THE CHRONICLE Paying Tribute

Paying tribute What do Karen Carpenter, Black Sabbath, Daniel Johnston and Tom Petty THE CHRONICLE have in common'' See K _.iv for details. 1994 © ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90, NO. 53 Senior class gift to Students to vote on activities fee By IVAN SNYDER crease in 1990. future, the legislature also re For the third time in five DSG officials argue the in solved Wednesday to develop a be decided today years, undergraduates will vote crease is necessary due to the plan to "control costs and in By PATRICIA ELIAS reation facility. on a proposal to raise the stu influx of new student organiza crease efficiency" in the student Before seniors make their A subcommittee ofthe se dent activities fee. tions, a desire for expanded pro organizations' budgets, which grand exit from the Univer nior class gift committee The Duke Student Govern gramming and special events, are determined each year by sity, they will be asked to polled students, faculty and ment legislature passed a reso and inflation since the last in DSG. open their wallets for one staff to solicit ideas for use lution Wednesday night that crease. While North Campus repre last donation — the senior ofthe gift monies. will put the $5 increase to a vote "The majority of this fee in sentative and Trinity freshman class gift. Last year, the senior class on a special ballot Dec. 6. crease goes to bringing this Blair Greber-Raines criticized Seniors will vote today be donated $15,000 to the Part The fee, which is deducted campus together," said Trinity the latter resolution, dubbing it tween funding an on-campus nership for Literacy pro annually from every under senior John Tolsma, DSG presi "feel-good" legislation, the sculpture garden, a tutoring gram, while the goal for this graduate bursar's account, dent. "I see this fee increase as resolution's author defended program for children of em would increase from $59.38 to a way to foster greater interac the reasons behind the legisla year's gift is $20,000. After tion between faculty and stu ployees, a women's center seniors vote on the gift, the $64.38 if students approve the tion. fellowship and making a par referendum. Two similar pro dents." "This says to the students committee will solicit dona- posals were voted down by un tial donation to the new rec See GIFT on page 6 • To prevent from having to in that the increase will not set a dergraduates since the last in crease the fee again in the near See DSG on page 6 •- Scholars open conference on globalization, culture By NORBERT SCHURER tion of the world in economic Such a shift is better character After Jameson spoke, Ariel Scholars struggled with the and cultural terms, especially ized as "Americanization" than Dorfman, a renowned play effects of mass communication in the recent past with the ad "globalization," Jameson said, wright and research professor on individuality in Wednesday vent of new communications citing the "leveling power of at the Center for International night's opening ofa conference technologies. According to American mass culture" and Studies, delivered a typically on "Globalization and Culture." Fredric Jameson, chair of the the inequality between the poetic address "looking for the The interdisciplinary confer literature program and profes United States and other coun cracks in the global system." ence opened with _ warm-up sor of romance languages, there tries. Drawing from experiences with session at Griffith Film Theater are two sides to globalization. Nevertheless, the same phe the suppression of diversity where the five organizers, inter On the one hand, it furthers nomenon creates a space in under the Pinochet dictatorship nationally prominent profes unification and standardization which "we are now in a position in Chile, he claimed that there ofthe world in a negative sense, to benefit from globalization" as are always "underground av sors from a range of fields, laid enues still available" in which out questions to frame the five- by levelling differences between the celebration of diversity be we can counteract political and day program. cultures through the interna comes possible in a new global cultural dictatorship—in Chile STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE Globalization, or internation tional propagation of self-ab technological community, See CULTURE on page 12 • alization, involves the integra- . sorbed, "luscious consumers." Jameson said. Ariel Dorfman Your jam sessions are your labs' Top of the charts Jeffrey leads popular jazz quartet By NOAH BIERMAN Jeffrey is an accomplished Director of Jazz Studies saxophonist who learned jazz Paul Jeffrey has played with in the New York clubs in the the greats: Monk, Mingus, heyday of bebop. Now he Gillespie, Patton, Simonetti, teaches younger musicians at Scott... the University. Although Patton? Simonetti? Scott? Jeffrey's introduction to jazz Well, their names are not ex course exposes hundreds of actly inscribed in the annals students to the history of the of jazz history, but Trinityjun art form, it is the musicians ior Jeb Patton, 21-year-old who play with Jeffrey who get Durham resident John a more intimate historical Simonetti and Mike Scott, knowledge ofthe music. Trinity '93, form three-fourths Jazz has to be taught differ- ofThe Paul Jeffrey Quartet — ently then other musical the hottest jazz band on cam forms, Jeffrey said. "Your text pus. books are your records and Jeffrey and the three young your jam sessions are your musicians perform snappily labs." paced, impro visational bebop Before jazz became a disci tunes on a regular basis at pline in universities, it was campus functions — from passed down as a tradition in dressed-up alumni parties on the clubs. Jeffrey got his edu campus lawns to dressed- cation from jazz players who down undergraduate parties defined the music — greats in students' off-campus like Thelonius Monk and abodes. The band also plays Dizzy Gillespie. Letter grades DOUG LYNN/THE CHRONICLE weekly gigs at Ricci's bar and were not the barometer by restaurant in Lakewood shop Mike Scott plays drums, John Simonetti plays bass and Drew Lyle sits in on guitar as band ping center. which Jeffrey was measured. leader Paul Jeffrey plays saxophone at Ricci's restaurant and bar. See JAZZ on page 12 • THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1994 World and National Newsfile Republicans pledge to uphold contract By NANCY MATHIS "I think the question the president has push a conservative agenda opposed, in Proposition blocked: The day N.Y. Times News Service to answer, beginning today, is, is he go part, by Clinton. after California voters approved WASHINGTON — Waking up to a ing to get on the train and be the engi "I think the challenge to us is to ac sProposition 187, which denies educa tion and most health care to illegal new political world, Republican leaders neer, is he going to wave from the sta cept the contract with the American immigrants, a federal judge Wednes who will control Congress next January tion, or is he going to get on the tracks people and then to recognize we've got day barred statewide enforcement of called for bipartisanship Wednesday but and try to stop the train," Gramm said. to be partners," Gingrich said, appear the measure for a week. Immigration said it would be up to President Clinton Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, the next ing on CBS-TVs "This Morning." "And activists swept into court, charging to move rightward toward them. House speaker, and Kansas Sen. Bob that means reaching out to Democrats, that the proposition violates basic Congressional Republicans, still mar Dole, the next majority leader, used reaching out to the Clinton administra civil rights. veling at their historic election victories, more conciliatory words but had basi tion, trying to really build a broad bi said they intend to move Jan. 3, the first cally the same message. Both Republi partisan partnership in favor ofthe kind Rabbi convicted: Rabbi Shiomo day ofthe session, to uphold their "Con cans said they wanted to work with the of changes people voted for yesterday." Helbrans, the leader of a small tract with America" that calls for votes Democratic administration but intend to See CONGRESS on page 7 • Hasidic sect in Brooklyn, was con victed Wednesday of kidnapping a on a balanced budget amendment, tax Jewish teenager who disappeared cuts, term limits and tougher crime leg from his family for two years and islation. President accepts partial became the center of an emotionally President Clinton pledged to do "ev charged battle between the worlds of erything within my power to reach out secular and ultra-Orthodox Jewry. to the leaders and members ofthis new blame in news conference Congress" but called for Democrats and Serbs lose homes: Suddenly Republicans to work from the political By JULIA MALONE forms. homeless and penniless, 3,000 Serbs center. N.Y. Times News Service Earlier, he had cordial telephone con are coping with life as refugees since an offensive by their newly united en The GOP claimed majorities in both WASHINGTON — Looking weary and versations with soon-to-be House emies forced them from their homes. houses for the first time in four decades stunned, President Clinton accepted Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and in Some say they were betrayed and and will oversee a more politically po partial blame Wednesday for the broad coming Senate Majority Leader Bob some are talking about revenge. larized Congress. The new Republicans est Democratic defeat in a generation Dole, R-Kan. are far more conservative and Demo and pledged to work with the new Re But a hoarse Clinton appeared to be crats are more liberal, a situation that publican-led Congress.

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