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Fighting the demons The THE CHRONICLE tougl FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1991 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 49 Brodie says University should keep status quo By MATT STEFFORA period of substantial academic The University should concen growth," during which time trate on maintaining the status spending on academics and fi quo after growing during the nancial aid has increased by 100 1980s, said two top administra percent and administrative sup tors at Thursday's Academic port services by about 60 percent, Council meeting. he said. The current recession, which The University must concen is partially responsible for a $4.5 trate now on retaining faculty million budget shortfall in the members with atti*active salaries 1991-92 year, will affect the and ensuring financial aid to all University's budget at least students who need it, Brodie said. through the 1992-93 academic The wave of new and renovated year, said President Keith Brodie. buildings and faculty expansion "We must begin to focus ... on is nearly complete, he said. reaching a plateau, and on devel Also at the meeting, Paula oping a status-quo budget that Burger released the preliminary will protect and preserve the copy ofthe Report on Utilization growth and expansion that we and Enrollment. have achieved over the last seven The 90-page report "evaluates MARK WASMER/THE CHRONICLE years on the one hand, but will the carrying capacity ofthe Uni basically curtail further expan versity," said Burger, vice pro Torched sion, in my estimation, in the next vost for academic services. Last Artist-in-residence Bill Noland puts the finishing touches on his sculpture at the studio on seven years," Brodie said. year, the Board of Trustees ap Wilkerson road. Since Brodie's term started in proved a temporary undergradu- 1984, "we have gone through a See COUNCIL on page 9 • Edelman to speak at 1992 commencement Magic By MICHAEL SAUL provides a powerful example for tion became the Children's De livered the address in 1991 and infected The University selected young men and women beginning fense Fund in 1973. broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw Marian Wright Edelman, founder their own professional lives, and In the early '60s, Edelman spoke in 1990. and president of the Children's I am excited that our class of 1992 worked as a staff attorney for the Bi'odie decided not to sponsor with HIV Defense Fund, to deliver the 1992 will have the opportunity to learn National Association for the Ad- his annual gathering with the commencement address on May from her," Brodie said. vancementof Colored People fund senior class, said Dave Roberson, By RICHARD STEVENSON 17. Edelman was the first black for legal defense and education director of Duke News Service. In N.Y. Times News Service "Marian Wright Edelman's woman admitted to the Missis in New York. She received one of lieu of the gathering, Brodie is INGLEWOOD, Calif. — years of work on issues such as sippi Bar. In that position she the fund's first internships that planning to sponsor a concert, Magic Johnson, one ofthe civil rights, children's health, helped further the civil rights encouraged young attorneys to Roberson said. most popular and accom early childhood education and movement and organized the relocate to the South. "We are trying to get a band plished players in basket homelessness have established Child Development Group of Mis that we really want, but we're ball history, said Thursday her as one of our nation's stron sissippi. have a lot of trouble," said Trinity Last year the University an that he had been infected gest voices on behalf of the poor senior Ryan Cantwell, class presi She served as a partner for the nounced playwright Neil Simon by the virus that causes and disenfranchised, especially dent. The event is tentatively Washington Research Project, an would be the 1991 commence AIDS and that he would children," said President Keith scheduled for Jan. 21, the only organization formed in Washing ment speaker, but a scheduling retire immediately from the Brodie in a press release. date Cameron Indoor Stadium is ton, D.C. to help the poor and conflict preventing him from com See MAGIC on page 18 • "Her career of public service disenfranchised. The organiza ing. Columnist George Will de available. Arthur's grill is place for students to eat, converse, enjoy By MATT GEPHARDT up a friendly conversation with and friendly to everyone who students who reside in Edens assistant and food service em Tucked back in Edens Quad his customers who come in for a comes in." Quadrangle, others make it a point ployee at the Veterans Adminis rangle is an inviting grill, where quick dinner or nighttime snack There is a growing group of to go out of their way to visit tration Hospital on Erwin Road. the bitter aroma of knockwurst between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. He regulars who frequent the estab Arthur's. He was hired in 1982 as a mo mixes with the sweet smell of a asks students about their latest lishment and make it a habit to "I visit Arthur's occasionally bile catering salesman. He was strawberry milkshake. The man homework assignments or ro spend some time enjoying the mu even though I live on I main I West responsible for managing and ager saves a lackadaisical smile mances. The temptation of a bag sic and conversation. Besides the Campus," said Jim Schmidt, a driving the Dope Shop on Wheels, and warm greeting for all those of chips for a Trinity junior. a snack shop and grill in a small who enter. study break "A lot of stu truck. He had a scheduled route Arthur Brodie has been propri brings them in, dents take time of stops across campus, selling etor and manager of his name but Arthur's fa to visit it even food from the back of his truck to sake, Arthur's, since it opened therly attitude though the CI people in parking lots, classrooms, four years ago in Mirecourt Dor and friendly or Rat may be construction sites and the hospi mitory. With its homespun envi conversation closer." tal. The 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. catering ronment, jazz melodies and sim bring them "We have a operation was an extension ofthe plistic decorations, the snack shop back again and community Dope Shop in the West Union is a reflection of Arthur's person again. down here," Building. ality. "Arthur's is a said Arthur, a "Arthur is trustworthy and de After ten years at the Univer great place to man of few pendable," said Glenn Gossett, sity, Arthur still enjoys his work get a bite to eat, words, about manager of Dining Operations. and responsibilities, interacting have a good the students he "We are lucky to have found him with students and taking orders. time and strike calls "fine kids." when we did." "This is a relaxing job," Arthur up a jovial con Before com By 1984 the West Campus Dope said. "I get to know people and versation," said ing to the Uni Shop had closed, bringing an end have a chance to speak to all that Chris Swann, a versity, Arthur KATHY WHAYNE/THE CHRONICLE to the Dope Shop on Wheels. come in." Trinity senior. worked as a cer- Rather than end the service, a He will spontaneously strike "Arthur is open Arthur Brodie manages "Arthur's" in Mirecourt Dormitory tified nursing See ARTHUR on page 8 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1991 World and National Newsfile Bush challenges NATO on future role of U. S. By ALAN COWELL Associated Press support the presence of U.S. forces in Eu N.Y. Times News Service rope; it is not we Europeans who are push Russians thrOW party: St. Pe ROME — President Bush challenged ing the U.S. out of Europe." tersburg, The birthplace of the Bol his European allies on Thursday to state The exchanges, however, evoked a far shevik Revolution, cheered the de clearly whether they wanted America to deeper sense of uncertainty about the mise of Communist power with withdraw from Europe's defense, and, as NATO alliance following the crumbling of skydivers, fireworks and concerts leaders of the Western alliance unveiled Soviet power in Eastern Europe and the Thursday. their first major strategic shift in 24 years, disappearance of a direct Soviet military he was rapidly assured that they did not. threat massed on the dividing lines de Secrets dwell in scrolls: Newly The exchange was made as NATO lead marcated by the cold war. released text from the Dead Sea ers, seeking to reshape their role in a While most international attention has Scrolls mentions the execution of a continent transformed by the collapse of focused on the crises and uncertainities of Messiah-like leader, suggesting that Soviet might, underscoredthe changes and the Soviet Union and its former allies, a some ancient Jews shared the Chris uncertainties in Europe's new power bal more subtle questioning has also seized tian concept ofthe slaying of a Mes ance by offering their former adversaries Western Europe as it edges forward in a siah, scholars said Thursday. in Eastern Europe a formal link to the process of European integration that was Western military alliance, but witholding already under way in the cold war era but UPI PHOTO Saddam pins another: Two any commitment to safeguard their security. is now confronted by a fundamentally George Bush weeks ago, amid great fanfare, The American taunt to the West Euro See NATO on page 7 • Saddam Hussein pinned medals for peans was directed particularly at France, distinguished service on Gen.