SPORTS A Happy Meal for Duke The Blue Devils feasted on a pair of over­ matched opponents to capture the Ronak THE CHRONICLE McDonald Classic title. SEE SPORTSWRAP Trinity Homes Housing Development Alaskan chill: Bearcats stun Duke This map, which includes the trees lhat will now be preserved, depicts Ihe most recent plans tor developing a vacant lot in Trinity Heights. No. 15 Cincinnati hands the Blue Devils their first loss of the season, 77-75 From staff and wire reports r r.-> "\ ANCHORAGE, Alaska — c ^ V Melvin Levett and the Cincin­ 3 nati Bearcats swung for the fences against the top-ranked •<• men's basketball team. With Levett capping a per­ ••• fectly executed "home run" play with a running dunk, the 15th- ranked Bearcats (4-0) upset the Blue Devils 77-75 on Satur­ Town House day night in the championship Parcel Town House game of the Great Alaska Eight units Parcel Shootout in Sullivan Arena. ^. ) v- six units -^ With three seconds left, Ryan Fletcher threw a three- East Campus quarter court pass to Kenyon SOURCE: OFFICE OF HEAL ESTATE ADMINISTRATIO__nN IB ELLINGER/TK. CHRONICLE Martin, who hit Levett in stride as he raced toward the Residents approve of new basket for the winning slam. The play is called 'home run,™ Levett said. "It just so housing development plan happened that it was a perfect throw by Ryan and a perfect pass by Kenyon." Residents of the Trinity Heights neighborhood adjacent to Duke coach Mike Krzyzews­ East Campus had something extra to be thankful for this year— ki agreed. the University's recently announced revisions to its housing de­ "They ran a great play," he velopment for Duke faculty and staff. said. "Levett just wasn't going Last Tuesday, when local residents and University officials to be denied on that. He was just a flash." TOURNAMENT MVP WILL AVERY applies defensive pressure on Cincinnati's met for the third time, administrators unveiled changes ad­ Melvin Levett. Levett later won Saturday's game on a dunk With one-second left. dressing the residents' three major concerns. Duke (5-1) nearly pulled off "I'm happy with what you guys have done," Wendy Goldstein, a a miracle of its own on the harder than we did for 40 min­ ment's outstanding player, led Berkley Street resident and vocal critic of earlier plans, told Duke final play. utes and were very deserving of Duke with 30 points, 19 in the officials at the meeting. The development will consist of more than Elton Brand tipped a long the win. final 20 minutes. 30 homes and town houses on a Duke-owned lot bordered by baseball pass from Shane Bat­ "In order to beat a Cincin­ "The award is really not im­ Markham Avenue and Green, Sedgefield and Berkley streets. tier to .Will Avery, who hit nati team like that, you're portant to me," Avery said. "I In the most notable change, the development's 14 town houses what would have been a going to have to play 40 min­ came down here to win a cham­ will now be built on the corner of Berkley and Markham streets. game-tying basket. But the of­ utes. They just wanted it a lit­ pionship and that was the most The town houses were originally planned for the corner of ficials correctly ruled that tle more than we did." important thing." Berkley and Green streets, which residents argued would bring Avery didn't get the shot off Levett led the Bearcats with The Blue Devils rallied from too many newcomers into a densely populated residential area. before the buzzer. 25 points, 14 of them in the sec­ a 19-point first-half deficit and Jeffrey Potter, the University's director of real estate ad­ "Congratulations to Cincin­ ond half. Pete Mickeal added 17 took their first lead since 11-10 ministration, said that because the town houses are still nati," Krzyzewski said. "I and Alvin Mitchell had 14, six on an Avery reverse lay-in with being designed, the number could increase by two or three thought they were the better in the last two minutes. 11:34 left. At that point, Duke See HOUSING on page 14 • team. Certainly they played Avery, selected the tourna­ See DUKE on page 4, SPORTSWRAP • Curriculum 2000: Three seniors test their schedules' compatibility Students matched their courseloads against requirements in the proposed curriculum • Three seniors as Illustration This story is the first in a 5-part series on the proposed Curriculum 2000. Tomorrow's story will examine how the new Trinity College curriculum might affect admissions. By RICHARD RUBIN so dropping classes into designations is an imprecise art. The Chronicle However, to make sure The Chronicle's classifica­ Right now, the Curriculum 2000 matrix is merely a tions fit the curriculum committee's intentions, Trin­ proposal, a conceptual "metaphor for the integrative na­ ity junior and committee member Julian Harris re­ ture of knowledge," as Curriculum Review Committee viewed the designations. Furthermore, future members call it. But what would it look like in practice? students will have an easier time satisfying require­ Seth Katz, John Snyder, For a sense of how the curriculum might affect ments because professors will design new courses to Political Science Biology students, The Chronicle interviewed three Trinity fit Curriculum 2000. Also, the task force on writing College seniors. These students—biology major John will not clarify that requirement until spring. Snyder wanted to try something new in his first se­ Snyder, English major AHie Fass and political science For the purposes of this story, courses which involved mester at the University. So he signed up for German major Seth Katz—placed their four years' worth of a substantial amount of writing, in which the professor 1. By the end ofthe term, however, he was so disen­ courses into the matrix to see where their classes talked about writing and in which pieces were revised chanted with the class and the subject that he elect­ would fit and in which categories they would fall and resubmitted were counted as writing courses. ed not to continue. Foreign language became his short. The three found that the new curriculum would skipped area of knowledge. not seriously alter their course of studies. "It's not that demanding" Had Snyder entered the University under Cur­ There are some limitations to the profiles below. Profes­ riculum 2000, he would have needed two more Ger- sors have not yet reclassified their courses to fit the matrix, Like many students, senior biology major John See CURRICULUM on page 15 »» - PROFESSOR RECALLS EXPERIENCE WITH NAFTA SEE PAGE 4 > STUDY RECOMMENDS SHORTER HOSPITAL STAYS SEE PAGE . THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1998 NEWSFILE Clinton seeks increased health coverage FROM WIRE REPORTS Part of Clinton's budget will include coverage for working people with disabilities •P Swiss voters reject plan to legalize marijuana Bv ROBERT PEAR Yesterday, Swiss voters decisively defeated a radical surance coverage they receive ability is strict; people qualify for Y Times News Service measure to legalize marijuana as well as heroin and through Medicaid and Medicare. benefits only if they are so disabled cocaine, turning aside arguments that a government- WASHINGTON — As part of Many people with disabilities they cannot engage in any "sub­ managed narcotics network would curb drug-related his budget for the coining year, caused by severe injuries and stantial gainful activity." crime. The proposal would have turned Switzerland into President Bill Clinton will propose chronic illnesses say they could The number of people receiving a virtual free-drugs zone, with any resident over 18 years expanding Medicaid and Medicare work, thanks to advances in medi­ disability benefits has risen old able to buy narcotics at state-approved pharmacies, to allow tens of thousands of people cine and medical technology, but do sharply in recent years—60 per­ after consulting a doctor. Nearly 74 percent of voters with disabilities to retain their not do so because they want to keep cent in the last decade. People are rejected the initiative, which had been expected to fail, health benefits when they return to their medical benefits under the qualifying for benefits at younger but not to such an overwhelming extent. work, administration officials say. two government health programs. ages and staying on the rolls Under current law, many of Eight million disabled people of longer than in the past. Federal -Met Life will pursue stock conversion plan these people must, in effect, choose working age receive more than $50 officials have concluded that they Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., one of the country's between working and keeping their billion a year in cash benefits in the must find ways to get more people biggest insurers, said Sunday that it was taking the first health insurance coverage. If they form of Social Security and Supple­ back to work. steps toward reorganizing in a way that would turn it take jobs and earn any significant mental Security Income payments. The president's proposals would into a stock-based corporation and provide a windfall of amounts of money, they jeopardize Fewer than 1 percent of them re­ help people with HIV, the virus as much as $14 billion for its policy-holders. The their disability benefits and the in­ turn to work. The definition of dis­ SeeBUDGETonpagel3»- money—profits that have accumulated for decades—will be shared, according to a complex formula, by the mutu­ al company's 12 million life insurance policy-holders, Palestinian aid could reach $900 million who are its formal owners. By PHILIP SHENON tion of anonymity, said last week.