THE CHRONICLE Wild and Wooiy Wahoos THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1991 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL 87, NO. 15 Journal nixes minority hiring plan By MATT STEFFORA for it to become enacted, Sussman While the president ofthe Black The Duke Law Journal has said. Law Students'Association, Henry rejected an affirmative-action hir­ Sussman did not have figures Mims, said he was disappointed ing proposal for the third straight on total minority enrollment in the proposal was not passed, he year. the Law School or at the Law found the vote itself a positive Articles editor Ed Sussman, a Journal, but he said minorities sign. third-year law student, had pro­ were under-represented on the "It sounds like a contradiction. posed last week that the journal staff. .. .There is more that they can do, every year accept a number of The affirmative-action proposal but I am encouraged that they minority members "that is only referred to minority repre­ are making a try," Mims said. roughly the same percentage as sentation as a whole, he said, "That they took the vote, and that the representation as the Law without specifically mentioning a majority voted for it, is very School," he said. numbers for each race. encouraging." The Law Journal's staff of about He did have figures on black The editor of the journal, Steve 50 second- and third-year law stu­ participation. While the Law Thomas, defended the journal's dents voted on Sussman's pro­ School is about 10 percent black, minority representation. "I think posal Friday afternoon. While the Law Journal has only one the journal as a whole is very more than half the staff voted in black third-year student, and no committed to diversity," Thomas favor ofthe plan, it did not receive black second-year students, he said. the two-thirds majority necessary said. See JOURNAL on page 10 • Union attracts three fall speakers From staff reports Cohen will speak in Page Audi­ Doug Marlette, editorial car­ Three speakers from the world torium Thursday, Sept. 19 at 8 toonist for New York Newsday •& HI of entertainment are set to kick p.m. and artist ofthe syndicated comic off the 1991-92 Major Speakers The second speaker in the se­ strip "Kudzu," is scheduled to series. ries is P.J. O'Rourke, foreign af­ speak Thursday, Oct. 10, also in The first speaker is Randy fairs editor for Rolling Stone Page. Marlette will be promoting Cohen, staff writer for "Late Night magazine and author of books his new book, "In Your Face," with David Letterman." Cohen such as "Parliament of Whores" which depicts the daily life of an has won three Emmy awards for and "Republican Party Reptile." editorial cartoonist. his work on the show, which in­ O'Rourke recently returned from cludes the "Crushing Things with Saudi Arabia, where he covered The lectures are sponsored by a 3,000 Pound Block" and "Mon­ the Persian Gulf war for ABC the Major Speakers Committee DADE VAN DER WERF/THE CHRONICLE key Cam" segments. His work News. ofthe Duke University Union. All Time to hit the road also includes the book "Diary of a of the speeches begin at 8 p.m. Flying Man," a collection of sa­ O'Rourke is scheduled to speak and are open to the public on a Apparently a Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother is supplying his tirical short stories. in Page on Tuesday, Oct. 1. first-come, first-served basis. personal car for the fraternity road trip. Shotgun, anyone? Natural gas pipeline 'Palm City' author heads magazine By MICHAEL ARLEIN rience with humor as the cartoon­ zine a forum in which to express struck by sewer crew and LISA GOLDSMITH ist for Palm City, a comic strip a wide variety of intentional hu­ A face familiar to long-time that ran in The Chronicle during mor "without stepping on too the spring semester of 1990. The many toes." By PEGGY KRENDL line on the wrong side of the readers of The Chronicle has re­ surfaced as the editor of a revived strip focused on a mythical town Jabberwocky will be highly A city sewer crew broke a street. campus humor magazine. in southern Florida, Fletcher's scrutinized as a result ofthe 1989 gas pipe on Gentry Drive The fire department evacu­ home state. incident, Fletcher said. She is not Wednesday, causing five resi­ ated Gentry Drive residents of Carrie Fletcher, a Trinity se­ nior, is the cur­ concerned that dents to evacuate the area. The the 2200 block who were at the magazine Public Service Gas Company their homes during the leak. rent editor ofthe student-run hu­ YOU NEVEU. THl6*pEN. DIDJA will offend read­ repaired the leak by late morn­ Since the leak occurred on a ers because she ing. weekday many residents were mor magazine TOLD MEyWR K/SJO\A/TW6.S£ A"R-B Jabberwocky. NAMt plans to be "very The city crew was installing at work, said Captain Luther BANN££> IN ^ _ The Under­ careful." a sewer line when they hit a Smith ofthe hazardous mate­ COUNTRIc-Sf graduate Publi­ She specifi­ two-inch plastic natural gas rial response team. Streets cations Board ap­ cally intends to pipe with street-digging equip­ were blocked off until the leak pointed Fletcher, stay away from ment. The fire department, was shut down, Smith said. the only appli­ racist and sexist hazardous material response Gentry Drive is located cant for the post, humor. team and city emergency man­ appoximately four miles north­ last spring. Jabberwocky, agement responded to the leak. west of the University. This would be however, will The sewer crew hit the pipe "Any [gas leak] is potentially probably not because the gas company dangerous," Smith said. De­ the first issue published since please every­ marked the gas pipe on the vices such as pilot lights lo­ body, she said. wrong side of the street, said cated throughout residential the controversial fall 1989 edition Many issues Bill Burnett, public works su­ areas could ignite the natural SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE are "touchy" on pervisor. When a city crew does gas, he said. That issue ofthe publication paro­ campus, and hu­ construction on a street, gas, Once natural gas ignites, the The author of Crispin (left) and Thigpen will be back died Duke Uni­ mor itself is es­ electrical and water companies flame could follow the gas back versity Food Services employees, pecially sensitive as it is open to mark the areas where there to the pipeline, causing the She plans to learn about pub­ in what many students thought all sorts of individual interpreta­ are pipes, he said. line to explode, said David lishing a magazine as she goes was a racist manner. The Black tion, Fletcher said. Hancock, assistant director of along, she said. The city crews also check for Student Alliance petitioned the The University is a conserva­ training for the city's emer­ The magazine has a budget of pipes before they start digging Pub Board to defund tive place that is "not really re­ in an area, but the gas gency managment. $6,230, and Fletcher said she Jabberwocky. hopes to publish the first issue ceptive to the arts or a wide brand company's lines are plastic and City emergency manage­ of humor," she said, but she still hard to identify, Burnett said. The Pub Board responded by before Christmas. Because she has ment deals with one or two gas no staff and no printer yet, believes there is an audience for a Officials at the gas company relinquishing funds and disband­ leaks a week, which rarely oc­ Fletcher is aiming for an issue humor magazine. would not comment on why the ing the staff. cur in residential neighbor­ "less than 10 pages" in length. Jabberwocky is in the initial company had mapped the pipe­ hoods, said Hancock. Fletcher has no previous edito­ rial experience, but she has expe­ Her goal is to make the maga­ See MAGAZINE on page 10 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1991 World and National Newsfile Bush 'plenty fed up' with Associated Press Baker no butcher: Secretary of State James Baker III meets with antics of Saddam Hussein Syrian President Hafez Assad to dis­ cuss prospects for a Middle East peace conference on the third stop of By ANDREW ROSENTHAL the Iraqi leader not to test U.S. resolve Baker's latest Mideast mission. N.Y. Times News Service once again. WASHINGTON — President Bush au­ But the president, perhaps mindful of Economy needs bounce: The thorized U.S. warplanes Wednesday to fly the volatile political backdrop to his ac­ national economy, rather than bounc­ into Iraq to protect United Nations inspec­ tions as the United States tries to arrange ing strongly out of the recession, is tors if President Saddam Hussein does not a Middle East peace conference, told re­ beset with a host of problems from back down from his refusal to permit heli­ porters during a visit to the Grand Canyon sluggish consumer spending to a vir­ copter inspections of his military installa­ on Wednesday that he was confident there tual standstill in commercial con­ tions. would be no outbreak of war. struction, the Federal Reserve re­ As he intensified a long-simmering dip­ Bush said he was just doing some "pru­ ported Wednesday. lomatic stalemate with Iraq into a new dent planning on the strength of U.N. threat of force, Bush said he was "plenty resolutions that he said permitted the fur­ Croats create peace: Croatia fed up" with Saddam's defiance of U.N.