Life lost its meaning? Catch a ride on the Soul Train with best- THE CHRONICLE selling author Thomas Moore. See R&K. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1995 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90, NO. 121 DSG ups DGBLA's QDC releases report on quad life By ALISON STUEBE dent Nan Keohane] called for," number of recommendations in funds after 13 years If the housing reshuffle ear­ said Trinity senior John its draft report, calling for: lier this month provided the Tolsma, Duke Student Govern­ • abolition ofthe Upperclass By IVAN SNYDER group to have its budget al­ building blocks for the new resi­ ment president. Housing Association, to be re­ The Duke Gay, Bisexual tered during the meeting. dential system, Wednesday's In December, University placed by a quad-based Campus and Lesbian Association re­ The DSG legislature ap­ report on quad governance trustees voted unanimously to Council; ceived more than $500 in proved an increase of $438 could be the cement that will place all freshmen on East • pairing of quadrangles funding from the Duke Stu­ above the $500 budget rec­ hold it together. Campus and house upperclass­ with freshman dorms in an dent Government legisla­ ommended by the SOFC, for In a 13-page report drafted men in seven "quadrangles" on "adopt-a-quad" program, in­ ture for the first time in its the DGBLA newsletter and by a committee whose members West and North which would cluding assigning freshmen to 13-year history Wednesday a brochure for freshmen live everywhere from Epworth sponsor programming and fos­ Freshman Advisory Counselors night. about gay life on campus. to House CC, the Quadrangle ter interaction among selective, in their "adopted" quad; The legislature's decision However, the legislature Development Council laid out non-selective and fraternity liv­ • a biannual review of all liv­ came as part of the annual denied the group's request its vision for campus fife in the ing groups. ing groups, with standards to Student Organization Fi­ for another $430 for three new residential system. Charged with deciding how be set by the Residential Policy nance Committee's budget special programs. Trinity "This lays the foundation for the new quads would be gov­ Committee; and report. DGBLA was the only See DSG on page 5 • the type of community [Presi­ erned, the QDC put forward a See QDC on page 5 •* Bequest received from Doris Duke From staff reports President Nan Keohane. manity," she said. The first charitable contribu­ Duke, who died on Oct. 28, In recent months, Duke and tion of the late Doris Duke's es­ 1993 at the age of 80 created the her estate have been shrouded tate was delivered to the Univer­ $1 billion Doris Duke Charitable in controversy, with wild rumors sity Wednesday. Foundation to provide funds for circulating about foul play in her A $10.5 million check was de­ environmental and ecological death and numerous attempts to livered by Bernard Laffery, a causes, education, the perform­ contest the will and claim parts close friend of Duke and the co- ing arts, medical research and ofthe Duke estate. executor of her $1.2 billion es­ the prevention of cruelty to chil­ "In the face of these delaying tate. Duke, the daughter of Uni­ dren and animals under the challenges, some which are ca­ versity founder James B. Duke, terms of her will. She donated pricious or bizarre, Mr. Lafferty was one ofthe richest women in $2 million to the University and his co-executor, U.S. Trust, the world at her death. weeks before her death in sup­ successfully petitioned the court Officials said the money port of AIDS research. to permit an early distribution would go to support interdisci­ Keohane said the donation re­ of certain specific bequests, in­ plinary research and teaching. ceived Wednesday would help cluding the $10 million be­ "During her lifetime and in this fund similar initiatives. "This queathed to Duke University," wonderful bequest, [Duke] has bequest will help support scien­ said an estate spokesperson. The continued the extraordinary tists at Duke who are working delay resulted in an additional philanthropic tradition of her to solve some ofthe most intrac­ $500,000 award for the Univer­ PETER SCHUMACHER/HERALD-SUN father and the Duke family," said table problems that plague hu­ sity. 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We have tional events. THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1995 World and National Newsfile CIA sent money to military government Associated Press ByTIMWEINER approved by Congress, a public display buy crucial information about the death Official attacked : Japans top N.Y. Times News Service of frustration at the Guatemalan of DeVine. police official, who is leading the in­ WASHINGTON—The Bush adminis­ military's failure to assist in the investi­ The apparent contradiction between vestigation into a deadly nerve gas tration, in a show of public anger over the gation of the killing of the American, the public policy and the approval of se­ attack on Tokyo's subways, was shot killing of an American, cut off military Michael DeVine, the officials said. cret funds raises the question of how and wounded by a masked man on a aid to Guatemala in 1990 but secretly DeVine, an innkeeper in the northern for­ deeply committed the White House and the bicycle as he left his apartment for ests, was killed by Guatemalan soldiers CIA were to investigating DeVme's death. work Thursday morning. allowed the CIA to send millions of dol­ lars to the military government to make in June 1990. Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., who is a Father killed: A man was shot to up for the loss, members ofthe Bush and Two Bush administration officials fa­ member of the House Intelligence Com­ death in front of his daughters mo­ Clinton administrations said Wednesday. miliar with the payments, who insisted on mittee, has linked a CIA agent, Col. Julio ments after accusing a paroled sex The payments apparently continued not being identified, said the money did not Roberto Alpirez ofthe Guatemalan army, offender of making lewd advances into the Clinton administration but it could buy weapons but went to mollify the Gua­ to the killing of DeVine and to the death toward the girls, police said. not be learned if they are still being made. temalan military and to pay CIA sources. ofa guerrilla leader who was married to About $5 million to $7 million flowed "The agency ran this program on the an American lawyer. Term limits fail: An idea whose annually from the CIA through the basis that it was the key to keeping U.S.