Renovations to Lilly Postponed Student Organizations Face Cuts

vlu! 7:,; ,-• ', Back to school School board elections, that is. For profiles of the candidates in Districts 1 through 4, see THE CHRONICLE page 5. TUESDAY, APRIL 28. 1992 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87. NO. 140 Renovations to Lilly postponed By NISHAN FERNANDO Delaying the renovations until still must be approved by the East Campus students who 1993 should help allow construc Board of Trustees, was made in want to check out books this sum tion to be completed in only one consultation with the University mer no longer need to plan a trip semester, said John Lubans, administration, he said. to Perkins. deputy university librarian. It "We had to juggle the shifts in The renovations that were also gives the groups that depend highly creative ways [to finish in scheduled to close the Lilly Li on the Lilly Library during the one summer], " Lubans said. brary during the summer and fall summer a year to make alterna The extra shifts required to semesters have been postponed tive arrangements. complete the work in one sum until the summer of 1993. "The major consideration is the mer would require some overtime, The current plan calls for the dislocation of the students," but Lubans was unsure of the renovations to be entirely com Lubans said. "Students were be exact increase in the costs of the pleted during the summer of 1993, ing inconvenienced by the close of renovations. STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE with the library closed during the the library [for both summer and In addition to the inconvenience period. fall]." The change in plans, which See LILLY on page 16 • Lilly Library will remain open until the summer of 1993. Student organizations face cuts By GEOFFREY GREEN yearbook given any budget... it Skinner, director of sports clubs Most student organizations just won't be as good." and intramurals. The other 65 will be facing substantial budget The Black Student Alliance will percent of the money is raised by cuts, now that students have twice face across-the-board cuts in its members ofthe clubs. rejected an increase in the activi budget because ofthe rejection of The full extent of the cuts will ties fee. the referendum, according to not be apparent until next year, Line-item organizations, whose Trinity sophomore Tim'm West, but the club sports program will budgets had previously been ap president ofthe BSA. not be able to expand as much as proved by ASDU, face a 13.5 per Hit hardest is the co-sponsor planned, Skinner said. cent across-the-board cut. The ship fund, which is used in con Organizations using club funds club fund, which funds smaller junction with funds from other will be hurt less than line-item student organizations through groups to bring speakers to cam groups, Steer said. "The only way the out the year, will be cut by more pus. The BSA will be reducing programming is going to be hurt is if than a third, said Valerie Steer, sponsorship of Karamu, a pre ASDU runs out of money," she said. Trinity sophomore and acting dominantly black theater group, In an effort to reduce the sever chair of the Student Organiza to only one performance next year. ity of the cuts, ASDU also cut tions Commission. Social events and other program legislative and emergency funds. For example, the Chanticleer ming will also be scaled back due The cuts became necessary af will have to contend with this to the budget cuts, West said. ter students rejected a proposed year's increased production costs "I think it'll show, and people $11.47 increase in the student ac using the same amount of money will keep asking questions about tivity fee Thursday by fewer than as last year, said outgoing editor why we don't do this . .. and the 30 votes. The proposal would have Jen Pottheiser, a Trinity senior. reason will be the rejection ofthe increased the fee from $59.38 to BRIAN SCULLY/THE CHRONICLE The yearbook will have to use referendum," West said. $68.85. The fee was last raised in less color and cut the number of Sports clubs will not be affected 1989. Taste testing pages as it contends with infla as severely as other groups, be ASDU will not attempt the This quad squirrel seems to be enjoying the new BP french tion and an increase in under cause they receive only 35 percent same kind of referendum in the fries. Wonder if he'd like to be on a committee? graduate enrollment, Pottheiser of their operating funds from fall except "to adjust for infla said. "You can always produce a ASDU, about $4,000, said Roy tion," Steer said. Student-produced independent film uses unusual format By JULIE FREEMAN find funding for the complete lead in the film. Even the gradu and will continue through to control," Lynn said. A new movie being made in film," Visser said. Instead, the ate film programs at USC and day. Other shooting has been Julian "personifies a form of Durham isn't attracting stars duo will shoot a 20-minute UCLA only shoot in 16 mm, he done at Satisfaction Bar and Res intellectual insanity we have as like Gregory Peck and Lauren trailer composed of various said. taurant, the Power Company and sociated with the purest form of Bacall, but the film may help to scenes which they will enter The film began production last at a house near East Campus. art," Lynn said. He is "not a char create new ones. in film festivals. Visser hopes Thursday at a location above the The cast and crew, composed acter for people to admire in any Two Trinity seniors are at the that a production house would Crescent Cafe on Main Street of about 20 to 25 Duke students, way," he explained. helm of "Free to Fall," a major, then pick up the also includes a The set of Julian's bedroom independent film being shot in film and provide hired profes seems to mirror his confused Durham this week. The pro the capital sional director emotional state. The floor is lit duction, directed by Adam needed to finish of photogra tered with papers and bottles Lynn and produced by it. phy, key grip, and the walls are covered with Matthias Visser, is being shot Through con and sound tech- obscenities and graffiti. in 35 mm film, the size of most tacts in New n i c i a n . The film is the first collabora Hollywood motion pictures. Most York, Lynn and Korman, a tion between Lynn and Visser, student films are shot in 16 mm. Visser were able working actor who have taken film courses at The movie takes its title from to get significant in California, New York University over past John Milton's "Paradise Lost." discounts on ex volunteered summers. Lynn had previously Written by Lynn in the spring pensive equip his services served as co-writer, co-producer, and summer of 1991, the film ment and film, for the project. and director of photography tells the story of Julian, a tor- • Visser explained. The rest of the for last year's "Aesthetic Stan mented, substance-abusing A student pro crew is made up dard," which was screened at writer who seems to have much duction of this of students who Duke. in common with characters magnitude com are volunteer The most frustrating aspect of like Fink in "Barton Fink," and pares with ing their time putting this film together has Pale in "Burn This." projects done at on the project. been in the fundraising, Visser The film was originally in the American The film's explained. Also, having to deal tended as a full-length feature Film Institute, theme is that of very spontaneously with all the (usually around 90 minutes). explained Mark DAVID SUH/THE CHRONICLE "reality versus day to day problems that come However, "the general financial Korman, Duke perception and up has also been challenging, he climate has made it difficult to '90, who plays the Lynn (I.) and Visser (second from right) on the set. the concept of said. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1992 World and National Newsfile Russia accepted into IMF, World Bank Associated Press By STEVEN GREENHOUSE American officials say that when Mos an IMF accord. Drug planes grounded: The N.Y. Times News Service cow signs an IMF agreement, that will Michel Camdessus, the fund's manag United States is suspending drug WASHINGTON — The International begin triggering much of the $24 billion ing director, said he hoped that Russia surveillance flights over Peru after Monetary Fund and the World Bank for aid package for Russia that President Bush would sign an agreement in June or July an attack on one of the planes in mally offered membership on Monday to and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany and that other republics, which trail Rus which a crewman was lost and two Russia, Ukraine, and most of the other unveiled on April 1 on behalf of the Group sia in reforms, will complete agreements others were wounded, the State De former Soviet republics. It was a major of 7 major industrial democracies. later this year. partment said Monday. step to tie the republics into the rest ofthe That package includes $4.5 billion in Yegor Gaidar, the Russian deputy prime world's economy. aid in 1992 from the IMF and World Bank, minister who is representing his govern California recovers: Miii- Western and Russian officials said of a $6 billion ruble stabilization fund, $2.5 ment in the Monetary Fund meetings, said workers in Scotia, Calif, restacked fering membership would also help make billion in debt deferral and $11 billion in that signing an agreement would greatly lumber Monday and firefighters billions of dollars of Monetary Fund and government-to-government aid, including help Russia in its painful transformation hosed the remains ofthe town's cen World Bank aid available to the republics $2 billion from the United States.

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