Trampling the Terrapins Led by its captains, the women's hoops; THE CHRONICLE team rallied Sunday to down Maryland MONDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1997 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA Local leaders intensify superintendent search By RICHARD RUBIN ly serves as interim superinten­ After a six-month search for a dent. permanent superintendent for In the first few phases ofthe the Durham Public Schools, sev­ search, the board was aided by eral members of the Durham Sockwell and Associates, a Char­ Board of Education this week lotte-based consulting firm. will travel to the current school Susan Jernigan, the consultant district of each ofthe three final­ for Sockwell and Associates in ists in order to gain firsthand charge of the Durham search, knowledge of each candidate's said the firm began the search ability. by meeting with board mem­ Two of the candidates— bers as well as community mem­ Daniel Cockman, superinten­ bers, teachers and parents to de­ dent of Thomasville City termine the qualities in a Schools, and Ann Denlinger, su­ superintendent most valued by perintendent of Wilson County those involved with Durham schools—are currently serving schools. as educational leaders in North Jernigan and Meyers said Carolina, while the third candi­ the desired characteristics in­ date, James Williams, is super­ clude a track record of improved intendent of Dayton Public student performance, success in Schools in Ohio. promoting safe and orderly Kathiyn Meyers, chair of the schools and an educational phi­ board, emphasized the impor­ losophy that favors site-based tance of seeing firsthand the im­ management—the practice of pact each candidate has had in a having teachers and principals, his or her school district. "The rather than administrators, paper description of a.„school is make decisions concerning the one thing," Meyers said, " but schools. seeing it is a whole different ex­ Sockwell and Associates perience." found over 50 candidates nation­ The on-site visits are only wide who were interested in the part ofa comprehensive effort to job and who fulfilled many of the fill the position left by Owen criteria, Jernigan said. The firm Phillips, who retired last March. subsequently picked 11 candi­ Ted Drain, who was Phillips' dates from that pool. The board deputy superintendent, current­ So* SUPER on page 5 • Nye stresses WXDU chair tapped for Union presidency By MARSHA JOHNSON Andrews said she decided to pursue Given her past experience, Andrews is In its annual election meeting Thurs­ the office of president this year partly be­ expected to be able to step up to the posi­ relationship day, the leadership of the University cause the Union's attentive response to tion and provide strong leadership, said Union elected THnity junior Emmy An­ Hurricane Fran's destruction of WXDLPs Trinity senior Brian Daniels, current drews as its president for the 1997-*98 radio tower last fall led her to realize how president ofthe Union. with China academic year. important the central leadership of the "She has proven to be an amazing Currently the chair of WXDU, the Union is to its committees. leader and an innovator," Daniels said. By JON HUNTLEY campus radio station, Andrews has also It's so important that strong people be "I've known her since she started in the Joseph Nye, dean ofthe Kennedy served as the publicity chair of the there to support the committees,'' An­ performing arts committee, and even School of Government at Harvard Union's performing arts committee and drews said. "Tm definitely very excited then she was a real go-getter." He added University, outlined the Clinton ad­ as a member of its visual arts committee. about it." See UNION on page 4 • ministration's current policy toward eastern Asian nations to a crowd of about 200 at the Terry Sanford In­ stitute for Public Policy Friday after­ Current managing editor noon. Nye, who was instrumental in forming that policy, served in the elected next year's leader Clinton administration from 1993 From staff reports Brian Harris for a one-year term be­ until 1995 as director ofthe Nation­ The editorial staff of The Chronicle ginning May 18. al Intelligence Council and assistant elected Trinity junior Devin Gordon to As editor, Gordon will be responsi­ secretary of defense for Internation­ lead the newspaper for its 93rd year of ble for determining the newspaper's al Security Affairs. publication. content and leading a staff of more In a speech titled "East Asian In a meeting held Friday afternoon, than 100 student volunteer reporters Balance of Power," Nye said policy Gordon, currently managing editor, and editors. His responsibilities as for the region is extremely impor­ was named editor of The Chronicle president will include preserving the tant because it is the "most rapidly and president of Duke Student Pub­ corporation's mission and representing growing part of the world economy. lishing Company, Inc., the indepen­ the organization to the public. If [the region] is unstable, we are dent corporation responsible for pub­ As part of his plan for improving likely to be drawn into it." lishing the campus' student-run daily the overall quality of the newspaper, Nye focused primarily on the topic newspaper. Gordon says he intends to focus on the !ATT COLLIN/THE CHRONICLE See NYE on page 4 • Gordon will succeed Trinity senior See EDITOR on page S • Devin Gordon THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1997 World and National Newsfile Ecuador resolves presidential crisis peacefully From wire reports Jet Crashes: A U.S. Marine Corps By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO Constitution to give it a clear mecha­ serve as president for just a few days. jet on a routine training mission N.Y. Times News Service nism to elect a successor. But the agreement for a peaceful crashed Sunday into the Yellow Sea QUITO, Ecuador — The extraordi­ Arteaga, 40, had maintained that transition based in law followed a between China and South Korea. nary flurry of claims to the presiden­ she was the rightful successor to Ab- night rife with forebodings of disaster The cause of the crash was not cy of this small Andean nation came dala Bucaram, who was voted out of and of nonstop meetings to reach a known, said Jim Coles, spokesman to a peaceful, equally extraordinary office by Congress Thursday on the consensus. At the Presidential for the U.S. military command in solution Sunday, as an agreement ground of mental incapacity. Con­ Palace, reporters gathered expecting Seoul. was reached for the vice president to gress had elected its own president, a declaration of dictatorship by serve as interim president. This Fabian Alarcon, to lead the country, Arteaga, who has strong support from makes Rosalia Arteaga Ecuador's but Arteaga had contended that Con­ the military. Hospitals test: New York hospi­ first female president. gress had no right to take that step. tals quietly began the open manda­ Bucaram had called on his sup­ tory testing of newborns for HIV Under the agreement hammered With Congress scheduled to begin porters to take to the streets Satur­ this month in the first such program out with congressional leaders, work on revising the Constitution day night, but hours later he ac­ in the nation. The state had con­ Arteaga took office as president and this week to allow it to select a suc­ knowledged that he lacked a mandate ducted anonymous HIV testing of will serve while Congress amends the cessor in such cases, Arteaga could to govern. newborns for several years. Ashes launch: The ashes of "Star Commercial spy satellites scheduled to orbit Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and LSD guru Timothy Leary, loaded on By WILLIAM BROAD sharpness of their photos, the new sailing cruises along foreign coasts. a rocket strapped to a jet's wing, N.Y. Times News Service American-made satellites are de­ Small retail businesses will have a began the first leg of an unprece­ Commercial spy satellites are signed to see objects on the ground better understanding of demograph­ dented journey Sunday. The plane about to let anyone with a credit as small as a yard or so in diame­ ics." will launch the ashes into space over ter—cars and hot tubs, for example. the Canary Islands next month. card peer down from the heavens Images are expected to cost as lit­ into the compounds of dictators or While the new craft pose knotty tle as a few hundred dollars each, de­ the backyards of neighbors with high security and privacy questions, their pending on whether an order can be fences. builders tend to play down such is­ filled from company archives or re­ The first satellite is scheduled to sues and instead pledge to aid car­ quires a satellite to turn a camera on Weather fly into orbit in April or May, anoth­tography, law enforcement, oil explo­ a new part ofthe Earth. Tuesday er in December and perhaps a dozen ration, disaster relief and urban The Clinton administration ap­ High: 40 • Cloudy in all during the next decade. planning, among other things. proved this commercial use of spy Low: 28 • Winds: record The launchings will end a monop­ "The possibilities are endless," technology in 1994 to help aerospace "There's only this, there's only us, no oly that advanced nations held for says a brochure from Earthwatch companies facing post-cold-war con­ day but today... " nearly four decades on orbital espi­ Inc. of Longmont, Colo., which is tractions and to challenge foreign ri­ onage. first in line to send up the new satel­ vals in the emerging industry of Rivaling military spy craft in the lites. "Vacationers will plan exotic civilian surveillance from space.