Slows East Union Upgrade Basketball Downs ECU in Opener Unhappy

rrM-rm,. 'rr^H:::: V^;: Yes, it's that time again Mr. Turkey. But for / the rest of you, Happy Thanksgiving. For V 1HE L/HRONICLE more details, go eat turkey. K\ TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 61 'Lack of focus' slows Basketball downs ECU in opener By MICHAEL ROBBINS East Union upgrade In Monday night's men's bas ketball season opener, the top- By SUSAN JOHNSON night fun and entertainment ranked Blue Devils were "obvi Students waiting to see center. The administration ously the better team. No one in changes in the East Campus says that the Union has a lot to Cameron Indoor Stadium Union will have to wait a little do with how East Campus op doubted that Duke would polish longer. erates and that we should slow off the East Carolina Pirates. The Although renovations to the down and take a look at every only question remaining as the Union have been fully funded thing it affects." game clock neared double zero and the $360,000 is ready and The committee is that the was what the final scoring mar waiting to be used, the com committee is "getting too far gin would be. mittee overseeing the project removed from student need," The Blue Devils handily de has been plagued by disagree said Paul Hudson, Trinity feated the Pirates 103-75, mark ments, which have dragged out sophomore and a committee ing the 20th time in as many the decision-making process. member. "The things sug attempts that Duke has polished The East Campus Union gested by the proposal are done off ECU. The final 28-point mar Committee, composed of fac elsewhere on campus. I don't gin especially pleased some ulty, administrators and stu think any issues have bogged Cameron Crazies, those that had dents, will decide the fate of down the committee, it's just a made small wagers on the game's the Union. The committee was lack of focus." outcome. Several Crazies stopped formed at the start of the se The committee will be using yelling at the Pirates in the clos- mester to implement renova a facilitator to make meetings ingminutes and instead exhorted tions using a student proposal run more smoothly and to en the Blue Devils to "Beat the as a guideline. The proposal sure that all voices are heard, spread, beat the spread!" Duke included a game room, a bar said Janet Dickerson, vice did indeed beat the spread of 27 serving alcoholic drinks, a president for student affairs points, thanks to a last second snack bar, a pay phone and a and a committee member. tip-in by sophomore Marty Clark. bank teller machine. The student proposal served Clark played a sensational The renovation plans are only as a starting point for the game for the Blue Devils, scoring progressing very slowly be committee, Dickerson said. a career-high 17 points on six of cause of the diversity of opin "Some feel we're not moving eight shooting, including two ion on the committee, said Wes fast enough just because we're three-point bombs and an eye- Newman, senior director of not doing what they want us to popping jam off his own steal dining and special events and do." with 1:33 left in the game. Clark's ability to nail the open shots and a committee member. "The stu Hudson said that he is con- his tenacious defense (three PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE dent members want a late- See UNION on page 6 • See OPENER on page 13 • Marty Clark scored a career-high 17 points against the Pirates Unhappy alumni start group protesting PC at University By TINA KIM awareness among and provide a The group plans to "get the been impartial in the political cor- they have been achieved, and A University alumnus has voice for alumni concerned that University out ofthe business of rectness debate. The letter modify its methods accordingly, formed a new organization for political correctness is harming what we call political indoctrina charged the University has hired he said. alumni concerned about political the University, said James tion," McFarlane said. a consultant to represent the side While Burness did not ques correctness in the curriculum. McFarlane, the group's organizer. He wrote a letter dated Nov. 15 of the ideology favoring political tion the validity of the quorum's The Alumni Quorum For Aca McFarlane received his business to President Keith Brodie com correctness, while the other side aims, he said the group will prob demic Integrity plans to build degree from Fuqua in 1987. plaining the University has not must show its views under the ably have to work with the Alumni burden of full-time teaching. Association, since it is an estab Lewis Bundy was hired as a lished vehicle for alumni to work consultant to the Diversity Aware with the administration. ness Program, which consists of a McFarlane started the quorum set of workshops for staff, stu after placing an ad in Duke maga dents and faculty to improve eth zine, the alumni magazine. The nic and racial relations at the ad, entitled "Is Duke Politically University. Correct?", pointed out the McFarlane also took issue with University's prominence in the a freshman orientation program, political correctness debate. The formerly called Duke's Vision. One ad asked if people were inter component of the program is a ested in joining a group "dedi test with no right or wrong an cated to a Duke future where swers. "The 'test' is nothing more Western cultural values continue than a psychological technique to to flourish." introduce 'right think' to... fresh There were 113 positive re men at... orientation," McFarlane sponses and no negative ones, said. McFarlane said. The respondents In the letter, the quorum offers include men and women from all to work with Brodie and the Board parts of the country and from of Trustees to establish Duke "as classes from 1930 to 1991. a university leader ... in setting "I felt it was a way for me to standards of excellence in schol express my concern," said Robert arship and academic integrity." Margolis, Trinity '71 and a new Brodie plans to respond to the quorum member. He said he was letter, said John Burness, vice concerned over a letter Brodie president of public affairs. 'There wrote to alumni last April de are points of disagreement, that's fending Duke's role in the politi all," he said. cal correctness debate. Brodie's MELISSA BERMUDEZ/THE CHRONICLE Burness defended the Diver letter, printed in the alumni sity Awareness Program, saying magazine last spring, did not ad King of the BP the administration is trying to dress the specific issues of the And no one can get him down, not with his loyal subjects there to fawn over and protect him. bring about diversity within the debate, Margolis said. But then again, it's the BP, so who else would want the job? community. The University must Brodie told alumni to not worry define its objectives, discover if See QUORUM on page 6 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1991 World and National Newsfile Freely elected parliament meets in Poland Associated Press By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Chrzanowski a letter announcing his last to hold fully free elections. But a rigor Associated Press government's intention to resign, with the ously proportional election law resulted in USSR to cut arsenal: The WARSAW, Poland — Poland's first understanding that ministers would stay the parliament so politically diverse that Senate voted Monday to spend up to freely elected parliament since the 1940s con at their posts until a new government is many observers fear it will be unable to $500 million to help the Soviet Union vened Monday, and a center-right bloc won a installed. The resignation does not become govern effectively. dismantle its nuclear arsenal rather key vote, proving it commands the majority effective until approved by parliament. Deputy Aleksander Malachowski said than risk letting it fall into the hands necessary to form a new government. But Walesa asked Chrzanowski in a the new parliament ends an era when of terrorists or third-world dictators. But President Lech Walesa, who is press letter not to consider the resignation for Poles could blame "foreign oppressors" for ing for a stable government that will now. "It is impermissible to take hasty everything wrong in their lives. Gorbachev stymied: President quickly transform Poland to a free market steps. It is necessary to act with prudence," "Now it will be different. We ourselves Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday suf economy, asked parliament to refrain from wrote Walesa. will be responsible," he said. fered aserious setback in his bid to any "hasty" decision to dismiss the cur Walesa has been cool to the center-right Poland's last competitive elections were hold the nation together when the rent Cabinet. coalition partly out of fear that it will in 1947. But that vote was marred by leaders of seven republics refused to Walesa called the return of the demo- retreat from the economic austerity mea intimidation of voters and candidates who endorse a treaty to create a new cratica 11 y chosen parliament "a breakthrough sures introduced by the Solidarity govern did not toe the Communist line. The re political union. moment" thafgenerationsofPoleswere fight ment two years ago. sults were not recognized in the West but ing for." He appealed to the chamber toreduce Poland, the first eastern European coun provided the legal pretext for the one- Bush backs overthrow: The partisan differences.

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