THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1990 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 105 Law Journal rejects plan to accept top minorities By MATT SCLAFANI In response to perceived under- After hours of debate, staff members of representation by minority students on the Duke Law Journal Tuesday rejected the law reviews' staff, members of the proposals designed to encourage more Black Law Students Association (BLSA) minority participation on the publication. met with Journal members Jan. 31 to dis­ The plan, hotly discussed in the Law cuss the issue. The proposals resulted School, would have set aside spaces for from that meeting and previous discus­ minority students who were in the top of sions. their class. The Journal staff voted 27-20 in favor of The Duke Law Journal (DLJ) selects al­ several linked proposals that would have most all of its staff members competi­ encouraged selecting students, especially tively on the basis of first-year grades. minority students, on the basis of writing Journal members are highly sought after skills as well as grades. While the propos­ by law firms recruiting new lawyers. als won a majority vote, two-thirds ofthe Gerry Waldron, editor in chief of the staff, or 31 votes, were needed for the pro­ Journal, said he was disappointed by the posals to pass. vote. The two proposals set up a scheme "Duke is an anachronism. We need to where 20 percent of the roughly 50 jour­ JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE move into the modern era," he said. The nal members would be selected solely on When school was cool Duke Law Journal is one of the only the basis of first-year grades. Another 20 percent would be chosen from the essay Hundreds of local grade school kids were checking West Campus out major law reviews that does not select competition. The remaining 60 percent Wednesday. At least we have better buses. most of its staff by writing competition, he added. See JOURNAL on page 12 ^ Havel urges Congress to help fund road to democracy By THOMAS FRIEDMAN N.Y. Times News Service life has been: You can help us which he said he wrote himself in small — former slaves and for­ an interpreter translate each WASHINGTON — President most of all if you help the Soviet an afternoon, was greeted by five mer masters — will be able to paragraph. Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia Union on its irreversible but im­ standing ovations and repeated create what your great President "Today, less than four months told a joint meeting of Congress mensely complicated road to shouts of "Bravo!" from the Lincoln called the family of later, I am speaking to you as the on Wednesday that the best way democracy." standing-room-only crowd, which man." representative of a country that the United States could aid his The sooner and the more included the Czechoslovak-born Throughout, his audience sat has set out on the road to country and the rest of Eastern peacefully the Soviet Union tennis star Martina Navratilova in rapt attention, with Czechs in democracy. It is all very strange Europe in their quest for freedom begins to move toward genuine and the film director Milos For- the visitors gallery occasionally indeed." was by helping the Soviet Union political pluralism and a market man. wiping away tears and Havel's But the 53-year-old Havel, navigate the "immensely compli­ economy, Havel added, "the bet­ He responded with shy nods aides drinking in the scene with Czechoslovakia's first non-com­ cated" road to democracy. ter it will be not just for Czechs and a single, stiff V-for-victory that mixture of pride and munist president since 1948, In advice he acknowledged was and Slovaks, but for the whole sign. bemusement that has character­ quickly added that he had come a bit unusual coming from a world." At one point he practically ized their rapid odyssey from to the halls of Congress to speak longtime victim of Soviet domi­ "And the sooner you yourselves apologized to his audience of pro­ prison cell to presidential castle. not about his life but rather nation, Czechoslovakia's play­ will be able to reduce the burden fessional politicians, saying: "I "When they arrested me on about his times. wright-turned-president told the of the military budget borne by have not attended any schools for Oct. 27, I was living in a country "The human face of the world gathering of representatives, the American people," he said. presidents. My only school was ruled by the most conservative is changing so rapidly that none senators and Cabinet members: "To put it metaphorically: the life itself." communist government in Eu­ of the familiar political speedom­ "I often hear the question: How millions you give to the East Havel's speech was essentially rope, and our society slumbered eters are adequate," he said. can the United States of America today will soon return to you in a personal reflection on how the beneath the pall of a totalitarian "We playwrights, who have to help us today? My reply is as the form of billions in savings." Cold War can be replaced by "an system," Havel began, speaking cram a whole human life or an paradoxical as the whole of my Havel's hour-long speech, era in which all of us — large and in his native Czech and having See HAVEL on page 5 • $26.5 million neurobiology center dedicated today By JASON ROBERTS ists. This will put people who would nor­ donor of the Bryan Center on West Cam­ The Medical Center will dedicate a mally be in very separate groups together, pus. $26.5 million building today that will promoting interaction," said Dr. William The new Alzheimer's center will allow devote most of its space to research such Hall, acting chair for the Department of for focused research on the causes and illnesses as Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology at the Medical Center. possible cures for the irreversible disease, The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Joseph Bryan of Greensboro contrib­ which causes some 150,000 deaths a year Neurobiology Research Building, located uted $10 million to the facility. The in America. on Research Drive, will focus on interdis­ Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Its symptoms include memory loss, per­ ciplinary neuroscience research. Disease Research Center, located on the sonality change and an inability to func­ Construction on the project began in second floor of the center, is named after tion coherently. 1988. It will provide 155,000 gross square him and his wife, who died of Alzheimer's Dr. Donald Schmechel, associate feet of laboratory space. disease. professor of neurology, said doctors at the "The big plus of this center is that it Bryan is a well-known North Carolina new center will investigate Alzheimer's will group together all the various special­ philanthropist, who also was a major using a variety of modern scientific tech­ niques. "Genetic engineering in families would Inside Weather help us in reaching two goals. First, if you can locate the affected chromosome New Stacks: Getting sick of Perki­ Rain, rain, go away!: 60 percent through the use of a marker, you can help ns? Hate the East library? Are you a predict the risk in that family. Second, chance of rain on Thursday, 70 percent JIM FLOWERS/THE CHRONICLE burned-out library junkie? Help is on chance Thursday night and Friday. locating the affected chromosome would the way. See page 3. Man, sounds like my statistics class. help at a more basic level by giving a The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan See BRYAN on page 7 • Neurobiology Research Building PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1990 World & National Newsfile Associated Press South African leader associated with hit squads World stock market falls: The specter of rising worldwide interest By JOHN BURNS lice officers to carry out the killings. tions running into "millions of rands" — N.Y. Times News Service rates rattled major global stock mar­ The bureau's existence was disclosed one rand is worth 39 cents — and em­ kets Wednesday, sending prices down JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — for the first time last week in an affidavit ployed civilians so as to disguise its links in New York and London after the Defense Minister Magnus Malan since presented in a Johannesburg court by a to the military. Tokyo market suffered its third-worst 1987 knew of a secret "hit squad" made up senior police officer, who said that he had The newspaper said the bureau main­ drop in the history of its national econ­ of police officers that was used to kill op­ evidence suggesting that the military unit tained at least two "cells" in every major omy. ponents of apartheid, a leading South Af­ was involved in the 1989 killings of David South African city, one of which was al­ rican newspaper reported on Wednesday. Webster and Anton Lubowski, two promi­ legedly involved in the killings of Webster nent white anti-apartheid campaigners in and Lubowksi. The cell reportedly East Germany spy flees: Retired The report in The Star of Johannes­ burg, the most widely circulated daily South Africa and Namibia, respectively. operated out of a hotel in the Johannes­ chief spy of East Germany has taken newspaper in the country, went further burg district of Hillbrow, under the direc­ refuge from West German officials in than a series of previous disclosures about The Star said the Civil Cooperation Bu­ tion of a retired police lieutenant colonel, the Soviet Union to avoid possible ar­ such hit squads by drawing a link be­ reau was financed by secret appropria­ identified as Staal Burger.