—SPORTS Hokie-pokey The women's basketball leam takes to the road to battle the No. 24 Hokies of Virginia THE CHRONICLE Tach in Blacksburg, Va. See page 21 I. DECEMBER 8.1999 CIRCULATION 15,000 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY WWW.CHRONICLE.OUKE.EDU LOOKING BACK: 1990-1999 By RICHARD RUBIN with JASON Provost Athletic success, forms grad academic growth ore than anyone, two peop task force By JAIME LEVY have shaped Duke's des The Chronicle A newly formed advisory task force in the 1990s: Nan Keohane created by Provost Peter Lange will look M into the issues raised by the Graduate the outsider president who has led and Professional Student Council's re­ port to the Board ofTrustees, as well as University to new financial and acadei other topics relevant to graduate and professional student life. heights, and Mike Krzyzewski, the insid- ,'lf/f f| Chaired by Dean of the Graduate School Lewis Siegel, the nine administra­ er basketball coach who has propelled the ' g/f J|, tors and five GPSC representatives are slated to present short-term solutions by team and the school to unheard-of the end of spring 2000 and long-term so­ national prominence. lutions by the end ofthe summer. The GPSC proposal that sparked the task force's creation was centered These two individuals, who But for the academic world, Keohane is Duke's most around community issues and pointed have never been mistaken for visible figure. The president didn't even arrive from to residential life, transportation, acade­ best friends, differ sharply in Weilesley College until 1993, but since then, she has mic space, child care and social space as in the 90s temperament,"goals and lead­ created the all-freshman East Campus, launched a $1.5 problematic aspects of graduate and professional student life. ership style, but they remain billion fund-raising campaign and spearheaded a long The possibility to interact with and 7strikingly similar in their commitment to Duke's list of academic and administrative initiatives. learn from your fellow grad students, es­ excellence. When asked to name the most important adminis­ pecially those at different stages of their Krzyzewski's most stunning achievements bookend trative decisions of the decade, Keohane listed three graduate student careers, is one of the the decade—the national championships in 1991 and crucial endeavors: the hotly debated East Campus critical components of an excellent grad­ 1992 and the near-misses of 1998 and 1999. For the change, the formation of the rapidly expanding Duke uate program...," Lange said in an earli­ er interview. national public, he is Duke, the embodiment of a uni­ University Health System and the creation ofthe inter­ disciplinary Nicholas School ofthe Environment. At the Dec. 3 meeting of the Board of versity committed to both athletics and academics. Trustees, GPSC President Tomalei Vess, See TASK FORCE on page 13 • Duke loses appeal Duke protesters reflect on Seattle in harassment case By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle A long-expected protest The state supreme court dismissed against the World Trade Orga­ Duke's appeal of a personal injury judg­ nization broke out in unexpect­ ed violence last week, capturing ment assessed for failing to respond to an headlines and dominating air­ employee's claim of on-the-job harassment. waves across the nation. The images of Seattle were every­ By GREG PESSIN where: clouds of tear gas, bro­ The Chronicle ken window panes, demolished A seven-year legal battle between the University coffee shops. And several mem­ and one ofits employees was partially decided Monday bers ofthe University communi­ when the North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed ty were there on the front lines. Duke's appeal of the $100,000 personal-injury judg­ Now the smoke has cleared, ment in favor of Sarah JoAnn Watson, a cashier in the and the WTO talks have ended Medical Center's department of food services. in failure. As debate about the However, the court will review the University's ap­ protest rages on in the court of peal of the $500,000 in punitive damages it was or­ public opinion, participants are dered to pay Watson after a 1996 jury trial. taking stock, attempting to sep­ Watson accused both the University and Bobby arate the violence and sensa­ Dixon, then a co-worker and now a senior medical sup­ tionalism from the more press­ ply assembler, of intentional infliction of emotional dis­ ing question of "What did we tress in 1992. Her lawyer, Stewart Fisher ofDurham, accomplish?" presented evidence that Dixon made harassing phone The question is complicated calls, rubbed his body against Watson, touched her by the fact that the protest in­ breasts and drew obscene pictures of her. The jury also cluded activists of all varieties. found that even though Watson had repeatedly report­ Some protesters wanted to KATHERINE STH CUP/THE CHRONIC If ed the harassment to supervisors, the University did force the WTO to open its pro­ not respond, and the actions continued for seven or AT DURHAM'S NEW HOPE COMMONS, protesters (rom local colleges gathered Friday tt ceedings to public scrutiny, eight months until Watson had a nervous breakdown. show solidarity in opposition to the World Trade Organization. Sec WTO PROTEST on page 20 See LAWSUIT on page 12 > HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAKS, PAGE 5 • MEMORIAL SERVICE PLANNED FOR RAHEEM BATH, PAGE 7 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBERS, 1999 NEWSFILE FROM W1HE REPORTS Familiar flaws afflicted Mars probe New York teachers Seattle police chief accused of cheating resigns after protests School investigators Amid criticism his han­ Officials at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory say scientists cut corners charge that dozens of dling of the protests in this year to the red planet. The re­ the space agency said that common teachers and principals Seattle last week over the port's findings and recommenda­ troubles in the sister programs and across New York City's meeting .of the World A string of embarrassing mis­ tions included suggested ways to perhaps the anticipated engine public school system Trade Organization, takes that doomed the $125 million avert disaster with the sister craft, woes accounted for the current helped students cheat on Norm Stamper, the city's Mars Climate Orbiter in Septem­ which has fallen silent since trying ominous silence. the standardized tests police chief, announced ber may have helped pave the way to make its planned landing Friday. "We fell into cutting too many that help determine how Tuesday he would resign. for the disappearance this week of Among other things, the Novem­ corners," a senior official at the Jet "s are ranked. Hotel franchiser pays the $165 million Mars Polar Lan­ ber report found potential prob­ Propulsion Laboratory in Pasade­ Clinton unveils medical stockholders billions der, NASA officials and private ex­ lems in the complexity of the lan­ na, which designed the two space­ errors task force Cendant Corp., the fran­ perts said Tuesday. der's engines and called for much craft, said in an interview. "We have Within 60 days, a newly chiser that operates Ra­ Last month, the National Aero­ last-minute polishing and repair­ to be smarter." charged federal task mada Inn hotels, agreed nautics and Space Administration ing to try to increase the odds of a John Pike, head of space policy force announced by Pres­ Tuesday to pay its stock­ issued a blistering 45-page report safe touchdown near the Martian at the Federation of American Sci­ ident Bill Clinton Tues­ holders $2.8 billion to set­ on the loss of the climate orbiter, south pole. entists, a Washington group, said day is to compile means tle charges of widespread the first of two spacecraft meant to On Tuesday, in light of the new NASA's climate orbiter investiga- for preventing medical accounting fraud that renew NASA's exploratory push failure, experts inside and outside See NASA on page 9 Sf errors and increasing wiped out billions in the safety of patients in company's market value. American hospitals. Harvard files suit Chechens remain unaware of attack plans Gates, Turner join fight against cyberpirate against polio One week after the fed­ ByYURIBAGROV threat, as the shelling has wiped out television and Associated Press Billionaires Bill Gates eral government made radio transmitters. and Ted Turner said trademark "cyberpiracy" ACHKOI-MARTAN, Russia — Hiding in base­ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin brushed off Tuesday they would do­ illegal, Harvard Universi­ ments, terrified residents of Grozny remained mostly the foreign criticism, saying calls for restraint by Pres­ nate a total of $78 million ty filed a suit against a unaware Tuesday of Russia's ultimatum to flee or risk ident Bill Clinton and other leaders were "prompted by to support efforts to erad­ Boston man trying to sell being killed by a massive attack on the Chechen capi­ kind intentions." icate polio from the world Harvard the Internet tal this weekend. Moscow announced Monday that it would open a by the end of next year. rights to its own name. Many civilians in Grozny have been too scared to safe corridor for civilians to flee Grozny, but jets venture outside amid the current relentless Russian bombed the city Tuesday, making it dangerous to WEATHER _____ bombing, so many have not seen the leaflets dropped move. There was no confirmation whether a safe corri­ by Russian planes Monday carrying the threat ofthe dor existed. TODAY: TOMORROW: air and artillery assault set to begin Saturday. Associated Press Television footage showed a trick­ SUNNY SUNNY Strong winds also reportedly whisked many of the le of people—mostly women, mostly on foot-—leaving High: 59 High: 64 leaflets away.