Proposed Landfill Site in Duke Forest Tops List Rape Victim Shares Story
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Not< Ice Cu THE CHRONICLE offers i THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLIN LATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 58 Proposed landfill site in Duke Forest tops list By JENNY TIEDEMAN statement was met by applause A section of Duke Forest has from the audience of about 150 become the leading choice for Or citizens, many of whom had pro ange County's new landfill site. tested other residential candidate The 12 member Orange Re sites for the landfill. gional Landfill Search Commit Committee members also cited tee voted unanimously Wednes the site's proximity to a sewer day night to actively test 853 acres line and the existing landfill as in the Duke Forest for the landfill ideal. The proposed site is located location. The site, officially known to the west of the existing land as OC-17, is one of a handful of fill. sites that the committee approved David Roberson, associate vice for testing, but the only one which president and director of Univer was unanimously accepted. sity relations, has said the Uni The section of the forest under versity does not want a landfill in consideration is currently owned the forest. SCOTT BOOTH/THE CHRONICLE by the University and has been Roberson said the amount of administered by the former School research being done in the area, November in North Carolina. of Forestry and Environmental the existence of an endangered This warm spell is not conducive to getting work done. It just makes you want to sit out on Studies, now the School of the species of plant and the aesthet the quad and think about basketball, Thanksgiving and, of course, exams. Environment. ics of the spot all argue for its The University uses the forest preservation. for educational purposes, includ The area contains some ofthe ing forest management training "best examples of mature, sec and biological and ecological re ond-growth forest communities Rape victim shares story, views search. Over 400 graduate theses remaining in the North Carolina in forestry and plant and animal Piedmont region," according to By BRIAN FEINGOLD thinks sex. A rape victim hears more sensitive to rape victims' ecology have been written on the the official Orange Regional Land While telling the story of her rape and thinks death." needs, Ziegenmeyer believes basis of field work done in the fill Report compiled by Joyce En rape and its devastating effect on Ziegenmeyer was the first rape "much remains to be done." area. gineering Inc., the Greensboro- her life, rape victim advocate victim to come forth publicly with One ofthe ways in which soci One member of the committee based company which will per Nancy Ziegenmeyer emphasized her story. She responded criti ety could better its treatment of said that while she did not know form testing on the site. the need for change in society's cally to an editorial questioning rape victims, she suggested, was the value of the research being Also, a nationally endangered view of rape and its victims. the victim's role in the sexual by making changes in legislation conducted by Jhe University, she species of plant, the small- Speaking on Wednesday night assaults in an effort to help other. and prosecution of accused rap did not feel the studies repre whorled begonia, has been re at Page Auditorium, Ziegenmeyer rape survivors, ists. sented a long-term charting of ported as existing in the area. suggested ways in which society InFebruary 1990, the Des Moines She endorsed the enactment of ecological development. Along with research, the area could better handle all aspects of Register published her account of new legislation, including new, After speaking to University is also open to the public for hik rape, including victim's rights. her assault and the ensuing legal stiffer penalties for rapi sts as well officials, the member said she felt ing, horseback riding and similar "What ultimately matters," she battle. The series of articles won the as victim restitution and also the area "has not been treated as types of recreation. The area is said, "is how society views raprapee 1991 Pulitzer Prize. pleaded for the government tto though it's precious forest prop- officially considered part of ththue survivors. Society hears rape anandd Although society has becombecome See RAPE on page 4 • • erty." The committee member'member'ss See LANDFILL on page 5 •• Debate over Holocaust ad missing point, Smith says By MICHAEL SAUL Holocaust. el discussions, have disappointedisappointedd The ad's goal was to urge memmem- The emphasis ofthof the debate oin Bradley Smith says his adver Smith paid $583.80 to print the him because the ad did not spark bers ofthe community to discuss campus has centered on The tisement on holocaust revision advertisement denying the exist open debate or free inquiry on its content and debate its verac Chronicle's decision to publish the ism has been unsuccessful. ence ofthe Holocaust in the Nov. Holocaust revisionism. ity, he said. ad rather than the statements "A lot of heat was generated by 5 edition of The Chronicle. "There is no debate about the Many members of the Univer asserted in it, Smith said. the [advertisement], but I'm not Smith said the recent deluge of Holocaust at any American uni sity community have said the ad Rabbi Frank Fischer, the reli sure much light was generated," articles, letters, columns and ad versity," he said. "My hopes are vertisement is filled with lies, but gious leader of the University's said Smith, co-founder of the Com vertisements in The Chronicle, that this historical issue will be few have broken down the ad's Jewish community, refused to mittee for Open Debate on the combined with the rallys and pan open to free inquiry." arguments point by point, he said. See SMITH on page 5 • Smoking on campus in decline Numbers dwindle as consideration increases By GITA REDDY ers were much less considerate of ments and facilities independently Even though today is the Great non-smokers back then," said Sue decide whether to ban smoking or American Smokeout, you Wasiolek, dean of student life. not. The Medical Center, Perkins shouldn't expect to find many As their ranks thin, many smok and classrooms are smoke-free. University students undergoing ers have tried to accommodate "There are no plans to extend a nicotine withdrawal symptoms. the concerns of non-smokers. non-smokingpolicy in other Univer The Smokeout is a national Other trends on campus include a sity facilities," said David Roberson, campaign for one day to encour general distaste for smoking and director of university relations. age smokers to kick the habit, a tendency among individuals to Most campus smokers under even if only for 24 hours. smoke in groups and in the pres stand the rationale behind such The effect on campus may not ence of alcohol. policies and some, citing poor be so great. Nationwide, the per "People smoke in groups be ventilation, even support the centage of college students who cause its more OK to smoke. In smoking bans. "I don't like to smoke has declined over the past the majority of places, smoking is smoke in places with poor circu decade. Smoking among students at looked down upon," said Trinity lation," said Trinity senior Geri the University has declined as well. sophomore Alison Michalik. Morgenstern. "Less students are smoking to The University has no compre Some smokers recognize that MARK WASMER/THE CHRONICLE day than 10 or20years ago. Smok hensive policy on smoking. Depart See SMOKING on page 4 • Scenes like this one are none too common anymore. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY/NOVEMBER 21, 1991 World and National Newsfile Gorbachev asks Parliament for extra funds Associated Press By CELESTINE BOHLEN sure since the street value of the ruble is Americans coming home: in N.Y. Times News Service plummeting, but already the deficit has another sign that the hostage saga is MOSCOW—Armed with ever-gloomier exceeded the most pessimistic predictions drawing to a close, the umbrella group details about the country's economic situ of last summer. for the hostage-holders said Wednes ation, President Mikhail Gorbachev ap In Washington, amid rising concern day that the three remaining American pealed to a shrunken Soviet Parliament on about possible hunger and civil unrest in captives will be released soon. Iran indi Wednesday to spend money it does not the Soviet Union this winter, the Bush cated thatone, Joseph Cicippio, could be have to get through the winter. administration announced it would send let go next week. But his plea for an emergency three- about $1.5 billion worth of food aid, most of month appropriation, which would widen which would be channeled through the Croatian city evacuated: Re the total Soviet deficit to a yawning 300 central government in Moscow. The an lief workers evacuated hundreds of billion rubles, was rejected by the Russian nouncement included the first large-scale sick and wounded Wednesday from a republic, which has already stopped most American shipments of free food to the bombed-out hospital in the Croatian of its payments to the "center" as it gets Soviet Union in seven decades.) city ofVukovar, where theywere trapped ready to strike off on its own path of eco As representatives of the world's seven for weeks by a Serbian siege. nomic reform. leading industrial nations meet here to Gorbachev said the country as a whole discuss bridge loans, credits and deferrals License revoked: The Michigan was headed for catastrophe if the repub to help cope with foreign debt and estab Board of Medicine on Wednesday lics did not join in common political and lish some degree of credit-worthiness, the suspended the medical license of Dr.