WELCOME PARENTS! Wahoo invasion jpie Virginia Cavaliers look to continue their domination of Duke Saturday at . THE CHRONICLE Wallace Wade Stadium. See Sports.:: : FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1994 _ ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90, NO. 49 Faculty consider role in intellectual climate By ALISON STUEBE very difficult to expect anyone As University officials to go out and take on new com­ scramble to craft a new residen­ mitments with undergraduates tial plan, some say they may be if there's no reward structure leaving out a critical element: [in tenure and promotion deci­ the role of faculty in the lives of sions]." undergraduates. Steve Nowicki, associate pro­ Although the current debate fessor of zoology, said the about undergraduate housing change needs to be go beyond a began as a discussion about in­ set of concrete incentives deal­ tellectual climate, some faculty ing with tenure and promotion. allege conversations about resi­ "I don't think faculty should dential life have devolved into be bribed to interact with stu­ a debate about "who sleeps dents," Nowicki said. where." Other top universities also For Peter Burian, associate emphasize research far more professor of classics and chair than teaching. At Harvard, for of last year's Academic Council example, each junior faculty Task Force on Intellectual Cli­ recipient of a student-nomi­ DOUG LYNN/THE CHRONICLE mate, the key issue is how the nated teaching award in the On the dotted line... University values faculty in­ past 13 years was subsequently The Duke Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Alliance gathers signatures for a petition calling for the volvement with undergradu­ denied tenure, said Harvard University to grant benefits to the domestic partners of employees. In their first day, DGLBA ates, particularly in decisions sophomore Todd Brawnstein, a collected more than 250 signatures. about promotion and tenure. reporter for The Harvard Crim­ "Part of what's at stake is son. making faculty feel that their While Duke officials point out time spent in informal interac­ that winners of teaching tion is recognized as a valuable awards frequently receive ten­ Hundreds dead in oil explosion part of their life at the Univer­ ure, faculty members stress sity," Burian said. that it is the very nature of a By CHRIS HEDGES Qena. And hospital officials in in minutes. Currently, tenure and promo­ research university like Duke N.Y. Times News Service the provincial capital, Asyut, Many people bitterly at­ tion decisions clearly empha­ to rely on research in making DURUNKA, Egypt — Offi­ said they had more than 70 pa­ tacked the government for al­ size research, said James hiring and promotion decisions. cials now say that at least 400 tients with severe burns that lowing the depot, which held Siedow, professor of botany and "The reality is that if your people were killed and an esti­ were difficult, if not impossible, 40,000 tons of fuel, to be placed chair of the Academic Council. research program isn't up to a mated 200 others lie buried in to treat. in the town. It was less than 100 He characterized Duke's last certain quality, no one's going a sprawling mud wasteland af­ Unusually heavy rains and yards from the nearest home. decade as a shift toward a more to look at teaching," Siedow ter an explosion Wednesday winds apparently overturned "How could they ever have "Harvard-type" institution, say­ said. sent burning fuel coursing eight tanker cars full of fuel allowed this depot here, know­ ing, "The sense is that much Larry Evans, chair of the through this flooded town 200 that are stored here by the mili­ ing the danger it could cause?" more emphasis is given to [fac­ physics department, said that miles south of Cairo. tary. The fuel ignited and asked Mahmoud Shahata, 18, ulty] research productivity." an emphasis on research is an More than 60 others died in spread rapidly, with 14-foot- who lost 30 relatives. "The gov­ As a result interaction with inherent part ofa research uni­ floods that struck villages in the high flames borne on floodwa- ernment must bear the respon- students has taken a back seat, versity. provinces of Asyut, Sohag and ters sweeping through the town See EGYPT on page 10 *• Siedow said. "It's going to be See FACULTY on page 27 •• Gergen to A museum deferred... 'LeSS With HlOre' teach at DUMA struggles with limitations University By DOUGLAS SANDERS But after five years of in­ Six years ago, the tense negotiations, the By STEVEN GREENHOUSE University's Board of Trustees project collapsed. And it will N.Y. Times News Service was poised to build a $10 mil­ be at least five years before WASHINGTON — David lion, 40,000 square-foot art the University builds a new Gergen, the Republican who museum, scheduled to begin museum, said President Nan joined the Clinton administra­ construction in 1995. Keohane. The current facil­ tion last year to help pull it out The facility would have put ity, on East Campus, is a part of chaos, has submitted a letter Duke's museum among the of a University trend to "do of resignation to the White ranks of the top college muse­ more with less," Keohane House, formalizing his previ­ ums in the country. Slated for a said. ously disclosed plans to leave his site near Campus Drive, the Duke's art collection is cur­ post as special adviser to the facility would have provided rently housed in a former sci­ president and secretary of state, lecture space for the art history ence building, the Duke Uni­ officials at the White House and department, large galleries for versity Museum of Art, reno­ State Department said Thurs­ traveling exhibits and new ac­ vated in 1969. day. JOHN BURK/THE CHRONICLE quisitions and even another But problems with mu- Gergen, who has been at the cafe. DUMA'S building has barely been renovated since 1969. See DUMA on page 16 • See GERGEN on page 5 fr> r..'.'.''' • 'AG!_r THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1994 World and National Newsfile Mother to be charged with sons' murders Associated Press By RICK BRAGG found on Thursday inside the mother's Smith said on Thursday. "It's just so sad Students injured: A bazooka N.Y. Times News Service shell brought into a Georgia high car, deep under the waters of a lake a that someone could take such beautiful school by a student was dropped as ATLANTA— In a turn of events that few miles outside the small mill town of children. I have put all my trust and it was being passed around and ex­ some people in Union, S.C., expected but Union in northwestern South Carolina. faith in the Lord that he will bring them ploded. Twelve were injured. few wanted to believe, a mother who They had been missing since Oct. 25. home to us." reported that her two little boys had The children apparently drowned un­ Union County Sheriff Howard Wells Jury Selected: Jury selection for been abducted by a carjacker was ar­ der John Long Lake, a popular spot for announced Smith's arrest at an early- the O.J. Simpson trial is complete, rested on Thursday and expected to be fishing and picnicking. evening news conference outside the several days earlier than expected. charged on Friday with their murder. The discovery ofthe two decomposed County Courthouse. He said formal Ofthe 12 jury members, 8 are black, The mother, 23-year-old Susan Smith, bodies, which were expected to be iden­ charges were expected to be filed on Fri­ 2 are Hispanic, and 2 are white. had appealed over and over to God and tified in an autopsy on Friday, came just day. Wells would not answer question Charges filed: Police have filed the people of South Carolina to help re­ a few hours after Smith made the most about why Smith would have killed her disciplinary charges against Carol turn her children to her. recent in a long line of tearful appeals children or how such a hoax could have Shaya, a New York City police­ Two small bodies, believed to be 3- in front of television cameras to have her fooled investigators and others for more woman who posed for Playboy. She year-old Michael Smith and his 14- children returned to her. than a week. was charged with improper use of month-old brother, Alexander, were "I have prayed to the Lord every day," See MURDER on page 28 • police logo and unauthorized em­ ployment. If found guilty, she could lose 30 days pay or be fired. Anger towards Arafat vented at funeral Therapy advanced: Scientists working with monkeys have taken By CLYDE HABERMAN a crucial step toward a new kind of they knocked off his trademark head Islamic militants. Pulling him on the gene therapy in which tissue such N.Y. Times News Service scarf. "This is your peace, Arafat!" people other are Palestinians who accuse him as bone and blood could one day be JERUSALEM — Gazans poured into shouted at him. "It's all liquidations and and his struggling self-rule government grown in the laboratory and used to the streets on Thursday for the funeral assassinations!" of having turned into Israel's lackeys. cure diseases in humans. of an Islamic militant leader killed in a Palestinian anger was also reflected But all Palestinian groups, including car bombing on Wednesday, accusing in street protests that spread to East Arafat's, were united on Thursday in Israel of assassinating him but also Jerusalem and several West Bank accusing Israel of having planted the venting their rage against Yasser Arafat.