Second-Half Surge Keys Carolina

UNC is still #1 I 0 k The liideous color on the left and the de- \ grading1 blurb above resulted from our bet [• THE CHRONICLE with The Daily Tar Heel. See FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLI NCCU students Plan proposed for new dorms By MATT DE FERRANTI plan allows students to apply from 179 to 84 would isolate Administrators are scram for housing in groups of five, them from the restoftheir class. charged in robbery bling to finalize a residential six or seven. Block housing The Duke Student Government By GEOFFREY GREEN napped from West Campus plan for East Campus' two new would be available on two floors legislature passed a resolution Duke Public Safety ar on Jan. 16 and then forced to dormitories. of Alspaugh, Bassett, Giles and Wednesday criticizing this seg rested two North Carolina withdraw and surrender The Office of Student Devel one ofthe new dormitories. ment ofthe proposal. Central University students $300 from an automatic teller opment has proposed to place Because housing forms for "Having 84 first-year stu Wednesday on charges of kid machine. 108 upperclassmen and 272 next year must be sent to the dents on West is not the ideal napping and robbing an un BrianBookman,21,of7321 freshmen in the new $12.7 mil printer, administrators must situation, but weighing all fac dergraduate at gunpoint- Crossridge Rd. in Raleigh and lion residence hall on East, finalize a plan by the end of tors it seemed like the best Officers are continuing to Bryant Stephen Jones, 18, of which is scheduled to be fin next week, said Bill Burig, co available option," said .Karen search for a third man who is Box 230 on Rt. 1 in Kittrell, ished in mid-July. The office ordinator of student housing. Steinour, dean of students. believed to be involved in the were arrested Tuesday after has also proposed slashing in The administration's plan Steinour discussed the plan incident, said Capt. Clarence noon. half the number of freshman has recently come under fire with the residential policy com Birkhead of Public Safety. Bookman and Jones are bed spaces on West Campus. from students who assert that mittee, a student advisory The undergraduate was kid See KIDNAP on page 16 • To make East Campus more cutting the number of fresh board, for the first time on attractive, the administration's men living on West Campus See DORMS on page 15 • Duke's Second-half surge daughter files suit keys Carolina win By DAVE ROYSTER ence) into a first-place tie with By BRAD RUBIN CHAPEL HILL—The much- Duke(15-2,6-2)and Virginia in The adopted daughter of the anticipated clash between the the ACC standings at the mid late heiress Doris Duke filed a top-ranked men's basketball point ofthe conference season. lawsuit in a New York court team and No. 2 North Carolina "It's still early," UNC head Tuesday to block the execution Thursday night in the Dean E. coach Dean Smith said. "We of Duke's will. Smith Center actually lived up were at home. Duke's still in the Doris Duke died Oct. 28 at the to the hype that preceded it. driver's seat for the ACC regu age of 80 after a prolonged ill For one half, anyway. lar season, but now we have a ness. She left $10 million to the After a nip-and-tuck opening shot." University in her will, but none 20 minutes that saw seven lead Duke became the fifth con of her beneficiaries will receive changes, six ties and ended with secutive top-ranked team tolose any money until the lawsuit is the Blue Devils holding a 40-38 during the first week ofits stay settled. lead, Carolina blew the game atop the polls. The last time the The suit filed by Chandi open with a dominating run Blue Devils visited the Smith Heffiier, who was adopted by early in the second half and Center as the No. 1 team was in Duke in 1988, claims that Duke sailed to a 89-78 victory that 1992, and they lost that one, was not of sound mind when she was never in doubt. too. signed her latest will in April The Tar Heels' win will prob Carolina's second-half run 1993. Duke's will, which explic ably vault UNC into the na wasn't as unexpected as it was itly disinherits Heffner, left the tional polls'top spot forthe third sudden. Duke's Chris Collins, bulk of Duke's $1.2 billion estate time this season, and it also who made two three-pointers to establish a charitable founda- SHANNON COYLE/THE CHRONICLE puts Carolina (18-3 overall, 6-2 late in the first half to help See DUKE on page 16 •• Senior Marty Clark's efforts were not enough for the Blue Devils. in the Atlantic Coast Confer See CAROLINA on page 17 • Quad sports offer welcome respite from daily routine This article is the third installment in a a game played by members of Beta Theta five-part series appearing on Fridays on Pi, is but one example. campus stress breakers and pastimes. Perhaps their popularity is owed to tradition, as each sport is passed down By ROSE MARTELLI from one generation to the next. Perhaps Okay, so maybe Christian Laettner felt seeing a group of guys tossing a football or pretty good about nailing that clutch playing a game of pick-up stickball stirs jumper with 2.1 seconds left in overtime up a feeling of nostalgia; this is how to propel the men's basketball team into college is supposed to be, one muses wist the 1992 Final Four. fully. But ask yourself this: didLaettnerever Quad sports serve well to relieve stress. get to play Lo Li? Unlike the more organized and competi The undergraduate population is re tive nature of club and intramural sports, nowned for its love of athletics, as evi quad sports are more relaxed and offer a denced by scores of club and intramural greater sense of camaraderie. teams, as well as the student turnout at One distinguishing feature of quad varsity games. There is something differ sports is that they are predominantly ent, though, about "quad sports," those played by men, partly because many of ritualistic activities particular to various them are fraternity traditions. Although STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE living groups, mainly fraternities. Lo Li, See QUAD SPORTS on page 8 • Some students practice their own unique kinds of quad sports THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1994 World and National Newsfile Clinton ends trade embargo on Vietnam By DOUGLAS JEHL as soon as the Commerce Department House also released a sheaf of endorse Networks announce: The ABC, N.Y. Times News Service can draft the necessary regulations, prob ments from distinguished Vietnam-era CBS and NBC television networks, WASHINGTON — President Clinton ably within the next several weeks. commanders, including Adm. Elmo biggest users and loudest critics of on Thursday ordered an end to the trade The idea of reaching out to Vietnam Zumwalt and Gen. William the Nielsen ratings system, embargo on Vietnam, casting away a had been vigorously opposed by the Westmoreland, both of whom are now announced they have set up their central remnant of one of America's most American Legion and others among the retired. own 'laboratory" to improve the divisive wars and opening a potentially nation's leading veteran's groups, mak But Clinton appeared determined to accuracy of audience measurement. lucrative market to American goods. ing the decision a sensitive one for show no great pleasure in his decision, After nearly two decades of a bitter Clinton. He had to overcome criticism which he announced by reading a pas Activist charges: The peace, Clinton said it was now time to from them during his presidential cam sionless statement. For the ceremony, government human rights acknowledge the cooperation that Viet paign for having avoided the military in the Roosevelt Room of the White commission may be covering up a draft during the Vietnam War. shoddy investigation into the nam has shown in the search for evi House, he spoke before a backdrop of apparent executions of five rebels by dence of the 2,238 Americans still offi In an effort to avoid a new round of books that aides said had been displayed soldiers, a U.S. activist charged. cially listed as missing from that con damaging attacks, Clinton announced to add a sober note to images of the flict, which ended in 1975. He said open his decision on Thursday afternoon only proceedings. Businesses criticize: President ing the door to trade would benefit that after meeting privately with represen To Clinton's immediate right was Gen. Clinton's health plan took another still-unfinished search. tatives oftheir organizations. The White See VIETNAM on page 7 • blow from business groups with the At a White House ceremony on Thurs U.S. Chamber of Commerce dismiss day afternoon, Clinton said he was lift ing it even "as a starting point." ing the trade embargo "because I am Senate subcommittee finds absolutely convinced it offers us the best Farrakhan accuses: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan disci way to resolve the fate of those who plined a top aide Thursday for "re remain missing and about whom we are harrassment at academies pugnant" remarks about Jews, then not sure." accused a Jewish group of trying to The step taken by Clinton stops short By JOHN DIAMOND .Also, top civilian and uniformed offi destroy him, his organization and of restoring diplomatic relations with Associated Press cials told the panel that the concept of other black leaders.

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