THE CHK)NICLE FRIDAY. APRIL 14, 1995 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90, NO. 132 Visibility 'Ladies night' goes of gays coed amid protests By DEVIN GORDON The dance show was a mar­ discussed A male dance revue originally keting ploy designed to revive planned as a campus "Ladies' a club whose attendance had By JENNIFER YOUNG Night" turned coed Thursday slipped from 600 students open­ Lesbian, gay and bisexual thanks to a flurry of threats ing night to a mere 22 just three students and community mem­ from campus activists. weeks ago, according to Rick bers gathered Thursday night The event, held in the Under­ Owen, manager of the Under­ to discuss ways to increase vis­ ground in the Bryan Center's ground. The show consisted of ibility on an often intolerant Rathskellar, had been adver­ three professional male dancers campus. tised as a "ladies only" show interacting intimately with a Sponsored by the Lesbian, that would open to men for late- predominantly female audi­ Gay, Bisexual Task Force, the night dancing after the revue ence. meeting attracted several ended. But characterizing the "How many of you have never dozen people to the Terry exclusion of men as both sexist been to a male revue before?" Sanford Institute for a two-hour and heterosexist, John Coburn, one of the dancers asked the discussion on bringing together a third-year law student, and screaming audience of about 50 the gay community on campus. Trinity junior Seth Persily, people early in the perfor­ The meeting included stu­ president of the Duke Gay, Bi­ mance. "I guess then we have a dents, faculty, staff and alumni, sexual and Lesbian Association, lot of virgins in the crowd." many of whom were members launched independent efforts to And although the DJ fre­ of groups such as the Duke Gay, DOUG LYNN/THE CHRONICLE get the event opened to males quently referred to the audience Bisexual and Lesbian Associa­ A male dancer straddles an audience member at the Underground. as well. See REVUE on page 15 • tion, the Graduate and Profes­ sional Gay, Lesbian and Bi­ sexual Association and other similar organizations. Council endorses new Center for Education Planners organized the meet­ ing in order to bring people to­ By SANJAY BHATT Trustees in May. "We are on the verge of see­ pressed support for the center, gether to take action, said Wil­ Enlightened teaching and The proposal stems from an ing this program dwindle away praising the center's ability to liam Slabos, assistant dean of educational policies are vital to external review ofthe Program unless we take some action," provide a common ground. arts management and a mem­ the University and Durham in Education last year, said Phil Cook, chair of 'There's a gap that exists be­ ber ofthe LGB Task force. Dur­ Public Schools. which endorsed in­ the committee and pro­ tween the practitioner and the ing the forum, he explained the That's the message the Arts vesting heavily in a fessor of public policy. scholar," said Peter Carbone, task force's role as an advocate and Sciences Council sent to the new center and main­ Replacing the Pro­ professor ofthe practice in edu­ for students' concerns, adding administration Thursday by taining an adequate gram in Education cation. The question is how to that increased undergraduate endorsing a proposal for a new number of full-time with a center would get the two together." membership in the group could Center for Education and con­ faculty. bring academic pro­ Roy Weintraub, acting dean only help its efforts. tinuing the University's under­ The Arts and Sci grams, cross-depart­ of the faculty of Arts and Sci­ The organization serves as a graduate teacher-certification ences Planning and mental faculty and ences, agreed. There are a lot watchdog for the community, programs. The provost and the Priorities Committee, joint projects with the of Leducation-related] activities said Robin Buhrke, coordinator Academic Priorities Committee which examined the k Durham Public [going on], but there is no in­ of LGB services for Counseling now must decide whether to review, released a proposaPhill enCoo­ k Schools under an education- tellectual center," he said. and Psychological Services. The advocate the council's recom­ dorsing the creation of a center based administrative umbrella. Faculty members have a re- See LGB on page 8 • mendations to the Board of last month. Some faculty members ex­ See EDUCATION on page 9 • 'Another way to help5 Going beyond spare change Ninth Street merchants target panhandlers By JECA TAUDTE there, more of them were seen on Ninth There's another Stacy Lee, an employee at Earth Street, Anderson said. "Some ofthe new Way to Help and Spirit, had just left the store and people were more aggressive. They was walking down Ninth Street in wouldn't just ask for money, they would search of some lunch when she was follow you. It was kind of intimidating." approached by three men asking her Customers as well as employees were for money. having problems with the panhandlers. "When I said no, they kept follow­ "We had a lot of complaints from cus­ ing me," Lee said. "They were obvi­ tomers," said Sherry Clayton of Wave­ ously drunk and didn't understand lengths. until I turned around and confronted Panhandlers could often be found con­ them that I was not going to give gregating on the benches outside of them anything." Francesca's Dessert Caffe. "If custom­ Panhandling is not new to Ninth ers complained, we would ask [the pan­ Street. There have been panhan­ handlers] to leave," said Barrett Mardre, dlers on Ninth Street for years," said an employee at Francesca's. Carol Anderson, co-owner ofthe cloth­ The Ninth Street Merchants Associa­ ing boutique Vaguely Reminiscent. tion decided to combat the issue through "It's kind of 'live and let live.'" a campaign called, There's Another Way However, following a recent cam­ to Help." Officially launched on March paign to rid the downtown area of 8, the program seeks to provide custom- JASON LAUGHLIN/THE CHRONICLE panhandlers by increasing policing See PANHANDLE on page 6 • Customers can make donations to three local charities through a new program. THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY. APRIL 14. 1995 World and National Newsfile Safety board questions pilot's competence Associated Press By MATTHEW WALD the transcript ofthe cockpit voice re­ sounds on the cockpit voice recorder, Tariffs considered: The Clinton N.Y. Times News Service administration is drawing up a list corder shows that they had concluded, both engines appeared to be operat­ of Japanese imports worth billions WASHINGTON — The National erroneously, that the left engine had ing, and there is no evidence that ei­ of dollars that could be subject to pu­ Transportation Safety Board staff quit. Then, the transcript shows, the ther one shut down. nitive tariffs if the current negotia­ Thursday released information show­ pilot became confused about whether Both the pilot and co-pilot were tions over opening Japan's auto mar­ ing that the pilot of an American Eagle it was the right engine or the left for killed in the crash, along with 13 of ket don't succeed, officials say. Au­ turboprop that crashed near Raleigh- which he was supposed to compensate. the 18 passengers. The plane, a tos and auto parts accounted for 60 Durham International Airport last The last words recorded in the cock­ Jetstream 3200 traveling from percent ofthe record $66 billion U.S. December joined American four days pit were from the co-pilot, 11 seconds Greensboro, N.C, was approaching trade deficit with Japan last year. after being forced to quit by another before impact. He said to the pilot, the airport in rain and fog. airline for incompetence. "It's the wrong, wrong foot, wrong en­ Reports released Thursday by the Faulkner Wins: The 4th U.S. Cir­ cuit Court of Appeals upheld an ear­ A cockpit transcript shows that in gine." If an engine fails in a two-en­ safety board show that the pilot, Capt. lier ruling that The Citadel, South the last moments ofthe flight, the pi­ gine plane, the pilot or co-pilot can Michael Hillis, 29, who had completed Carolina's all-male military college, lot apparently became confused about compensate for the unbalanced thrust a one-year probationary period as a co­ violated Shannon Faulkner's rights whether one of his two engines had by using a foot pedal to deflect the pilot at Comair, a Delta Airlines com­ under the equal protection clause of stopped, and if so, which one. rudder. muter line, "was allowed to resign in the 14th Amendment in refusing to The pilot and co-pilot apparently But according to the board's analy­ lieu ofthe termination of his employ- admit her. misinterpreted a light in the cockpit; ses of the wreckage and of the engine See CRASH on page 7 • Dornan declares: Rep. Robert Dornan of California, a firebrand conservative Republican, entered the 1996 presidential race on Thursday. Defector charges Milosevic with war crimes Most experts predict that few voters will respond to Dornan's message, By ROGER COHEN Dutch embassy in Belgrade, which the number of camps and to concen­ saying he is too vociferously to the N.Y. Times News Service believed his life was in danger. trate on two to three camps," says the right even for the Republican Party. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —As West­ One of the documents, dated May order, which bears a signature of the ern governments seek to turn Presi­ 24,1992, appears to include directions head of state security at the Serbian dent Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia into from the Serbian state security ser­ Interior Ministry and is addressed to a peacemaker, a former senior mem­ vices in Belgrade on the running of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Weather ber ofthe Serbian secret police has concentration camps in Bosnia.