Friday February 28, 1986 Vol. 81, No. 108, 24 pages Duke University Durham, North Carolina Free Circulation: 15,000 THE CHRONICLE Renovations picked over costly Cameron addition By PAUL GAFFNEY "My sense is that the place could be made A plan to expand Cameron Indoor Sta­ to look a lot more attractive," Brodie said. dium by 6,000 seats was cancelled earlier The University last renovated Cameron this semester after the project's price tag in 1977. The original playing floor was re­ rose to $15 million and high-level Univer­ placed, new student bleachers were added sity administrators decided the building and the front lobby and football dressing would be too imposing. room were refurbished. The renovations Instead, the athletic department is con­ cost $650,000. sidering renovating Cameron within the The cancelled expansion plan was the next two years at an expected cost of $1-2 brainchild of athletic director Tom Butters, million. who began last summer to look at plans to The administration decided not to pursue raise the stadium roof and add approxi­ the expansion plan after seeing a scale mod­ mately 6,000 seats. el of the project in January. Butters said that enlarging the 8,564-seat ALICE ADAMS/THE CHRONICLE "It was overpowering," said University Cameron to roughly 15,000 seats would Model of proposed 6,000-seat Cameron addition President Keith Brodie. "1 don't think any­ bring in $960,000 each year in extra ticket one quite visualized what this thing would revenue and an estimated $1 million in gen­ be done without moving the basketball seat stadium would cost about $25 million. look lika" eral development contributions from addi­ team out of Cameron for a season. "If you're spending those kinds of dollars In addition, the cost ofthe project, origi­ tional fans. The study concluded that expansion was [on expansion] and not getting any addition­ nally expected to be $10 million, rose to Butters hired Sutton Kemierly, a Greens­ possible and could be completed without al playing space, one would then have to say mora than $15 million, making it difficult boro structural engineering consulting moving the team. The new Cameron would there is an alternative," Butters said. But to justify the cost. firm, to study the feasibility of expansion. have been 119 feet wider and 48 feet taller. he added that a new stadium is not likely Renovation plans for Cameron, which According to Brad Erhardt, a project engi­ "The consensus of it was that thing was in the near future. Brodie called "tentative," would include neer with the company, the firm was also obtrusive," Butters said, adding that the Some University officials were concerned sprucing up and adding concession stands hired to assess appearance and cost. Sutton most Duke could spend was $12 million. that raising money for the expansion would to the stadium's upper level concourse, im­ Kennerly was involved with a similar ex­ When the cost ofthe expansion project ex­ interfere with the $200 million Capital proving rest rooms, refurbishing lobby areas pansion ofthe Greensboro Coliseum in the ceeded $15 million, administrators said an Campaign, which Brodie said is Duke's and possibly adding brass railings inside early 1970s, Erhardt said. expansion wouldn't cost much less than a "number one priority." But Butters said he the arena. Butters also insisted that an expansion new stadium. Butters said a new 15,000- See CAMERON on page(T> 5 Board hears SIDI suggestions today From staff reports The Board of Trustees will hear reports on the Univer­ sity's Sea Level Hospital and holdings in companies oper­ ating in South Africa at its quarterly meeting this week­ end. Walter Dellinger, law professor and chairman of the Soc­ ial Implications of Duke Investments (SIDI) committee, will deliver the group's recommendations to the board to­ day. The SIDI report, compiled after a three-month study, suggests 10 University policies to formally condemn apart­ heid in South Africa. The major suggestion is total divestment from all com­ panies operating there if the South African government does not end apartheid soon. The report also urged formal approval of a commitment not to invest in companies with South African operations that have not signed the Sullivan Principles, a voluntary industrial work code. The committee, appointed by President Keith Brodie, made its findings public last week. The board will not act on the recommendations until May. Robert Winfree, assistant vice president for health af­ fairs, planning and administration, will deliver a report on the Sea Level Hospital Saturday. LANCE MOfilTZ/THE CHRONICLE The facility, a gift to the University in 1969, is the only hospital for more than a dozen communities in Carteret Magic bus County and the second largest employer in the area. It has Dean, whose dome is in the background, won't cause no fuss, 'cause the Devils are gonna ride the become a financial drain on the University, which is com­ magic bus to the ACC title. Dean says: "I want it, I want it." But Johnny D says: "You caaan't have it." mitted to maintain the hospital until 1989. Sea Level lost $297,000 in 1984-85 and it may be either revamped or sold, though administrators insist it will not be closed soon. The 36-member board will review proposals to establish Weather usable endowment money for the Engineering School, the Inside council on Latin American studies, the Marine Labora­ GO tO hell, Carolina: The Number One ACC Do it for free: Marty November just won't quit. tory and the Biological Sciences Library. newspaper would like to convey the above message to Now he's organizing a student volunteer service to hook The board will also hear reports today by Eugene McDon­ the Daily Tar Hole on behalf of the Number One ACC students on the idea of serving the Durham community. ald, senior vice president, and Earl Dowell, Engineering school with the Number One college basketball team. They will begin a month-iong series of projects after School dean. Today will be cloudy and continued cold. Better stay break. See page 3. The business and finance committee will deliver pro­ home and rest, Steve and Warren. High both days in posals on Saturday to purchase the Crum & Forster build­ the upper 30s; low Friday night around 20. By the way, Mac attack: Apple Macintosh computers are now ing on Broad Street, modify Law School tuition and fees Tar Holes, nice try on the parody issue, but watch out, in Perkins and the East Campus library, thanks to and finance the construction of a Biomedical Engineer­ our Devils were Born to Run. Apple, Inc. Get psyched, and see page 3. ing Laboratory. Commission chair: NASA lacked World & 'good judgment' in safety issues However, NASA officials insisted that they had received National no such explicit recommendation against launching, but Page 2 February 28, 1986 The chairman ofthe presidential commission investigat­ simply an expression of concern from Rockwell over the ing the space shuttle explosion charged Thursday that the ice, which further analysis by the space agency's own en­ space agency had abandoned "good judgment and common gineers showed not to be a problem. sense" in handling critical safety issues. As it turned out, a NASA ice specialist testified on Wed­ The chairman, William Rogers, made the exasperated nesday, films of the flight showed no evidence of any ice Newsfile comment near the end of a third consecutive day of testi­ damage to the shuttle. mony indicating warnings on shuttle safety were not fully Although cold weather is under investigation as a pos­ understood or acted upon, or brought to the attention of sible factor in causing the disaster, the chief theory is that Philippine killing: The rapid increase in com­ top officials who decided to launch the Challenger on Jan. cold temperatures might have interfered with the perfor­ munist insurgency in the Philippines in the last few 28, only to have it explode shortly after liftoff and kill all mance ofthe synthetic rubber seals that prevent hot gases years was reflected in a bold daylight killing on Tuesday seven astronauts aboard. from escaping from the shuttle's booster rockets, where in a major city. Six members ofthe New People's Army, Thursday's session marked the close of puplic hearings they could cause the shuttle's giant fuel tank to explode. the communist fighting force, fatally shot the police Photographs released at Thursday's hearing by NASA pro­ chief of Bacolod, Col. Gilfredo Geolingo, and his driver on the decision-making process before the launching. Of­ ficials of Rockwell International, which builds the orbiter vided further graphic evidence of a large puff of smoke outside the colonel's house and then calmly drove off emerging from an area near the seals shortly after the down the main street in a truck. capsule that carries the astronauts, testified that they had explicitly warned key launching officials of the National engines ignited. Aeronautics and Space Administration that it was unsafe No one has suggested that icicles that formed on the to to launch the Challenger because ice on the pad might Marcos caught red-handed: A cache of new damage the spacecraft. See SHUTTLE on page 14 Philippine currency worth $1,179,000 has been found by federal customs officials in Hawaii on a plane carry­ ing private possessions of Ferdinand Marcos and the party that fled with him, Reagan administration offi­ cials said. They said the money, packed in 22 crates, Aquino frees 34 political prisoners had not been declared for customs. Meanwhile, Presi­ dent Reagan, in an unusual action, extended Secret Service protection to Marcos for a "limited time" while By BARBARA CROSSETTE Reagan's special envoy, returned to Manila and met with he remains in American territory.