Quintero's Pharmacist Reprimanded New Graduate School Dean Named

WELCOME FRESHMEN # 1 &Wm Giving kids a chance The Student Youth Initiative Program, coor dinated by Lisa Turner, is helping Durham j THE CHRONICLE 1 students get summer jobs. See page 8. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 87. NO. 1 Quintero's pharmacist reprimanded By MICHAEL SAUL Watts, president ofthe board, said of velban, and parenthetically The North Carolina Board of at an August 20 hearing. added the incorrect generic name, Pharmacy reprimanded Rebecca A series of errors involving mis vincristine. In fact, vinblastine is Rowell, a pharmacist at the Medi takes made by residents, phar the generic name for velban. cal Center, after finding her neg macists and supervising physi Rowell prepared 4.8 milligrams ligent in failing to detect an error cians contributed to the death of of vincristine, a more potent che in a chemotherapy prescription the boy, Brandon Quintero, who motherapy drug than velban, and which led to the death of a five- died after receiving the wrong the overdose of vincristine killed year-old boy. medication for a benign tumor. Quintero on Feb. 22, 11 days af The board issued a reprimand, Bob Belvin, the board's investi ter receiving the medication. the mildest disciplinary action gator, said Dr. Anita Zaidi, a resi Tammy Quintero, Brandon's possible, because Rowell was not dent at the Medical Center, wrote mother, said she was incensed by the only person negligent, Jack the prescription for 4.8 milligrams See QUINTERO on page 24 • New Graduate School dean named By MICHAEL SAUL "enhance the quality of students doctorate in 1965 at Johns Former Academic Council we bring in and the quality of Hopkins University. Chair Lewis Siegel has assumed education." He joined the faculty as assis the deanship of the Graduate The graduate school should be tant professor of biochemistry in School and the position of vice independent and given the re 1968, and accepted his Durham provost for interdisciplinary ac sponsibility to run its own opera VA position the same year. tivities. tion, he added. Siegel served on the Academic The Board of Trustees Execu Siegel served many years as a Council Executive Committee tive Committee approved Siegel's faculty member in biochemistry from 1987 to 1989, and since 1990 appointment on Aug. 23. at the University and as a re as its chair. Once his appoint "I think the graduate school is search chemist at the Durham ment as dean of the graduate one place where faculty and stu Veterans Affairs Medical Center, school became official, Siegel re dents can come together and don't according to a press release from signed as chair of the academic care about what school they be Duke News Service. council. long to, but rather the concern is "Lew Siegel will be a strong Peter Burian, associate profes research at a scholarly level," administrator and has earned the sor in the classical studies de CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE Siegel said. "It is a central unit confidence of both the faculty and partment, is currently serving as that the whole community can the administration," said Thomas the interim chair. Burian said Get it while you can support." Langford, vice provost for special Roy Weintraub, professor of eco This freshman, caught sleeping during convocation, is stor Siegel said the graduate school projects, in the press release. nomics, will be nominated at the ing up for those all-nighters soon to come. has grown enormously in the last Siegel earned his bachelor's de first meeting of the council on few years, but now it is time to gree in biology in 1961 and his Sept. 12 to finish Siegel's term. Administrative Phone registration to occur soon changes made System should be ready for use by December in Duke Drama By JASON GREENWALD associate registrar. dents will be able to drop or add By JENNIFER GREESON Next week's undergraduate The system should be fully courses as soon as registration is English professor Dale Randall drop/add lines will be the last, if a implemented in time for registra complete. will remain the interim director planned phone registration sys tion for fall 1992 courses, which When students call they will of the Duke Drama program for tem is completed on schedule. begins next March, DeMik said. receive a menu of options, includ the 1991-92 school year, although The registrar's office plans to Using the new system, students ing instructions, course changes, the program's faculty changed have the system in partial opera from each academic class will be grade checking and severe significantly over the summer. tion this fall. This November, stu able to call during specified time weather advisories. Three instructors left the pro dents will pre-register in person windows, based on seniority. The system provides 24 phone gram and associate professor Rob for spring 1992 courses, but they Within each window, students lines for students to call. About ert Hobbs is on leave. Two new should be able to drop or add will register on a first come, first 6,000 undergraduates attend the STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE acting teachers have been hired. courses by phone beginning in served basis. University. By comparison, North Randall assumed his post last December, said Harry DeMik, Using the phone system, stu See PHONE on page 22 • Harry DeMik March after the abrupt depar ture of controversial program di rector David Ball. He will tempo rarily leave his English depart University bus drivers can join union, board says ment duties to devote his time to the drama program. By ANN HEIMBERGER Care Bargaining Unit rule, ap said Diane Williams, associate bargaining unit. "My goal is7 to get things stabi The University still opposes proved by the Supreme Court in director of information at the "The full-time bus drivers are lized and regularized and to get its bus drivers' petition to join April. The rule is intended to NLRB office in Washington, D.C. directly employed by the campus people working on good projects," Amalgamated Transit Union-Lo guard against union actions, such A hearing was held July 16 at transportation department and he said. "I want to get things cal 1328 despite a National Labor as strikes, that could jeopardize which the University and the bus are only involved with Medical steady and rational and have a Relations Board decision stating the quality of health care. drivers stated their positions. Center employees to the extent quality operation ongoing when that the drivers make up an ap The rule defines eight possible NLRB regional director Willie that said employees ride on the new director comes on board." propriate bargaining unit. bargaining units within health Clark rendered his decision July buses," Clark said in the decision. Although "the administration The University maintains that care including doctors, nurses, 30 stating that the bus drivers The drivers have three Medical is committed to having a strong the bus drivers are mainly Medi other professionals and clerical are employed by the University, Center routes the entire year, drama wing," Randall said, the cal Center employees and there workers. Bus drivers are not men which includes the Medical Cen with nine or ten University routes program has not been granted fore should be included in an all- tioned in any of those categories. ter in its operations. Clark found during the academic year and departmental status.. encompassing non-professional "The question is whether they that the drivers are not health three in the summer. The drama program will have a unit within the health care facil are employees ofthe Medical Cen care employees and that they com The University appealed representative in the Under- ity in accordance with the Health ter or of a separate company," prise a separate and appropriate See UNION on page 22 • See DRAMA on page 17 • PAGE 2 THE CHSQNICLE FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1991 ( ift*— World and National Newsfile Communist Party activities suspended Associated Press By SERGE SCHMEMANN Russian delegation, led by Vice President underlying search 10 days after the coup Church urges principles: The N.Y. Times News Service Alexander Rutskoi, flew to Kazakhstan attempt still seemed to be for an orderly powerful Roman Catholic church on MOSCOW — After three hours of an for similar talks with President Nursultan transition to a new and yet undefined Thursday in Warsaw, Poland urged guished debate, the Soviet Parliament Nazarbayev, a republic leader who has association of self-governed states. followers to "defend Christian prin voted Thursday to suspend all activities of demonstrated considerable authority in In Parliament, Mayor Anatoly Sobchak ciples" such as opposition to abor the Communist Party pending an investi Central Asian and national councils. of Leningrad, who has emerged as a lead tion in voting for the nation's first gation of its role in the coup. The day's developments reflected mul ing advocate of maintaining some form of elected parliament since World War It was an action that confirmed the de tiple efforts to fill the political void, to union and led a parliamentary delegation II. mise ofthe old regime even as the search assert local authority and to prevent chaos. that monitored the talks in Kiev, declared quickened for new forms of association If the actions often conflicted and even that "the former union has ceased to exist, Assistance pledged: The us. and order. sometimes put the republics at odds, the and there is no return to it." and Britain called for "totally guar The fate ofthe party was already sealed anteed" safeguards on the U.S.S.R.

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