January 21, 1985 Voi. SOB, No. 80. 24 pages Duke University Durham. North Carolina Free Circulation: 15,000 THE CHRONICLE Newsfile Snow hampers campus operations Sudan refugees may go: AU By BETSY FORGOTSON refugees in the Sudan, including Ethio­ A snowfall of only one to two inches Sunday morning pian Jews, are free to leave the country halted regular bus service to Central Campus until 5 p.m., provided they do not go directly to Israel, but otherwise did not disrupt University operations. President Gaafar al-Nimeiry said. Most classes will meet today. "We're on," said Keith Acknowledging that he is an enemy of Brodie, University chancellor. "We'd have to have five feet Israel, Nimeiry said, "I won't help Israel of snow before we'd cancel classes." by sending them more people." According . [The Associated Press reported on Sunday night that to U.N. estimates, more than a million eight members of a Duke outing club were camped on refugees, most of them from Ethiopia, Grandfather Mountain Saturday night, but left Sunday are in the Sudan, and 300,000 to 400,000 morning when temperatures dropped to 14 below zero with are expected to arrive in the next few winds of 50 knots. The National Weather Service station months. The refugees now in the coun­ on top of the mountain showed a wind chill factor of 79 try may go to Europe or the United below zero.] States, Nimeiry said, but he said his Paul Dumas, director of Public Safety, said few students government would not be involved in reported traffic accidents. "There weren't too many calls their departure. See page 2. on traffic because we didn't have many people driving," he said. "If everybody would just be a little cautious, we'll be all right [Monday]." Reagan inaugurated: in a one- Trinity freshman Stan LaBorde saw a Duke bus jump minute ceremony at the White House at a curb as it approached the West campus bus stop. "When three minutes before noon on the in­ the bus was pulling around the West campus circle the two auguration date specified by law, Presi­ back wheels jumped the curb. It took the bus driver five dent Reagan took the constitutional minutes to rock it off the curb," he said. "Then he drove oath, and began his second term as the the bus the wrong way around the traffic circle." 40th president of the United States He will repeat the oath in a public ceremony Mario Brown, a Duke bus driver, said that driving today, but indoors at the Capitol, not out­ around Central Campus on Sunday evening was very dif­ doors, because of freezing temperatures. ficult. "We started driving through Central at 5 p.m. after As Arctic temperatures withered the roads were sanded a little," said Brown, a Trinity junior. Washington, Reagan followed the recom­ "But the roads are still pretty bad." mendation of the Inaugural Committee The Duke Public Safety dispatcher said that he had not and canceled the traditional inaugural received any reports of accidents on Sunday afternoon or parade along Pennsylvania Avenue. A evening, and added that many of the more treacherous celebration in lieu of the parade was to spots on campus roads were sanded down. The Duke Transit Service placed a sign saying that bus be held indoors later. See page 2. BETH BRANCH/THE CHRONICLE Marie Elana Kirwin, a Trinity freshman, tests out DUFS' version of the Flex­ service would be temporarily stopped through Central ible Flyer. See WEATHER on page 13 Weather Stoppard stars in theater symposium Just like Chicago: Frigid air moved across the state Sunday, plunging By DEBBIE BLUM temperatures below zero early this mor­ ning. (When this was written.) As Tom Stoppard strode into the airport Temperatures today will be low in the terminal, he threw his overcoat aeross his 20s — not low enough to cancel classes, shoulders, the high collar hiding the bit of but probably low enough for the CI to hair that grew to his shoulders. He looked close early like it did Sunday night. out of place, a tall Englishman dressed for the London fog rather than the Carolina air. Yet the- internationally renowned playwright seemed quite at home par­ Inside ticipating Friday in a theater colloquium presented by the Duke Institute for the Arts, along with Broadway producer and 93-77: Need we say more? See visiting professor Emmanuel Azenberg and SPORTSWRAP. Drama Program Director John Clum. Born Tom Straussler in Czechoslovakia. The BOSS: The Daily Tar Heel may July 3, 1937, Stoppard is a brilliant writer not like him, but then who can respect who ranks as a leader in contemporary a newspaper that spells sorority as "sori- literature. ty" or editors who eat collard greens? His output through two decades includes 'What are collard greens anyway?) As plays for radio and television, screenplays The Daily Tar Heel reported on Friday, for television and film, adaptations and tickets for Bruce's next concert are translations of works by European available by calling 1-962-0245 (collect). dramatists, several short stories and a Oh, and by the way: See page 10 for a BETH BRANCH/THE CHRONICLE novel. However, his work for the stage in­ Three theater wizards: Emmanuel Azenberg (I), Tom Stoppard (c) and John Clum review of Springsteen in Greensboro. cluding "The Real Thing." "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "Travesties" has been deemed true Stoppard style by one," Stoppard said in an interview, with the — has made him a leader in the British theater critic Bruce Cook - "diffidence common sense found in a man who was CI closed on Saturdays?!: in a theater since the mid-1960s. masking a certain aggressive quality." educated outside of school. number of money-saving moves, Duke The three theater professionals answered The energy of his plays is not found in his After several years of working his way up University Food Service will close the questions posed by an enthusiastic au­ quiet manner, yet his presence is felt as if to columnist and critic on another provin­ Cambridge Inn on Saturdays, the Oak dience that overflowed into the aisles in his intelligence were a physical force. The cial newspaper, Stoppard became a free­ Room on Sundays and curtail Pizza Reynolds Theater. Though Stoppard was energy is found in the way he devours all lance writer. It was a transition period for Devil deliveries. See page 3. one of three men featured at the discussion, that is around him; his curiosity is childlike him from reporter to writer — to a it was to him that most questions were in scope but intellectual in depth. playwright who sees the theater as a prac­ directed, and it was his eloquent and often Stoppard has been recognized as one of tice rather than a subject. Life Flight flies: Earlier this humorous answers for which everyone month, the Medical Center became the the most literate writers of the English His practice is an art and with art, Stop­ waited. Even Azenberg — whose producing language, yet he quit school at 17 to work pard said, direct experience is not first North Carolina hospital with a experience includes "The Real Thing" - helicopter care service. See page 3. on a local English newspaper. necessary. "Mental experience is impor- . said, "It's more fun listening to Tom." "You didn't need a degree to get into jour­ tant," he said. He is untutored in many of Stoppard delivered his answers in what nalism so there wasn't a point in having See STOPPARD on page 6 Reagan takes oath, cancels parade World & Bush, who also renewed his oath Sunday. They ducked into the icy wind gusting at the North Portico, posed for an in­ WASHINGTON - Ronald Wilson Reagan quietly took stant for photographers, then retreated to the warmth of the Constitutional oath Sunday to begin his second term the White House and a day of non-public celebration. National as the 40th president of the United States, but frigid As the Arctic cold withered the snow-blown city, the In­ weather here forced the cancellation of Monday's inaugural augural Committee recommended to Reagan on Sunday Page 2 January 21, 1985 evening that the 90-minute parade scheduled to follow the L, beaming with the confidence born of four years' public inauguration Monday be canceled because of the experience and a re-election landslide, took the oath with cold. Reagan concurred. White House officials said that THE CHRONICLE a firm voice at a simple one-minute ceremony in the White the president's second swearing-in would be held indoors, House at three minutes to noon on the Jan. 20 inaugura­ not outdoors, at the Capitol, with a celebration to be held tion date specified by law. in lieu of the parade at some indoor place to be determined. Associate sports editors. Jim Arges Charley Scher White House officials quickly revised plans for the public The ceremony was in keeping with inaugural tradition John Turnbull inauguration in the face of 9-degree weather after the in which the festive public swearing-in is postponed when Associate photo editor Don Mullen 73-year-old president repeated the oath recited by Chief Jan. 20 falls on a Sunday. Under the new plans for Mon­ Supplement John Turnbull Justice Warren Burger before a small gathering in the day, Reagan is to take the oath again indoors at the Copy editors . Doug Mays, grand foyer. Capitol, attend the altered celebration and visit 10 balls Townsend Davis "Wow!" Reagan exclaimed a few minutes later as he step­ and parties in the evening.