Send In The Troops Head football coach Fred Goldsmith leads his Blue Devils into battle tonight against THE CHDNICLE Array.: See Sports, page 13. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 90. NO. 15 Duke in New York interns lose housing By DENISE DUNNING NYU students have been put And you thought the Annex up in hotels or placed on wait- was bad. inglists while they live at home, Undergraduates currently said William Boulding, associ­ participating in the Duke in ate director of residence life at New York program lost their NYU. The overflow stems from housing on the campus of New NYU's oversized freshman class York University and have been and an increased number of relocated to a hotel one student transfer students, Boulding described as reminiscent oPOne said. Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest." Students participating in the The hotel is almost four miles Duke in New York program away from NYXTs campus. spend the fall semester in New "I was on the elevator with a York, taking two courses from a man who lives here and he said, visiting Duke professor and one Thank God the students came, course from an NYU professor because before, it used to be like while working as interns at ar­ living in One Flew Over the tistic institutions such as mu­ LOREN EIS_NSTAT/THE CHRONICLE Cuckoo's Nest,"' said Trinity seums and dance companies. Six more days of summer. junior Lisa Attman. Duke students enrolled in the An undergraduate housing program were housed in hotels Students savor North Carolina September weather with some low-key exercise on the East Campus Quad. crunch at NYU brought on the until three years ago, when they housing crisis. More than 400 See HOTEL on page 6 • Officials discuss retraining plans By ANDRIA FORD Dr. Mark Rogers, chief ex­ however, said they would pre­ Hospital employees had a ecutive officer of Duke Hospi­ fer to have $1,500 to spend as chance to question administra­ tal, and Dr. Ralph Snyderman, they wish, rather than tying tor about layoffs and retraining chancellor for health affairs, led the funds to a class. "We have opportunities at a meeting the discussion, which was closed enough sense to budget a large Wednesday morning. to the press. Employees who sum of money," said Florine Held less than two months attended said the two main con­ Roberson, an employee who after the Hospital announced cerns of the meeting were the works in patient and visitor plans to eliminate as many as actual date layoffs would occur assistance services on the first 1,500 of its 6,000 workers in the and restrictions on the $1,500 floor surgical waiting room. next two years, the meeting tuition allocation the Hospital Hospital administrators are aimed to explain details of as­ offers for retraining. considering alternative meth­ sistance programs designed to To encourage employees to ods of allocating $1,500 stipend, help employees find new jobs. seek training, the Hospital will McCombs said. Hospital officials estimate 600 cover the $1,500 tuition cost of In addition to regularly offered to 800 jobs will be eliminated one retraining class per worker courses, Durham Tech has de­ through layoffs. Another 700 at Durham Technical Commu­ veloped a one-year certification employees are expected to nity College. Employees will program in lightconstruction and choose a voluntary separation receive the money after com­ medical claims processing for package, which includes sever­ pleting the class. about 100 employees. LOREN EISENSTAT/THE CHRONICLE ance pay benefits. Some hospital employees, See TRAINING on page 5 • An employee at work In the Medical Center Emergency room to Power failure darkens campus By SANJAY BHATT Customers in Hope Valley lost laboratories of noxious fumes, Darkness cloaked parts of powerfrom3:30-6p.m. and those shut down duringthe 20-minute improve patient care campus for roughly an hour on Whitfield Road lost power power loss. This is tke sec­ Due to the urgent, Wednesday afternoon, signaling from 5:20-7 p.m. Trinity freshman Manish ond installment in H life-or-death nature an abrupt end to some classes Duke's campus lost power for Patel said he was conducting a a three-part series ^P | of emergency room and causing panic in the com­ about an hour. The University lab experiment when the lights on the emergency care, staffers are puter clusters. was less severely affected be­ above him began to flicker. Patel department. constantly working At approximately 3 p.m. on cause the campus has an alter­ said he then heard clicking Today's story con­ to improve the over­ Wednesday, Duke Power lost a nate power source, Greene said. sounds coming from the ceiling. cerns recent and upcoming all quality ofcare and the speed power transformer which af­ Among the campus buildings The lights suddenly went off for changes in the department. at which they provide it. fected parts of Durham, includ­ hit by the outage, those on Sci­ about 45 seconds, Patel said, and Tomorrow's story will deal Emergency care is particu­ ing one ofthe University s trans­ ence and Research Drive were shortly afterward he and his with security issues in the larly challenging because formers. The loss of the trans­ most affected, Birkhead said. peers detected a smell that he emergency room. nurses and doctors must former caused temporary power Some of these buildings, how­ said permeated the whole labo­ By SCOTT HALPERN quickly and accurately diag­ outages on all four campuses, ever, had a backup power supply ratory. Emergency medicine is nose patients they have never including the Medical Center, to see them through the outage. "You could smell burnt rub­ just as inappropriate a disci­ seen before. said Capt. Clarence Birkhead of The Gross Chemistry building ber," Patel said. pline for those resistant to "In emergency medicine, Duke Public Safety. posed the biggest problem for Public Safety also spent some change as it is for those who we don't have the luxury of About 60 customers in safety officials, Birkhead said. ofthe afternoon rescuing people get queasy at the sight of knowing what's wrong with Durham lost power during the Gross Chemistry had to be evacu­ who got stuck in elevators in the blood. See EMERGENCY on page 6 • outage, said Sue Greene, a ated because the ventilation sys­ Law School and Biological Sci- spokesperson for Duke Power. tem, which clears the air in the See POWER on page 5 %*• THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1994 World and National Newsfile Senators declare progress on health care Associated Press By ADAM CLYMER leaders ofthe group of 20 senators who call Americans have fallen flat, along with Gene found: Researchers say they N.Y. Times News Service themselves the Mainstream Coalition. President Clinton's. Aides on both sides of have found a long-sought gene for WASHINGTON—Sen. George Mitchell Sen. John Chafee of Rhode Island, the the discussions have consistently reported early-onset breast cancer thatitmay and several members of a bipartisan group group's Republicanleader,saidhe thought being pleased and surprised at the areas be responsible for 5 percent of all of senators met for more than .an hour "we can come up with not only a darn good of agreement they have found. breast cancer cases. Wednesday and emerged smiling, pro­ bill but a very appealing one." Breaux said Wednesday 'There is much nouncing themselves optimistic that they The group has proposed legislation that more that we have in agreement than Government releases: The Al­ gerian government has released or could reach agreement next week on a would increase the percentage of Ameri­ disagreement." eased restrictions on five imprisoned significant health insurance bill. cans with insurance from 85 percent now But the senators declined to discuss the leaders ofthe main opposition party, But they would not say what they agreed to 92 percent by 2004. It would provide progress they said they had made. Sen. the Islamic Salvation Front, invit­ on or disagreed on, and acknowledged subsidies for the working poor and chil­ Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., a mainstream group ing them to negotiate an end to the what Mitchell called "the severity of the dren, change insurance law to prohibit member, said they saw no advantage in conflict between secularists and fun­ time constraints" they face in trying to many exclusions, and seek to reduce the disclosing partial agreements that critics damentalists. pass any bill before Congress' likely ad­ deficit by $100 billion over 10 years. might focus on. journment in mid-October. Their plan has been the basis of discus­ He said their purpose was to "present to China restricts: Trying to re­ "It's alive, it's possible, it's doable," said sion with Mitchell, whose own hopes of the Senate, at least, a proposal that is duce flow of migrant workers, Sen. John Breaux, D-La., one ofthe two legislation guaranteeing insurance for all darned hard to vote no on." Beijing's municipal authorities say they will begin imposing fees of up to $11,600 for the privilege of living in the capital. Clinton authorizes covert activities in Haiti Senator attempts: Howard By ELAINE SCIOLINO their way toward Haiti to join a dozen sanctions and everything else. I have Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) says his bill N.Y. Times News Service to modify baseball's antitrust exemp­ other ships already offthe coast and as also not had the United States be the tion could end the players' strike, WASHINGTON—In a last-ditch ef­ Clinton readied a speech to the nation Lone Ranger.