Sports Summer in winter The women's basketball team journeys to Raleigh in hopes of upsetting Summer Erb and THE CHRONICLE sixth-ranked N.C. Stale. See page 19 THURSDAY. JANUARY 20. i THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY WWW.CHRONICLE.DUKE.EDU Escape from the Wolves Duke's fund After losing a 5-point lead in 9.6 seconds, Duke wins 92-88 in OT manager Bv ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle retires It took a timeout that wasn't and an extra five minutes, but Duke's For the last 10 years, Eugene record-tying win streak of 27 regular' season ACC games is intact. The fifth- McDonald has led the Duke ranked Blue Devils (14-2, 5-0) sur­ Management Company, which vived some controversial calls and a key turnover to hold off N.C. State controls the University's endow­ (12-3, 3-2), 92-88, last night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. ment and many of its other assets. With 9.6 seconds left in regulation, no one expected the game to go to over­ time. The Wolfpack's Justin Gainey After 22 years of University service, had slipped with the ball moments Eugene McDonald, who guided Duke's earlier and called a timeout to avoid rise to financial prosperity as founder being whistled for a travel. and president of the 10-year-old Duke It was a timeout N.C. State did not Management Company, has decided to have. And as the Wolfpack saw vi­ retire effective June 30. sions of Michigan's Chris Webber call­ When McDonald helped start ing a phantom timeout in the 1993 DUMAC in 1990 to manage the endow­ NCAA final, N.C. State received a ment, pension funds and operating cash technical foul. of the University, the fund comprised "In that situation, you don't have a $948 million. With investment strategy lot of options," said N.C. State coach and additions from fund raising, it is Herb Sendek. "Your instincts take now worth $3.5 billion. over. We as coaches should have done a McDonald first came to the Universi­ better job in the huddle of letting the ty in 1977 as university counsel and vice guys know we were out of timeouts." president foiu.-government relations. Shane Battier hit the two free Eight years later, he became executive throws to give Duke a three-point vice president for administration. He lead. N.C. State fouled Mike Dun­ has been an adviser to the past three leavy, who made two more foul shots University presidents and currently to put the Blue Devils up by five. But serves as executive vice president for as the Cameron Crazies prepared to asset management. storm the court, the Wolfpack quietly ERG HJANG.IHE CHRONICLE "Gene McDonald has been a crucial kept playing. CHRIS CARRAWELL hustled his way to 30 points, including five in overtime. member of the Duke team for several With Duke concerned with guard­ decades," said President Nan Keohane. ing the three-point play and not foul­ tain. But on the inbounds play, Jason State could get a shot off, which would "He has been a wise counselor for me, ing, Wolfpack guard Marshall Williams bobbled the ball off his leg send the Wolfpack to the line for two and for both Keith Brodie and Terry Williams managed to drive the length and out of bounds, giving the Wolfpack free throws. Sanford, as well as a central figure in of the floor and score an uncontested one more shot. Gainey caught the inbounds pass Duke's development as a nationally layup with 3.3 seconds left. Still leading by three, the Blue Dev­ and Battier immediately tried to foul prominent university." All Duke needed to do was hold ils called a timeout. Krzyzewski in­ him. But as the whistle blew, the se- David Shumate, DUMAC director of onto the ball and victory seemed cer- structed his players to foul before N.C. See OVERTIME on page 20 P- finance and administration, has worked See MCDONALD on page 10 * University considers adding top floor to Bryan Center By JAIME LEVY creative and efficient arrange­ The Chronicle ments of activities. Although budgetary and tech­ "It's an attempt to respond to nological limitations have de­ everything we've heard from layed administrators' short-term everyone in the last three years," plans for a better-looking and Trask said. more convenient Bryan Center, Estimating that the project their long-term ideas for a more would cost between $4 million space-efficient building are tak­ and $5 million, Trask said con­ ing shape. struction could begin as early as Although Executive Vice Presi­ this summer. dent Tallman Trask described the The Durham-based architec­ center's exterior as "hopeless" and tural firm Duda/Paine has already "not fixable," he said he is working designed schematic models of the with architects to find a way to addition, but Trask has not yet make more productive use of the asked for construction drawings. space inside. Architect Turan Duda said his Officials said that adding a firm is focusing on clarifying the glass-enclosed top level for stu­ building's circulation, defining its dent programming and offices orientation and lightening it up. • could brighten the dim interior Describing the current center THE CAVERNOUS BRYAN CENTER may soon gain an extra floor and a revamped layout. and free up lower levels for more See BRYAN CENTER on page 17 • SENIORS START UP START-UP WEB SITE, PAGE 4 • MORE SNOW FALLS ON TRIANGLE, PAGE 6 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2000 NEWSFILE FROM WIRE REPORTS Clinton unveils massive health plan Oilcosts rise in South Africans halt response to OPEC advance of wildfires Petroleum prices surged Weary fire fighters bat­ The $110 billion health care program would be the largest since Medicare Wednesday to the highest tling a series of blazes in ceremony. "It is a good thing. It is an day." He said he wished he could go levels since the Gulf War, Cape Town, South Africa issue in people's lives." without sleep for the whole year. "I reflecting OPEC's pre­ said they had brought WASHINGTON — President Clinton's program faces a stiff just want to milk every last second dicted production limits most of the fires under Bill Clinton today proposed a $110 test in Congress, where many of the of it," Clinton said. and raising concerns control Wednesday night. billion package of health insurance same proposals died last year when Clinton remarked on the huge about worsening inflation The fires have destroyed initiatives, which would be the he proposed even smaller versions. sweep of his proposal. "If enacted, in the economies, of poor, at least 70 homes. investment in health cover- However, he said the budget this would be the largest invest­ oil-importing nations. Kennedy nephew since the establishment of prospect is brighter now with Re­ ment in health coverage since the Medical journal warns charged with murder Medicare in 1965. publicans disavowing plans to re­ establishment of Medicare in 1965, against tube feeding Thirty-nine-year-old Clinton said it was "a very ambi­ turn with another huge tax cut like one ofthe most significant steps we Nursing homes and Michael Skakel, nephew tious" proposal and that he was the $792 billion version they could take to help working fami­ hospitals should end the of the late Robert "quite hopeful" that Congress would passed—and he vetoed—last year. lies," the president said. use of tubes to feed Kennedy, has been enact his proposals during this elec­ Thursday marks the beginning More than 44 million Americans people with advanced charged with the 1975 tion year. "I am elated that health of the last year of Clinton's presi­ lack health insurance. Alzheimer's or other Connecticut murder of care is an issue in the campaign," dency. 'Tomorrow's the day, isn't it," Health insurance was Clinton's types of dementia, ac­ Martha Moxley. He will the president said in an Oval Office he said. "I will certainly mark the See HEALTH CARE on page 9 #• cording to The New Eng­ be tried as a minor be­ land Journal of Medicine. cause he was 15 then. U.S. advises against Canadians launch Seton Hall fire kills 3, injures dozens allowing Iraqi veto new attack on tobacco The Clinton administra­ Taking its war on smok­ "All the ceiling tiles were coming down. I saw a ceiling tion said it would be ing to a graphic level, tile fall on someone." "unwise in the extreme" Canada's government SOUTH ORANGE, NJ. — Fire broke out at a uni­ "It was panic. Everybody was just, 'Go! Go! Go!™ to allow Saddam Hussein proposed Wednesday versity dormitory early Wednesday as hundreds said Nicole McFarlane, 19. She was treated for expo­ to exercise veto power that cigarette packs slept, killing three people, injuring 62 and sending sure because she left her room in only a short night­ over United Nations de­ carry color photographs terrified students crawling in pajamas through gown, a jacket and hiking boots. cisions on how to resume of diseased hearts and smoke into the freezing cold. The cause ofthe fire is under investigation. arms inspections in Iraq. cancerous lungs and lips. Six Seton Hall University students were critically The tragedy cast a pall of grief over the campus of burned. One of them suffered third-degree burns over the Roman Catholic school 15 miles southwest of New WEATHER most of his body. York City. Classes for the 10,000 students were can­ Many ofthe 640 residents of Boland Hall went back celed for the week.