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THE CHRONICLE Liers Without Grant Hill Only one Hill off to U, Hall The men's basketball team traveled to Charlottesville to face off against the Cava­ THE CHRONICLE liers without Grant Hill. See sports page 11. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18. Proposal to fund speaker sparks debate ASDU legislature By JUDY SCHMITT Jeffries, who is the director of department chair. He now is su­ A proposal to bring controver­ ASDU Black History Month Ac­ ing City College for reinstatement sial professor Leonard Jeffries to tivities. as chair and for $25 million in speak at the University sparked The controversy centered votes to restructure heated debate at the ASDU meet­ around whether ASDU should use Jeffries has won "critical ac­ By JUDY SCHMITT ity freshman Brett Foster, ing Wednesday night. student money to pay for some­ claim" for his articles and The ASDU legislature ASDU press secretary. The decision to use ASDU one many at the meeting consid­ speeches at colleges across the passed the Duke Student Gov­ The next step in the restruc­ money to bring Jeffries to cam­ ered a radical speaker. nation, according to Shavar ernment restructuring pro­ turing process is for a new con-, pus led a top ASDU official to Leonard Jeffries was chair of Jeffries' funding request. posal Wednesday night. stitution to be written by tender his resignation. the African American Studies "We are giving money to some­ The proposal was accepted ASDU's executive and legisla­ Engineering junior Doug department at the City College of one whose views are very racist. I after a discussion and vote con­ tive branches. The constitution Lichtman, ASDU parliamentar­ New York for 20 years. Last year don't think that is what the Duke cerning the future selection will then have to be approved ian, announced his resignation he was stripped ofhis title when, vision is about," Lichtman said. process for electing senators. by the ASDU legislature, and after the meeting to Trinity se­ in articles and during speeches, Shavar Jeffries argued that at "Tonight's meeting was a ultimately approved bythe stu­ nior Richard Moore, speaker of he blamed "rich" Jews for financ­ a university, ideas should be watershed event, because the dent body in areferendum April the legislature. Moore said he ing the slave trade. He also openly discussed. "The whole representative legislative body 1, Foster said. would only accept Lichtman's res­ charged that Jews and Italians pointofbringingDr. Jeffries down has supported the guidelines Senators will be called rep­ ignation in writing. were denigrating blacks in mov­ is to promote thought and to en­ for the drafting of a new era in resentatives in the future, and The request for funding ies. lighten people about black his­ the student government at the legislature voted to select Leonard Jeffries' speech came Jeffries still has tenure as pro­ tory," he said. Duke University," said Trin­ See CHANGE on page 10 »> from Trinity freshman Shavar fessor even though he is no longer See ASDU on page 10 pv To slash deficit, Clinton proposes tax increases, cutbacks By R.W. APPLE average middle class family of four for the elderly and handicapped. work only if he can persuade the House forthe firsttime since 1980, N.Y. Times News Service would pay $10 to $12 a month But the president also offered public that the proposed taxes are the task facing Clinton remains WASHINGTON — President more under the program Clinton $30 billion in additional spending fair, that new revenues will really onerous. Democratic members of Clinton proposed a comprehensive outlined. on such projects as highways and be used to cut the deficit and that Congress, like Republicans, are program of tax increases and Hoping to persuade voters that summer jobs, designed to rev up the proposed cuts are genuine. more susceptibleintheera of mass spending cuts on Wednesday de­ he is different from the economy over the Led by Ronald Reagan, whose communications to constituent signed to trim the federal deficit the free-spending next six months or policies Clinton seeks to reverse, pressures than to presidential over the next four years by $500 liberal Democrats of so. The goal is to cre­ Republicans in the Senate and entreaties. billion, or 38 percent, and to revi­ the past, Clinton ate 500,000 jobs by The attitude of Ross Perot, the talize the nation's economy. said he intended to the end of next year, Clinton of reverting to the Demo­ Texas billionaire whose indepen­ In a speech to a joint session of cut military spend­ he said — a down crats' old "tax-and-spend" tradi­ dent presidential candidacy last Congress that is expected to shape ing by $76 billion payment on the 8 tions. Democrats on Capitol Hill year drew almost 19 percent ofthe at least the early stages of his more than previ­ million he hopes to quickly made loyal noises but also total vote, could have a major im­ presidency, Clinton outlined a se­ ously announced create by 1997. reported heavily anti-Clinton tele­ pact on public attitudes. In his ries of new taxes that will fall most and to slash spend­ The prospects of phone calls and said that modifi­ campaign, he called for deficit re­ heavily on business and on rela­ ing on more than the plan, on which cations could be expected. duction and budgetary honesty, tively wealthy individuals, both 125 civil projects the president has In remarks prepared in rebut­ and Clinton telephoned him this active and retired. ranging from the worked for weeks tal, the leader of the Republican afternoon to seek his backing for But families earning as little as space station to ag­ and on which he is minority in the House, Rep. Rob­ his own moves in those directions. $20,000 a year — members ofthe ricultural subsidies. staking his political ert Michel of Illinois, warned the "I'm not asking anyone to buy a "forgotten middle class" whose He called as well for well-being, are un­ country: "When you hear a Demo­ pig in a poke," Clinton said before taxes he promised during his cam­ a freeze on all gov- Bill Clinton certain. It is a sub­ crat call for taxes, do not ask for driving to Capitol Hill. Of the paign to cut—will also be asked to ernment salaries stantial gamble, whom the tax rises; it will rise for members of Congress who will send more dollars to Washington and limits on payments doctors taken in the first month ofhis first you." decide the fate of his measures, under the president's plan. Largely and hospitals receive under Medi­ term, when his political leverage Although the same party now he added, "My duty is to convince because of a new energy tax, the care, the federal health program should be at its strongest. It will controls Congress and the White See CLINTON on page 3 • UJB steps up publicity to diversify members By LISA PASQUARIEU.0 groups about the lack of diversity The Undergraduate Judicial on the board. Board stepped up publicity this "We were in the middle of that week to respond to complaints controversy last year," said Trin­ made last year about its predomi­ ity senior Rachel Peavyhouse, a '"%. if,"' * nantly greek male composition. member of the Duke Women's The 18-member board will Coalition. "In the past, the appli­ graduate 14 seniors this spring. cant pool was skewed . hope­ This year's board includes four fully reaching out to a wider ap­ women and three minorities, and plicant pool will encourage differ­ over two-thirds of its male mem­ ent students to apply." bers belong to a fraternity. "I will be the first to admit that At an informational meeting we're not as diverse as we'd like to held Wednesday, however, amore be as a body," Mayer said. "I defi­ varied group of prospective appli­ nitely understand everyone's con­ cants assembled. Ofthe about 60 cerns and complaints made last students who were there, nearly year—they couldn't be more cor­ half were women and close to one rect." quarter were minorities. Any rising junior or senior can "I thought we had a mixed apply to serve on the board, which crowd," said Trinity senior Bill hears violations of the Under­ BILL PIECH/THE CHRONICLE Mayer, chair ofthe board. "I think graduate Judicial Code. that bodes well for a more diverse Mayer said the lack of repre­ Adios! board." sentation of women, minorities Some benches die with grace In a celebration bonfire after a men's-basketball win. Other Complaints were raised last and independents on the board is benches, like the one pictured above, are not so fortunate. Oh, well. spring by women's and minority See UJB on page 10 • THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1993 World and National Newsfile Chinese officials release student dissident By SHERYL WUDUNN Square student demonstrations in the of most-wanted students. On the day be­ Mike Makes Money: Michael N.Y. Times News Service spring of 1989. Back at his home with his fore the crackdown, he said he was aware Jackson's high-profile television ap­ BEIJING — The government an­ parents in Beijing, Wang told a room filled he might be arrested. pearances capped off by the Oprah nounced Wednesday that it had released a with reporters that he would still fight for "I'm not afraid," he said then. "I've noth­ Winfrey interview have reinvigorated prominent Chinese dissident, a student democracy. ing to be afraid of. I dont think they will be his career, sending sales soaring for who had come to symbolize the tide of pro- "My political views have never changed able to imprison me for as long as Wei his 14-month-old "Dangerous" album.
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