INSIDE WEATHER A feature on page 7 cap­ Ihe weatherper»on took tures the madness of the phone off the hook this morning, but rain has The Chronicle been rumored for today. Duke University Volume 72, Number 109 Thursday, March 3,1977 Durham, North Carolina , Mashinini Hospital plans transit system By Debbie Roche to speak Preparation for the construction of guideways for tike Personal Rapid Transit System will start within the next By Betsy Franklin week, according to Bob Torris, co-director of the Duke Tsietsi Donald Mashinini, a key figure behind Hospital Design and Construction Control Office. the June 16, 1976 demonstrations which touched The basic system, scheduled to be completed by April, off a countrywide upheaval that has^cost nearly 1979, will consist of a "horizontal elevator," propelled by 300 lives in South Africa, and who eluded a police linear motors, which will shuttle back and forth between manhunt for more than two months, will be speak­ the future Duke Hospital North and Duke Hospital ing in Page Auditorium tonight at 8:15. South (the present building) in order to transport pa­ tients, visitors, staff and supplies, Torris said. Mashinini is a 19 year-old graduate of a public An extended system will include shuttle service to and high school in Soweto township. He bitterly op­ from the new parking garage. Therefore, many ex­ posed the forced teachings of Afrikaans language pensive pieces of medical equipment won't have to be in the schools; a language spoken by white minori­ The rapid transit cars sport Duke emblems in this artist's rendering. duplicated upon completion of Duke Hospital North," he ty Dutch settlers which is only spoken in South explained. $5 million system Africa. "The total system will In a London interview after the demonstrations, Cameron Stadium gets cost somewhere in the Mashinini said, "All elements of oppression similar neighborhood of $5 to the forced teaching of Afrikaans stress that our million," aaording to Larry education is simply to domesticate you to be a bet­ Nelson, the other design of- ter tool for the white man when you go and join the new floor, renovations fire co-director. working class. By Beth Brown scholarships." The application of the 'They have been oppressed and suppressed for so Construction of a new gymnasium floor He added, "About $2.3 million has been rapid transit system at long they only want to live in an equal society," he in Cameron Indoor Stadium is scheduled raised by cash or pledge since last July. Duke will be unique, Torris said. to begin soihetime after March 3, accord- Somewhere around $500,000 has been said. He added that while the system is presently in On September 5,1976, The New York Times stat­ ing to James Ward, University architect raised for renovations." This money is de- use at various airports, ed that Mashinini, a founder and first president of and director of physical planning. This signated for instruction in Cameron In- will be the first part of a $1.36 million re- door Stadium as well as other athletic shopping centers and the Soweto Student Representative Council, amusement parks, it has declared that young South African people were no novation project for the stadium. facilities. Other alterations will include new By January 2, $260,000 had been raised never been used in the longer interested in concessions by the govern­ United States in connection ment. bleacher seating, repair of the roof, re- specifically for alterations in Cameron ac- novation of the Hall of Fame Room, re- cording to the construction program with a hospital. Mashinini was quoted as saying, 'It only shows novation of the main lobby, and a new financial report presented to the Board of The air-conditioned, how much the people do hate the South African football dressing facility. These altera- Trustees last week. bidirectional vehicles are racist regime," speaking of the strong support for tions are scheduled for construction dur- The cost of replacing the basketball designed to accommodate the demonstrations. ing the summer. floor is estimated at $150,000. Ward said, approximately 25 people "What's happening is that the system has done so Renovation "The floor can't be sanded anymore. It and can hold a hospital bed much harm to my people that the people are no The renovation is part of the $13.5 must be replaced to be playable." as well, Torris said. It will take about 62 seconds to get longer interested in having equal rights with the million Duke Athletic Endowment and Construction must be scheduled around Facility Program. Tom Butters, assistant campus activities between now and com- from Duke Hospital North white people in South Africa," he continued. "They to Duke Hospital South us­ want the tables turned so the white man can get a to the chancellor, explained, "Some $7.5 mencement, he added. Ward noted the million is for facility improvements and need to have a surface available for com- ing the automated PRT taste of his own medicine and feel what it is like to system," he noted. be oppressed." $6 million is for the purpose of endowing (Continued on page 8) NEWSBITS The long-awaited Free University courses will gift committee March 15 and 16. According to begin the week after spring break, according to co- committee chariman John Diret, the receptions, to directors Alden Lancaster and Dan Tyukody. be held from 6:15 to 8 p.m. in the Union ballroom, The courses, with the exception of the bartend­ are designed to inform the seniors about the ing class will meet at least an hour a week for four University Center, the funding of which is to be weeks. The bartending course will meet for three aided by the 197T senior class gift two-hour sessions on consecutive night the first Kreit said University President Terry Sanford, week. Chancellor Kenneth Pye, Rebecca Patton, former According to Lancaster, courses to be offered are president of the University Union, and Todd Bartending, an Introduction ot Astrology, Perspec- Atwood, ASDU vice president, will all speak brief­ tives on hristianity, Hypnosis, Practical ly about the Center. Additionally, Jake Phelps, Pharmocology, Women and Work: Questions and director of the Union, will give a short presenta­ Resources, Social Dancing, Juggling, Auto tion about facilities planned in the Center. Mechanics, Unicycle Riding, Food and World There will be no solicitation of pledges at the re­ Hunger, and Technique of Magic. ception, Kriet stressed. While the courses are open to all in the Duke community, many will have limits on enrollment and some will require a small fee for necessary The Triangle Society of Radiologic supplies, Lancaster said a bulletin containing de­ Technologists is holding a two day educational tailed description of the courses and where and workshop on the theme "Back To Basic," which in­ when they meet will be available in the ASDU of­ cludes several topics of special interest to staff fice on Monday, March 14. technologists. The workshop will be held at the Verterans' Administration Hospital March 11 and Duke debaters Mike Berger and Neil Williams 12. * * * reached the quarterfinals in the Citadel Invita­ And finally, Marshall Austin, a fourth year stu­ tional Tournament in Charleston, S.C. last dent in the Medical School, won second place from weekend Also performing well were John Hard­ tlie American Society of Clinical Pathologists for a ing and Jeff Heller, who were third of 16 teams in research paper he wrote. The title: "Inhibition by speaker points. Rheumatoid Factor, Anti-FC, and Staphylococcal Protein A of Antibody-Dependent Cell-Mediated Many students are actually considering evacuating cam Receptions for Trinity College and nursing Cytolysis Against Herpes Simplex Virus-Infected tomorrow because of rainy Durham weather. (Photo by J school seniors wil be conducted by the senior class Cells." Enough said? Anderson) Page Two The Chronicle Thursday. March 3.1977 Real World « 1977 NYT News Service NAIROBI, UGANDA — on their spouses to qualify, but Refugees from Uganda who have not women. The majority was slipped into Kenya in recent days divided in its reasoning, with have begun telling of a wave of four feeling that the provision death, fear and intimidation that discriminates against women made many flee without their and the fifth feeling that it was families. Most were doctors, unfair to men. engineers, students and civil ser­ vants belonging to the pre­ WASHINGTON—Rep. Henry dominantly Christian Lango and B. Gonzalez submitted his re­ Acholi tribes. They said the signation as chairman of the persecution of the tribes had not House Committee on Assassina­ yet reached the proportions of tions, accusing some of its mem­ 1972 but that the death toll was bers of trying to usurp his power SPECTRUM mounting. and the Democratic leadership of TODAY The Carolina Gay Association (UNC) 3 FCC THIRD CLASS COMMERCIAL failing to support him. 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