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THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 129 Excited fans welcome home team By ERIC LARSON Senior team captain Robert dressing the crowd. "I didn't feel The Cameron scoreboard Brickey held up the runner-up this emotional last night. Maybe showed Duke — 29, Visitor — 9. trophy to cheers and applause. because we got kicked so bad." It was the only score that "We are proud to be at Duke, Krzyzewski commented on seemed to matter to fans yester but we are especially proud to be Monday night's championship day afternoon, as they flocked to at Duke with you," said William game, in which UNLV beat Duke Cameron Indoor Stadium to wel Griffith, vice-president of stu 103-73. come the men's basketball team dent affairs, addressing the team "We tried as hard as we possi back from Denver, where the and it's coach, Mike Krzyzewski. bly could. We really lost to a team made its third straight Griffith thanked the team for great basketball team," Final Four appearance. the "enthusiasm, intelligence, Krzyzewski said. The winning Team members entered the the just plain heart that you UNLV team was the best team stadium and walked on the stage have demonstrated for us." he had ever played against, he with solemn faces while approxi "We love the hell out of you," said. mately 1,500 fans gave them a Griffith said. The crowd ex But the loss does not take standing ovation. The team's 29 ploded. away the great effort the team wins were the second highest "You make us feel real good to showed through the season and number in the school's history. be Dukies," said Krzyzewski, ad- the tournament, Krzyzewski said. "The way I'll always remember this team is that it would never quit." Students save drunk man "Thank you for all the pride, the emotion, the energy — the excuses to burn things," said from burning automobile Connie Pearcy, ASDU president. Students cheered, recollecting ByJAYEPPING man, Charles Feeley from Pit- the victorious bench burnings af Three University students tsboro, is not a student. "He was ter the team's two wins over the saved the life of a drunk man passed out with his foot against University of Connecticut and during a car fire early Tuesday the accelerator. He was redlining Arkansas. MATT CANDLER/THE CHRONICLE morning. it," Singer said Tuesday evening. Students will never forget the Welcome home! The three, Craig Singer, a sec It took three students to pull team's thrilling games ofthe sea The team was greeted by enthusiastic Blue Devil fans on Feeley, whom the three students son, Pearcy said. "We all now ond year Fuqua student, and their return from Denver. Mike Miniati and John Crespo, described as "big and heavy," out See WELCOME on page 8 • both Engineering seniors, saw ofthe car. "He was a deadweight. the smoke and heard the engine I tried to pull him out myself and of the burning car revving as I couldn't," said one. they returned from Mirecourt "We were afraid he was dead Alcohol task force nears policy goal Dormitory at approximately at or near dead from all the smoke. 3:30 a.m. after watching the When we opened the door, a By SUSAN SHARPE or, as the task force is comprised men's basketball game. cloud of smoke poured out. We were afraid we'd have to use The Alcohol Policy Task Force of many different groups of peo "We just noticed the smell convened Tuesday night for one ple, said task force chair first," said one of the students af CPR," Singer said. "Then we laid him on the ground and he began of its final meetings in its goal of Maureen Cullins, assistant to the ter the incident. When they got vice president of student affairs, closer, they saw .a man passed to revive." revising the current alcohol poli cy. in an interview before the out inside. "The students saved his life," meeting. said Public Safety officer Willie The committee is preparing a The students involved initially In an additional effort to allow Giles. Feeley was very intoxi final proposal for Vice President declined to give their names, students to express their view on with the exception of Singer. cated, he said. of Student Affairs William Grif fith. Upon receiving this recom the situation, Cullins is arrang "We opened the door, yanked While the three pulled Feeley mendation, he will decide ing an open forum scheduled for him out of it and popped the from the car, Laine Wagenseller, whether to accept it or to make Apr. 11. The task force will use hood. There were flames under a Trinity senior, ran to call 911. appropriate changes for the final the information gained at the the hood," the students said. The See FIRE on page 8 • alcohol policy which will be im forum in their final decision plemented by next August. making process, in order to The meeting opened with a propose the most appropriate short presentation by Martha and helpful policy to Griffith. Simmons, director of the The task force met together for STAFF PHOTO /THE CHRONICLE Women's Center. Citing alarm See ALCOHOL on page 6 • Maureen Cullins ing statistics, Simmons pres ented a disturbing correlation be tween alcohol consumption and risk factor of date rape. Doubtful dorm sealing Simmons said that at the Uni versity, 76 percent of reported date rapes have taken place at to be investigated today "living sections" that distribute alcohol, during or after keg par ties. In light of such statistics, By DAVID MclNTOSH Brownell, chair of ASDU's Build Simmons said, "It's frighteningly The availability of entrances ings, Grounds and Athletic Af irresponsible for us as an on West Campus may be decided fairs Committee, said. JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE institution" to not be responding today as administrative officials "I think the intention is to get A man was saved from a burning car Tuesday morning. to "this terribly integrated and student leaders meet to a definite answer tomorrow af issue." decide whether or not to magnet ternoon," Brownell said. However, Simmons did not ically seal approximatly half of The Department of Housing suggest that the solution lay in the exterior and interior dormito Management has proposed to Weather dissolving the current social ry-connecting doors on West magnetically seal the dorm doors Inside structure of the University. Campus. as part of a new safety program When's summer? Or at "Some campuses are eliminating Although no one involved in that would be in place this fall. Work for sale: students least summery weather? Prob the greek system," she said. the situation would guarantee a When doors are magnetically "That's not what we want to do may soon be receiving finan ably not any time too soon. solution, it is expected that a sealed, they cannot be opened here." cial aid in return for commu Partly cloudy with high in the decision will be reached at unless a fire alarm has sounded. nity service. See page three. upper 50s. It'll be nicer tomor Forming a general consensus today's meeting. "If we can't This proposal, which entailed make a decision . they won't be row. in the group has already proven sealing up to 47 exterior and 43 to be a very challenging endeav able to do anything," Laura See DOORS on page 6 • ,-1'iA, PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4,1990 World & National Newsfile Associated Press Senate overwhelmingly passes clean-air bill Bill passes one house: A bill ByJOSEFHEBERT that would require at least a five-year Associated Press controls would be required if the chemi transition period for republics wishing requirements would be expensive to in WASHINGTON — The Senate cals are still considered a problem. to secede passes one house of Parlia dustry, but argued "the costs of inaction overwhelmingly approved sweeping air "The implications for North Carolina ment in Moscow after heated debate. will be higher than the cost of this bill." pollution controls on automobiles, fac are obvious," Helms said. "The furniture The Lithuania standoff continues as Health experts have estimated air pollu tories and power plants Tuesday after a and textile industries will be particularly the Kremlin reportedly closes the bor tion may account for 50,000 premature decade of struggle over whether to hard hit." der between the republic and Poland. deaths every year, he said. strengthen federal clean air laws. Helms said controls for those two in The new controls, which are estimated dustries could cost millions of dollars and "We can no longer delay," said Mitchell, Bulgaria's new president: Par to cost the economy $21 billion a year would cost thousands of jobs. who has sought federal controls on acid liament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday when they go fully into effect, were ap Senate approval shifted the clean air rain for nearly a decade and made the elected Petar Mladenov, who initiated proved by a vote of 89-11. debate to the House where a similar bill is clean air bill his top priority as Demo democratic reform in Bulgaria, to a President Bush, speaking in Indianapo being written by the Energy and Com cratic leader. newly created presidency, and Com lis in advance of Senate action, called it "a merce Committee. Rep. John Dingell, D- "The American people want action. munists renamed their disgraced party historic vote" that would "affect genera Mich., the panel's chairman, said he plans They demand action," he continued.