Home finale slate against Georgia Tech Saturday at THE CHRONICLE 1:30 p.m. See GAMEDAY '97. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1997 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 93, NO. 53 School board Leading the discusses child gun toter By DENISE DUNNING pack? • Officials discuss the decision to Chronicle staff writer let a boy return who brought a .32- e3s senior s embark on their job hunting endeavors, many A aspiring investment bankers and management consultants caliber revolver to school. The. __C Xhave encountered obstacles while using the Career board also approved changes to the Development Center's new online recruiting system. Although ^designed to alleviate the tension inherent in this traditionally sex education curriculum. /nerve-wracking rite of passage, the system's inefficiency and I complexity has been roundly lambasted by student users. By AU KOREIN /Through a process instituted this year, students participating in Chronicle staffwriter I on-campus recruiting submit resumes, cover letters and The Durham Public School Board of I transcripts online; companies then use the system to review • Education addressed the hot-button issue • materials over the Internet and select whom to interview. The of school safety at its regular meeting I lucky applicants later use the online process to schedule their Thursday night. The board also approved /interviews. long-delayed changes to local sex educa­ (But even those students who may emerge victorious from the tion curricula. [employment game argue that the online medium binders their Following a much-debated decision /chances from the outset. made yesterday afternoon to allow a five- | "The system hurts the candidacy of Duke students because the :•. year old student of Club Boulevard Ele­ / resumes all look the same and it is very difficult for students to mentary School to return to class after (differentiate themselves," Trinity senior Todd Sears said. "If I do bringing a gun to school, community and t a job, it.will be in spite ofthe CDC's new system, not because school board members spent the bulk of I of it." the public comment session of the meet­ [ But InterimDirector of the CDC Larry Maskel maintained that ing discussing the implications of the in­ the center is making every attempt to manage procedural. / cident. The boy, whose name was not re­ I difficulties and ensure a smooth transition. "For employers and leased because of his age, was suspended (students who are computer savvy, the system is very simple to Oct. 23 after school officials found a MRAH stu/rHt: CHRONICLE'eani'" fle sa"*- "^or &ose,wno aren't, the CDC has programs in loaded .32-caliber revolver in his book bag, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh. Superintendent of Public luQ d$V@QT' T)&V&lO0'YHQflt Such programs include personalized small-group tnuning-sessions Schools Ann Denlinger decided to let the •* - that__xrL_sonon-<iampusrecridtmg, with;topics.ranging from boy return to school rather than suspend C(>YltPT\ Sinitrh tn CiMliYlfi ^temevfingted-niquestotrairt^ him for a full year. MUllKsIJ lU-UfkMft& center has also developed several career-specific mailing lists that "I think it is important to note that the inform students about recruiting updates and informatiori sessions. school system is just one part of the pic­ resume submission been Despite the CDC's support ofthe online recruiting system, ture when we look at guns [in schools]," however, recruiters at the Career Fair last week offered mixed said school board member Beverly Wash­ has met with substantial reviews of the new procedures! Eepresentatives from Goldman Sachs, ington Jones. She added that a communi­ First Chicago NBD and Johnson & Johnson all said they have ty effort is necessary to curb violence in growing pains See RESUME on page 8 schools; Jones specifically mentioned churches as a mechanism to keep See SCHOOL BOARD on page 9 > Durham officials unveil crime-fighting proposal Student FIGHTING CRIME Officials refrain from labeling increasing crime trend crisis 3elow is a summary of Durham's By RICHARD RUBIN against crime and violence. Ewell detailed the seven arrested seven-point plan for reducing crime: Chronicle staffwriter Taking turns addressing initiatives the police depart­ Helping Hispanic citizens put Yesterday afternoon the crowd, the officials ex­ ment and the city will under­ looked like a scene from a pressed outrage at Durham's take to combat crime. their money in banks; for DWI Batman movie. It was high crime epidemic. "We are • The city announced a co­ From staff reports Improving city street lighting; noon in City Hall and the fighting mad, and we are all operative effort with Central Trinity junior Michael Using city workers other than lobby was overflowing with going to do something about Carolina Bank to encourage Reed was arrested early ih: police to inform about crime; cameras and uniformed po­ it," said Mayor Sylvia Kerck­ citizens, especially Hispan- the morning of Nov. 8 for dri­ lice officers. The mayor, po­ hoff, stressing, however, that ics, to deposit their money in : Increasing the presence of ving while intoxicated. ..::,.; lice chief, city manager and the recent surge in crime banks instead of keeping it At 2 a.m., a Duke Univer­ uniformed officers on streets; city council members vowed does not indicate a crisis. in their homes. sity Police Department offi­ Maximizing the police to fight the disturbing up­ "We are not here telling our • Addressing a concern cer observed a vehicle con­ department's use of surge of crime in the city. citizens that this is a cata­ raised earlier this week by tinue through a red light at technology; This was not Gotham City, strophic moment," she Trinity senior and Duke Stu­ the intersection of Tow- Working with the Durham however, it was Durham. dent Government President erview and Wannamaker Crime Cabinet, a group of And, no, the city did not call Kerckhoff, whose term Lino Marrero, the city de­ Drives without stopping or on the caped crusader; in­ ends Dec. 1, urged citizens to tailed its agreement with slowing down- local citizens and officials; stead, City Manager Lamont work together to fight crime. Duke Power to increase the After Reed parked in the Establishing city-wide Ewell unveiled the city's "We need to stand shoulder- number of streetlights in "Ocean"; parking lot near f! ROSEN/THE CHROMCLf neighborhood programs. seven-point initiative to-shoulder," she said. See PROPOSAL on page 7 fr> See CRIME on page 8> • STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTS AREA RESIDENTS, PAGE 3 • 'TRUE WEST' wows CROWD ON OPENING NIGHT: ARTS, PAGE 5 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD AND NATIONAL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1997 Newsfile Iraq defies U.N. authority, expels Americans From wire reports Government admits: U.S. offi­ In response to Iraqi challenge, United Nations halts weapons inspection effort cials acknowledge that they had in­ By DOUGLAS JEHL Iraq's decision to make good on a Iraq," according to the Iraqi broadcast. formation that last year the Rwan­ N.Y. Times News Service threat to force the Americans to leave Butler tried to persuade Iraqi offi­ dan army was arming and training AMMAN, Jordan — Iraq expelled came in stark defiance of a Security cials to permit the Americans to post­ the Tutsi who had fled attacks in six American weapons inspectors Council resolution that had been ap­ pone their departure until Friday eastern Congo. In hindsight, they Thursday and put them on the road to proved by unanimous vote only hours morning, so that they might join the 78 say the training was in preparation the Jordanian capital, setting in mo­ before, and it was announced in an af­ other inspectors who are being with­ for the Tutsi rebellion in Congo, but tion the most direct Iraqi challenge to ternoon television broadcast that in­ drawn aboard a U.N. flight to Bahrain. they deny knowing in advance that the United Nations since the Persian cluded wartime footage of flames, blood But Iraqi officials refused that request, Rwanda would intervene. Gulfwarofl991. and human suffering in an effort insisting that the Americans travel In response, the head of a U.N. team demonstrate the Baghdad govern­ overland and depart by day's end. Official apologizes: The announced that inspectors of all na­ ment's resolve. The Iraqi News Agency reported Army's senior personnel official, tionalities would be flown from Iraq The order covered all of the Ameri­ that the Americans left Baghdad short­ Sara Lister, apologized to the Friday, bringing an effective halt to a can inspectors in Iraq as part of a U.N. ly before 11 p.m., local time, and tele­ Marines Thursday for describing weapons inspection effort that has team, and it declared that they would vision pictures showed their convoy of them as "extremists" who were at been at the center of the U.N. mission not be permitted to return "until the Toyota Land Cruisers heading toward risk of "total disconnection with so­ in Iraq for nearly seven years. The offi­ American administration and the Secu­ the divided highway that crosses the ciety." Her remarks prompted calls cial, Richard Butler, said that only a rity Council decide to review their irre­ rugged desert to Amman, at least 12 on Capitol Hill for her dismissal. skeleton staff would be left in place. sponsible policy and their dealing with hours away. Senate falls: The Senate Judi­ ciary Committee Thursday failed to Partisanship plagues final weeks of Congress act on the nomination of Bill Lann Lee to head the Justice Depart­ By ALISON MITCHELL with cooperation. port for racial and gender preference ment's civil rights division, leaving N.Y. Times News Service Over the past three months, Republi­ programs.