Cable Service to Dorms May Be Illegal Navy ROTC at Triangle Universities
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Cavaliers conquered Greg Koubek and the gang are making their way through the ACC with devilish glee. See THE CHRONICLE page 15 for details of last night's victory. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1991 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86, NO. 93 Cable service to dorms may be illegal Navy ROTC at triangle By ROBIN ROSENFELD may be immediately added, al contract. Due to a very competi The University has been though extra wiring will be re tive market the fee probably receiving its cable signal for free quired to get cable in dorm wouldn't increase by more than universities will merge from the Medical Center lines for rooms. one dollar, said ASDU President about 15 years, said Jim Members of ASDU and Cable Tonya Robinson, who coor By JENNIFER GREESON programs across the board." Dronsfield of Tel-Com. It is not 13 began working with Tel-Com dinated the survey. The University's Naval "The whole DOD is being clear, however, whether the Uni in October to bring expanded A few students in the survey Reserve Officer Training downsized. A few years ago versity was ever on the Medical cable options into dorm rooms for expressed concern they might Corps program will consoli everyone was hoping to see a Center contract with Cablevision a fee. The plan was part of a have to pay for the cable hookup date with programs at the 600-ship Navy," Lundquist of Durham. larger effort to connect dorm in their rooms despite the fact University of North Carolina said. "A defense force is based The discrepancy surfaced in rooms with a vast computer net they did not have televisions. But at Chapel Hill and North on threat. .[the U.S.I can't October when the Medical Cen work. the cable would merely be an op Carolina State University, but support the present level of ter and the University requested Tel-Com was waiting for posi tion, Robinson said. The students the change should not affect defense." changes in their cable services. tive results from the ASDU stu would not pay for it unless they the students involved, ROTC The local Navy ROTC con The Medical Center wanted to dent survey before continuing actually had the service. Tel-Com officials said. sortium will "consolidate of add the Cable News Network with the plan. would issue monthly bills in the "Students at all three cam ficer instructors and support while the University began look The survey results are in and same way it bills for telephone puses won't do anything dif functions," Gore said. The ing at an overhaul of the system 83 percent of the 1,300 students service. ferently from the way they do three universities will share to include dorm rooms. surveyed said they wanted the The issue of who pays for cable things now," said Cmdr. Char common administrators and Tel-Com is now negotiating a expanded cable options and com in the commons rooms would be les Gore of Duke Navy ROTC. instructors!. new contract with Cablevision to puter access in their rooms. discussed with residential life, "They will continue their clas "Officers will be freed up to provide at least basic service to The basic services would in but Robinson proposed that the ses, drills, and labs on their go do some other job in the the University for a fee. clude the channels already avail cost be spread out among the individual campuses." Navy, whether it's flying a Cablevision sent an agreement able in commons rooms and Cen dorm residents. The consolidation, one of plane or manning a ship," he to Tel-com, and is optimistic a tral Campus apartments as well Several students in the survey five to take place nationwide, said. contract can be agreed upon as adding other channels. Some expressed fear that the added is "a matter of economics," ROTC administrators do within a few weeks, said Terrel possible new channels are MTV, channels would be only recre said Lt. Cmdr. Edward not know which administra Mayton, vice president of mar Showtime, Home Box Office, the ational, reinforcing the stereo Lundquist, Pentagon spokes tors will go and which will keting and customer service for Disney Channel, the Weather type of a "Duke Country Club." man. "The Department of the stay. Cablevision of Raleigh-Durham. Channel, and several others. Robinson mentioned the possi Navy is consolidating The consolidation may go Once the the contract is final A five to ten dollar fee would bility of broadcasting lectures programs to save funds, be into effect as early as next fall, ized, CNN and other cable sta be guaranteed for 12 months, af and labs into dorm rooms, as well cause the DOD [Department said Lt. John Steckel of UNC- tions that are not now available ter which Cablevision would re as live broadcasts from students of Defense] is cutting See ROTC on page 9 • to commons rooms televisions negotiate the price portion of the abroad. DUFS plans ahead for bad weather problems By MATTHEW NORRIS In the past, these areas of con Severe weather doesn't come cern were not handled in the best often to the Raleigh-Durham possible manner due to snags in area, but when it does, it can communication, Yute said. This wreak havoc with the network of year, the vans used by DUFS to University services across cam provide safe transportation for pus. its employees have been However, this year Duke Uni equipped with two-way radios to versity Food Services is prepared facilitate efforts. to implement a new plan to deal In addition, one more van has with the problems associated been placed at DUFS' disposal in with harsh winter weather. the event of severe weather, According to Jim Yute, DUFS bringing the total to three, Yute systems and special programs di said. rector, these difficulties include Concerning food deliveries, getting employees safely to and Yute indicated that the Univer from work, making sure that food sity maintains a three-day inven deliveries can reach campus tory at all times and would be SCOTT BOOTH /THE CHRONICLE eateries, and dealing with what able to provide "full menus" for It's no inconvience he called general "confusion on that length of time. After that, Welcome to sign construction 101. It's not how it's spelled, but how it fits. Nobody will read campus" among students trying what was un hand would be used to eat. See DUFS on page 8 • it anyway. British commander says allies will increase air assault on Iraq By R.W. Apple Although a defector described life in publican Guards had been hurt badly American commander here, and Saudi N.Y. Times News Service Iraq this week as "bombs, bombs, not a enough yet to permit an early ground at leaders. They are expected to make visits DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Declaring moment without bombs," the Briton, Lt. tack, the British commander said he to a number of American units in the that a ground war with Iraq is now inevi Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere, said the would not commit British land forces un field. table, the British commander in the Per coalition's aerial bombardment to date til "we've thrown everything we have" at In testimony before the House Armed sian Gulf said on Thursday that the allies was "minor, compared to what they've got the enemy. An aide said it could take a Services Committee before leaving Wash planned to greatly intensify their already coming." week, two weeks, or three weeks to ac ington, Cheney said ofthe war: "Our hope fierce air assault on President Saddam Ah American official agreed that the complish that. is that we can wrap it up as soon as possi Hussein's forces in the coming weeks. number of missions, now about 2,500 a The timing of an offensive will be a ble, to minimize the loss of life on all side- In Paris, President Francois Mitterrand day, could increase soon, with a growing main subject when Defense Secretary s." told television journalists that an allied number of bombing runs concentrated on Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, Preparation for ground fighting moun ground offensive "promises to take place Iraqi troop positions. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ar ted, with a second American battleship, in the coming days, a little more perhaps, As debate continued here and in allied rive in Saudi Arabia on Friday to meet the Wisconsin, pounding the coastline in any case, sometime this month." capitals over whether Saddam's crack Re with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the See GULF on page 7 ^ PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1991 World and National Newsfile Associated Press IRA fires mortar rounds at Major's office Powell defends blacks: in an By CRAIG WHITNEY emotional defense of the nation's all- N.Y. Times News Service LONDON volunteer armed services, Powell dis LONDON — Three mortar rounds were v. puted the notion that minorities are fired from a van on Thursday morning to ., Leicester Sq.A-v Nat'l. Galle bearing an unfair share of the danger ward the offices of Prime Minister John in Operation Desert Storm. Major in 10 Downing Street, scoring a hit in the backyard as he presided over his ^London The Spy iS falling: A Democratic war Cabinet. AVV**^ \WV iff push to overhaul America's intelli The Irish Republican Army later took • ' \^VT.afalgarSq.^X-\s<. /-'/ gence apparatus has hit a crosswind of responsibility for the attack, in which \ >'-_-.-___ v _ m"mmK K<b ii opposition from Republicans who say it three people were slightly wounded.