Remains of the day Although the Timothy Lomperis case has come to a resolution, there are still issues THE CHRONICLE that remain unanswered. See page 8. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20.1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 89. NO. 141 Long-range plan earmarks sciences as major priority By MICHAEL SAUL begun during former President than the 1992 version, was re­ attention paid to the sciences percent above the national Con­ President Nan Keohane has Keith Brodie's administration. leased earlier this week. A re­ with the notable exception ofthe sumer Price Index as a guideline released a draft of the long-range The document's development write ofthe earlier document, it Levine Science Research Cen­ beginning next year. plan—a documentthatwill steer was slowed last year to allow aims to infuse a greater sense of ter," Keohane said. "The sciences "Some people may interpret the University into the next cen­ Keohane to help shape the plan­ financial constraints into deci­ have been allowed to lag with [the CPI guideline] as not being tury. ning process. sions about priorities. few exceptions." stringent enough and other The new draft of the Keohane will present the new The plan specifically calls for Fund raising for the school, people may interpret it as being University's strategic plan sets draft, titled "Shaping Our Fu­ the University to become an in­ which was created in 1991, is too stringent," said Jim Roberts, scientific education and research ture: A Young University faces a ternational leader in environ­ high on the University's list of vice provost for financial affairs. as major priorities and asserts New Century," to both the Aca­ mental research and education priorities. Last December, the Board of that the University can no longer demic Council on Thursday and by devoting substantial re­ Because the price of a Duke Trustees tentatively approved a rely on large tuition hikes. to the Board of Trustees next sources to the School ofthe Envi­ education is becoming more ex­ two-tier undergraduate tuition Outlining the University's pri­ month. The draft, which officials ronment. pensive, the plan also marks tu­ structure that increases tuition orities, the draft builds on work say is more financially realistic "There has not been that much ition growth for all schools at 2 See PLAN on page 38 • Keohane to announce $2 million loan today By SANJAY BHATT single-family residences and President Nan Keohane and can help promote the neighbor- Durham Mayor Sylvia Kerckoff hood stabilization that home plan to announce Duke's com- ownership brings," Keohane mitment to invest $2 million said in a statement. during the next de­ The program will cade in an affordable- replace an earlier one housing loan at City launched in 1989 by Hall today. the Board of Trust­ The loan helps ees. Half of the origi­ low-income families nal $1.2 million loan purchase houses expired earlier this rather then rent month, and the re­ them, building per­ maining portion manent communi­ should be paid off ties in areas where within the next two many people can only ™an neor ,ne years. The 1989 afford to rent houses. JASON LAUGHUN/THE CHRONICLE Housing Loan Fund The executive committee ofthe was created in response to stu­ The end of an era Board ofTrustees approved the dent, faculty and community The staff of the 89th volume wraps up an entire year of publication and prepares to celebrate loan earlier this month. protest to the eviction of 42 the occasion at the annual Pig Pickin' at the East Campus Gazebo on Thursday at 1 p.m. "I am pleased that with this low-income families during the new initiative we can target See HOUSING on page 30 • Major requirements bumped from 8 to 10 Committee Arts and Sciences Council also gives students option of earning minors selection By GEOFFREY GREEN until August 1995, but departments and courage this flexibility, the academic stan­ Faculty approved several significant programs can begin developing minors dards committee proposed calling them changes to the undergraduate curricu­ immediately, said Ellen Wittig, associate secondary concentrations. questioned lum and the freshman experience last dean of Trinity College. But faculty argued that by calling them week. The curricular changes were originally minors, students from outside the Uni­ By ALISON STUEBE The Arts and Sciences Council voted recommended by the curriculum review versity would automatically know what Duke Student Government vio­ Thursday to increase the minimum re­ committee, which last spring proposed a they entail. lated its bylaws when it nomin ated quirements for a major from eight to 10 total of 18 changes. However, faculty in William O'Barr, professor of cultural students for positions on eight of courses, eight of which must be at the the Arts and Sciences Council never de­ anthropology and chair ofthe curriculum the most powerful committees on 100-level. The council also approved a bated formally or voted on several of the review committee, said he was pleased eampus. proposal to allow students to earn a mi­ recommendations for procedural reasons. with the council's decisions. The selection process for the six nor, which would consist of at least five "There was less debate than I had an­ "For all intents and purposes, every­ standing trustee committees, the courses. ticipated [at Thursday's meeting,]" said thing that the committee recommended President's Advisory Committee on Minors can be created across depart­ Robert Gleckner, professor of English and has been adopted in one form or another," Resources and the Committee on mental lines, according to the council's chair of Trinity College's committee on O'Barr said. Facilities and Environment did not resolution. academic standards. The only significant recommendation follow two ofthe rules stipulated in The council also agreed to lift the limit His committee was asked to review from O'Barr's committee that the council the DSG committee bylaw: on the number of major courses, 17, that curriculum recommendations in Janu- rejected was a proposal to require stu­ • The bylaw requires three people can count toward graduation require­ ary by David Sanford, chair of the Arts dents to take courses in all six areas of to interview each candidate, but ments. Faculty also decided to extend and Sciences Council and professor of knowledge. Students can now opt out of two people conducted interviews for freshman orientation by two days, to re­ philosophy. one of the areas. six ofthe eight committees. quire all freshmen to take a seminar and The academic standards committee The changes in the freshman-year ex­ * The bylaw also requires that to delay freshman registration until incom­ hoped that departments and programs perience, which will go into effect for the DSG begin publicizing committee ing students can meet with their advisers. would be allowed to set up flexible minors Class of 1999, were proposed by the slots 10 days before the application The changes in the major requirements so students could play a large role in council's standing committee on the first See DSG on page 32 • and freshman life will not take effect designing them, Gleckner said. To en­ See MAJOR on page 32 • THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994 World and National Newsfile Serbs defy NATO ultimatum, seize guns Associated Press Frenchman found guilty: Al­ By CHUCK SUDETIC keeping force said. military spokesman, Cmdr. Eric most 50 years after he oredered the N.Y. Times News Service The guns seized on Tuesday by the Shaperon, said ofthe guards. "If they had execution of seven Jews while he SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serbian nationalists had been surren­ fired, it would have been a massacre." was serving in a pro-Nazi militia, Defying a NATO ultimatum, about 50 dered to the United Nations late in Feb­ The weapons were set up around the Paul Touvieron became the first ruary after NATO told the Serbs to re­ Bosnian Serbs' Lukavica barracks, on the Frenchman to be found guilty of war Serbian nationalist soldiers seized 18 .anti­ crimes during World War II. aircraft guns from a U.N.-guarded weap­ move or hand over their heavy weaponry southern fringes of Sarajavo, in a defen­ ons collection site near here on Tuesday, around Sarajevo or face air strikes. sive position, the U.N. statement said. Meat is not safer: ReP. Mike then handed most ofthe weapons back on A U.N. statement said that 50 Serbian The Serbs, the statement said, "claimed Kreidler charged that the nation's Tuesday night after threats from Mos­ soldiers seized the anti-aircraft guns at it was necessary to defend themselves meat supply is no safer today than it cow. 10:45 a.m., forcing their way past the 30 from NATO air strikes, which have been was a year ago, when a deadly meat .Also on Tuesday night, the Serbian French soldiers guarding the weapons. planned, according to their knowledge, poisoning outbreak hit Washington nationalists reportedly began releasing "They were simply overrun," a U.N. on Lukavica." state. He said more children will die U.N. military observers held hostage since unless federal meat inspection is last week after NATO aircraft carried out upgraded. air strikes against Serbian forces attack­ Supreme Court rules against Construction begins: After ing Gorazde. decades of congressional battles over "We just heard that they are all free," funding and design, construction on said Maj. Dacre Holloway, a spokesman gender-based juror exclusion the 7.5-acre Franklin Delano for the U.N. military force here. "We Roosevelt Memorial will begin in won't know for sure until tomorrow morn­ By LINDA GREENHOUSE quickly expanded the holding of the October.