Attention all Queers!!! R&R shoots straight from the hip and explores the issues of homosexuality in THE CHRONICLE fiction, film,musi c and theatre. THURSDAY. MARCH 31. 1994 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 89, NO. 127 University Post-game citations plans for hit procedural snag By MICHAEL SAUL citation under this particular celebration Duke Public Safety may have statute may have to be wit­ bungled the majority of cita­ nessed and/or signed by a city By AUSON STUEBE tions issued against University fire inspector rather than a As the men's basketball team students during last weekend's Public Safety officer, Wardell prepares for Saturday's semifi­ post-game celebration. said. Officials in the city nal game, University officials are "The actual procedural attorney's office and the district bracing themselves for campus method for filling out the cita­ attorney's office, who were un­ reaction to the Blue Devils' per­ tions may have been improper," available for comment Wednes­ formance. said Chief Lewis Wardell of day night, are investigating the Plans for the weekend include Public Safety. "It's a mess." matter. a band in the Cameron parking Four University students "We are in limbo, waiting on lot after the game, the tradi­ were charged with igniting an this decision," Wardell said. tional big-screen TV in Cameron unauthorized fire following If the city officials declare the Indoor Stadium and about 150 Duke's triumph over Purdue in citations invalid, Wardell said extra security officers to control the Southeast Regional finals either the city fire inspector's crowds after the game. Saturday. Public Safety offic­ office would reissue the cita­ Only University students with ers issued state citations on tions or the students would be Duke identification will be al­ charges of violating statute 15- prosecuted under an alterna­ lowed into Cameron to watch 501.1.1 under the N.C. State tive charge such as disorderly the game. Doors are scheduled TIGGER HITCHCOCK/THE CHRONICLE Fire Prevention Code. conduct or rioting. to open at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, A violation and subsequent See CITATION on page 6 • and free pizza and soda will be Public Safety officials plan to squelch bonfires this weekend. served for a limited time, said Dave Roberson, director of Uni­ versity relations. DSG demands official University bonfire University officials decided not to sponsor a bonfire in the By RUSS FREYMAN and arrested." drunk people." He advocates permits in time for either a Sat­ parking lot outside Cameron Students said Wednesday Trinity senior Paul Hudson, banning alcohol consumption urday or Monday night celebra­ Indoor Stadium, despite the pre­ night that they want the Uni­ president of DSG, said he had during victory celebrations. tion. Hudson assured the legis­ cedent set following 1992 Final versity to light thefire this week­ already begun efforts to provide Other legislators raised con­ lature that University admin­ Four games. end. a bonfire for a victory on Satur­ cerns about whether a Univer­ istrators could get a fire permit. "We will not be building afire," Duke Student Government day or Monday. sity sponsored bonfire would be IN OTHER BUSINESS: saidDr. Charles Putman, execu­ legislators passed a resolution "If it's going to be that stu­ any safer than student-started Hudson announced that DSG tive vice president for adminis­ at their meeting Wednesday dents are going to be airested fires. has reached an agreement with tration. night asking their president to for starting fires, then there Trinityjunior Bernard Chase Southern Coach Lines to pro­ Duke Student Government "do everything in his power to needs to be a University fire," said that Public Safety did an vide round trip bus service from passed legislation Wednesday organize a bonfire... provided Hudson said. adequate job of maintaining campus to the Charlotte Coli­ night urging the student presi­ the team wins." The legislation will give him control last weekend. "There is seum for Saturday's national dent to reverse the admin­ "A bonfire is a tradition that more leverage with administra­ not much more safe you can semifinal game. DSG plans to istration's decision. (See related will not be broken, especially if tors when he continues to meet make[abonfire]unlessyoutake provide similar bus service for story on this page.) 3,000 students are gathered to- with them Thursday, he said. out the alcohol, and that is ri­ Monday's game. Chief Lewis Wardell of Public gether,"wrote Trinityjunior Eric The resolution did not pass diculous. I don't think there's Students can reserve one of Safety defended the Jouanneau in the legislation. without some dissent. anythingmore that can be done," 94 available seats on a first- administration's decision on Uni­ "Havingabonfire, controlled, "Having a bonfire started by Chase said after the meeting. come, first-serve basis by sign­ versity sponsored bonfires. will ensure a greater degree of Public Safety will not solve the Legislators also raised ques­ ing up at the DSG Office start­ "We originally started build- security. If there is no official problem," said Trimty junior tions about whether the Uni­ ing at 10 a.m. Thursday. The Sea PLANS on page 6 • bonfire, students will be hurt Louis Oliverio. "The problem is versity could get the proper fire cost is $20. Students scalping lottery tickets to pay harsh price By RUSS FREYMAN their seats. If students have resold their With a chance to pocket as much $5000 tickets and other people are in their as­ in a weekend, many students are making signed seats, the original ticket holders plans to scalp their tickets to the Final may face disciplinary action. Four. The University may punish students Wednesday, the University said not so by banning them from attending home fast. games in Cameron Indoor Stadium for University officials plan to crack down the rest of their Duke career and by on students who scalp their tickets once bringing fraud charges against them un­ they receive them at the Charlotte Coli­ der the Undergraduate Judicial Code, seum Saturday, said Sue Wasiolek, dean Wasiolek said. Seniors brought up on of student development. fraud charges could have their gradua­ To make sure students do not sell their tion date delayed. tickets, student development will make a "We can't stop students from selling," EVAN RATLIFF/THE CHROMCLE seating chart ofthe Duke student section, said Trinity senior Paul Hudson, presi­ Wasiolek said. dent of the Duke Student Government. A winning shot University officials will use the chart to "Butafter the game, they could find them­ Trinityjunior Randy Chen shoots a basket to raise money for PUSH AMERICA, spot-check the student section through­ selves in trouble." a foundation dedicated to increasing awareness of childhood handicaps. out the game tomak e sure students are in See SCALP on page 12 p> THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1994 World and National

Newsfile U.S. to fund reconstruction in Sarajevo Associated Press By CHUCK SUDETIC Czechoslovakia, it was to those friends multilateral effort, under NATO com­ POpe Will Visit: Pope John Paul N.Y. Times News Service that he turned first, escaping with his mand, to implement a serious agree­ II will visit New York City in Octo­ SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — wife and baby daughter, me, to former ment, once one has been reached and it ber in his fourth major trip to the The United States has pledged $10 mil­ Yugoslavia. Nobody asked about our has begun to be implemented," she said. United States as pope. He will ad­ lion toward Sarajevo's reconstruction, religion or ethnic background." In the war, Bosnian Serb forces dress the U.N. General Assembly for but will not send troops here until after Ms. Albright said the United States Wednesday attacked the so-called "safe the first time since 1979. a settlement is reached to end the would contribute $10 million toward area" of Gorazde, a Muslim enclave in Bosnian war, the American representa­ "rehabilitation and reconstruction ef­ eastern Bosnia, killing at least eight Agreements concluded: The tive to the United Nations, Madeleine forts here," promising that additional persons and wounding 26, Sarajevo tele­ European Union concluded member­ Albright, said Wednesday. vision reported Wednesday night. Ad­ ship agreements Wednesday that aid funds would be forthcoming. pave the way for admission of Aus­ In a show of support to the Muslim- "President Clinton remains prepared ditional heavy fighting between the tria, Finland, Norway and Sweden led Bosnian government, Albright and to work to insure Congressional sup­ Bosnian army and Bosnian Serb forces to the 12-nation union. Gen. John Shalikashvili, the chairman port for American participation in a was reported in Bihac. of the joint chiefs of staff, came here Skull found: The first reasonably Wednesday to dedicate the future U.S. complete skull of the earliest recog­ Embassy. Irish Republican Army to nized human ancestors after the The two Americans arrivedjust hours split-off from the great apes has been after the Bosnian Parliament effectively found near the bank of a dry river­ bed in Ethiopia's arid badlands. ratified an agreement providing for the creation of a federation between Bosnian respond to peace initiative Croats and Muslims. By JAMES CLARITY Prime Ministers John Major of Britain Women killed: In Algeria, gun­ N.Y. Times News Service men on a motorcycle shot and killed Bosnian Serbs have rejected calls to and Albert Reynolds of Ireland to make two young women who refused to join the federation. DUBLIN, Ireland — In its first concil­ political concessions to Sinn Fein, the wear Muslim veils, officials said In her remarks here, Albright said iatory response to the British-Irish peace political arm of the IRA. Wednesday. The attack was seen as the United States "urges the Bosnian initiative of last December, the Irish Re­ The prime ministers have said that an escalation of the insurgency by Serbs to join with other Bosnian citi­ publican Army said Wednesday night they will invite Sinn Fein to a peace table Islamic fundamentalists. zens in a viable and voluntary peace." that it would observe a 72-hour cease-fire only after it has renounced ERA violence She said that Americans and Bosnians in Northern Ireland next week. and ended the violence for at last three share the belief that people of "different The IRA, in a statement issued by a months. The reaction of the two prime races, creeds and ethnic origins can live republican newspaper in Belfast, said its ministers Wednesday night was in keep­ together, productively, freelyan d in peace." cease-fire, to begin at midnight Tuesday, ing with their public attitudes toward Weather was a "unilateral initiative" with "no con­ Sinn Fein and the IRA since their Decem­ Friday "More than half a century ago, my father was a Czech diplomat assigned ditions attached." ber declaration. High: 65* Partly cloudy to former Yugoslavia," Albright said. It was clear the outlawed guerrilla or­ Reynolds, whose tone has been Low: 53* Winds: queer "He established friendships through­ ganization, which has killed about 1,600 nonconfrontational if not conciliatory in Sure glad we don't live in Norway. out the country, among Serbs, Croats, people since 1969 in its campaign to force recent months, said in Dublin: "I am Muslims and others before returning to Britain to relinquish the northern prov­ encouraged on one hand but disappointed Prague. When the Nazis invaded ince of Ulster, sought to put pressure on See IRA on page 4 ••

WOMEN'S CENTER STUDENT STAFF POSITIONS AVAILABLE Looking for a fun job that will help you develop your leadership skills? Want to improve the campus environment for women? The Women's Center invites applicants for fell semester student staff positions (10-15 hrs/wk). Work-study eligible [or volunteer] applicants preferred. Pick up an BIG '94 application at the Women's Center [126 Few Fed]. For more information, call Elaine (684-3897). Application deadline is April 4. HART GALLERY COORDINATOR: Works with a student BRIDGESTONE committee to design and impliment approximately four shows in the Women's Center Art Gallery. BGENERAL PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR: Oversees mentoring program, issues lunch series, and other special SALE events. ^GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAMMING [SAVE | COORDINATOR: Assesses the needs of graduate and professional women and works with the Women's Center to organize CB-1 $50 programs and services to address these needs. XO-1 $50 85 LIBRARIAN: Staffs a 2,500 volume circulating library. Oversees MB-6 $419 $70 circulation, processes new aquisitions, and maintains computerized catalogues. MB-4 $599 $120

SSOFFICE ASSISTANT: Assists WC staff with special events, clerical work, phones, publicity (summer position also available}. BSSEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES HI II CITY ASSISTANT: Oversees administration of Safe Haven, including volunteer coordination. .Assists SASS Coordinator with administrative lii K IS tasks and educational programming on sexual violence. m WOMEN OF COLOR PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR: Works with campus cultural groups and other 688-1164 Women's Center staff to organize programs to meet the needs of Across from Brightleaf Square 900 West Main Street, Durham women of color. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 THE CHRONICLE New program to analyze impact of media violence

From staff reports The impact of violence in the media will be the focus of a new three-year News briefs program at the University. The Program on Violence and the Me­ ton, D.C, will speak about her work in dia, to be held at the Terry Sanford Insti­ trying to influence the content ofchildren' s tute for Public Policy, will promote inter­ television programming from 5:15 p.m. to disciplinary research on the topic and 6:15 p.m. The speech will be given in offer a series of speakers on the issues Room 116 ofthe Old Chemistry Building. involved, said James Hamilton, assistant professor of public policy studies and di­ Tickets to be distributed: Free rector ofthe program. tickets for two upcoming speeches will be "Duke was a natural place for the pro­ distributed Monday. gram to start because there are a lot of Tickets for speeches by Slovenian Prime people in different departments here Minister Jamez Drnovsek and Professor working on these issues .and a significant Cornel West will be handed out on Mon­ number of media scholars,"Hamiltonsaid. day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Bryan "Through their work and the speakers Center walkway. series, well examine a comprehensive Drnovsek is speaking on Wednesday at range of pressing, unanswered questions 7 p.m. while West will speak Thursday, about this very timely subject." April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Both speeches will be The speakers series, which will feature held in Page Auditorium.

EVAN RATLIFF/THE CHRONICLE representatives from academia, govern­ West, a professor of Afro-American Stud­ ment and the entertainment industry, ies at Harvard University, will be speaking Making a mark begins on Thursday, April 7, and is free for a conference entitled The South: Jews Engineering sophomore Kristine Singley paints the East Campus bridge for and open to the public. and Christians Confront the Holocaust" ADPi sorority. Kathryn Montgomery, the head ofthe After Monday, tickets will be available Center for Media Education in Washing- at Page Box Office. Charlotte may seek federal aid for tornado damage From wire reports it?s more widespread across the county as job from 1980 through 1989 "were in­ Tornado damage in Charlotte almost far as I can see," said Mike Cook, an volved in activities that appeared to us to certainly will total more than $20 million, N.C. briefs assistant disaster coordinator forthe state violate the Fair Labor Standards Act," but state and federal officials did not Division of Emergency Management. Dunn said. know if the city will qualify for federal hand look at damage on Tuesday. "This study raises questions about the disaster aid. Billy Ray Cameron, the state's emer­ Teens vulnerable: A significant num­ adequacy of federal child labor policies," Early estimates put damage in Cleve­ gency managementdirector, said he must ber of teen-age workers are killed on the she said. land County at $3.8 million. check about 40 other counties before de­ job because their employers ignore fed­ James Witmer, a federal wage-and- "There appears to be a lot more damage ciding whether to ask the federal govern­ eral labor laws, an East Carolina Univer­ hour official in Raleigh, said the act pre­ than we thought," said Jerry Wilson, a ment to declare a disaster area. sity professor said Wednesday. vents employers from allowing people planner with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg The Cleveland County tour seemed to Kathleen Dunn presented her 10-year under age 18 to work in potentially dan­ emergency management office. "When give the state officials a better sense ofthe study of workplace injuries among North gerous jobs. you start going through neighborhoods disaster's scope. Carolina teen-agers at a state Labor De­ He said he doubted the results of the and looking at individual houses, ... it "It's comparable to the 1989 tornado partment public hearing on youth em­ study. "There is seldom a child labor goes up." that went through the northern section of ployment. Eighty-six percent ofthe work­ fatality that is brought to our attention," State and federal officials took a first- the county, as far as its destruction, but ers under age 18 who were killed on the Witmer said.

Conference on the Holocaust and the South "Jews and Christians Confront the Holocaust" NOTICE! Essay Contest TO ALL STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS lst- $250, 2nd - $150, 3rd $100 All May 1994 graduates Due date: March 31, 1994 Place: Dean Willimon's Office who have received loans Duke Chapel Length: 6-10 pages through the Duke Student Essays: Must deal with the Loan Office should call to relations between Jews and African-Americans. schedule an Exit Interview

Personal stories, philosophical, for the time period and political issues are welcome!!! April 4-April 15, 1994. Winners will present their essays at the April 7th conference. Please Call 684-3038 immediately for an appointment. THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1994 Israelis remove military equipment from Gaza Strip By DONNA ABU-NASR But for most of Gaza's nearly one mil­ out," said Ah Sharqawi, 49, a shoe store ested in entering soon, we too are inter­ Associated Press lion Palestinian residents, seeing is not owner. ested in transferring authority to them GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip — believing. Talks on Israel's withdrawal fromth e soon," Peres said. The forest of antennas and military tents Weary of long-delayed promises of a Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jeri­ The army has been quietly dismantling that sprouted up in downtown Gaza are withdrawal, they look at the changes cho were halted when a Jewish settler its operations in the strip's Arab centers gone, a sign of Israel's preparations for an with suspicion. Incidents, such as the massacred 30 Palestinians in a Hebron after nearly three decades of violent occu­ imminent pullout. army killing of six armed Fatah activists mosque Feb. 25. pation that has resulted in the deaths of Hisham Abdel-Razzak, the topPL O Monday, deepen their mistrust. Israel was supposed to begin imple­ hundreds of Palestinians and at least 20 official in Gaza, estimated that the Israe­ "We haven't noticed any changes since menting the agreement on Dec. 13 and Israeli soldiers. lis have removed about 70 percent oftheir the Israelis began their pullout," said complete the withdrawal by April 13. Observation towers, trailers, comput­ equipment from Arab towns in the Gaza Hussam Jamil, 21, a boutique owner. There are halting attempts in Cairo to get ers, archives, desks and tents have been Strip and will be ready to withdraw im­ "The army is still in the streets, carrying the talks restarted. carted away on flatbed trucks. Palestin­ mediately once an agreement is signed. out the same old practices — shooting, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres hinted ian children play on the vacated sites. "Their withdrawal will be much quicker arresting, beating." Wednesday that Israel might withdraw But critics of the autonomy accord than anybody expects. It will take place .Also, Palestinian and Western observ­ from the strip even before an agreement call it a redeployment rather than a in a matter of hours," Abdel-Razzak said ers note that the number of troops in the is concluded. Asked by Israel televisioni f withdrawal. .Although structures like Wednesday. strip has not changed much, only the it would consider such a unilateral move, prisons are gone, the army is moving A Defense Ministry official confirmed infrastructure has moved. Peres said: "every reasonable proposal mueh ofthe infrastructure to new camps that the army had reduced its presence "They have withdrawn buildings and will be judged thoroughly." around the 16 settlements in the Gaza by as much as 90 percent. tents, but the army has not been pulled "Not only are the Palestinians inter­ Strip. IRA agrees to temporary cease-fire in Northern Ireland • IRA from page 2 Coming in Easter week, the cease-fire on the other. I am disappointed that it is was also considered important in ERA such a short period, but it is unilateral "It is a very small step in the right direction." ideology. The Easter rising against the and unconditional. It is a very small step British in 1916 is a catalytic event in the in the right direction." Albert Reynolds, Prime Minister of Ireland history of Ireland, considered the start of Major, who was in Belfast, retained the the war that led to British agreeing to harsh tone he has taken while emphasiz­ give southern Ireland independence in ing that Sinn Fein must renounce IRA 1922. violence and that the IRA end its cam­ into the summer, "we would be in a differ­ They said the IRA move was highly The analysts also noted the lack of paign. He called the IRA move "cynical," ent situation." significant, as it was unilateral, with no traditional IRA pugnacity and bravura in adding he wanted "a permanent end to Political officials and analysts pointed demands for corresponding British ac­ the tone of the statement, which said, violence, not just a brief public relations out that beginningWednesdaynight there tion, and the first cease-fire in 20 years, almost politely, "We hope that the British gesture." are 10 days in which Dublin and London except for stoppages of violence at Christ­ government will accept this further op­ While Major's reaction was hostile, one can work on a response toth e ERA move, mas, in 1992 and 1993, considered more portunity in the spirit in which it is of­ senior British official said that if the IRA pos.sibly one calling for an extension of for their own Roman Catholic members fered and utilize it to the best advantage extended the cease-fire forseveral months, the cease-fire. than as a peace gesture to the British. ofthe British .and Irish people."

Duke Catholic Student Center March 31, 1994 Holy Week Schedule Members of the Duke Community: On May 8, 1994 the William J. Griffith University Service Award will be presented to a select number of graduating students HOLY THURSDAY, whose contributions to the Duke and Durham communities have made a significant impact on University life. Those students MARCH 31 whose efforts demonstrate an understanding ofthe responsibilities Mass ofthe Lord's Supper, of effective University and civic citizenship are eligible for this 9:00p.m. - Duke Chapel award. I invite you to recommend any Duke undergraduate, graduate, or professional student (graduating September 1993, December 1993, or May 1994) who, in your opinion, meets the GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 1 criteria for this honor. Students may be recognized for participa­ Celebration ofthe Lord's Passion, tion in off-campus as well as on-campus activities. 5:00p.m. - Duke Chapel To recommend a student for this award, submit a letter of nomination, outlining the nominee's pertinent accomplishments and the way in which he/she has made an impact on life at Duke. All nominations due by Monday, April 11,1994 and should be sent to: HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 2 William J. Griffith University Service Award Easter Vigil, 8:00p.m. - Duke Chapel Box 90937/106 Flowers Building Please take a moment to consider the students with whom you interact and nominate those who qualify. This award is made once in a student's academic career, and your help in the selection EASTER SUNDAY, APREL 3 process is sincerely appreciated. ALLELUIA!ALLELUIA!ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN! Sincerely, Eucharistic Liturgy*, 10:30 a.m. - Page Auditorium All are invited to participate. Janet Smith Dickerson * No 9:00 pm Sunday Liturgy. Vice-President for Student Affairs • THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1994 THE CHRONICLE

1 8 pm Drama: A Night of One-Acts 2 5 pm Music: Scott Atwood 3 pm Drama: A Night of One-Acts 3 7 pm Drama: A Night of One-Acts 4 8 pm Drama: Still Life 6 5 pm Music: Cello Concert 7 8 pm Musical Theater Big River Dance: Ark Dances 8 pm Drama: Portrait of Devotion Music: Jennifer McCall Dance: Ark Dances Musical Theater: Big River 9 3 pm Music: Susan Bruce APRIL® 5 pm Music: Kate Sphar 8 pm Musical Theater Big River Drama: Spit Dance: Ark Dances FEST94 Drama: Portrait of Devotion 107pm Drama: Portrait of Devotion 8 pm Music: Duke Chorale, Symphony, Wind Symphony Dance: Aik Dances Musical Theater Big River 128 pm Drama: Bodies Sight & Singing Music: Student Composers 13 8 pm Music: Duke Symphony Musical Theater: Big River Drama: Bodies Sight Sr Singing 14 8 pm Musical Theater: Big River Drama: Bodies Sight & Singing 15 5 pm Music: Natalie Stroud 8 pm Musical Theater Big River Performance: Here Comes... Drama: The Edge of Night Music: Duke Chamber Choir 16 3 pm Music: Emily H, Kelley and Todd Albright 5 pm Music: Meghan Shanaphy 8 pm ! Drama: The Edge of Night Performance: Here Comes.., Musical Theater Big River Music: Wind Symphony 17 7 pm Drama: The Edge of Night 8 pm Musical Theater Big River Performance: Here Comes... 20 8 pm Music: Opera Workshop Drama: making money Dance: Dance Black 21 7 pm Hlm+Video: New Work 8 pm Music: Katherine Whayne Dance: Dance Black 22 4-6 Visual Arts: Opening 5 pm Music: Heidi Blickenstaff and Tom Story 8 pm Music: Duke Univ. Chorale 244 pm Music: Collegium Musicum

For more information about the events taking place during APRILFEST 94 call the Duke ARTSL1NE: 681-ARTS. Watch your mailbox for complete APRILFEST details. A Celebration of Creativiti y in the Arts at Duke THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1994 Students slam administrators for fire code citations • CITATION from page 1 tournament. Each of the four students 1992, the University sponsored bonfires The students sanctioned last week­ Following the victory Saturday, Pub­ cited said Public Safety was making after both Final Four games in parking end said Bumbalough's warning is too lic Safety also charged another under­ them token examples. lots near Cameron Indoor Stadium. late. In fact, four days too late. graduate with using fireworks and "If I knew I was doing anything wrong, "In my four years at Duke I have seen "We were never really warned," said charged a Durham resident with disor­ I wouldn't have done it," said Trinity countless benches burned without so Trinity senior Tom Murphy. "Ignorance derly conduct. freshman David Hoffman. "I thought I much as a squeak from Public Safety," ofthe law is no excuse, [but] it's sort of Public Safety officials decided this year was participating in a tradition." DiMeo wrote in a letter to the editor not funny that Bumbalough put that letter for the first time to slap students with a Trinity senior Al DiMeo claims the yet published. "Against all precedent, in [Wednesday]." state citation if they start or tend one of administration has expressly encour­ however, a new policy was concocted Bumbalough said in .an interview that the traditional bonfires that follow Blue aged the bonfires and now has turned behind closed doors and launched upon his letter was geared to make the obvi­ Devil basketball victories in the NCAA against students without warning. In an unsuspecting student body." ous abundantly clear. Officials in Public Safety and the Of­ "I can't understand that students are fice of Student Development categori­ going to argue that setting bonfires was cally refute the notion that students ever allowed. I simply can't accept that," 'People don't know how to were uninformed about the University's he said. position on bonfires. Wardell said students and the media "Our stance is that it is clearly prohib­ are now trying to cast Public Safety as handle' bonfire, officer says ited," Wardell said. "It's totally ridicu­ "Big Brother" trying to regulate fun. lous. We spoke out loud and clear two • PLANS from page 1 on the coals of a bonfire, and several years ago." Top brass in the Allen Building backed ing bonfires to give a focus for energy," students reported being sexually as­ But a public warning from an assis­ the department's efforts Wednesday. Wardell said. "The energy blew up into saulted. tant dean of student development, which "I clearly support Public Safety and self-destruction." This year, officers will be on hand to was submitted to The Chronicle on Tues­ the decisions they made," said Dr. A Public Safety-sponsored bonfire cre­ help with emergencies, as well as arrest day and printed on Wednesday, has fu­ Charles Putman, executive vice presi­ ates an attractive nuisance which the any students trying to set or tend bonfires eled the students' ire. dent for administration. University could be held liable for if some­ on the quad, Wardell said. (See related "My purpose for writing is to inform Wardell said Public Safety will con­ one is injured, he said. story, page 1). the undergraduate community that acts tinue to sanction offending students this "We can never have a [Univeristy bon­ Officers will also check ID's of students of violence and destruction will not be weekend. The technical problems sur­ fire] on this campus again because people entering residence halls in order to keep tolerated in the name of celebration," rounding last weekend's citations should don't know how to handle it," he said. out looters. Each University student can wrote Paul Bumbalough, assistant dean be ironed out by Saturday, he said. After the game, administrators will be escort up to three friends into the dorms, as in charge of judicial affairs. "Duke Pub­ "Everyone on Saturday will be held showing highlights of previous NCAA long as the Duke student can name them. lic Safety has the authority to arrest personally and individually responsible tournament games on the side of the Public Safety removed some known students and will do so if they are found for what they do in a legal and moral intramural building. No other activities Durham felons who entered dorms dur­ physically assaulting individuals or set­ sense," he said. "We will enforce the law are planned by University officials. ing last weekend's celebration ofthe re­ ting fire to University or personal prop­ in such a manner to maintain control "We're seeing how ingenious the stu­ gional championship, Wardell said. erty on this campus." and minimize injury." dents are at having a good time legally In addition to monitoring people on and safely," Wardell said. campus, the University will blockade all To try to prevent much ofthe chaos that road entrances to campus except for the marred the 1992 Final Four celebration, intersections of Science Drive and N.C. Wardell said Public Safety has hired about 751, Flowers Drive and Hospital Drive Holy Week Service of Worship 100 security guards from Burns Interna­ and Research Drive and Science Drive. tional, a Raleigh-based firm, along with Officers will check student ID's at these about 50 off-duty Durham city police and points beginning at half time, and only Duke University Chapel highway patrolmen. University students or commercial ve­ Combined with about 65 Public Safety hicles such as pizza delivery cars will be Maundy Thursday, March 31 officers, Wardell said the outside help allowed to drive onto the campus. University Service of Worship of the will bring the University's security forces Roberson said he did not know how up to a little more than 200 people. much the Final Four preparations would Lord's Supper and Stripping of the Altar During the 1992 celebration, Public cost the Univereity. "Well spend what it Preacher: Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, Safety took dozens of students to the takes to make it a safe celebration," he said. emergency room. One student sustained Michael Saul contributed to this re­ Professor of Theological Ethics, third-degree burns after fallingface-down port. Duke Divinity School

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(After Our Sunday Brunch, He Even Had Always Watch Jeopardy? To Loosen His Belt A Notch Or Two.) Represent Duke University? Having surveyed the lay of the extravagant buffet, his family spoke, saying, "This is good." And so it was. Because the salads Undergraduate and Graduate Students inter­ and pastas, entrees and desserts were all lovingly prepared by ested in being a part of a Campus Challenge Qiorgios for man and woman to enjoy every Sunday from now Team to represent Duke in Washington, DC until the end of time. So they ate and ate. And ate. And when during the weekend of September 10-11, they Finished, all that remained were the sounds of contentment. 1994 (all expenses paid) please come to Dean Then, he told his beloved family they could come Gerald Wilson's Office, 116 Allen Building again next week. And there was much rejoicing. ffr for application forms. Sunday Brunch Buffet* $12 55 11 AM-3 FM • Starting April 3 ^ Please Call for Reservations Deadline for completing form: Erwin Square-2200 W. Main St-Durham-286-9712 April 8, 1994. THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1994 THE CHRONICLE

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477-0078 ^^^^^^^^^^^^te alternat^ eje and Ford Credit programs not. ratable c leases. "To be eligible, you must graduate with o bochelor's or gradual. _ . . 3814 N. Duke Street 9/30/94 Thi; program is in addition lo all other national customer incentives;b excepe enrollet ford othein graduatr Ford epriv schoolc , between l/t/94 a Young Buyer Program. Vou must purchase or lease your new vehicle between 1/1/94 ond 9/30/95. Some fy^£ 10% off with Duke I.D. restrictions apply, so see your dealer for details 286-BIKE i Letters to the Editor THE CHRONICLE, Public Safety: Fight crime, not speech MARCH 31, 1994 I am writing in response to Kim I do not think that Public Safety officers Rimmer's criticisms ofthe editorial that earned any merit badges for their actions appeared on March 24, Tree to be igno­ in painting over the offensive material. I rant." Rimmer has falsely claimed that do not need Public Safety, or should I say Scalping the scalpers the editorial justified the actions ofthe Thought Police, to protect me from any unidentified bridge painters who wrote form of public expression, from its most offensive messages about gays and lesbi­ vile and rude forms to its most beautiful Student scalpers deserve no mercy ans." After rereading the editorial sev­ and meaningful. I think I can handle that For the lucky 594 students who won scalping are extreme—permanent eral times, I am convinced that Rimmer on my own. tickets to the NCAA Final Four, the suspension from home games in has misinterpreted the content of the The editorial correctly pointed out that games in Charlotte this weekend offer Cameron or possible delayed gradu­ editorial. The editors did not attempt to although Public Safety has the legal right a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see ation for seniors prosecuted by the justify the actions ofthe unknown bridge to paint over the bridge, "the bridge is the Blue Devils battle for the national undergraduate judicial board—the painters, but legitimately questioned the traditionally a public forum and as such championship. But for an unscrupu­ punishments rightly acknowledge role of Public Safety, as an agent of the must be free of administrative censor­ lous segment of the student popula­ that seeing Duke play in an NCAA University, in painting over the offensive ship." Maybe Public Safety should have tion, the games are a chance to pocket Final Four game as a student is an epithets. Although I do not believe that notified the offended parties and had a a few thousand dollars. opportunity few will have more than those insults were of much intellectual volunteer paint over the offensive mes­ In a despicable perversion of the once. value, I would have liked to have made sages. The decision to have on-duty police spirit of Duke basketball, some stu­ Regrettably, the student develop­ that judgmentmyself. The editorial made officers paint over these messages does dents chose to enter the lottery purely ment policies for preventing scalping a valid point: "The University should not set a bad precedent. Besides that, I per­ to profit from tickets expressly allo­ may leave some student seats empty make content-basedjudgements on what sonally have been robbed more this se­ is or is not appropriate for the University cated by the athletic department to this weekend. Despite a clearly-stated mester than I care to remember—and community..." Public Safety is out painting bridges! allow students to attend the Final policy that those winning tickets in Rimmer goes on to say that, "Freedom Maybe there are some priorities that need Four. the lottery could not turn in their of speech should not involve a direct at­ to be redefined as well. Some students have argued that tickets if they were unable to go, some tack on any one group." Should public they purchased the tickets and thus students have apparently decided they expression be confined to indirect attacks LeDouglas Johnson have a right to sell them to the highest can't make the trip to Charlotte this on a bunch of different groups? I hope not. Trinity '96 bidder. These individuals seem to have weekend. With 1,500 students denied forgotten that they signed a form say­ tickets and chafing for a chance to get ing they understood that their ticket to Charlotte, administrators should Chronicle promotes anti-intellectualism was non-transferrable and could not do everything in their power to match On March 29, the Beta Theta chapter This layout not only visually reinforces be resold or even given to another up students who did not win tickets in ofthe Delta Gamma sorority presented the misconception that our sorority has student. Under the terms of that con­ the lottery with any extra tickets. the University with $100,000 to estab­ worked so hard to contend, but also makes tact, and the luck ofthe draw, these If Wasiolek knows of any student lish a lectureship on ethics and values. a pathetic statement about The students have the privilege—not the tickets that are unused, she should This endowment was a huge accomplish­ Chronicle's standards for judging the right^-to attend theNCAAFinalFour. act immediately to contact students ment both for the sorority as an associa­ importance of news. How are we as an They cannot sell the ticket without who entered the lottery. In addition, tion and for Duke students as a whole. In undergraduate student body supposed to violating the undergraduate judicial once the official ticket distribution a time when Duke students, especially establish publicly our commitment to in­ code and, if they make a profit, North period ends Saturday, students with­ those associated with Greek organiza­ tellectualism when The Chronicle chooses Carolina law. out lottery seats should be able to line tions, have been criticized for their anti- to advertise our commitment to basket­ Dean Sue Wasiolek should be com­ up in Charlotte for the leftover tick­ intellectualism, this endowmentcouldn't ball more effectively than our commit­ mended for policies designed to keep ets. Redistributing tickets may com­ present a more concrete argument ment to education? It disappoints me against our critics. It is unfortunate that greatly that The Chronicle's distorted tickets in the hands of the students plicate the seating chart student de­ velopment has devised, but if the our efforts to improve the intellectual­ priorities serve to undermine our efforts who got lucky in the lottery process by ism on campus were not only hidden on to counter our critics' accusations of anti- requiring them to pick up tickets for University feels student fans are im­ portant enough to warrant 20 percent page 3 of The Chromcle, but were over­ intellectualism. Saturday and Monday night games shadowed by the headline, "Students separately and by creating a seating of the Duke seats in Charlotte, they receive about 20 percent of Final Four must go the extra mile to get as many Usa Campanella chart to make sure students do not tickets." Trinity '96 sell their seats. students into the coliseum as pos­ While the penalties in place for sible. Celebrators often wind up in hospital On the record The Chronicle editorial entitled Tarty ebration" that compromised them and with care" contained disturbing observa­ even placed them in danger. We wiU enforce the law in such a manner to maintain control and minimize injury.tion s and comments about the victory But even worse, we will also see stu­ celebrations on campus. Fire, alcohol and dents who do not realize the harm that Chief Lewis Wardell of Duke Public Safety on Saturday's celebration a lack of respect for oneself, others and they have inflicted upon themselves and the environment seem to be the ways to others in the name of "celebration." They "celebrate."In the emergency department do not realize that they have begun a THE CHRONICLE at Duke, we deal with the aftermath of pattern of domestic abuse, violence, alco­ many Duke "celebrations." holism and self-destruction.Icannotover- Peggy Krendl, Editor The staff in the emergency department state this potential because we in emer­ Michael Saul, Executive Editor is prepared to care for the patients that gency medicine deal with that aftermath Barry Eriksen, General Manager are victims of the "celebration." We will every single day in growing numbers. Sue Newsome, Interim General Manager/Advertising Manager I have chosen to write this letter be­ Chris Myers, Editorial Page Editor care for the physical injuries: cuts, bro­ ken bones and burns. And if life-threat­ cause I care about what happens to Geoffrey Green, University Editor Alison Stuebe, University Editor ening injuries occur, we have assembled people and I know that much of what we Dave Royster, Sports Editor Scott Halpern, Medical Center Editor the finest resuscitation team whose ex­ potentially will be dealing with after Carol Venable, Arts Editor Noah Bierman, Features Editor cellence is undisputed. We will care for Duke wins will be preventable. I felt Rebecca Christie, City & State Editor Jennifer Greeson, Senior Editor the inebriated despite their verbal and compelled to write because the message Amy Reed, Senior Editor Chad Sturgill, Photography Editor The Chronicle's editorial conveyed was Jonathan Herzog, Graphics Editor Alan Welch, Production Manager physical abuse and violent outbursts. We Jen Soininen, Student Advertising Manager Bob Gilbreath, Business Manager will incubate and place a ventilator on not strong enough. There is no reason to Sharon Morgan, Billing & Credit Manager Kathy McCue, Creative Services Manager students who are so inebriated that they celebrate to the point of inebriation, there cannot breathe on their own. is no reason to build an uncontrolled The opinions expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of Duke University, its You should also know that there are fire, there is no reason to destroy the students, workers, administration or trustees. Unsigned editorials represent the majority view some students we will not be able to help campus. There is every reason to be safe of the editorial board. Columns, letters and cartoons represent the views of their authors. and enthusiastic and exuberant. To quote Phone numbers: Editor: 684-5469: News/Features: 684-2663; Sports: 684-6115; Business completely. Because, in addition to their Office: 684-6106; Advertising Office: 684-3811; Classifieds: 6846106; Editorial Fax: 684-4696; physical injuries, many will live with the editorial: "A little common sense Ad Fax: 684-8295. emotional scars that mend very slowly, if could make the 1994 Final Four celebra­ Editonai Office (Newsroom): Third Floor Rowers Building; Business Office: 103 West Union at all. We will receive patients who have tion the best ever." Building; Business and Advertising Office: 101 West Union Building, Duke Universily. been raped and violated. We will hear ©1994 The Chronicle, Box 90858, Dumam, N.C. 27708. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior, written permission of the Business students express regret, shame or re­ Kathy Finch Office. morse due to the "celebration"—decent Emergency department people, vaguely remembering the "cel­ Medical Center THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 THE CHRONICLE Commentary Black child in white family rebels to find identity When I tell people my brother is black, Matt's violence culminated on Christ­ the spring semester at Virginia Tech and their immediate reaction is to laugh. Ner­ mas day, 1989. My mother got Matt and being told by my parents that they would vously—not sure if I mean black literally, D.C. Miracle me some new luggage in anticipation of no longer fiind his education if he did not black-skinned, or just that he's an Irish- Rose Martelli our approaching college years. I loved it, apply himself, he moved to Virginia for Italian-New Jerseyan like me who "acts while my brother told my mother he good. None of us have seen or heard from black." Then I take out my wallet-sized fore we were to leave. There's a very good wanted a television set. A few minutes him since. picture of him and me in our pre-kinder­ chance we might run out of gas in the later, Matt took a screwdriver to his suit­ Looking back, I feel sorry for Matt. Tm garten years—him in his butterfly collar, middle of nowhere, he claimed. My father case and started to rip it to shreds. When sorry that he wasn't allowed to be the polyester, little boys' blazer, me in his countered that there is no "nowhere" be­ the screwdriver started to make holes in little black boy that he was. Fm sorry that arms. Then they know. tween New Jersey and D.C, but Matt the carpet, my father asked Matt toeithe r he wasn't raised as a black boy, or even as My parents adopted Matt when he was stood his ground and stood on the porch stop what he was doing or take it outside. a black Martelli, but rather raised as about five months old, more than a year as my parents pulled out ofthe driveway The two argued for a minute or two. Next every other Martelli. And I feel sympathy before I was born. .After being told that and I cried and cried. thing I knew, Matt had my father doubled for my parents, who, like any other par­ they wouldn't be able to have children The peer pressures of fourth grade had over in a headlock. I could see the topo f ents, only knew how to raise a child as a (eventually they had three), they turned begun towor k their magic on my brother. my father's balding head growing scarlet child. And Tm upset with myself, because to a church in Newark that ran an or­ The lads at school wanted to know why he red, and I knew that the only way to stop for 18 and a half years I lived with a black phanage and asked for the first child they was adopted by a white family. Matt Matt was to attack that one open seam: person, and yet as I walk past the "black could have. For the first three years ofhis didn't have an answer forthat, so the kids the seambetweenMattMartelli and Marie bench," I feel no sense of understanding life, Matt never slept through the night at school gave him one—my parents were Sullivan. or connection with the people sittingthere. He would wake up screaming, as if he really racists, see, but they didn't want "Hey, Matt! You know what?" I And Fm sorry that Matt was forced to were afraid that in the morning he'd be other parents to think they were racists, screamed. "The kids at school talk about choose between being black and being a lost, uprooted again from his home. so they adopted Matt so they wouldn't you, Matt! You know what they say? They Martelli—and my brother, my only My relationship with Matt while grow­ look like racists. The purpose of my say you dress like a pimp!" Matt leapt brother—and Fm mad that he was tricked ing up was typical brother-sister stuff; brother's existence had just been reduced from my father towards me, clocking me into hating the latter by the kids at school. one day we threw rocks at each other, the to a decoy. Matt Martelli had just lost a in the eye and sendingme reding onto the And Tm mad that he still feels he has to next day we rode our bikes together. Matt dimension, so Matt Martelli decided he floor. The police took him away that day, hate it. was always the bad ltid, both at home and would be Mark Sullivan. right before my grandparents arrived, .And above all, I just wish I still had my school, biit that didn't matter to me so Somehow, Matt found out that he was and he spent the rest of his junior year brother. long as he didn't steal my Smurfs or kick born to an 18-year-old white mother and shuttled between various hospitals and Rose Martelli is a Trinity sophomore me. Even though it was quite obvious a black father who named him Mark foster homes. He eventually came back to and assistant University editor of The that Matt was adopted and despite the Sullivan. Matt adopted the name, and live with us, but last June, after flunking Chronicle. fact that he was the only black kid at our with it a new identity. He bought a slew TH'SWKLD IS MX BfcCKWfcKPS. THEN Tne W*SHIMG&J fkzss. CORPS Catholic school, his being black was a of hair products to make his hair kinkier, iftjNN3> KEA&ftN HAS t£NCOMC£t> *S«^ 'LET CUMTON 6E CUNTOM " OLUE NORTH.. ORDER "TO KtS&R3LmOANi non-issue to our family. Matt was then as his mixed racial background had re­ e*CKSlt>ES. and always has been my brother without sulted in hair that was dark and curly, question. Thinking bade, it was actually but distinctly "white.'' He made copies of quite remarkable, how much we were Eddie Murphy flicks and spent whole able to negate the presence of racial dif­ afternoons perfectingthe voice and memo­ ference in our house; how many "Diffrent rizing the sketches. His tastes in music Strokes" reruns did we four kids sit and clothing changed radically, and act­ through after school and not once did the ing different for the sake of it became an similarities register. obsession for him, even if it meant mak­ Around the age of seven, Mattfs behav­ ing a total idiot out of himself, like when ior considerably worsened. His desire to he pulled up to his eighth-grade dinner ITS IX MKTTSTf,, rebel, whenever and wherever possible, dance in a stretch limo. Most notably, his W3DE. became obsessive. When he was nine, he behavior grew increasingly more violent. wouldn't come with us on vacation to All-out fistfights between him and my Washington unless we brought the gaso­ father grew so common that my mother, line he found in the garage minutes be- two sisters and I barely blinked. Jailed alumnus denounces war in plea for nonviolence Ever since several friends and I were ever since, from Los Alamos to Hiroshima der. We need to obey the higher moral and jailed for hammering onanF15-Enuclear Guest column to today. The Cold War was not acciden­ divine law that upholds the sanctity of bomber at Seymour Johnson .Air Force tal. Itis policy. It's deliberate. U.S. plans life and the international law which pro­ Base in December, people have been ask­ John Dear for nuclear war continue at this very hibits plans for genocide. That means ing me: Why did you do it? Are you moment around the country, including disobeying the laws and rules which still against all wars—even fighting the Na­ domination should have been prevented, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. make nuclear war possible. zis? What good can come from your anti- but very few challenged them. Fascism Forty million people starve to death If peace, disarmament and justice for nuclear action? How effective was it? became policy because people were duped each year because of the way we First the peoples ofthe earth are to be a reality, Why not try legal channels to bring about into believing there was nothing they World people five and because we spend many of us will have to commit our lives peace and justice? Was it worth it? could do. Year after year, the German the world's resources ($13 trillion since and take serious risks that might spark Let me be clear: I am against all killing, people obeyed, did what they were told World War II) preparing for destruction. societal transformation. We may not live Period. I am against war, murder, ma­ and let Nazi violence go unchallenged. Today, the Pentagon is concocting new to see a new nonviolent world without chine guns, Trident submarines, bombs, The great prophet of nonviolence, enemies, new wars and new ways to use war and nuclear weapons, but we are F15-Es, nuclear bombs, executions and Mohandas Gandhi, insisted that the Na­ our nuclear arsenal. After all, war is big nonetheless called to join in creating such the Pentagon (national headquarters for zis should have been resisted nonvio- business. Killing is profitable. a world. the preparation of nuclear war). Killing lently. You can't fight the Nazis by be­ The question then is not why take a As a Christian, I believe the bottom line is never justifiable. Ever. War is never coming Nazis. Americans did just that. public stand for peace, but how to do it. is the mandate to love other human be­ justified—whether as a religious crusade, They adapted the Nazi philosophy ofmas s My friends and I have tried legal avenues ings. All of them, even enemies. That revolution or nuclear strike. violence, and now we are just like them— for years without raising .any serious re­ means we must stop preparations to kill We are not meant to kill one another. violent to the core. sponse. So we turn to nonviolent direct other, even if it lands us injail. When the We are created to love one another. We need tolear n the lessons of history, action. The abolitionists, the suffragettes, jails are filled with nonviolent resistors, What about the Nazis? If the United to renounce war if we want to end war. India's independence movement, civil peace is at hand. Disarmament is the States had not waged war against Hitler, The Nazis won the war. The United States rights and anti-war activists teach us a number one priority facing us ,if we are the whole world would be dominated by adopted their desire for domination and powerfiil lesson: Positive social change going to have a human future. Through brutal violence, the culture complains. global violence by pursuing, developing, only happens when good people break our symbolic action, my friends and I On the contrary, the world is on the brink using and maintaining nuclear weapons. bad laws and accept the consequences. tried to do what we could to promote of violent destruction because of our mili­ What the Nazis did to the Jews and In the tradition of Jesus, Gandhi, Mar­ conversion to the truth of nonviolence. tary madness. I bebeve that Hitler and various minorities, the United States is tin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day and Our message from jail? Join us! the Nazis should been actively opposed planning to do to the world. The United resistors around the world, we need to JohnDear, Trinity'81, is awaiting trial from the beginning. The Nazi rise to States began the Cold War and has led it break the laws that legalize mass mur­ at the Chowan County Jail. THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 Comics

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What Duke wants to do with the Students can be charged with fraud Although University officials have dis­ North Carolina law, Scott said. During tickets is provide support for their team. because they signed an agreement to en­ tributed tickets this way in the past, they this year's Atlantic Coast Conference tour­ Duke picked students to be in the arena." ter the lottery stipulating that the tickets have not used measures like the seating nament in Charlotte, officials arrested 50 Trinityjunior John Tolsma, DSG presi­ are non-transferrable, Wasiolek said. chart to fight scalping. people for scalping. At last year's ACC dent-elect, echoed Hudson's concerns. According to the agreement, students "We are taking steps we haven't taken tournament, 120 people were arrested. "This is a special opportunity given to us cannot sell or give their tickets to anyone. before. If [a student] gives the ticket to The NCAA both encourages universi­ by the athletic department," he said. If students cannot or do not attend any of someone else, we will find out," Hudson ties to monitor their student sections and University officials are giving students the games, their seats will remain unoc­ said. condones the use of undercover police 20 percent ofthe tickets allotted to Duke. cupied. Studentdevelopmenthas no plans Security measures taken by the Char­ officers to prevent scalping of distributed This is the highest percentage of tickets to create a waiting list, Wasiolek said. lotte Coliseum may also make scalping tickets. ever distributed to students at the Uni­ Students will receive their tickets Sat­ more difficult. Undercover officers will "We do have people out there who are versity, said Hudson. urday fromWasiolek , who will check their roam parking lots looking for people sell­ going to surprise some people," said Cinda But some students say they are not DukeCards for identification. Students ing their tickets for more than $3 more Friedly, assistant to the director of Divi­ concerned about the ethics of scalping. "I can only pick up their tickets for the than face value, said Eric Scott, assistant sion I men's basketball operations. The think it's understandable [to scalp], said national semifinal Saturday. Tickets for Coliseum manager. basic premise is the law will be enforced." Trinity sophomore Chad Fauser, who re­ the final game will be distributed Mon­ Those arrested for scalping face a $500 In addition to citing North Carolina ceived a ticket in the lottery and plans to law, University officials and students attend the game. "You can sell this ticket argue that scalping student tickets is and make what you can make in half a • From page 11 unethical. summer." Lost & Found ACAPELLA AUD. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! WOMEN: Come "It shows a lack of interest in the game Others vehemently disagree. 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By WILLIAM DVORANCHIK lucky to get out of here with a win. There You would not think that words like is nothing to be excited about except we "flat," "bad," or "abominable" would be won. That would have put us out ofthe used to describe a team that is 7-2 and tournament." ranked llth in the nation. However, The play ofthe day which seemed to after last night's lacrosse game against sum it up for Duke occurred with Lehigh Lehigh those were the only kind of words down by one in the fourth period. With being used. Lehigh putting pressure on the goal from Duke blew a 3-1 first-period lead and all angles, a Duke defender charged a then came back from a 5-4 halftime Lehigh attacker who was making a cut deficit to take a 9-8 overtime win. A goal with the ball from behind the goal. from senior Ken Fasanaro 38 seconds Instead of a magnificent check to stop into sudden-death overtime was the only the Lehigh player dead in his tracks, the thing that saved the Blue Devils from a Duke defender accidentally collided with huge defeat. the Duke goalie, who was also behind While Duke did improve to 7-2, Lehigh the goal, giving the Lehigh attacker an was served with its first loss of the sea­ open-net goal which tied the game at 8- son and fell to 4-1. 8 with 4:57 remaining. "We were as flat as we've ever been With everything that went wrong in flat at midweek," Duke head coach Mike this game it was hard to find something Pressler said. "I'm just happy we won. If that went right. A good choice would be we had lost that game our NCAA tour­ junior Matt Oglesby who, after scoring nament hopes would have gone down two goals against Georgetown Sunday, the drain." added three today along with an assist This was not just a coach trying to keep which led to Fasanaro's game-winner. his team focused. The reality of NCAA The only other bright spot was the fact lacrosse is that you play your entire sea­ that the game was over. son on the bubble. Just ask last year's "One thing that is good about our team team which went 9-5 and was ranked is that well be able to put this behind us highly all season only to be denied an pretty quick." Fasanaro said. "We put invitation to the NCAA tournament. the Maryland loss behind us, came back Coaches and players alike knew what and had Navy and won that one. One a loss against Lehigh would mean and good thing is that we're going to be able everyone was willing to admit what kind to bounce back from this one and that's of game they played. something. We've got Harvard this week­ "I thought it was an abominable game," end and that's a big game. If we play like PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE said junior Scott Harrison, who recorded this, we're not going to be able to win Matt Ogelsby, shown here earlier this season against Butler, one goal and one assist. " We were just that one." against Lehigh Wednesday. Sportsfile Ex-OU bad boy Switzer hired by 'Boys From wire reports By DENNE H. FREEMAN Cowboys. ing to a passing offense. However, Okla­ HHI Chosen: Grant Hill of Duke, Associated Press "I feel so strongly that you're going to homa stayed in the ground-bound wish­ Eric Montross of North Carolina IRVING, Texas—Barry Switzer, who benefit from the fact that the guy next to bone. and Glenn Robinson of Purdue are left Oklahoma under a cloud five years me coached me, the guy next to me has Aikman played one game as a fresh­ repeat choices for the 18th annual ago, became coach of the Dallas Cow­ my total personal trust and commit­ man in 1984, then started as a sopho­ Classic Games John Wooden All- boys todayJus t a day after his archrival, ment," Jones said. more until he broke his ankle against America team. Jimmy Johnson, quit the two-time Su­ "I feel we have one ofthe most talented Miami in the fourth game ofthe season. per Bowl champions. teams that there is the NFL, if not the He transferred at the end of 1985 to were Damon Bailey of Indiana, Jason Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones hired most talented team, and one ofthe best UCLA, where he found immediate star­ Kidd of Cal, Donyell Marshall of Con­ Switzer, his freshman football coach at that has ever been put together," Jones dom in a passing offense under Terry necticut, Khalid Reeves of Arizona, the University of Arkansas, citing the said. "I feel very confident that the con­ Donahue and eventually became the Jalen Rose ofMichigan, Clifford Rozier need for "continuity and motivation." tinuity can be kept in place and be moti­ Cowboys No. 1 draft pick in 1989. of Louisville and Corliss Williamson of Johnson resigned as coach Tuesday vated with the new head coach of the Aikman said Tuesday that Switzer "is Arkansas. after five years with the Cowboys, a Dallas Cowboys, Barry Switzer." an outstanding coach," and there should Hill, Kidd, Marshall, Robinson tenure that saw him win back-to-back A source said Jones and Switzer be no problem working with him should and Rozier were the top five vote- Super Bowls despite a long-running feud worked out contract details today in he become the head coach. getters in balloting by a nationwide with Jones. Jones' office at Valley Ranch. Jones sneaked into Valley Ranch the panel of 1,000 media members and Switzer, who has never eoached in the It was Jones' mention of Switzer's back way early today, driving his auto­ became finalists for the Wooden NFL, said he wanted to return to the name in a barroom conversation in Or­ mobile across the lawn to his office to Player of the Year, which will be game he left abruptly in 1989. lando, Fla., that infuriated Johnson to avoid reporters patrolling the parking announced Friday. "I missed football," he said. "I decided the point of wanting to leave the Cow­ lot. Fd rather coach. boys. Switzer won three national titles in 16 Gillen defects: Pete Gillen, who "I give my commitment of loyalty, of "Jerry believes that Switzer can years at Oklahoma before leaving in helped make Xavier of Ohio a regu­ excellence, of total commitment of mak­ quickly adapt to the NFL and that his 1989 amid several scandals involving lar in the NCAA tournament, re­ ing this program what it has been in the college background won't be a detrimen­ arrests ofhis players. He went 157-29-4 turned to his Eastern roots Wednes­ past and what it will be in the future," tal factor," the source said. at OU and won or tied for 12 Big Eight day when he was hired as basket­ Switzer said. "Switzer won't get the kind of long- titles. ball coach at Providence. Switzer, who won three national cham­ term deal that Jimmy got, and of course He replaces Rick Barnes, who Johnson was diplomatic in his response pionships for the Sooners, was "a proven Jerry will now be in charge of all the to the news that Switzer will replace last week was appointed coach of winner," Jones said. management and personnel decisions." Clemson. Gillen agreed to a six- him, saying it is strictly Jones' decision. year contract. He is under contract As the 56-year-old Switzer sat beside Quarterback Troy Aikman and every "It's a little bit of a surprise to me, but at Xavier through the 1997-98 sea­ him, Jones sought to allay fears among assistant coach on Johnson's staff went again, that's Jerry's decision," Johnson son, but his contract includes a Cowboys' fans that he would meddle in to Jones' office today to meet with the said this morning on NBC's "Today" buyout clause. the team's on-field activities. Two weeks owner and Switzer. show. "We'll just have to wait and see before this year's Super Bowl, Jones had how it works." "I never thought I'd leave Xavier," Aikman and Switzer have had a rocky irked Johnson by saying there were 500 relationship. Switzer recruited Aikman After two days of meetings with Jones, Gillen said. "But I think Providence people—including himself— who could is a special place." out of Henryetta, Okla., to come to the Johnson announced his resignation at a have similar success in coaching the Sooners, telling him that they were go­ news conference Tuesday. THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 Arkansas seeks to end history of Final Four frustration FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP)- — This In 1941, All-American John Adams backs lost to eventual champion Ken­ Four years later, Richardson is the year's group ofRazorbacks hopes to break led the Razorbacks to the national semi­ tucky 64-59 in the semifinals then beat first coach to guide the Razorbacks to the Arkansas tradition of failure in the finals, where they lost 64-53 to Wash­ Notre Dame 71-69 in the consolation two Final Fours, and the first to be Final Four when it meets Arizona on ington State. The Razorbacks lost in the game. favored. Saturday. 1945 semifinals 68-41 to Henry Iba's Arkansas was a surprise finalist in "We're not settling for making it to the Arkansas (29-3) is winless in four pre­ Oklahoma State team. 1990 after slipping through the Mid­ Final Four," guard Clint McDaniel said. vious semifinals. Only Houston has made The Triplets — Sidney Moncrief, Ron west Regional without meeting the top "We're not settling for trying to get to the more trips — five — without bringing Brewer and Marvin Delph—led Arkan­ three seeds — Oklahoma, Georgetown championship game. We're trying to win home the national title. The Razorbacks sas to the Final Four in 1978. The Razor- and Purdue. a national championship." don't want to match the Cougars' futil­ ity. "That will be something well try to use to catapult us into the championship Hoops fever spreads in football country game," forward Corliss Williamson said. "This team has made alot of history this GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — For a feel good about what you're doing. It have the answer. It's the first time for us year, and hopefully we can make some change, hardly anybody is paying atten­ sure beats the alternative." (as coaches) as well. We talked to vari­ more out there." tion tosprin g football practice at Florida. All the calls haven't been for the coach. ous people and have gotten different Houston made the Former Gators basketball coach Norm His 10-year-old son Kevin, who sits on ideas about their experiences, yet we've Final Four in Sloan once said there are three seasons the bench and frequently is seen on got to kind of balance that with what we £N^ 1967 and at the Southeastern Conference school: television during Florida games, has feel will work best with the personality pl968, and football season, football recruiting sea­ received several requests for interviews of our team." 1982-1984. son and spring football drills. that were denied. So far, the players are lovingit. They've ' Arkansas' previous But the success of Lon Kruger's bas­ "It's fun. It's exciting. It's what it's signed autographs on their way to prac­ trips were 1941,1945,1978 and 1990. ketball program is cutting into the all about," daddy Kruger said of tices, mugged for photographers and Each time it was the underdog — most popularity ofthe latter this week the attention the team, which happily answered the same questions recently with a talent-laden team led by The Gators are headed toth e Fi- leaves for Charlotte on Thurs­ over and over. sophomores Todd Day, Lee Mayberry nalFour forthe first time, and this day, is getting. "It's been different," Dametri Hill, the and Oliver Miller against Duke. football-crazy town is excited. "It's what these players have Gators' 6-7, 290-pound sophomore cen­ This time, Arkansas finished first in Campus bookstores are doing worked for. We want them toexpe ­ ter said. "It feels weird in a sense, but the college basketball poll and is favored brisk business in t-shirts and other rience the right amount ofthe Final nice, too." to win it all. The Razorbacks were ranked NCAA tournament-related apparel, Four atmosphere," Kruger added. "But Junior Dan Cross grew up in No. 1 for nine weeks, twice as long as any and students, fans and the community you have to be careful, obviously, to not Carbondale, 111., admiring Illinois and other team. as a whole are gearing up for Saturday's allow it to become such a distraction that Kentucky, two schools where basketball "There's a difference in our program national semifinal game against Duke. all of a sudden their preparation is differ­ players receive more attention than foot­ today than four years ago or any ofthe And &ugeiJs phone hasnt stopped ring­ ent from what it has been throughout this ball players. othera," UA Athletic director Frank ing since UF won the East Regional. season." "Fve wanted it to be like this ever since Broyles said. "Today, the fans and the "I've heard from people I don't even For advice on how tohandl e the expo­ I got here. I didn't know how long it players expect to win against anybody know. Even after they remind me ofhow sure and increased demands on players' would take, but the fever is catching on we play. The '90 and '78 Final Fours, we I know them, I don't know them," the time, Kruger turned tosom e ofhis friends — not just here in Gainesville, but all were just excited about getting to it. coach said. "But we still have a good who have been through the experience. over the state of Florida," the Gators' This focus is different." conversation. It's good to hear people "Where that fine line is, I'm not sure I leading scorer said. You Got Skills? Prove it at the Duck Shop Shoot for Duck Shop T's. Friday only. Details at, IDuckShop/^ 703-B Ninth Street / Durham / 286-DUCK Open 10-6 Mon.-Fri. / 10-5 Sat. / Noon-3 pm Sun.

UP I' TCI Ala l • ..I. •• a.a *» I RE 1 A L. K R Enjoy Tonight, Relax Tomorrow. Thursday, March 31 7:30 pm Card Gym, Room 104 thepack All Duke Students Welcome. No Experience Necessary. now available in selected dorm vending machines If you are interested, but unable to attend, for information, call Health Education 684-3620 x 325 please call Eric at 613-1492 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 THE CHRONICLE NCAA women's basketball still trying to gain respect By JOE MACENKA sociation. They wonder ifthe risingpopu- are going to have to take a stand on this tend to get clouded in an argument of Associated Press larity of women's basketball will create issue and possibly be a little more de­ women's programs being automatically RICHMOND, Va.(AP)—The Women's a wave of anti-male sentiment when it manding in our pursuit of security." entitled to whatever the men have. But Final Four is supposed to be a time to comes to hiring coaches. The subject has Moody said he's not overly concerned while men's programs have already es­ showcase all that's good about the grow­ prompted some of the male coaches about his job status. tablished themselves in the eyes of fans ing and increasingly visible sport. within the WBCA to form a Male Coaches "I haven't even thought about it lately, and administrators, the women need to That's not necessarily the case this of Women's Basketball Committee. to be honest with you," he said. "But once prove themselves, she said. week. Then there's the issue of pay dispar­ the season's over, we'll sit down and "And I do think that's happening pretty As the four survivors of the 64-team ity. As agroup, coaches ofwomen' s teams discuss it. The university will take care much around the country," Hatehell said. NCAA tournament gather in Richmond, still lag far behind their counterparts on of it." "But when you win games and put a some of the growing pains associated men's teams, and the matter has led to North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatehell quality program together, I do think you with the ascent of women's college bas­ court action. said the issues of pay and job security should be rewarded for it." ketball also are on display. "Is it getting better? Yes," said Purdue's Alabama (26-6) will meet Louisiana Lin Dunn, in her 23rd year of collegiate Tech (30-3) in one semifinal Saturday at coaching and her seventh season with Will he or won't he? the Richmond Coliseum, followed by the Boilermakers. "Is there still a way to North Carolina (31-2) vs. Purdue (29-4), go? I don't think there's any question but there's plenty of news offthe court as about that. I think the issue is far from Clinton may not attend well. being over." The sport is in the midst of a seven- Alabama coach Rick Moody, who has CHARLOTTE (AP)—The president's Clinton said on national television year contract with CBS, which also has led the Crimson Tide to a 104-46 mark in coming. He's not coming. last Sunday he planned to attend the men's Final Four coverage. The net five seasons and to their first-ever Final Planners for the NCAA Final Four Saturday's game between Arkansas and effect is that the women's championship Four appearance, has a different type of are preparing to go either way depend­ Arizona. If the Hogs win, he could be is played 24 hours after the second semi­ problem: He's working without a con­ ing on what the Arkansas Razorbacks' back for Monday night's championship final ends. The men's winning semifi­ tract. most visible fan chooses. game. nalists get 48 hours to regroup before And Moody says he's not alone among The latest version of President If the First Family wants to catch the their championship. his colleagues in women's basketball. Clinton's weekend plans appear to rule games, they will be handed some ofthe "It is really unfortunate," Louisiana "As our sport continues to grow and as out a trip to Charlotte on Saturday. hottest sports tickets of the year. Tech coach Leon Barmore said. "We sure universities begin to pour more and more Secret Service agents have told police "Basically, the NCAA has a reserve do need to get away from that kind of money into their programs.Ithinkyou're planners Clinton will skip the semifi­ pool of tickets in case something hap­ setup as soon as we can." going to see increased pressure, which nal games. pens," said Kathryn Reith, spokes­ Job security is another concern, espe­ in my opinion is going to make us more "Monday is still up in the air, or any woman for the NCAA entourage in Char­ cially among some ofthe male members and more insecure," Moody said. "As the other day for that matter," police spokes­ lotte. "I think its less than 50 [but] we do ofthe Women's Basketball Coaches As­ pressure grows, I think we as coaches woman Mickey Casey said Wednesday. have a chunk of tickets that we hold onto."

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We did it again! The Blue Devils are off to Charlotte for the 1994 Final Four If you're not one ofthe lucky few headed for Charlotte, join your friends here on campus for these events:

Thursday, March 31 Charlotte Send-off 1:15 p.m. - The team departs from Wallace Wade Stadium on the trip to Charlotte. Turn out and show your support!

Saturday, April 2 Semifinal Game 6:45 p.m. - Cameron Indoor Stadium opens doors for game viewing on large-screen television. Admission by Duke student ID only. 8:12 p.m. - Game time! Duke beats Florida!

Monday, April 4 Championship Game 7:50 p.m. — Cameron opens doors for viewing of the national championship. Admission by Duke student ID only. 9:22 p.m. - Game time!

Tuesday, April 5 Welcome back, Blue Devils Noon — The team returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium. Let's give them a great reception!

For all Final Four events, let's remember to have a great time, but to celebrate responsibly. The Chronicle's 1 Weekly Arts and Entertainment Magazine March 31,1994

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can paint tbe BOOKS Forget about the Packwood East Campus Bridge diaries. The notebooks of Adrienne Rich have more on politics (and poetry) than anything Senator Bob could ever imagine, page 2 Set your loins afire! Surgeon General's Warning: There's so much sex and passion on these pages, a cigarette may be required, pages 4-5 -;.... -"ay*:™4^

COMMENTARY -a-* y f Nuclear meltdown or nuclear fusion? A meticulous analysis of the collision of hip-hop and the queer identity, page 3

MOVIES From stage to screen, Six Degrees of Separation makes a smooth transition with stellar performances from Will Smith and Stockard Channing. page 6

THEATRE Come lust with Paul Kelleher as •TTIMMi iW• he reminisces about David ...but can Marshall Grant, the star of some Broadway play. Actually, you may have heard of it, it's called Angels in America. Have a nice 15,000 MRs? flight, page 8 R&R focuses on queer society . PAGE 2 / THE CHRONICLE R&R WEEKLY MAGAZINE THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 WALK TO CAMPUS Rich DYKE Poetry and Politics tion are those that Rich asks to barely keep ADRIENNE RICH the big questions at bay...the big questions What Is Found There: Notebooks on that look like they might want to loom a little Ride the FREE Shuttle Poetry and Politics larger than life. They concern, among other things, trying to find poetry in the mall byAtyce Crowder ("those twoshelves, down there"); "thespace "You were supposed to do this review for poetry;" "the distance between language months ago. I hope you realize that this is and violence" and (this one's for you, Dad) your last chance," says Jeff (it would defi­ "How does a poet put bread on the table?" nitely be Jeff sayingthis. Not because he's the And so on. book editor; it's that only Jeff says things like "The difference between poetry and rheto­ If ^V * * 1 Veteran's this is your last chance); "Lucky for you we ric/is being/ready to kill/yourself/instead of M^-"""\\\ MI-KM™" »• 1 . Hospital decided to have the Queer Issue. Lucky for your children" (Audre Lorde). you Adrienne Rich is a dyke." Jeff knows he w s LifiS&i .^^ Medical JI IlESSf Af Duke Ceriter should like this word, dyke, but when he says it (dyke), he says it Sww^^Sc University with a little more reticence than 383-6677 7^^^ the rest of the words he happens to be using. Probably this means nothing. (Hey, Jeff —DYKE!— Duke Villa i Made you blink.) 493-4509,l < Hey, Jeff, sorry if I seem to be i f harshing on you. Maybe I'm just A trying to make ray language vital The Apartment People tri? again. I quote Rich: "It's possible that our national NOTEBOOKS ON despair is by now too intricate and interwoven for POETRY AND POLITICS If Duke Manor • 383-6683 disentangling...We see despair when social arrogance and indif­ ^ Chapel Tower • 383-6677 ference exist in the same person with the willingness to live at devastating levels of superficial­ Duke Villa • 493-4509 ity and self-trivialization...we hear despair in the loss of vitality in our spoken language: 'No prob­ lem,' we say, 'that was a healing 1 experience,' we say, 'thank you 5 MINUTES TO NORTHGATE AND for sharing that,' we say." SOUTH SQUARE MALLS. I love that passage. I've be­ stowed it upon three different people in letters so far. Wait. I think I've begun in the wrong place. Rich does a lot of quoting in this book. A What makes, why is there, who needs lot. A lot like Bartlett's has nothing on Rich. WANTED: poetry/politics? (Yes, this is definitely the Rich quotes (transcribes?) whole poems, large rightplace.) What .kind of questions are these? sections of essays — Campbell's Chunky Silly, impossible ones, if you're looking for Quotes. She wants to talk to her reader about A Greek Peer Educator any kind of definitive answers. But if you're all these ideas, and it says something inter­ sitting around with Adrienne Rich (or this esting, something I like: that some ofthese new book), maybe sipping on some tea—no, ideas (a lot of these ideas) belong to other • An energetic, involved member of the I mean real piping hot sipping tea; forget people. those models gulping it down all iced and Lots of other people. Muriel Rukeyser, Greek community who is concerned Lipton — these questions become somewhat Nadezhda Mandelstam, Audre Lorde, Akua magnificent. Lezli-Hope, John Haines, Gloria Anzaldua, about the direction in which it is heading. Don't misunderstand, Jeff. It's not that Judy Grahn. Dozens more. An idea scrap- Rich answers them in this book. She doesn't book, maybe, is what this book is — with try to answer them, even, not really. It's more expurgated comments by the compiler... • Someone who wants to help the Greek that she wants to make you realize how Like this, which for some reason I want to community become more educated magnificent asking these questions can leave you with, which for somereason I want be...like that game 20 Questions, only times heard last: "In a history of spiritual rupture, about the role of alcohol on campus. four, only more eloquent. Only you're asking a social compact built on fantasy and collec­ questions to guess at what the big questions tive secrets, poetry becomes more necessary are. than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers • Someone who wants to help the Greek The questions you're asking? (Aw, screw flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear community understand the impact of this rhetorical "you.") The questions in ques­ through stone." alcohol and its potential future at Duke. R&R STAFF Queer Cheer Do you think this might be you? Langston Hushes: Ted *klem* Snyderman William S. Burroughs: Jay Mandel Gertrude Stein & Audre Lorde: Michelle Hona If interested, call Jeanine Atkinson, 684-3620, ext. 332. Ifyou have Susan BA Somers-Willett uestions, call one of the present Paul Monette: Jeffrey Kaiser greek Peer Educators, Elton John: Joe Coyle Clarissa del Mundo 613-2116 Greta Garbo: Julie Freeman Matthew Malchow 613-1857 The Uillase People: Robb Carroll, Susan Davis, Nancy Graham, Kathy McCue & Kate Newsom Work-study preferred. Health Education Join in the gayp festivities by calling the poet himself at % 663. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994 R&R WEEKLY MAGAZINE THE CHRONICLE / PAGE 3 COMMENTARY Exploring th' Exclusif fusion 'tween Banji Realness and the culture it imitate sweetness," is to maintain a black gay iden­ by Tim'm West tity which does not perpetuate the all-to- There are several attributes common to common images of Living Colour's "Men On hip-hop music and the culture inextricably Television." connected to it. Homophobia is one of them. I love hip-hop music. And simultaneously, But I intend to question the validity of such I feel unequivocally blessed to be gay. Yet the a pessimistic view. For I believe that hip-hop struggle to integrate the two is a battle only a culture has the ability to transform itself as few black gay men attempt to fight. I some­ easily as the styles and elements ofthe indus­ times feel like lama human manifestation of try continue to transform it. Hip-hop music, a strange fusion. I seektolegitimizebeinggay like jazz, is a musical form akin to the condi­ and loving hip-hop music, yet upon further tions of transformation, innovation, creativ­ examination I come to the realization that to ity, improvisation, and fusion that were subscribe to the view that the two cultures neccessary for its inception. And I, like an are paradoxical is to perpetuate the very overwhelming number of persons my age, myths which feed the stereotypes I seek to am a product ofthe culture which represents vanquish. Upon in-depth examination of hip­ hip-hop music. Having attended concerts of hop culture, I have discovered that in many all sorts from Run DMC to De La Soul, Tribe ways hip-hop culture and black gay culture Called Quest to Mc Lyte, I consider myself to have some interesting and profound simi­ be as familiar (if not more) than the average larities. person who claims to be down with hip-hop Notice music videos by "real men" which music. I am African-American. Hip-Hop completely exclude members of the female speaks to my experience as a Black man who gender. "Slam", by Onyx for example, is manages to persevere in a nation which often many queens' ideal black gay club scene. A greets me with hostility and an often false SPECIAL TO R&R bunch of ruff-neck bald headed boys jump­ and presupposed knowledge of my inten­ B-Boys or Banji Boys? 'Cause you can never be too sure. ing on top of each other non-reluctantly and tions, of my very existence and experience— I am also gay, You know, a faggot-sissy- clout, loot, skillz of some sort, and a hard aggresively. Yet because the scene transpires a nation where nappy hair and dark skin is punk-batty boy-muthafucka. My love inter­ core "image" is central to one's being. The within the limits of the hip-hip paradigm, often thought to be synonymous with crimi­ ests are other men. That hip-hop music is not other erroneously reminds most black men the actions expressed are deemed a legiti­ nal behavior and lack of intellectual facul­ a integral component ofblac k male socializa­ of effeminate white men aimlessly marching mized expression of manhood. The scene ties. Identification with hip-hop, to some tion can seldom be doubted. Yet "faggotry" for "queer rights" and transgendered per­ could be accurately characterized as extent, is connected to the very essenceof my and hip-hop are seemingly mutually exclu­ sons like RuPaul. To wholly embrace both homosocial. But one falsely assumes that it is blackness and my manhood. sive paradigms. One seems to maintain that Cultures, to "explore the tension inside the impossible for homosexuals to mingle onto the set, as the men in the video did not have lisps or walk with a swish and bent wrist. Fact: six of my boyz from Queens (who are Theatre group examines gender representation gay men also) were on that set. I am certain WorksFestival sponsored by the Duke Drama ate, well-read college students struggling with that they had madd fun. by Tommy Story Program.In thisparticularpiece, Allen speaks identity issues themselves. Ailen and Straight boys just don't get it. Hip-hop Is it any wonder that musical theatre is of homosexuality as a metaphor for the iden­ Ginsburg temper these passions and sew the culture is to a large extent a culture of facade truly an American invention? In many ways, tity war that everyone fights. As the piece questions into seamless scenes and songs. which remains consistent with the many Sondheim and a few others exempted, musi­ develops (keep in mind that this is a work in This year, I have for the first time opened overexaggerated macho images ofblack man­ cal theatre reflects the identity problems of progress, unscripted and subject to radical myself up to watch more than a few basket­ hood generally. For example, walking with a our society. Chock full of girl girls and guy revision), it is evolving in such a way as to ball games, and I have honestly enjoyed the pimp in one's step is learned, it is not innate. guys loving, longing, losing and inevitably juxtapose male homosexuality with Broad­ experience. Likewise, many of you would Sure, after one does it for some time it comes riding off into the sunset together, the bulk of way heterosexuality. This jarring destruc­ enjoy opening yourself up to what happens quite naturally.However.theaforementioned the musical theatre canon perpetuates the tion ofthe "Oklahoma" myth of love enables on Duke's stages. I especially encourage you example of fabrication, as well as many oth­ heterosexual ideal. (A bit ironic in that every the piece to then travel further and examine to experience this piece because eight of ers, are important means to a black male's gay boy across the land can sing "Oklahoma" the fact that most of us have little in common your fellow students are representing many unchallenged participation in hip-hop cul­ backwards and forwards.) But what happens with the paper doll lovers of a musical play. ofthe same identity struggles men and women ture. And which black men best master the when this material is re-examined, when it is The uniqueness ofthis particular piece, as on this campus and in this world face daily. art of caricature, masking, passing, facade: car-crashed into other material that seeks to comparedto the majority of things presented We are female, male, gay, straight and other­ Damn skippy — black gay men. Those black illuminate human differences in identity — under Duke Drama, is that it is an unscripted, wise. We have trod die same walkways as gay brothers who are effeminate are the mi­ female, male, gay, straight, etc.? That is what collaborative effort. Each member ofthe cast you each day of our many years here. We nority of black gay men.They seldom haveto eight students working under Devon Allen, has submitted material which has then been have met eyes countless times and seen that "come out ofthe closet" because their closet Duke Drama professor, are seeking to dis­ expertly sorted and chosen by Allen and you, too, were searching. Our identities are doors are transparent. People assume they cover six nights a week in rehearsal for "Bodies, Ginsburg as appropriate and necessary mate­ locked up within each other. We all have the are gay and the act of coming out sometimes Sight, and Singing: A Cabaret In the Making." rial for the work. Rehearsals are infused with capacity to help each other discover what it seems redundant. Banji boys (as we call the Accustomed to creating such pieces with actors and directors not only experimenting is to be human. For me, and for you, the undetectable sort of black gay men in "the her collaborator, Neil Ginsburg, and stu­ with traditional musical theatre forms, but theatre can enable this to happen. Through a life") have a much easier time interacting dents at NYU, Allen hopes to push the enve­ also incorporating songs and texts from other director's vision, or an actor's words, we are with the men in hip-hop culture. Few of us lope of gender issues a little further at Duke sources. From Foucault to Winnie the Pooh, levitated above the fog and trappings of the ever come out because the benefits of straight this spring. Allen and Ginsburg bring their nothing is sacred. Rehearsals explode with everyday so that we can, at least for a few life are innumerable in the hip-hop commu- expertise to the University as part ofthe New ideas as is only possible in a room of passion­ seconds, see clearly. See HIP HOP on page 6 *&

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DENNIS COOPER by Enoch Scott I'm having a lot of trouble writing this book review. For a lot rty of different reasons. This is the Queer Issue of R&R, right? This is the issue where we celebrate the achievements of our gay by Jeffrey Kaiser brothers and sisters in the arts and make it available and accept­ If Dennis Cooper illustrated a comic strip he'd able to the straight masses, right? And how do we celebrate probably call it "The Disfunctional Family Circus." Of queerdom here at Duke? We write a lot of book and course, he would leave his cartoon family — Mom, music reviews. That's right. We, the learned scholars id, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J. — in the splendor of of literature and music, decide what is acceptable for suburbia, protected by a palisade of azalea bushes and you, the proletariat (gay or straight), to read. 1 have a white picket fence. The family dog. a caricature of a a problem with that. It reinforces the patriarchal, caricature, would how! at the moon and snip at the heteroscxist society that says that somehow there is a heels of Mary, the always endearing mailman group of people that need to be informed and/or saved mailperson. And from the looks of it, 124 Oak Street by another group of people who are more informed, would be the ideal American dream. But one must smarter, and all around better people. Uh-huh. That's remember that Cooper relishes in the fact that appear­ the way this world was made. ances are never what they seem. In his world, Mom and Dad would be an abusive gay couple. Billy would I can't tell you whether or not this book is good. I can tell you be fist-fucking P.J., while Jeffy, doped up on cocaine, what it did for me, hut we need to stop relying on the Siskel and watched, hardened penis in hand. And where would Eberts of the world to tell us what we should do with our leisure Dolly be during all ofthis madness? Well, she'd be out time. It is the critics who have kept the work of Aphra Behn, j\nne SUSIE BRIGHT (editor) back fellating the family dog, apitbull named Smegma. Finch, and John Giorno in the pages of literary obscurity. Just The Best .American Erotica Welcome to Coopersville, my friends. because Tm coming at it from a gay perspective doesn't make the fact that f have the audacity to judge it for other people, right? by/ But Dennis Cooper is a writer, and in his third So, Til tell you what it did forme, and ifyou want to read it, This first volume of The Ses novel. Try, he has produced yet another dangerously innovative book that explores go ahead. But don't read it because I said so, read it becuase you collection of stories that, five •_ love, obsession, and the murky depths of human need. His protagonist is Ziggy, the want to experience life for yourself—because you have a mind. as trash by the sex police ane adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers, And it is their failed experi­ bookstores by the big boot of ment at being a nuclear family that has left him stranded with one and increasingly you can walk into Barnes and present in the sexual fantasies ofthe other. Left with no family to speak of, Ziggy You gave me this shit this titillating paperback volun turns to his friends existing in the violently perverse California suburbs. As he and you said read it to every variety of sexual persi struggles with his own identity and his need to be loved, we meet his drug-addicted You all wanted to be my friends No matter what you're into, t friend named Calhoun, a teenage drag queen named Cricket, a young-rocker- and then you fucked me over your-own-home exhibitionism, turned-sex-slave named Robin, and Uncle Ken who makes kiddie porn in the you all wanted to be my friends and then you if your fantasies exceed sto confines ofhis own home. None ofthese characters are alive. They simply exist. fucked me over constellation of sensual expe And each is a spectre haunting Ziggy as he wanders, almost aimlessly, in a void of You talk about Andy Warhol ested" as well as just 'interej emotional isolation. and how he gave you head Why isn't this considered This novel is less about the sickening sex it describes than it is about the craving and how you wanted to touch his wig Susie Bright, editor of The Be. for love. It will take fortitude and a strong gut on the reader's part to get past the and you never once asked me how I felt about it the Minneapolis weekly newsp graphic images of rape, S&M, pedophilia, necrophilia, drug abuse, etc., but the "I'm going cleverly describes the murky d reader should try because this novel demonstrates that the love felt between some raphy and their mutual excli ofthe characters is not the same as the dehumanizing sexual acts Cooper describes. forever literature in her compiling int Throughout the work, character after character penetrates body after body in an and I want better-dressed bird to the sq effort to possess another's soul, to open its mystery and to claim rightful ownership. to fly since Western society made But Cooper suggests that every one of these acts is a brutal failure because it I'm going to live forever reading it. the worst form of creates only greater emotional repression. To unlock the mystery of another and I want to fly," matter of taste; those who lii human being takes love, and in this case love isn't necessary the physical. That's what you said consumers of high-class "sen Try is brutal and painful on every page; it is shadowed by violence for those less concerned with I That's what you said and exploitation. And despite being so endlessly haunting and "dirty" books, pornography. E That's what you said bleak, the novel is somehow uplifting because we end up believ­ Erotica is concerned with hun ing Ziggy can and will pull himself out ofthe trenches, that he Only maybe it won't happen caring ways, pornography set will make some kind of life for himself. The reader sympa­ Even Eartha Kitt has to die devoted entirely to the preser thizes with Ziggy as he questions the perverse individu­ No matter how strong she is she has to die in The Other Victorians, "po als in his life in an attempt to isolate and define the And you'll die too etymology literally — it may be boundaries of obsession, love, and sexuality, com­ And you'll take my love with you take place in nowhere-..Time i piling their responses the magazine he calls I But how will you die it takes to run out a series of Apologize. Ziggy is in search of understanding Peacefully? realize that pornographic or ofhis world and himself. And as different as Or content? suspiciously into even the mos his world seems, his struggle is somehow How you die is important involved becomes obi/bus as universal. And in that lies the beauty John Giorno taught me that discover, says Susie Bright, "l of this book. any clothes; he's also in the r I won't die Cooper's work is sickening in I'm a cockroach Such a pornutopia m.ay not its detail, but it is this perver­ can any of them be considerec sity that gives it its enormous power. Always We live forever sexual pleasure. The selecti insightful and rhythmically charged, the prose of Try I won't die, I'm a cockroach, we live forever authors like Anne Rice [The ME is also gut-wrenching and chilling, served at thirty-two degrees Just call me Gregor who perhaps are perhaps re in a frost-laden dustcover. If you want to be shocked and enlightened, "I don't need it straight sex socially acceptal read this book. It's sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll taken to the perverted extreme. But I don't want it contributors, like Pat Califia [• it's a journey worth taking — one you won't forget for some time because your nightmares •And you cheated me out of it" Our Backs and Comin9 toPot - won't allow it, no matter how hard you try. But not anymore known in alternative circles eighties that virtually revolutioi Peace to my cousins S/M communities on the WE HERVE GUIBERT Take what's yours To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life one recognizes the absolute And tell the asshole that broke your heart that John ambition to portray sotriethin Giorno understands your pain. man desire no matter how sl by Jeffrey Kaiser si^- Each = \nti.\sbnU.antmvelToTheFriendwTioDidNot5aver1yLife,t\)e description critically acclaimed French writer, Herve Guibert, has created an in the most en intimate, honest and unnerving account of a vital young author the mind, forget th confronting the ominous specter of AIDS. Written as a journal, this version of seduction. If work examines the impact of the disease on a circle of French artists and intellectuals spinning out of control in shared fear, discovering exciting adventure in whicl that talent and genius offer little solace in a world of devastation. entitlement through "fefnmac The novel is at once mesmerizing, touching and eloquent. It is also actualize with the help of a few shocking, horrifying, and angering. The novel is the most accurate go to the literature sectior portrayal of a reality that has become all too commonplace. It is a boo.kstare and check out this picture of a darkened landscape riddled by an incurable disease It is a masterpiece painted by yet another artist dead from AIDS. THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1994 R&R WEEKLY MAGAZINE THE CHRONICLE / PAGE 5

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AUDRE LORDE OS. a survey of recent gay and 2+2= The Marvelous Arithmetics of L Distance audre. by Jeffrey Kaiser lesbian literature This collection of 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992 is the final volume by GARY INDIANA Audre Lorde, Of the writer, Rent Boy Adrienne Rich wrote that she was "a major American poet by Brian Hollis whose concerns [were] inter­ "Gary Indiana" brings to mind images from classic American theatre; anyone who has ever seen a production of "The Music Man" has national, and whose words have heard this name more times than I care to count (usually sung by a freckled,red-haire d kid missing one of his two front teeth — you can't left their mark on many 1 ives." sing it without a lisp); Gary Indiana is, of course, in addition to being a song, the name of a city in America's Midwest where people buy cluster Of her final volume, Lorde said globe lamps fromLevit z Furniture and discuss the dangers of wearing a seat beat (you could bum up), and where Michael Jackson was bom. the following:" I want this book But Gary Indiana is only his name and not his novel. to be filled with shards of light Rent Boy, though not based on a classic American musical, does present the reader with a certain glamorized depravation and low drama thrown off from the shifting belonging to a small but much publicized (in novels, movies, and trash television) fragment of our society. Indiana's novel, translated into tensions between the dissimi­ musical theatre, might be sung by the same freckled,red-haire d kid, but this time he didn't luck into the part by losing his front tooth just lar, for that is the real stuff of in time for auditions. His teeth (and various other parts ofhis anatomy) have been intentionally removed. creation and growth." TheMar- By many accounts, the center has shifted in our literature. The literary American is no longer i (or stupid) enough to be amused ve lous Ari thmetics ofDistance by idealized accounts of our world. The great majority of Americans, that part of our populace i often referred to as "minorities" or achieves this goal hands down. "minorities and women," was not id id in these now historical literary, The collection also serves, as theatrical, and other feats of authorial talent and bits of escapist garbage anyway. do all her other volumes, as an Along with this shift in literary ideology has come a shift of locale; we have eloquent and moving epitaph to (editor) uprooted our pens and presses from Gary, Indiana and moved them to New York a woman who embodied strength, wisdom and the oas- City which is no more or less representative of American society, only different. rican Erotica sion for life. There is also no longer a thing which can be called "American literature" by Anne Quinney which will not be made up of things called African-American literature, Asian- me of The Best American Erotica is an unprecedented American literature, Women's American literature, Chicano-American litera­ ries that, five years ago, would have been condemned ture and Queer-American literature. sex police and given the firm lack out of mainstream Gary Indiana's novel, just published by the tie big boot of the guardsmen of censorship. Today, Serpent's Tail Press in their series called High Risk zo Barnes and Noble and purchase a copy yourself of Books, is a part of this last subgroup and perhaps iperback volume of highly sophisticated porn catering representative of one type of Gay American litera­ of sexual persuasion. At 12 bucks you can't go wrong. ture. That the setting of this book is New York City t you're into, be it a pacifier fetish or respectable irv is not surprising—everything happens in New York. exhibtacnism, be it straight, gay, or otherwise, or even That the main character is a prostitute is no surprise is exceed storytelling, this book offers a veritable either, it is, after all, the title ofthe book. And once : sensual experiences for all those "differently-inter- these two facts are established (on the cover which ABSOLUT JS just "interested" people. showsa photo of a high rise and amattress), nothing is considered pornography and why is it literature? really packs any punch. litor of The Best American Erotica and reason #23 of How could detailed descriptions of sex acts to satisfy any and all fetishes and fascinations affect or j weekly newspaper's "62 Reasons to Love .America." GLENN O'BRIEN es the murky distinctions between erotica and pornog- shock us when that is exactly what is expected from ANTONIO r mutual exclusion from the genre of mainstream a book which is called Rent Boy and offers a defini­ ALIA GUCCIONE • compelling introduction. Erotica has always been the tion of pornography as a preface? Even extremely ABSOLUT Statehood bird to the squalid ugly duckling, pornography, ever fetishized violence seems mundane in the under­ society made explicit writing about sex a crime, and ground world described by Indiana. Sex and vio­ worst form of shame. The difference seems to be a lence are, after all, what New York is all about. I '.*t0r%m by Jeffrey Kaiser i; those who like to see themselves as sophisticated would have been more shocked by a novel set in This visually arousing ligh-ctass "sensual" material prefer erotica, whereas Gary Indiana than this one written by him. book collects for the first jncerned with high aesthetics purchase the unrefined, If little boys are made of sticks and snails and puppy-dog tails, rent boys time, the 51 ABSOLUT lornography. Erotica has plot, pornography doesnt. are built with equal parts ofkinky sex, kinky violence and quirky cultural Vodka Ads depicting a irned with human being interacting in meaningful and references. All of these components of the text are treated with a blase wide range of images on irnography sets up a configuration of bodies in space distance and self-removal by the main character who only occasionally the theme of statehood. The project / to the present moment. Or as Steven Marcus says hints at relationships we, as readers, will never see develop. It is an was begun several years ago for two reasons. /ictorians, "pornography takes the injunction of its epistolary novel told in letters from a rent boy called Danny to a former First, it was initiated as a way to give one artist in illy _~ it may be said largely to exist at no place, and to lover/client referred to only as j. The relationship which these two share every state, plus the nation's capital, the opportunity to where...Time in pornutopia is determined bythe time is unclear and, disappointingly, is not developed in the plot; passages present their vision oftheir home state, and to become more jut a series of combinations." Popular culture fails to which help to develop the character (or, at least, the background) of widely known in the process. Second, and more impor­ •nographic or erotic writing somehow seems to fall Danny would seem to imply that the relationship was brief and casual tantly, the project was begun as a way to raise money to fight ] even the most virginally pure of hands. The hypocrisy (read professional), so why then does Danny correspond with J ? Danny's .AIDS. The advertisements created by the fifty-one artists es obvious as those vigilant guardians of high culture crush on/love for Chip, another rent boy, motivates much ofthe plot, but were made into lithographs and then sold to the public. All Susie Bright, "that not only isnt the Emperor wearing this relationship is never satisfactorily explored and eventually deterio­ proceeds from the lithographs, and this book, are being 's also in the middle of an orgy." rates into most sickening (though hardly shocking) type of objectifica- donated to organizations fighting AIDS. itopia may not be present in these stories but neither tion. Besides providing a kaleidoscope of images, the book i be considered soporific or intellectual descriptions of Danny is isolated from the world and even himself (if we believe his offers some sobering news on the state of AIDS: 3. The selection includes writings from bestseller letters), and yet the constant attention to trivial detail of American "What would you thinkif suddenly the entire populations ie Rice [The Vampire Lestaft and Nicholas Baker (Vox) popular culture would seem to imply a love ofthis culture akin to that of of 17 states — let's say Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, re perhaps responsible for making homoerotic and Sandra Bernhard. Many of Indiana's cultural referencesca n be found in Delaware, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, dally acceptable subjects for popular fiction. Other the texts of Ms. Bernhard and repeated here without her idolization of Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nevada, ;e Pat Califia [author of Macho Sluts and editor of On them and sardonic wit, they lose some of their cutting humor. In one New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii — were stricken Coming to Power] and Leigh Rutledge, may be better short paragraph chosen randomly, Indiana includes references to Annie with an incurable disease with devastating effects that would native circles for their gender-bending work in the Leibovitz, the movie Perfect, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aiwa speakers, end their lives prematurely? Every man, woman and child in :ually revolutionized representations of lesbian sex and and Gourmet magazine. The flood of cultural trivia should anchor Rent 17 states. Okay, now you have an idea of how many people ;ies on the West Coast. Among all writers, however, Boy firmlyi n the present of American pop culture, but it doesn't. The worldwide are infected with HIV. i the absolute unapologettc, sometimes irreverent, distance at which Indiana places his characters from his constructed "Let's add 10 more states — Arkansas, Alabama, Missis­ tray something essential about hu- world by the end ofthe novel is scarcely further away than Danny has sippi, South Carolina, Connecticut, Iowa, Washington, Okla­ mattef how shocking or transgres- remained all along. This is a character with a terrible case of modern mal homa, Oregon, and Colorado. Every man, woman, and child ave. Each story offers a powerful . „ , »r, , du siecle, as known as the late 1980s post-modern angst. in 27 states — and that's how many people will be infected description of what goes privately Ifyou have a free afternoon, reading Rent Boy may make you think with HIV by the year 2000, according to projections by the i the most erotic part of the body, about the ways in which we all remain outside our lives. But what good World Health Organization. nind. farget the Harlequin romance does this do? This novel, a fine example of a pre-Prozacmansc depression "But if you go by the estimates of the Harvard AIDS if seduction. If you're looking for an in a post-modem American youth, offers no answers and doesn't tell us Institute, you can throw in the entire populations of Indiana, snture in which women find sexual anything we don't already know. Indiana and several other contempo­ Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Wis­ Dugh "fernmachismo" and men self- rary gay novelists seem to confuse and combine the meaningless label consin, New York and California for a round figure of 100 ie help of a few nozzles and clamps, "Generation X" and the meaninglessness it implies with a need for X- million people infected with HIV by the year 2000. (That's -ature Section of the mall's only rated existential crises. They are sadly mistaken. one presidential term away.) Imagine 36 states HIV positive, check out this anthology. including the two largest. Would you call that genocide?" Do the right thing — buy this book. If not for your coffeetable, then to help fight AIDS. PAGE 6 / THE CHRONICLE R&R WEEKLY MAGAZINE THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1994 MOVIES & JUMP Fresh Prince no longer plays it straight by Justin Lester back sequences, the narrative flows smoothly, effectively tion between parent and child is most obvious when the Every person in the world splitting apart the major scenes in the film. Kittredge's daughter tries to tell her parents she's going to get is separated by no more than Although this comedic drama has many subplots, the married. Her parents are so concerned about Paul, they don't six people: six degrees of sepa­ overriding theme seems to be the discovery of self. It seems even listen to her. ration. Paul Poitier (Will Smith) is trying to find himself by leading Sutherland delivers a solid performance in a film domi­ John Guare presents this the life of someone else, while Ouisa Kittredge learns more nated by Channing and Smith. Smith breaks away from his theory in Six Degrees of Sepa­ about herself through her relationship with Paul. She is Fresh Prince mold with his portrayal of a troubled man who ration, Fred Schepisi's film flattered that someone would go to so much trouble to lead wants to live the good life. Smith trades his buffoonish of Guare's own play. This film her life. Because of his efforts, she begins to question her television personality for a more multi-faceted and troubled is based loosely on a true story values. character. Stockard Channing is extremely convincing as she about the intrusion of a con- The film contains some interesting satirical elements. The subtly displays her maternal affection for Paul. artist into the lives of a wealthy are mocked throughout the film. In one scene Ouisa This film has only one real fault. Six Degrees began as a wealthy New York family. Kittredge says "It's a treat eating at home. All we do is eat out play, which becomes readily apparent in some scenes be­ In a performance which anymore." The most interesting critique concerns parent- cause of the somewhat distracting and lengthy passages of earned her an Academy child relationships. The children in the movie are constantly dramatic dialogue. Other than that, the script's move from Award nomination, Stockard in conflict with their parents. The lack of clear communica­ stage to film is flawless. |gjj Channing plays Ouisa Kittredge, the wife of a SPECIAL TO R&R wealthy art dealer, played by Will Smith as Paul Poiticr Donald Sutherland. A homo­ sexual con-artist (Will Smith), DUKE UNIVERSITY DRAMA PROGRAM PRESENTS claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son and a friend of their children, intrudes upon this seemingly content couple. Schepisi uses flashbacks to tell most of the story. Each event in the movie is offered by one ofthe Kittredges talking to a group of friends. Despite the complexity of these flash- HIPHOP From page 3 THEATER '94 nity, in the blackcommunity in general. We venture into hip­ hop joints like New York City's Soul Kitchen and with our "gaydars," can identify others of our sort. Those of us who master the art of being "real" (not acting stereotypically gay) sometimes go on to become big names in the industry. Others New Works for the Stage of us are content with forming those all-boy freestyle dance circles where the creativity and uniqueness borne out of our queerness help us to out-dance the best. When the joint is rocking. That is, when the party is live, Banji boys are the first to let the DJ know—be it with a cheer APRILS of "heyeyey ho" or an "aahite." When the tracks are wack we are the first to protest by literally falling to sleep on the dance FEST94 floor. Hip-hop culture lives for us and yet does not acknowl­ Full-Length Pieces Staged Readings edge our existence. What is most unfortunate is that most of Night of One-Acts us cannot participate in the culture without subscribing to Emma A. Shaffer dysfunctional roles of caricature and silence. Those of us Portrait of Devotion Laboratory Theater Still Lift- who do so openly must be careful of Buju Banton wannabes by Michael Fell nwtliT92 Friday, April lal 8 p.m who seek to cause riff — step to a person who they think by Theresa Yuschok Directed by Saturday. AprU2atSp.m. Directed by John Clam might be soft, a punk. I try not to worry. Homophobic Sunday, AprU 3 at 7p.m. elements of hip-hop culture are increasingly being criticized Bean Mueller T'94 Tuesday, April 5 oi Friday, April 8 al 8 p.m by those who participate in it. This gives me hope that 8 p.m. assumptions of straight personhood can be replaced by \aturday, AprU 9 at 2 p.m.. Escaping Kansas respect for differences in sexual orientation. I increasingly Sunday. April Wat 7p.m. by John Glum Duke University find that "real" straight men are unbothered by my sexual 209 East Duke Theater Directed by Museum of Art orientation. But homophobia more often than not remains to Stephen Schilling hip-hop what racism is to skinheads. Like the skinheads, many ofthe men in hip-hop culture seem unable to separate Sijiht and Sinking ; Spit their cultural existence from fears or traditions which main­ (A Cabaret in the making) GUTS by Chris Nelson T'94 tain that gays are unacceptable and inappropriate. I can only reeled by Devon Allen by David Wiener T '95 Directed by have faith that change is within our reach. I preserve hope April 12 at 8 p.m. Directed by Robert Milazzo T'94 each time I hear phat lyrics by brothers like Souls of Mischief Emily Culver T'94 Wednesday, April 13 at Saturday, April 9 at who espouse beliefs like "Live and let live." 8p.rrL 8 p.m. Until hip-hoppers can peacefully reconcile sexual differ­ Thursday, April 14al8 pm.Wor n an at Po in t Zero 209 East Duke Theater ence, I have to continue to watch my back. I generally feel Branson Theater by Victoria Vazquez T '94 safe. I gots madd kids like myself who have yet to verbalize Directed by their longings. They got my back if some insecure homopho­ Margi Sharp T'94 making money bic homosexual (or heterosexual) should try to step to me. A The Edge of Night preoccupation with such matters demonstrates why dia­ by Prank Lentricchia by Rene Echevarria logue about homophobia in hip-hop must begin with those Directed by Jodi McAuliffe ^Directed by who produce, consume, and participate in a culture we all Friday, AprU 15 al 8 p. m. ? Lapidus T'94 seek to maintain. We live in a society which is hypocritical Saiurday, April Wat 8 if it denies that hip-hop accurately reflects an American reality through a unique and often legitimate form of expres­ sion. And it is not completely inaccurate to say that f America, homophobia is as American as apple pie. THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1994 R&R WEEKLY MAGAZINE THE CHRONICLE/PAGE 7

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A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES GELS IN AMERICA by Paul Kelleher pal characters (and one fabulous Angel, but Roy Cohn's - but this horror is contrasted There's always a story behind the story, so that comes later), and over the course of the with the appearance of an Angel of America here's mine: I've loved David Marshall Grant play, these lives become painfully intercon­ (the magnificent Kathleen Chalfant), a heav­ since the first moment he appeared on nected. enly messenger who informs Prior that he is thirtysomethingas Russell, the "sympathetic Roy Cohn (played by F. Murray Abraham) to become a late-twentieth-century prophet. gay character," the slightly eccentric painter is the notoriously closeted lawyer/power The central issue of Millennium Ap­ SPECIAL TO R&R David Marshall Grant who befriended the eternally single Melissa, broker who, as he declares, is "a hetero­ proaches is human respon­ cousin of the supremely married Michael, sexual man...who fucks around with sibility, and what it not a punishment sent from a smiting God; husband of the insufferably perfect Hope. guys." Next we have another means in relation to a evil is an absolutely human phenomenon. (Just read along if these characters are unfa­ closeted homosex-ual, the seemingly indifferent Louis again articulates Kushner's ideol­ miliar). As Russell, David Marshall Grant gay Mormon Republican system of cosmic jus­ ogy, identifying the depraved Roy Cohn as added a much needed gaiety to the weekly judicial clerk foe Pitt tice. Kushner's medita­ "the polestar of human evil, he's like the hetero angst of thirtysomething. Love the (by none other tion on human obligation worst human being who ever lived, he isn't show as I do, baby-sitter worries tend to get than the generates many vital ques­ human even, he's..." Louis falters in his tiresome. sumptu­ tions. What does one owe to thinking, but Kushner doesn't. Roy Cohn is David Marshall Grant is the Aryan dream ous David" a lover dying of a terminal painfully real—first sendingEthel Rosenberg with a difference; he has soul. I know this to Marshall illness? What does a to the chair, later hoarding AZT for his AIDS be true. His Russell was neither butch nor Grant) and nation owe to its treatment while hypocritically despising the femme. I knew he felt, I mean really felt. hisnearlyin- people dying of he identifies with not at all. There was also that adorable laugh he had, a sane wife Harper this same illness? Kushner, advocating the preciousness of little exhalation of boyish hesitancy. Oh (Susan Bruce). Joe Perhaps most life, finds the reason for living in a wonder­ David, are you just a cathode-ray dream? Do eventually becomes involved importantly, fully persuasive paradox: you live because you eat and sleep and breathe? Are you real? with thecloyingbut endear­ what sort ofhon- you can and must. Curious that an avowedly Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, a ingly liberal Louis Ironson sty does a person Marxist playwright would end on such a "Gay Fantasia on National Themes," treats (Joe Mantello), who owe himself? (This humanist note. Life is a blessing, in fact, as with epic scope the theme of individual abandons his own lover is where we get the pitch Kushner notes, the Hebrew word for blessing human struggles for justice in the face of dying of AIDS, Prior for coming out of the translates as "more life." seemingly insuperable cosmic forces. Here Walter (Stephen Spin- closet) In one scene, Louis Join me in my obsession, and ask what­ we find a wonderful updating of concerns ella). Amidst these re­ intimates that the answers to ever became of David Marshall Grant? After which has animated the dramatic tradition lationships from hell questions may offer a chance the first half of Angels ends, I wait near the for centuries. Especially innovative is weaves the for the advent of real justice, "the pros­ stage door on the off chance that David Kushner's effort to refract "national themes"- dously satirical, formerly pect of some sort of radical democracy Marshall Grant would perhaps be dining even the so-called universal conceptsof Good, retired drag queen/nurse Belize" !ing outward and upward." alone during the down time between the two Evil and Justice - through the particular sub­ (Jeffrey Wright). Perestroika, the second half of plays. For a few minutes no activity. Then a jectivity of postmodern queerness. What perhaps distinguishes Angels, shifts the theme of justice caterer guy knocks on the stage door. David Angels in America comes in two parts, Angels most is Kushner's utter virtuosity in slightly, focusing ultimately on the grand Marshall Grant answers (rapture!) and takes each play running for about three and a half reconciling the mundane and fantastic, the pappy of all existential quandaries: what a fruit tray from the caterer, David Marshall hours. I experienced both in one marathon banal and the cosmic, showing us how the does human life mean, why do we go on Grant meets my eyes for three seconds. Then Saturday viewing at Broadway's Walter Kerr one is not as unlike the other as we usually despite this planet's seemingly endless array David Marshall Grant goes back in. Wait Theatre. Mi'Me/iium Approaches, the first half think. The spectre of AIDS looms over An­ of cruelty and viciousness? 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