University Prepares for Crowded Classrooms and Dorms Gavitt And

THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 8,000 VOL. 86, NO. S4 University prepares for crowded classrooms and dorms By BEN PRATT and transfers, will be on campus an abnormally large number of The increased size of the fresh make room for freshmen. Other Although the incoming fresh next year. A typical class con prospective students who ac man class puts a greater strain redistributions are imminent, man class will be the largest tains around 1,400 students. To cepted the University's offer of on campus facilities, most nota said Vice Provost Paula Burger. ever, University administrators tal enrollment will be slightly admission. This year, 38 percent bly on housing. "There will be a bit more ex contend that campus life will not below 6,000. Last year there of those accepted to the Univer The administration last week pansion than we wanted," be greatly affected. were about 5,775 students on sity announced plans to matricu announced plans to displace up Burger said, "but we have a Between 1,725 and 1,750 new campus. late, up from an average of 30 perclassmen intending to live in strong commitment to see that students, including freshmen The increase in size was due to percent. Aispaugh on East Campus to See CROWDS on page 14 ^ Gavitt and Krzyzewski discuss Celts' head job By MARK JAFFE Gavitt was hired by the Celtics Duke head basketball coach May 29 to help rebuild the NBA's Mike Krzyzewski has partici most successful franchise. Most pated in formal talks with the recently, Gavitt, 52, served as NBA's Boston Celtics concerning commissioner of the Big East the team's head coaching job. Conference, which he founded, Dave Gavitt, the Celtics' di for 11 years. He also coached at rector of basketball operations, Providence for 10 years. met with Krzyzewski Monday in The Celtics fired head coach Durham. Long-time Boston as Jimmy Rodgers May 8 after the sistant coach and former Celtic team lost in the first round of the player Chris Ford is reportedly playoffs to the New York Knicks. the other top candidate. He held the position for two Gavitt and Krzyzewski have years. previously worked together as Krzyzewski, who has a four- part of their involvement in USA year contract with Duke, could Basketball. Gavitt heads the or not be reached for comment. A MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE ganization and Krzyzewski is the secretary in the Duke basketball Up and over head coach for this summer's office said Krzyzewski was out of Southwest Texas State's Charles Austin won the high jump event at the NCAA track cham U.S. squad, which will play in town, but that he was not in Bos the Pan Am and Goodwill pionships last weekend in Wallace Wade Stadium. ton. Games. See KRZYZEWSKI on page 17 ^ Cortez pleads Gantt defeats Easley in Democratic runoff not guilty in By LEIGH DYER Gantt now faces a senator who RALEIGH — For the first time was a vocal opponent of racial de in North Carolina's history, a segregation and drew charges of federal court black candidate will represent racism after his opposition to the Democratic party in a U.S. declaring Martin Luther King From staff reports Senate race. Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. The would-be Rothschild, Former Charlotte mayor Har The suspense ended soon after Mauro Cortez, pleaded not vey Gantt defeated district attor the polls closed Tuesday evening. guilty at federal court in ney Mike Easley Tuesday in the Early returns showed Gantt with Greensboro Monday to six N.C. Democratic primary runoff. 62 percent of the vote. counts of fraud against him. Gantt will face three-term in Later, with all but one precinct Cortez is being held without cumbent Jesse Helms this reporting, returns showed Gantt bond in Guilford County jail, November. with 57 percent of the vote. said Dave Griffith, chief dep Tuesday's contest also marked About 25 percent of registered uty U.S. marshal for the Mid the first time a black candidate Democrats in North Carolina dle District of North Carolina. defeated a white candidate in a voted in the runoff. Fewer votes Cortez' arraignment, which runoff in any North Carolina were cast than in the May 8 pri- CRAIG HAVIGHURST/THE CHRONICLE was postponed once already, election. See GANTT on page 16 • Harvey Gantt celebrates his runoff victory over Mike Easley. was nearly delayed again be cause of eye infection. Doctors decided Friday that Cortez would be healthy enough to Black faculty initiative progressing slowly continue with the scheduled arraignment, Griffith said. By CURT JENNEWINE He was transported to ing efforts at University have This would mean the addition to explain why they were unsuc Two years after the Academic Greensboro last weekend from traditionally been aimed at of approximately 50 new black cessful and present a new Council adopted a proposal to a federal prison in Petersburg, blacks, said Vice Provost Mar faculty members. If the hiring recruitment plan to the equal Va., Griffith said. hire 50 regular rank black garet Bates. Because of the Uni units are unable to achieve this employment opportunity officer faculty members by 1993, the versity's history, "we've always Cortez' trial on the charges goal by the stated deadline, the and the appropriate dean. University can boast only 13 new felt we have had a special re was set for July 9. individual units will be required See HIRING on page 15 ^ hirees, with a net gain of two. sponsibility in this area," she Cortez has been accused of Despite what these numbers said. using an assumed name and may seem to indicate, top Uni birth date to obtain credit In April of 1988, the Academic Inside Weather from the Duke University versity administrators are still Council approved a resolution to Credit Union and Wachovia encouraged by the current state "require each hiring unit within DropOUtS: Durham City Names: Nikki Meets the Bank and Trust Co. of minority faculty hiring be the University to increase the schools have the highest drop Hibachi? Billy Meets the Cast- cause ofthe growing efforts made number of black faculty (at regu Still pending are 12 counts out rate of all the North iron Stove? What's in a name by departmental hiring units as lar rank) over its present number of embezzlment from a charity Carolina school systems. See anyway. Partly sunny with well as long-range planning. (as of Sept. 1, 1987) by at least See CORTEZ on page 16 )• page3. highs in the 90s. Most minority faculty recruit one, before the fall of 1993." PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 7,1990 World & National Newsfile Soviet republic of Kirghizia experiences unrest Associated Press By FRANCIS CLINES N.Y. Times News Service Czech Party chiefs seized: The MOSCOW — The Kremlin reported Ethnic Riots in Soviet Central Asia government rounded up at least seven Wednesday at least 40 people had been 500 miles former Communist Party leaders killed in three days of growing ethnic riot Wednesday in a move likely to hurt the ing and Soviet troop countermeasures in chances of Communist candidates two the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia. days before the nation's first free elec Long-simmering enmities between the tion since 1946. indigenous Kirghiz majority and the eth nic Uzbek minority reportedly broke into Noriega to be charged: us. im violence Monday in a dispute over the dis migration investigators say they ex tribution of sorely needed homestead pect Manuel Noriega to be charged land, according to Soviet news accounts. with being at the center of the largest The clashes in Kirghizia are the latest alien-smuggling ring ever uncovered. in a wave of ethnic unrest that has plagued Soviet President Mikhail Gor California votes for tax: Califor bachev's government for several years, nia voters, who launched a tax revolt leaving hundreds dead and causing at that spread across the nation a decade least 600,000 people to become refugees. ago, may have given up their tight- Soviet forces fired machine guns and fisted ways. In a new shift of the politi tear-gas grenades in a face-off with a cal winds, they voted to double their protest crowd of 20,000 Uzbeks in the gasoline tax and raise billions of dol first incident in Osh, an industrial center lars for mass transit, schools and the near the border of the Uzbekistan repub poor. lic, a news account said. While the deaths and injuries were at AP Baker presents proposal: U.S. tributed in government-controlled news Secretary of State James A. Baker III reports to repeated clashes between Uz with the army using armored cars and he cial violence, often finding itself accused on Wednesday presented a Soviet pro beks and Kirghiz, automatic weapons fire licopters in facing protesters, including of aggravating the situation. posal on Germany's military future to by Soviet troops also apparently ac "rampaging crowds" along the Uzbek-Kir Independent accounts of the trouble in the 15 U.S. allies in NATO as having counted for a significant part of the toll, ghiz border, news accounts said. Kirghizia were not immediately available the potential to break an East-West which included at least 200 wounded, Gorbachev's central government has from the area, which was closed to foreign deadlock. many of them in the last 24 hours, by offi been confronted by a growing wave of correspondents. cial accounts. varying nationalistic protests and ethnic Last week continuing tension in nation- Street clashes were described as fierce, rivalries and repeated incidents of provin- See UNREST on page 8 • U.S.

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