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Bakker Sent to Butner for Testing INSIDE: ACC PREVIEW '89 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 6 SAE found guilty of new alcohol policy violation By LEIGH DYER The ruling marks the first First-year students will not be penalty imposed on a fraternity able to attend open parties at since the administration revised Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fra­ its alcohol policy. ternity for one additional week The judicial board determined past a two-week freshman mora­ in a hearing Thursday night that torium implemented at the start the fraternity violated rush rules of the year. by posting flyers in Pegram and All of SAE's social activities Southgate dorms encouraging have been suspended by the _n- first-year students to attend an terfraternity Council (IFC) judi­ off-campus party this week. cial board from noon Friday until The flyers advertised a noon Sept. 17 because of rush "housewarming party" at a resi­ rule violations. In addition, no dence on Green Street behind members of the fraternity may Baldwin Auditorium. Alcohol have rush-related contact with was served at the party, said first-year students during that Trinity senior Brian David, chair time period. of the judicial board. Last Friday, the administra­ Trinity senior Graham Trask, tion adopted a policy under president of SAE, said the pun­ which first-year students would ishment was "relatively severe. I not be allowed to attend up- really had no idea what punish­ perclass house parties until after ment we would receive going into JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE Sept. 10. [the hearing]," he said. Trask added that he was Practice makes perfect "happy" that the penalty was not Duke prepares for their opener against South Carolina this weekend. See ACC Football '89 more severe. inside for more details. William Griffith, vice presi­ dent for student affairs, called the posting of the flyers a "flagrant situation." He said the board's action was "not a very Bakker sent to Butner for testing strong sanction." "I don't think [the penalty] will By PAUL NOWELL trial and ordered him to the Fed­ cripple [SAE] severely," said Associated Press eral Correctional Institute in Suzanne Wasiolek, dean for stu­ CHARLOTTE — Jim Bakker Butner for up to 60 days for psy­ dent life. "I am pleased that the was committed to a mental in­ chiatric evaluation to determine IFC took the matter seriously stitution in handcuffs and leg whether he is competent to stand enough to act as quickly as they shackles Thursday after a psy­ trial. did," she added. chiatrist reported the TV evange­ "Please don't do this to me," a "I stand firmly behind the judi­ list was hallucinating and cower­ sobbing, disheveled Bakker said cial board's decision," said ing in a fetal position in his law­ as he was led from his lawyer's CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE Trinity senior Larry Glazer, yer's office. office by U.S. marshals to the Brian David, IFC judicial board president of the IFC. "It shows U.S. District Judge Robert Pot­ courthouse for processing of the chair See SAE on page 8 • ter suspended Bakker's fraud commitment order. He curled up in a fetal position in the back seat. "Mr. Bakker, I'm going to have Gulley leaves office with eye on future to ask you to sit up, please," a deputy marshal said. This is the second of two stories ing to pattern the city after some make them beautiful, and you've After the paperwork was com­ about Mayor Wib Gulley's legacy other place. got something that nobody else pleted, Bakker, bound hand and in Durham. "People say they want to be the really has in Raleigh, Chapel foot, was taken to Butner to Atlanta, or the Dallas, or the San Hill" and other regions across the spend his first night behind bars By LENORE YARGER Francisco, or the Boston or what­ state. since the PTL scandal broke. The As Durham Mayor Wib Gulley ever. That, I think, misses the Similarly, "Baseball has been a evangelist is accused of fleecing UPI PHOTO prepares to exit office this point. What makes a community, special part of this community followers of his evangelical em­ Jim Bakker November, he points to the need I think, particularly enjoyable as for decades and decades and pire. to create Durham's "own special a place to be, is that it has its decades, and its not something He was lying in the back seat intent on destroying him, attack­ sense of place" in the Triangle. own unique character." that every other community of a marshal's car when he ar­ ing him and hurting him," Jack­ Gulley said in a recent inter­ Gulley cited the adaptation around us has," Gulley said. rived, and a marshal held him on son said. view that during his two terms and reuse of the old American Keeping the stadium a part of each side as he walked in a slow, Jackson said Bakker's condi­ as mayor, he has always believed Tobacco land and textile ware­ this community is important be­ stooped shuffle into the prison. tion worsened overnight, even af­ in the importance of capitalizing houses as a successful attempt to cause of the "strong community Dr. Basil Jackson, a psychia­ ter he was given Xanax, an anti­ on Durham's strengths and turn one of Durham's unique support and caring" for Durham trist who has been treating Bak­ depressant sedative. Bakker was unique qualities instead of seek- qualities into a major strength. baseball, he said. ker for nine months, told the not in court for the hearing. Durham was too poor to tear The city is currently awaiting judge that Bakker began hal­ On Thursday morning, Bakker down the old, abandoned tobacco a decision on where to locate the lucinating Wednesday after a "was lying in the corner of his at­ Weather facilites and rebuild like other recently approved, 10,000 seat former PTL executive testifying torney's office with his head un­ communities probably would. stadium for Durham. against him collapsed on the der a couch, hiding," Jackson stand. The witness was revived Wear rubbers: On your But the Adaron group develop­ "I think that what we, in sort said. "He was expressing within seconds and said he was thoughts that someone was going feet, that is. Saturday high in ers, the Edgar Bronfman family of broad strokes, have done a bet­ laid low by illness. to hurt him." the 90s with a 50% chance of and the University stepped in ter job of in Durham is trying to rain. Who needs the sun any­ and purchased the old facilities, be the best that we can be based "Mr. Bakker reported that "To put it in lay language, the way? It causes cancer and in­ which are now undergoing rede­ upon the unique, special nature when he left the courthouse man is stressed out," Jackson terrupts campus nightlife, at velopment and renovation. of this community." Wednesday, suddenly people out­ said later. least for upperclassmen. "You go back in and you adap- Although Gulley is leaving of- side took on the form of fright­ Prosecution and defense law- tively reuse [the facilities] and See GULLEY on page 9 • ening animals which he felt were See BAKKER on page 6 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1989 World 8. National Newsfile Bush, Mulroney discuss aid to Colombia Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Quarterback replaced: The Associated Press Bush, who played host to Mulroney and South Carolina Human Affairs Com­ family for a 26-hour stay here, called it mission is looking into the replacement KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Presi­ "an unusually productive visit" that of a black quarterback with a less ex­ dent Bush and Canadian Prime Minister despite its private nature included almost perienced white player at Conway Brian Mulroney, emerging from a seaside four hours of talks on world issues and High School, school officials said retreat, said Thursday they explored U.S.-Canadian ties. Thursday. The replacement prompted ways of providing more help for Colom­ Both men wore yellow sports shirts and a boycott of the team by black players. bian President Virgilio Barco in his battle casual slacks while their wives, Bush's against the drug barons. 88-year-old mother, Dorothy, and Mul- But both leaders, pressed on the possi­ Gloom without cancer: People roney's children stood watching them bility of sending a multilateral force to field questions on the lawn between with a gloomy outlook do not have a fight the drug cartels, stressed that any Bush's tennis court and the blue sea, dot­ greater risk of cancer than those with a such appeal must start with Barco and ted with brightly colored markers from more cheerful perspective, according to not be imposed upon the Latin American lobster pots. <Q_ ii_ynowy __<___o4--nrlty7 ^Vi„t/i__uf piun/v—.*>/-»)-,_•C_ fliu.tp. _ciirrcrpcf _££,">?'-'_cir_\ lld.UlW.il. Lobster, in fact, was one of the few link between attitude and disease. Bush said, "There is no point in Canada areas of strain in U.S.-Canadian rela­ or the United States or . any group of Soviets NOt: Thousands of people in tions, and Mulroney allowed that Bush countries imposing its will on a country the republic of Moldavia surged into had "advanced some persuasive argu­ that is now trying very very hard to rid it­ the streets of its capital Thursday ments" about Canadian lobstermen's UPI PHOTO self of this menace." night to protest a legislative compro­ catch of lobsters that in U.S.
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