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SPORTS Bowl or bust? To keep its bowl hopes alive, Duke must win against N.C. State Saturday. See GAMEDAY THE CHRONICLE '99, inside Parents Weekend supplement NDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY WWW.CHRONKXEJWKELEDU DSG group, officials Biology faculty explore merger examine financial aid As the task force prepares * General student opinion and policy to meet, botany and zoology changes at prestigious institutions across the faculty continue debating country have administrators and students their likely unification. alike pondering possible changes. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle As members of the recently ap pointed biology task force prepare After the College Board made changes to a com for their first meeting next week, monly used financial aid eligibility formula last botany and zoology faculty are as spring and many of Duke's peer institutions re sessing departmental opinion and vamped their financial aid systems, students and ad planning to lobby administrators ministrators are trying to determine what about and task force members for their Duke's system works—and what doesn't. interests. Starting Monday, a Duke Student Government Still, many task force mem task force will examine several quality of life issues bers say they have not yet seen for students receiving financial aid. the external review report that "[This fall], we want to look at the entire system reinvigorated talks about uniting and identify specific areas to do more research botany and zoology, and have no about, areas to consider changing—a couple of policy initial impressions on the mat areas and the overall student experience...," said ters at hand. DSG President Lisa Zeidner, a task force member The group is charged with whose campaign focused on improving financial aid. identifying a mechanism for Administrators, however, do not predict any sig merging two of Duke's highest- nificant alterations to Duke's system this year. THE CLASSIC DIVIDE be rated departments. Zeidner said the DSG task force would likely look tween botany and zoolo "[Botany and zoology] are into whether the University should help finance stu gy—or simplistically speak ranked fifth and sixth out of pools dents taking summer classes or should offer any aid ing, between plants and of 150," said Professor of Zoology to international students—two groups currently animals—was once the Fred Nijhout, a member ofthe task without funding. norm for colleges and uni force. "What we don't want is to As of now, financial aid only subsidizes students versities nationwide. have this reorganization cause us for eight semesters, barring some students from tak to slip. What we need to do is to en ing summer courses. hance cellular and molecular biolo "If you're going to summer school, you can't make In recent years, the disci gy and don't slip in evolution, ecol [a required student contribution]," said Latrice plines have both become ogy and behavior. In order to do Hogue, a Trinity junior who receives financial aid. "I more interdisciplinary, that, we have to have high morale went to summer school last summer, and I had to causing many to insist and a congenial environment. The pay out of my pocket for it." She added that it if the the departments must task force has to keep in mind re course is a major requirement, it is often impossible merge or become histori tention and recruitment. The pro to take the class at a cheaper institution and trans cal relics. gram needs to grow." fer it back. Although administrators and Many of the questions surrounding financial aid Although the undergradu faculty have talked about a merg are dependent on the quickly growing capital cam ate program is currently er for five years now, the depart paign. About $100 million of the $1.5 billion cam administered jointly, a ments have yet to come to a con paign is for bolstering Duke's endowment—which is spring external review cited sensus about its complicated used to finance the need-blind admissions policy. inadequate interaction and implications. Some of that funding may also go to internation strongly urged a merger. A The botany department ob al students. task force has been formed jected strongly last spring when Trinity junior Milena Viljoen attended high to define a structure for the the joint external review sug school in Bolivia, but as an American citizen she is unification. gested the unification, while the still eligible for aid. She said many of her foreign See BIOLOGY MERGER on pa^e 17 See FINANCIAL AID on page 11 »- Warrants issued for suspect in East Campus robbery Bv JAIME LEVY Campus. At around 2 a.m., the victims reported, a man Northgate Mall Sept. 29 between police and the suspect. The Chronicle jumped into the backseat of the visitor's car, which was Police identified the man in the mall by calling the cell Duke University Police Department obtained war parked near the tennis courts; the victims were in the phone and seeing who picked up. When three police offi rants yesterday against the suspect in a Sept. 26 armed car, listening to music. cers approached him, he allegedly tried to run away, said robbery on East Campus. The man held a gun to the driver's head and directed DPD's Maj. Dwight Pettiford in an earlier interview. Police Nineteen-year-old Imhotep Tefari Kedar of Roxboro the victims to two ATMs; at the second machine, the rob attempted to grab the fleeing suspect and, during a pile- Street will be charged with two counts of second degree ber took $356 from the visitor's bank account. Before up, the man was shot in the throat. The bullet came from kidnapping and two counts of armed robbery, said Maj. leaving the car, the robber also took $1,100 worth of CDs his own gun, but it is still not clear who fired the shot. Robert Dean of DUPD. from the car. The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating Kedar is currently in fair condition at Duke Hospital, Police could not locate the suspect immediately after the incident. where he is still receiving treatment for a gunshot the robbery, but police said they were able to track him Although Kedar has been in the hospital for more wound he received Sept. 29 in an altercation with police down several days later by using a cellular phone num than three weeks, initial confusion surrounding his iden trying to arrest him in Northgate Mall. ber; in the Sept. 26 police report, the victims said the sus tity stalled the process of obtaining a warrant. At first, a Dean said the warrants will not be served until Kedar pect may have given them his phone number when they woman misidentified the suspect as her son; Dean would is out of the hospital. spoke earlier in the evening. not comment on how DUPD confirmed Kedar's identity. Kedar was shot three days after a Trinity freshman A joint investigation between DUPD and the Durham Dean said that the student victim identified Kedar as and his visiting friend were robbed at gunpoint on East Police Department culminated in a lunchtime meeting at the suspect in the armed robbery. DUKE BARBER SHOP KEEPS PACE WITH THE TIMES, PAGE 6 • PROBLEM SOLVING WITH DNA, PAGE 9 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1999 NEWSFILE FROM WIRE REPORTS VP selection calms opposition in Indonesia Drug use declines in Scientists close in on U.S., but rises in Europe finding genetic pattern The National Assembly elected Megawati following angry protests over presidential loss Illegal drug use is felling An international team in the United States, but of researchers is on the they had massed in the streets mentary votes, seemed at ease rising sharply in Europe. verge of unraveling for again during Thursday's parlia Thursday evening. mentary session, threatening more The amount of drugs the first time the genetic JAKARTA, Indonesia — The day She paid special tribute to the after voting down her bid for the violence if she lost. students and others whose stubborn seized in Europe more pattern of a human chro presidency, the National Assembly Instead, as Megawati—the and often dangerous protests had than doubled this year as mosome. Experts call it Thursday elected Megawati daughter of Indonesia's founding helped bring down Suharto 17 South American traffick one of the most impor ers targeted the continent. Sukarnoputri, a popular leader of leader, Sukarno—stood before the months ago and had championed her tant scientific accom the opposition to the ousted Suharto assembly Thursday evening to candidacy in the months since then. plishments ever. Hurricane weakens regime, to the post of vice president. take her oath of office, her support But now, she said, the time had over Caribbean Gore urges ban on In a gesture of reconciliation— ers paraded through the dark come to restore normalcy and calm Jose was downgraded oil drilling and of pragmatic politics— streets ofthe capital, gunning their to a nation that has remained on to a tropical storm Vice President Al Gore Megawati was nominated for the motorcycles, setting off firecrack edge as the political and social Thursday after striking announced Thursday post by the frail Muslim leader cho ers and shouting her nickname, forces released by the departure ofa a chain of Caribbean is that as president he sen over her as president, Abdur dictator threatened to tear it apart. lands, ripping roofs off would ban any new off rahman Wahid. who had "To all my children throughout homes, hurling sail shore drilling for oil and Megawati's defeat Wednesday be reluctant and unskilled at back the nation, I beg you sincerely to re boats out of harbors gas along the California fired an angry protest by her bit room maneuvering and was visibly turn to work," she said.

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