THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1990 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 107 Med Center critic Pizza Hut worker contracts hepatitis told to quit or else Pickens offers vaccine for University community By MATT SCLAFANI From staff reports A Medical Center doctor, An employee at the Pizza Hut critical of the University's on Erwin Rd. has contracted the oomk) Vn handling of a controversial contagious virus hepatitis A. cancer test, says he has been State and University health offi­ Pickens Health Center asked to resign or face the cials are warning those who have consequences. eaten there to seek an injection Erwtn Road and Trent Drive A letter from the Universi­ to prevent the disease from 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. ty's attorney implies that if spreading. for more info call: 684-6721 pathologist Kenneth McCarty As many as 1,000 people may FREE for Students and Employees Jr. does not resign by Tues­ have been exposed to the virus, day, the Medical Center will including numerous students $25 for ali others report him to the North and employees. Individuals must seek vaccination Carolina Board of Medical Ex­ Anyone who has eaten food within two weeks of visiting Pizza Hut aminers. from that Pizza Hut between McCarty has frequently STAFF/THE CHRONICLE Feb. 12 and Feb. 20 should im­ criticized the Medical Center's Kenneth McCarty, Jr. mediately get an injection of Im­ Health Department on Main ache, abdominal pain, dark use of the B72.3 cancer test. mune Globulin at Pickens Health Street. urine, nausea and diarrhea. The monoclonal antibody test "I can assure you that Dr. Center. The employee, whose name The disease is an inflammation has sparked numerous law­ McCarty will avail himself of Students covered by the stu­ has not been released, may have ofthe liver that is usually a mild suits and a congressional in­ every legal option . He dent health fee and employees of been contagious as early as Feb. condition, but can be severe. vestigation. would not go away. He would the University can obtain the 4. Too much time has elapsed for Hepatitis appears about a month "I will not be embarassed, stand and fight," said his at­ shot for free. Others can have the customers of Pizza Hut between after infection and usually lasts ashamed or intimidated from torney, Robert Zaytoun. vaccination for a $25 fee. Feb. 4 and Feb. 11 to seek vac­ four to eight weeks. speaking out for the welfare of Because McCarty is a The vaccination is not effective cination. These individuals The virus is transmitted from my patients," McCarty said tenured faculty member, the after two weeks have elapsed should call a physician if symp­ oral-fecal contact resulting from Saturday. McCarty, who has University can prevent him since exposure, said Dr. Howard toms appear. poor hygiene. worked at the University for from practicing medicine, but Eisenson, director of student Pizza Hut customers after Feb. 14 years, said he will not cannot dismiss him from the health. The symptoms of hepatitis A 20 should not be concerned about resign. See MCCARTY on page 12 • Vaccinations can also be ob­ include fever, fatigue, loss of ap­ infection, nor should customers tained at the Durham County petite, nausea, vomiting, head- of any other Pizza Hut franchise. "The fact that this person con­ tracted hepatitis A is no reflec­ tion on the integrity or hygienic Undergraduate science majors fading fast standards of the restaurant," Durham County health officials By CRAIG WHITLOCK why campus interest in some sci­ said in a prepared statement. In what he described as an ences has dropped so dramatical­ "alarming trend," President ly, but explained that changes in N Keith Brodie informed the Board curriculum and major require­ jj^ijjj^ JJ] j Jujjj_b^yox of Trustees Friday that the num­ ments were at least partially the Nicaraguan ber of undergraduate science cause. majors has plummeted in recent The decline is also rooted in a balloting years, coinciding with a national lack of emphasis on the sciences ''*Vs,y ' h')«Y*W ».*)* trend. in grade school, Brodie and other 400. Since the 1983-84 school year, administrators noted. peaceful the number of science majors has In contrast to the sciences, the comi,mt:\ declined by 38 percent. In con­ number of declared majors in the WM % By MARK UHLIG trast, 11 percent more students humanities has risen markedly N.Y. Times News Service since the 1983-84 school year, are majoring in the social sci­ MANAGUA, Nicaragua — ences and humanities. especially in English (33 per­ cent), comparative area studies Under intense international Among the majors most af­ scrutiny, this war-battered fected in the last five years are: (73 percent) and political science *"""""-..„„ (28 percent). Not coincidentally, country voted Sunday in the computer science, down 62 per­ first free and broadly con­ cent; geology, down 92 percent; the increase parallels a greater financial commitment to many of tested elections in its history. biology, down 44 percent; and There were few reports of chemistry, down 48 percent. the academic departments in the social sciences, Brodie said. violence and strong signs of an Brodie said he was puzzled overwhelming voter turnout. Many trustees expressed deep Exit polls and unofficial concern with Brodie's message, S3/i 87/88 88/89 projections were prohibited by and asked what they could do to _ Year I the election authorities, un­ See SCIENCE on page 12 • i Inside JENNIFER WOODARD / THE CHRONICLE derscoring the uncertainty that has surrounded the con­ Babble; The trustees were test, which pits President here last weekend hashing out Trustee unloads $1 million SRI gift Daniel Ortega Saavedra ofthe the future of our Gothic play­ governing Sandinista Na­ tional Liberation Front ground. To find out what all By MATT SCLAFANI kind since Duke University was the commotion was about, see rate partnerships. against Violeta Barrios de The chair *)f the Board of founded, it is extremely signifi­ page 4. This funding plan was pres­ Chamorro, leader of the 14- Trustees has donated $1 million cant that our chairman of the ented to the trustees this week­ party National Opposition for the interdisciplinary Science board has demonstrated such end. The board's Business and Union. Weather Resource Initiative (SRI). confidence in the project. We are Finance committee approved the But the atmosphere in Fitzgerald and Susan Hudson very grateful for Jerry and Susan general concept ofthe plan, in ex­ Managua and throughout the are the first to give to the project. Hudson's generosity." ecutive session on Friday. The country was one of energy and KrzyzewskivHIe: Don't "This gift is a dramatic show of The University's funding full board will vote on the entire expectation as hundreds of forget the heater when you support for the SRI, and a tre­ scheme calls for $13.5 million in project in May. thousands of Nicaraguans pitch your tent. But, after mendous step in our fund-raising gifts to help pay for the $73 mil­ The board expressed "a general streamed to the polls in what temperatures plunge tonight, effort for the facility," said Presi­ lion facility. level of comfort" with the funding all sides view as a decisive ref- tomorrow's highs in the fifties dent Keith Brodie in a prepared The remainder of the money proposal said University Trea­ See BALLOTING on page 2 ^ will seem like spring is back. statement. "Because this will be will come from loans, Medical surer Peyton Fuller. the largest undertaking of its Center contributions and corpo­ See HUDSON on page 5 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1990 World & National Newsfile Demonstrators demand power in Moscow rally Associated Press Lithuania sees freedom: The By BILL KELLER races against machine tactics and news predominantly mainstream and middle- leader of the Soviet reform movement N.Y. Times News Service blackouts. aged. Sajudis declares that Lithuanian in­ MOSCOW — The Communist estab­ The protest rallies across the Soviet Judging from photographs made from dependence "is a goal achievable this lishment suffered a double blow on Sun­ heartland may prove to be an even above, about 50,000 people jammed into a year" after his group claims a landslide day as protesters across the country greater humiliation to the Communist stretch of Moscow's broad garden ring victory in the Soviet Union's first mul­ thronged the streets in a defiant call for a Party than the loss of Lithuania, because road, although the police claimed that tiparty elections. share of power while one republic, Lithua­ the authorities used everything from twice that number turned out, and orga­ nia, voted to end Communist rule. warnings of bloodshed to an appeal by the nizers inflated the figure by several times. Bush, Kohl talk: At Camp David In at least 20 cities from the Baltic Sea Russian Orthodox Church to keep people Soviet press agencies reported crowds on Sunday, President Bush said he and to the Sea of Japan, citizens braved an of­ at home. ranging from a few hundred in Tashkent, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Ger­ ficial scare campaign to register their im­ The scare tactics surely reduced the the capital of Uzbekistan, where the rally many agreed in weekend talks that a patience and anger with President Mik­ turnout, but in Moscow at least they left was banned, to tens of thousands in unified Germany would continue as "a hail Gorbachev's pace of change. many residents wondering^ What is this Minsk, the Byelorussian capital. Major full member of NATO," including mili­ The peaceful rallies, the first nation­ opposition that has Gorbachev so fright­ cities in most regions of the Slavic vast- tary participation in the Western alii wide independent show of strength by the ened? ness reported pre-election gatherings in ance.