themselves in a human chain across scared to death," said Sabira Hamid Associated Press hard-line Likud Party, which long op shooting fields and trying to free the Hursid, who escaped with her four chil TEL AVTV, Israel—The much-antic posed the Israel-PLO peace process. birds before they could be killed. dren to Salah ad-Din, 20 miles north ipated first meeting between Benjamin Since his upset May election victory east of Irbil.

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