SPORTS Bobby's in charge—again Once again, quarterback Bobby Campbell has been handed the reins to the Blue Devils. THE CHRONICLE SEE SPORTS, p. 16 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22,1998 CIRCULATION 15,000 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY OF DUKE UNIVERSITY WWW.CHRONICLE.DUKE.EDU Service learning Filmmaker Michael Moore blasts political parties The creator of Roger & Me used the podium to critique Washington while urging everyone to vote accommodates ByANYASOSTEK THE MOORE THE MERRIER The Chronicle Last night, The Big One hit the Grif­ The films of Michael Moore: rapid growth fith Film Theater at 7:30 p.m. Roger & Me (1989) And whether the Big One refers to the In this documentary about the clo­ • As more and more teachers title of Michael Moore's new movie, the sure of a General Motors plant in Flint, Mich., Moore seeks to track request the services of the stu­ United States as described iri the movie down GM Chief Executive Officer or Moore himself, the speech certainly Roger Smith. Along the way^he dent-directed LEAPS program, made a statement to the audience. meets with residents sir:; the group faces growing pains. Framed in the sarcastic humor Moore make ends meet. has perfected in movies, television and Blood in the Face (1991) stand-up comedy, the speech discussed For this .expose: Mcor; the Clinton impeachment hearings, po­ m<=ii Once a week, Trinity senior litical parties and capitalism, with some Ku Klux Klan, Sarah Gonzales travels nearly an heated exchanges with the audience :: Nation. hour north of Durham to visit the mixed in. Moore is best known for pro­ •(1994) small home of an extended family ducing and starring in Roger & Me, a Moore produced and directedJiis story of Hispanic migrant farm workers, film that chronicles his attempts to of a president plagued by low approval- - where she tutors the household's speak to Roger Smith, chairman and ratings who starts a war with Canada. three daughters. CEO of General Motors, about Smith's The Big One (1997) By working through a Beren- decision to close a GM factory in Moore's This film describes Moore's exploits stein Bears book with the 16-year- hometown of Flint, Mich. during a tour to promote his book old daughter, Gonzales is doing an Moore came to Duke in part to pre­ Downsize This! It revisits his favorite constituency, Americans struggling to JENNY COWOLLY/THE CHflONIClE optional assignment for a Spanish view his new movie, The Big One, which meet their daily budgets while cor­ literature class through the stu­ tracks his life since Roger & Me. Moore porate leaders grow rich. MICHAEL MOORE said he was pleased to be showing his new film dent-run program called Learning was supposed to speak for half and hour at the school that has led the effort to eliminate sweatshop use. through Experience, Action, Part­ before the showing of the film, but be­ nership and Service. cause his flight was delayed, the audi­ In fact, Moore called The Chronicle and witness sweatshops. Knight de­ LEAPS facilitates service ence watched the movie first. shortly after midnight to voice his sup­ clined the offer. learning, which is the combina­ Ifthe standing ovation that the au­ port for a living wage definition in the In addition to sweatshops, Moore tion of student learning, commu­ dience gave Moore before he had said a University Code of Conduct on sweat­ came to deliver another message to the nity involvement and organized single word was any indication, the shops. "I want to encourage the Univer­ crowded theater: Vote. More specifical­ reflections. The structure ofthese film was a success. Moore's decision to sity to set a living wage because it sets ly, vote Democratic as a protest reflections varies by teacher but show the film at Duke was not an ar­ a good example. Duke has sort of led the against the Republican Congress be­ always includes discussions facili­ bitrary one. way on sweatshops and they should con­ cause "at a time when 40 million peo­ tated by members of LEAPS. Ser­ "It was an honor to show [this film] tinue to do so." ple don't have health care, we are talk­ vice learning differs from ordinary at Duke University because of the peo­ Moore made his views on sweatshops ing about a cigar." community service because of the ple who have worked hard on the sweat­ clear in The Big One, when he attempt­ Moore recognized that a lot of De­ See SERVICE LEARNING on page 8 8* shop issue," Moore said. "These stu­ ed to convince Phil Knight, CEO of mocrats may be undesirable, but insist- dents have served as an inspiration." Nike, to come to Indonesia with him See MOORE on page 14 ?-< Two WXDU DJs are working to „ ynf ^Y ^y add improvisafional jazz to the Ii / / list of popular music genres in the Triangle. BY TIM PERZYK The Chronicle f you're tired ofthe usual music flooding the local airwaves, the Alliance for Improved / Music, or AIM, may be just what you're looking for. The brainchild of WXDU (88.7 FM) disc jock­ eys Walt Davis and Jeff Stern, AIM works to bring creative, improvised music to the Triangle area. The two initiated the program in April 1997 after a concert sponsored by the station inspired them to fill a gap in the local music scene. Davis, a jazz aficionado, drew upon his knowledge of contemporary performers in the music industry and soon created a program for a novel passion. Improvisational jazz, characterized by un­ rehearsed, "non-scripted" solos, is AIM's pri­ mary focus. SCOTT BROSIUS celebrates after the Yankees recorded fl._ Stern said improv differs from other perfor­ final out in last night's 3-0 victory over Ihe San Diego Padres, giv­ JENNY ROBINSON/THE CHRONICLE mance music in that it doesn't follow "verse-verse- ing New York the World Series title, Brosius was named World WXDU DISC JOCKEY JEFF STERN co-founded the Alliance for Im­ chorus-verse-chorus" guidelines. Such unre- Series MVP. The triumph capped a .'.25-win season; this is the proved Music a year and a half ago. See JAZZ on page 9 >• team's 24th championship. See Sports, |>. 15. • DSG EXAMINES PROPOSED YOUNG TRUSTEE BY-LAW REVISION SEE PAGE 4 • MEN'S SOCCER BEATS CAMPBELL SEE SPORTS PAGE 15 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD & NATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1 NEWSFILE Netanyahu agrees to continue peace talks FROM WIRE REPORTS rowed differences sufficiently to allow Netanyahu to Congress closes with spending bill vote withdraw his ultimatum. American officials had re­ The Senate approved a final spending bill for fiscal 1998 WYE MILLS, Md. — Prime Minister Benjamin Ne­ garded the ultimatum, one said, as "a childish ploy" in­ Wednesday, bringing the 105th Congress to an end and tanyahu of Israel backed down from a threat to leave tended for Israeli domestic consumption. sending members home to face the voters. The vote brought the Middle East peace talks Wednesday night after During the last week, the Americans, Israelis and the bill worth nearly $600 billion to President Bill Clinton, Palestinian and Israeli security officials met with the Palestinians have been working to produce a final who signed it before a fifth stopgap funding measure was set director of central intelligence and apparently made agreed text of some 20 pages that lays out the phased ex­ to expire at midnight. Although members on both sides of enough progress on key issues to satisfy the Israelis, change of 13 percent of West Bank land over 12 weeks in the aisle squawked about the massive size of the bill, in the Palestinian officials said. return for specific Palestinian actions to fight terrorism. end it proved too much for most of them to resist because of the political pork that could help in their re-election bids. While Netanyahu had threatened to leave the talks After meeting late Wednesday afternoon with Al­ and fly home Wednesday night unless the Palestinians bright to go over an American document spelling out moved on how to change their charter to eliminate a an agreement, Netanyahu issued a statement saying Glenn excluded from hormone experiment clause calling for the destruction of Israel and on ex­ there "can be no agreement" unless "substantial John Glenn has been quietly dropped from an experiment to traditing wanted Palestinians, he continued to meet progress" is made on two issues: a commitment by the test effects of the hormone melatonin on sleep in space. The with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Palestine National Council to publicly change its char­ test of melatonin is among three objectives in a sleep-disor­ The director of central intelligence, George Tenet, ter and renounce its call for the destruction of the der study that involves Glenn and another crew member in was meeting simultaneously with Defense Minister state of Israel, and a deal to extradite Palestinians a space shuttle flight to be launched next week. The 77-year- Yitzhak Mordechai of Israel and Palestinian officials, wanted for allegedly attacking Israelis. old astronaut will continue with the other elements of the sleep study and will conduct about 10 experiments in orbit. including negotiator Saeb Erekat, and apparently nar­ See PEACE TALKS on page 5 *- Scientists said they observed "a physical finding" that would exclude Glenn from taking melatonin in space. Italian ex-Communist appoints cabinet - Archer blocks Kaczynski compensation By ALESSANDRA STANLEY tions to supporters of Francesco Cossiga, a former Rep. Bill Archer, R-Ttexas, Wednesday blocked an effort on New York Times News Service Christian Democrat who now leads a small center- Capitol Hill to enable the brother of Unabomber Theodore ROME — A former Communist became Italy's right party.