Keohane Says University's Finances Will Shape Plans Alum Runs for State

Who are these guys? Texas Southern coaches and players claim they get no respect. The Tigers and Blue THE CHRONICLE 1 Devils will settle it on the court. See sports. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Keohane says University's finances will shape plans By MICHAEL SAUL years," Keohane said. "We can shortly cause a financial crisis fined the last decade ofthe Uni President Nan Keohane not assume, as we sometimes for the Medical Center and thus versity. Five new buildings will warned the faculty Thursday might have been able to do in the for the whole University, since open this summer including the that a sobering financial outlook past, that if an idea is good 60 percent of our budget is in the $79.9 million Levine Science will shape the University's long- enough, and someone presses the Medical Center," she said. Research Center, which is cur range planning effort. right buttons hard enough, it The sobering numbers are not rently more than $40 million shy With profits in the Medical will get done." confined to the Medical Center. of its fund-raising goal. Center shrinking and the price These cost constraints are most The University's endowment, Keohane said new buildings tag for a Duke degree becoming glaring in the Medical Center, which is one-ninth the size of will be a low priority, despite the more unafibrdable, the Univer where the economics of health Harvard's and one-half the size demand for improved arts facili sity faces serious financial con care are changing with daunting of Stanford's, needs to be bol ties and several professional straints as it seeks preeminence speed, she said. Duke Hospital's stered. Corporate funding is in schools' desire for increased in higher education, Keohane budget fell $3.4 million short of creasingly limited, and the pres space. said. The speech marks the predicted level during the sures on the financial aid bud The president's remarks Keohane's first annual report to first half of this fiscal year. gets are intensifying. served as an update on the the faculty as president. "Without the actions we are To control costs, the adminis administration's rewrite of the "New funds will be limited now taking to control expenses tration will curb the rate ofthe University's long-range plan, MIN CE LI/THE CHRONICLE during these crucial next few these accelerating changes would massive construction that de- See KEOHANE on page 15 • Nan Keohane Residential changes may be recommended By GEOFFREY GREEN professor of classical studies. A University committee's Burian announced the plans, which recommend signifi committee's plans at a meeting cant changes to University life, ofthe Academic Council. drew strong comment from fac Other suggestions that the ulty members Thursday. committee plans to make include The Academic Council's intel increasing the academic portion lectual climate task force may of freshman orientation and re propose that the University quiring all undergraduates to change its residential system by complete an independent re reorganizing it into a series of search project before they gradu residential quandrangles. The ate, Burian said. task force's recommendations "By and large, however, what will be presented in a report due we're trying to do is not to say in May. thatDukeshouldbeacompletely different kind of place, but rather MIN CE U/THE CHRONICLE Students would enter into one ofthe quadrangles as freshmen to build upon its strengths," he Focusing on another sport and typically live in the same said. From up in the stands, Trinity freshman John Ferraro watches tennis players warm up by hitting quad throughout their under Some faculty criticized the a few balls back and forth. graduate career, said task force committee for focusing entirely chair Peter Burian, associate See COUNCIL on page 15 • Alum runs for state legislature By HEATHER ROGERS his junior year he was execu cal structure; national, state and Richard Moore has left stu tive vice president of ASDU, local issues and community ser dent government for the fast and his senior year he was vice," Moore said in the Sept. 4, track in politics. speaker of the ASDU legisla 1989 issue of The Chronicle. Moore, Trinity '93, is running ture. He is also a young trustee In a recent interview, Moore for North Carolina's House of serving a three-year term on explained his choice of party in Legislators from District 90, the University's Board ofTrust terms of facing different chal which includes Cabarrus county ees. lenges in a non-Duke environ and the cities of Kanapolis and Moore said his duties as a ment. Concord. trustee would complement and "I was characterized at Duke Growing up in Cabarrus not interfere with a political as being fairly conservative, but county, Moore said his child career, saying that serving the I think in the real world I'm hood experiences there provided public would enable him to gain pretty moderate," Moore said. motivation to run for office. ideas to help Duke and vice "I want to do the best for the His platform centers around versa. future ofNorth Carolina, and I improving police departments, Running on the Democratic think the Democratic Party is the educational system and as platform, Moore's choice of the best way to do that." sisting communities in at party surprises some of his Moore is a politician before he tracting new, high-tech, high- former colleagues. His fresh is a Democrat or a Republican, paying jobs. He also supports man year, he was instrumental said former Black Student Alli an initiative to keep local taxes in reorganizing the Duke chap ance president Tim'm West, a to a minimum. ter of College Republicans. Trinity senior. While in office, While at Duke, Moore was "I want Duke College Repub West worked closely with heavily involved in the Associ licans to exist in order to edu Moore, then-speaker ofthe leg ated Students of Duke Univer cate students about political islature. sity, the predecessor ofthe Duke structure and to sponsor educa West said he thought Moore STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE Student Government. During tion programs to focus on politi See MOORE on page 16 • Richard Moore is a candidate for the state legislature. THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 1994 World and National Newsfile Top Arkansas lawyer helped first lady By JEFF GERTH Rock whose salaries were modest by the Inc., of Springdale, Ark., the nation's Psychiatrist testifies: A serial N.Y. Times News Service standards of their peers. biggest poultry company. killer may have launched his deadly WASHINGTON — Starting just be The proceeds helped them to buy a During Clinton's tenure in Arkansas, spree partly because of the movie "Exorcist III," a psychiatrist testi fore Bill Clinton was elected Governor home, to invest in securities and real Tyson benefited from a variety of state fied before the defense rested during of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham Clinton estate and eventually to provide a nest actions, including $9 million in govern the penalty phase ofhis trial. made about $100,000 in one year in the egg for their young daughter, according ment loans, the placement of company commodities market with the help and to the couple's associates and a review executives on important state boards Bosnians agree: Serbs and Mus advice of a friend who was the top law ofthe family's financial records. and favorable decisions on environmen lims gave Sarajevo hope for an end to yer for one ofthe state's most powerful But the trades, which emerged dur tal issues. the city's crippling siege: a break and heavily regulated companies. ing a two-month examination of the Even today, critics in Congress and through agreement to partly open a The investments, made in a commodi Clintons' finances by The New York elsewhere have complained that the road to the outside world. ties trading account that was opened Times, also left them in the position of Clinton administration is too close to Soldiers admit: Two soldiers three weeks before Clinton was elected having relied significantly on the help Tyson and the poultry industry it domi testified that they fired directly at a governor in 1978, substantially altered of one of the state's premier nates, sparing it from some of the mosque's doorway and not just into the finances of the Clintons. At the powerbrokers, James Blair, a Clinton tougher federal inspection guidelines the air during the pandemonium of time, Clinton was attorney general. He confidante who at the time was the enacted against the meat industry. lastmonth's Hebron massacre. They and his wife were rising stars in Little primary outside lawyer for Tyson Foods See HILLARY on page 8 • also raised the possibility the Jew ish settler blamed for the attack had an accomplice. Russians announce plans to join NATO Airlines cheapen: six major airlines agreed to new rules designed to prevent what the Justice Depart By ALESSANDRA STANLEY snags, saying: "Since we are a great arms control, said that Washington was ment said was price-fixing that cost N.Y. Times News Service power, we have a large number of tasks." prepared to contribute $100 million next air travelers up to $1.9 billion from MOSCOW — Opening the way to a One impediment could come from the yearfor Russian,Ukrainian, and Ameri 1988 through 1992. possible military partnership with the communist and nationalist parties, who can companies to build housing for Rus West, Russia said on Thursday that it - have always opposed military coopera sian troops as part of a defense-conver might soon join the loose alliance with tion with NATO and who solidified their sion plan.

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