ACC BASKETBALL PREVIEW INSIDE Go to hell Carolina the dreaded Tar Heels as a warmup for 1 K^S THE CHRONICLE trip to Tokyo. See the preview on page 13 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL 87, NO. 59 Robbery Council to recommend occurs near 5,925 as enrollment cap Bruegger's By MATT STEFFORA The council accepted a proposal The Academic Council will rec­ by Larry Evans, physics depart­ By MICHAEL SAUL ommend to the Board of Trustees ment chair, which states that the Two Durham residents were an undergraduate enrollment council take no action ofi the re­ robbed at gunpoint in the park­ limit of 5,925 for the 1992-93 aca­ port and that the Board of Trust­ ing lot of Bruegger's Bagel Bak­ demic year, but it will not use the ees not use the report when es­ ery on Ninth Street Wednesday report on enrollment to do so. tablishing student enrollment lev­ night. "We're not using the report... els for the 1992-93 year at its Dec. Laura Southard and Owen but asking for more time," said 6 meeting. The council's execu­ Synan left the store at 8 p.m. and Provost Thomas Langford. tive committee will explore means were walking toward their car The 90-page Report for Re­ of studying long-term enrollment when two men robbed them. source Utilization and Enrollment policy. One ofthe men was carrying a at Duke University, released at The dbuncil should suggest to rifle wrapped in a jacket, said the council's Nov. 7 meeting, was the board that the undergradu­ Investigator B. L. Apple of prepared by the provost's office at ate enrollment level remain at Durham Police. the request ofthe Board of Trust­ 5,925 for 1991-92, but without "Give me all your money, jew­ ees. basing its suggestion on the re­ elry and wallets or I will blow The report examines the port, Langford said. your fucking head off," said one of University's enrollment capacity Current undergraduate enroll­ the men, according to Synan. for undergraduate and graduate ment is more than 6,000 students, Synan surrendered his watch, students, but does not contain but administrators have used the his ring, a rope chain and $12 in speculations or suggestions on 5,925 figure as a hypothetical tar­ cash. The jewelry was valued at what the optimum student body get. about $500. PAUL ORSULAK/THE CHRONICLE size should be. Several trustees have seen a Southard handed over her wal­ When the trustees meet in De­ draft of the report for more than let, which contained credit cards Defense on and off the court cember, they will approve a pre­ two months, while Academic and $2 in cash. Basketball players Kenny Blakeney and Cherokee Parks liminary budget for the 1992-93 Council members received it The men told the victims to get extoll the virtues of safe sex at the PISCES table. academic year based on a speci­ within the last two weeks and See ROBBERY on page 6 • fied enrollment level. See COUNCIL on page 6 • Professor discusses details of Holocaust, refutes ad's claims By STEPHEN HIEL agreements of scholars to deny Koonz brought her extensive his­ says. The communication ends by believes about 5 million Jews died. A University faculty member the Holocaust," Koonz said. torical knowledge to bear when explaining that these survivors, But questioning details should discussed differing historical de­ "Where does revisionism end evaluating specific claims by Smith. presumably the strongest, would not be twisted into denying the tails on the Holocaust while refut­ and lying begin?" Koonz asked. Responding to the adver­ otherwise begin "a new Jewish existence ofthe entire Holocaust, ing the recent advertisement in She examined the entire ad, chal­ tisement's claim that no official reconstruction (history teaches us as Smith does, she said. The Chronicle denying the lenging every viewpoint stated in policy to exterminate the Jews or that)." Adolf Hitler often blamed Jews Holocaust's existence. it. any other peoples existed, Koonz Phrases such as "natural elimi­ and Socialists for exactly the Claudia Koonz, an associate The call to challenge orthodox presented what most scholars con­ nation" and "treated accordingly" crimes the Nazis themselves com­ professor of history who special­ thinking is very inviting because sider to be the most telling surviv­ are examples of euphemisms the mitted; when people like Smith izes in Nazi Germany, led the ses­ people like to think of themselves ing document: an order from Nazis used for killing, Koonz said. use words like "fraud" and "hoax," sion for an audience of about 40 as open-minded, especially at a Reinhard Heydrich, an officer in Never were the words "killing" or perhaps his readers are getting an people in the Gray Building on university, she said. "The appeal Hitler's SS, dated July 31,1941. "extermination" used, as the Na­ indication of their own tactics, Thursday. She concentrated on the ofthe ad is obvious." The order mentions "the final zis tried to make the Holocaust Koonz said. contents of the Nov. 5 ad, pub­ "My first advice is to use com­ solution" and talks of conscript­ deniable. Koonz says she hopes to have a lished by Bradley Smith's Com­ mon sense" in questioning the le­ ing Jews to labor in the East. While Koonz agreed with the continuing series of such lecture/ mittee for Open Debate on the gitimacy of the ad, Koonz said. "Undoubtedly a large number will advertisement's claim that the num­ discussions and is available to Holocaust, rather than on The "Have major newspapers accepted drop out through natural elimi­ ber of Jews killed in the Holocaust speak ofthe historical proof of the Chronicle's decision to print it. this ad? Why is Bradley R. Smith nation" while any remainders "will was not as high as the commonly Holocaust for any organization or "Smith uses legitimate dis­ interested only in the Jews?" be treated accordingly," the order quoted 6 million, she said she still living group. Blood Mobile arrives at University Students see it as an 'opportunity to save lives' By COLIN BROWN nor Center. However, the Blood match was available, but a short­ If any guilt-ridden person be­ Mobiles in the region are only able age of the boy's blood type made lieves he has too much blood on to collect 900-1200 pints a day. the operation impossible. "We can his hands, he can walk down to "[This daily shortage] means a not allow that type of thing to the Bryan Center to lighten his chronic shortage of all blood," she happen," she said. load. said. Community need is not lost on The Red Cross Blood Mobile The shortage of blood has seri­ donors. Shannon Coyle, a Trinity has arrived at the University to ous implications for people with sophomore, experienced firsthand collect the vital fluids of students, needs varying from the predict­ the importance of having blood professors or anyone with an hour able daily blood needs of cancer available. "My mom was in an ac­ and a pint of blood to spare. patients to the unpredictable in­ cident and she required 25 pints of The Red Cross needs 1,500 pints stances when blood is necessary blood. That had a definite impact a day to serve the 90-county re­ for a transplant operation, on me," she said. Yes, the needle MELISSA BERMUDEZ/THE CHRONICLE gion of which Durham is a part, Durham said. Durham related a pricks, but "I save somebody's life said Gretchen Durham, an em­ case concerning a boy who needed and in turn, get two seconds of Law student Amy Gillespie signing up to give blood. ployee at the Durham Blood Do­ a liver transplant. A perfect liver See DONORS on page 6 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1991 World and National Newsfile New U.N. secretary general to be confirmed Associated Press By PAUL LEWIS the United Nations for a term of office from up to Thursday night's vote, several black Early Christmas in USSR: The N.Y. Times 1 January 1992 to 31 December 1996." African diplomats made clear that they world's richest industrial democra­ UNITED NATIONS — Boutros Ghali, No General Assembly vote was immedi­ preferred a black African over Ghali. cies on Thursday gave the Soviet Egypt's 69-year old deputy prime minis­ ately scheduled, but diplomats said ap­ "I'm very glad we have a new secretary Union a reprieve from the bill collec­ ter, was unanimously recommended to proval is a foregone conclusion in view of general and that no negative votes were tors, deferring $3.6 billion in debt become the next United Nations secretary the Security Council's unanimous endorse­ cast against him," France's United Na­ payments and offering new loans general by the 15 members ofthe Security ment and the fact that he was one of six tions representative, Jean-Bernard that would be secured by Soviet gold Council on Thursdaynight and appeared official African candidates nominated for Merimee, said as members left the closed- reserves. set to win final approval from the 166- the post by the Organization of African door meeting. nation General Assembly. Unity and endorsed by the 106-member Man the bomb: A push for $500 Ghali would become the first Arab and Non-Aligned Movement. Britain's representative, Sir David million in aid to help the Soviet Union the first person from Africa to hold the top African countries had mounted a suc­ Hannay, described the choice as "excel­ assure control of its nuclear arsenal post at the United Nations.