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Surprise storm ravages Duke, cancels classes

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

If Tuesday was a Blue-White scrimmage, White won easily.

The Triangle’s worst snowstorm since 1902 covered the University yesterday, burying any chance for the regular schedule to resume until at least

Thursday.

The storm caused Duke’s first multiple-day class cancellation in recent history; classes will not resume until at least noon Wednesday, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask announced at around 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Today is also the second severe weather policy day in a row for employees.

Explaining his decision, he said dryly, “There are 20 inches of snow on the ground.”

Although the University’s roads are relatively clear, he noted that the streets in the surrounding area are still coated with dangerous snow and ice.

“It’s going to take us another day to get things clean enough that I feel comfortable asking people to come in,” Trask said. “Unless you’re coming a short distance from campus in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, you’re not going to make it.”

Stepping out of his normal role as the University’s chief business officer, Trask was forced to make the call on canceling Wednesday morning classes—a decision usually left to the provost.

“Provost [Peterl Lange is incommunicado,” he said, adding that he worked with vice provosts on the decision to cancel classes until noon. “We made the decision collectively. He can revisit it after we fi-

DRIVING AND PARKING CONDITIONS were poor Tuesday, after a massive winter storm dropped about 15 inches of snow on Durham

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nally find him.”

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of N.C. receive 20 inches

By ESTES THOMPSON

Raleigh-Durham International Airport, a record for any single snowstorm. The storm also outstripped RALEIGH The first blizzard of 2000 in the record snowfall for a month in the RaleighNorth Carolina unloaded more than 20 inches of Durham area—2o.o inches set in January 1893. snow Tuesday that closed roads and knocked out It was the fourth winter storm in a week, but power to more than a quarter million people the one with the most punch, knocking out with “hurricane-like damage” that prompted an power to 262,000 customers.

‘This is a dangerous storm, and it should be emergency declaration.

One snow-related fatality was reported—a treated as such,” said Gov. Jim Hunt. “It is critiperson died in a traffic accident on Interstate 95 cal that we keep our roadways clear today and near Four Oaks. The highway patrol said five keep our families safe.” miles of Interstate 85 in Granville County was The governor asked that citizens check on their closed because ofstalled cars and trucks. neighbors, particularly the elderly. About 100 NaThe National Weather Service said 2 feet of tional Guard personnel were deployed in hard-hit snow fell in Montgomery County and the entire areas to help with emergency medical duties, county was without power. Twenty inches were power generations and rescuing stranded drivers. reported in Orange County. Some 18 inches were ‘The early damage reports are devastating, reported in Richmond, Lee, Person, Vance and with trees and power lines down across the Warren counties. worst-affected areas of North and South CaroliLesser amounts fell in Anson County—l 3 na,” said Jeff Corbett, Carolina Power & Light 14 inches, tapering to 6 inches in Davidson and Co.’s system storm coordinator. “We are seeing Cumberland counties and 3 inches in Forsyth hurricane-like damage in the Sandhills area of and Wilson counties.

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Police detain Cuban dissident leaders Police detained Oswaldo Sardinas and Hector Palacios, two of Cuba’s best-known opposition leaders Tuesday morning, hours before they were to hold a meeting of dissidents, a leading human rights activist said.

Consumer confidence reaches all-time high Consumer confidence, a driving force in the economy’s long expansion, has soared to its highest level in the 33 years the statistic has been kept, driven by the booming stock market and plentiful jobs.

NATO peacekeepers arrest war criminal NATO peacekeepers arrested suspected war criminal Mitar Vasiljevic under a UN. tribunal indictment charging him with “extermination” of

Federal government addresses foster care Prompted by moving tales of neglect and abuse, the federal government seized new powers to protect the nation’s half-million foster children and push states to find them permanent homes more quickly.

Taliban, Pakistan reject U.S. proposal Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and Pakistan’s military leaders have re-

buffed U.S. appeals to crack down on terrorism, and one militant group warned of a violent backlash ifthey tried.

Irish security official issues warning Pat Byrne, Ireland’s security chief, warned Tuesday that Irish Republican Army dissidents are actively planning to wreck the peace in Northern Ireland and likely will evade police surveillance sooner or later.

Study finds bad hair days affect self-esteem A Yale University study of the psychology of bad hair days found that people’s self-esteem goes awry when their hair is out of place; they feel Bosnian Muslim men, less smart, less capable, women and children and more embarrassed and other atrocities. less sociable.

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Government expects $1.9 trillion surplus

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Storm hits East Coast A fast-moving storm covered the East Coast with up to 2 feet of snow Tuesday, closing airports and schools and paralyzing the nation’s capital. The storm drove northward along the coast, as moist air from the ocean collided with cold air over land.

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Following the announcement, Clinton proposed to pay off the federal debt by 2013

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press

WASHINGTON Virtually doubling the size of the budget battlefield this election year, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that it now expects federal surplus-

es over the next decade to total as much as a gigantic $1.9 trillion.

With the soaring economy pouring billions in unforeseen revenue into federal coffers, President Bill Clinton said he will propose paying off the government’s entire $3.6 trillion federally held debt by 2013.

That would be two years earlier than he had previously aimed for, and puts him a step ahead ofHouse Republicans, who are working on a plan to pay off that portion of the debt by 2015.

The surplus estimate by CBO, for the 10 years ending 2010, represents a near doubling of a $1 trillion forecast it issued only last

July. The figures exclude Social Security funds.

Both sides immediately claimed credit for the good news.

“We got here by making hard choices and sticking to a strategy that works, that builds opportunity and reinforces responsibility,” Clinton said at the White House. “I remain committed to that strategy. I ask the Republican majority in Congress to put politics aside and

join me.”

In a written statement, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IIL, said, “We have this surplus because of the hard work of the American people, because of the healthy American economy and because of

prudent fiscal policies championed by the Republican Congress.”

The ballooning surplus estimates by CBO, Congress’ nonpartisan budget analyst, mean there will be even more money at stake

this election year as both parties’ presidential candidates, as well as Clinton and Congress, battle over how much of it to use for possible tax cuts, spending increases and debt reduction.

Among the politicians for whom the forecast was good news is GOP presidential contender George W. Bush, who has proposed a five-year, $483 billion tax cut that could be paid for by the new numbers. Some, including Republican candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have said Bush’s plan eats up too much of the projected surplus.

Because of likely political gridlock on issues this year, many analysts expect that most of the surplus for fiscal 2001 which begins next Oct. I—wil1 —will go for debt reduction. CBO projected next year’s surplus at up to $69 billion, plus another $166 billion in Social —

Security surpluses.

Grandmothers will meet with Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez will see his grandmothers today at a private home in Miami Beach

By MICHAEL SNIFFEN Associated Press

WASHINGTON

Under government orders, the

Florida relatives of Elian Gonzalez agreed Tuesday to make the boy available for a meeting with his Cuban grandmothers Wednesday at a neutral site, the Justice Department said. The grandmothers pressed their in-

sistence for the boy’s return and pleaded with Congress not to force US. citizenship upon him.

“The meeting will take place at the time and site selected by the immigration service,” Justice spokesperson Carole Florman said Tuesday evening. The agreement culminated a long day of negotiations marked by an order from the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the meeting, that had been thwarted on Monday by the relatives.

Florman said the government had reassured the relatives that Wednesday’s session at the Miami Beach home of the president of a Dominican college would be just a visit and would not result in his being taken back to Cuba.

Earlier, after meeting lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Mariela Quintana, the child’s paternal grandmother, said, ‘“He is only a six-year-old boy. And he’s a Cuban.”

President Bill Clinton said he would not rule out a veto if Congress passes the citizenship bill.

The INS, part of the Justice Department, ordered the boy’s great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, to bring Elian to a meeting with the grandmothers at an “appropriate neutral location” at 4 p.m. EST Wednesday.

The INS specified that location: the Miami Beach home of Barry University President Jeanne O’Laughlin, a sister in the Roman Catholic Dominican order.

The ruling followed Gonzalez’s rejection Monday of a meeting anywhere other than his own home.

The meeting “is only a visit” and does not change the boy’s status, said the letter signed by Michael Pearson, executive associate immigration commissioner for field operations.

The INS has ruled that the boy should be returned to his father in Cuba. Elian’s Florida relatives have challenged that order in federal court.

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Durham declares state of emergency As a monster storm hammered local roads, officials imposed a 12-hour curfew

By CHRISTINE PARKINS The Chronicle

snowdrifts muted the flakes landscape, North Carolina’s activity much of Durham’s and left buried the county with only a muffled silence.

By 4 p.m., Durham officials had declared a state of emergency because of an estimated 10 to 15 inches of snow.

The state of emergency—in effect until 8 a.m. Friday unless otherwise terminated—was accompanied by a Durham County curfew until 6 a.m. Wednesday.

The 12-hour curfew prohibited citizens from operating non-emergency vehicles.

As yesterday’s

The Durham announcement followed Gov. Jim Hunt’s Tuesday morning declaration of a state of emergency in North Carolina.

The message of the day—reiterated by both state and local officials—was that people should remain at home and off the roads. Many officials emphasized the need to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles. “Don’t go out on the roads for any reason,” said Chris Boyer, roadway appearance superintendent at Durham’s Department of Urban Forestry.

But some Durham residents’ homes did not provide the comfortable warmth officials advised them to seek. Early in the afternoon, Duke Power reported

that at 11 a.m., 131,000 customers were without power. But by 4 p.m., about 13,000 had had regained electricity.

Somewhat fewer than 10,000 of GTE’s customers lost local phone service Tuesday, and downed power lines were expected to keep about 2,600 lines out of use, said spokesperson Steve Toler.

In Durham, the storm claimed at least one life, an elderly woman who was found on her snow-covered porch Tues-

day morning.

Some citizens did not have the luxury of staying home at all. Road mainte-

nance employees with the Durham County Department of Transportation

had been working close to 30 hours by midafternoon Tuesday. “When we came in yesterday for our regular day shift, we started working...,” said Aaron Horton, an official at the department. “We’ve been working going on 30 hours now.”

As the department cleared the roads, more employees were able to trickle into work. The department allowed exhausted personnel to leave. Tve been telling people, ‘Once you get to that point [where you’re tired], you’ve done what you can, go ahead and go home,”’ Horton said.

But departments charged with clearing roads faced a paradox: Employees could not get to work until the roads were

plowed. “Lots of employees don’t have fourwheel-drive vehicles...said Katie Kalb, director of public works for the City of Durham. “What we do is try and pick people up as we do our [snow clearing] routes.”

With a lighter snow—the type Durham experienced earlier in the week—Kalb’s crews can usually clear city roads in about 12 hours. “But it’s a lot harder when it’s really coming down and the roads are just blanketed,” she said.

Kalb explained that winds caused snow to blow away from some roads while forming enormous drifts on others. “Some places have about 18-inch drifts while others have 12,” she said.

She added that the city focused on clearing emergency routes to hospitals.

Many departments hired outside contractors to help with the gargantuan task of pushing snow off of the roads. “[The construction contractors] bring in equipment and a man who knows how to run it,” said Horton of the Durham County DOT. “They have been helping us clear the primary roads: 1-40, 1-85, N.C. 147, U.S. 15-501 and 501 North.”

Slippery snow was not the only condition affecting the streets. In many areas, trees and large branches contributed to the treacherous conditions.

By early afternoon, the Department of

Urban Forestry had received calls from 15 locations about fallen trees or branches. “[The number of calls] is not unmanageable. It’s comparable to other [heavy storms] or less,” Boyer said.

People who ventured onto the roads were left to their own devices if they drifted into trouble. “We’re not going out and assisting motorists. We’re only taking emergency calls,” said Barbara Parson, assistant supervisor at the emergency communications center in Durham. “We’re not handling anything that is not an emergency.”

Some citizens, nevertheless, trekked to local stores to stock up on supplies for the wintry weather. Dave Gardner, an official at Kroger on Hillsborough Road, said business was bustling: “I don’t have time to talk, but I can tell you that we are open and we’re completely covered.”

Meanwhile, at the Home Depot on New Mount Moriah Road, department head Mike Utley said customers were buying generators, shovels, gloves and heaters. “They’re taking [the weather] in stride,” he said. “A lot of them are looking for sleds for their kids.”

Sadly, those customers had to continue along the icy roads in their search for

sleds. Home Depot does not sell them.

Richard Rubin contributed to this story.

Essential employees weather snowstorm Dining Services and Facilities Management workers were among the intrepid souls who trekked to Duke even as the snow continued to fall.

By DREW KLEIN The Chronicle

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BRUCE ECKMEDER, assistant

director of Dining Services, prepares sandwiches in the Great Hall.

Classes had long since been canceled and snow was still falling early Tuesday morning, but many University employees were not deterred, trudging through the snow and putting in at least a full day.

Several University departments ran vans transporting those unable to drive from their homes in time for first shifts.

‘Tve been here since five this morning,” said Ethel Collins, a 20-year veteran of Dining Services, who took advantage of the door-to-door van service. “It wasn’t bad. We got here safe and sound.”

According to the University’s severe weather policy, Dining Services workers are among Category 1 essential employees—those who are required to report to work. Although they are eligible for a one-hour paid grace period, they cannot “use vacation or discretionary days to cover an absence on a severe weather day,” reads the policy.

“We’re supposed to be here because we’re Category 1 employees,” said Faye Mclntosh, the manager of the Oak Room. She added, “There are some exceptions.... Some things you’ve just got to understand. We’ve got one cashier that lives 20 miles away, and she’s got kids and her lights have gone out.”

Jim Wulforst, director of Dining Services, said the van began picking up employees at 4 a.m., and operated most of the morning bringing in employees.

Still, he said, “We’ve got bare bones,”

with only a skeletal staff and limited food selection at the Great Hall and the

Marketplace.

The two cafeterias also closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, an hour earlier than usual, so the van could get employees home before the roads became even icier.

“We’ve got people’s lives in our hands with our drivers,” Wulforst said, “and we’ve got to be responsible to get them home before it gets too bad out there.”

Alpine Bagels and Brews and Han’s Fine Chinese Cuisine are also operating, although the other campus dining options remained closed.

Han’s owner Jack Chao required his

employees to report to work, but drove

several of them in his car.

“I had to pick everyone up,” he said.

“It took me an hour to get out ofmy own driveway.... [ltl took a total of three

hours to get here.”

Dining Services employees are not the only ones keeping the University’s pulse beating. Many departments are operating on reduced crews, including Facilities Management.

“Including the supervisor, there were five of us that came in. That’s in the main mechanical shop,” said Reid Babinec, a plumber. “That’s out of 16.” Babinec added that despite the severe weather policy, employees in his shop either came in, used sick leave or went without pay.

Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs, is her office’s designated Category 1 employee, so she made took the mile-long hike from her home to campus. “Although I’m certainly not a critical employee, [it is impor-

tant) to have at least someone on campus to assist with any emergencies or incidents that occur,” she said, adding that she is also intent on preserving her impressive attendance streak.

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Gothic Wonderland was

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again transformed into a Winter Wonderland,

but many

students woke up to a glittering white campus with

mixed emotions—de-

the canceled classes that allowed them time for fun and frolicking. spite

Monday evening, when the snow began falling, many revelers flocked outside for sledding, snowman making and snowball throwing.

However, the campus was surprisingly silent and subdued as the morning approached.

To a certain degree, the second major snowstorm led to a less intense flurry of activity than the last one, although many still enjoyed the novelty of the setting.

Jessica Hersey, for example, was

none too pleased with the state of affairs. “It’s definitely getting annoying—it’s not as fun as it used to be,” the Trinity junior said.

While some students traded in their winter jackets for a cozy spot in their dorm rooms, Trinity sophomores Melissa Dunaway and Catherine Lenox trudged knee-deep through the snow.

Although both expressed their happi-

ness about having another play day, they admitted that the allure was more appealing during the first snowfall.

“I think people are kind of like, ‘OK, we’ve had it before,”’ Dunaway said. “I think this is really fun, but I’m still kind of pissed. Missing three classes today is not good.”

Although the thought of the snow made both somewhat wary of missing and making up classes, they seemed more than willing to have fun while they could. Lenox suggested a strategy for sledding: “I think we should go grab trays from the Great Hall.”

Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and the on-

campus student affairs representative during this storm, said she remembers “traying” from her days as an undergraduate at the University.

“It’s a long-time tradition at Duke, for students to borrow trays for sledding...,” she said. “And there’s an emphasis on the ‘borrow.’”

While some students like Trinity junior Bryan Herzbach celebrated the day off from classes with a planned Wallace Wade trip to play football with

friends from Old House CC, others wondered what the snow would do to their class schedules.

Trinity senior Bud Ervin said that because the snow kept him from many of his Tuesday/Thursday classes, he does not know whether or not to drop them, because drop/add supposedly ends today.

Others wondered how the University would have students make up lost time.

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SNOW SCULPTURE, top. Pratt sophomore David Wu and Trinity sophomore Greg Kodama turned a storm into art by building a frozen replica of the Chapel. The effort put many a snowman to shame.

BIKING was not an option, but neither was any form of transportation other than old-fashioned trudging.

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ealth system operates business as usual hospital reacted well to the severe weather. Shuttle services transported 75 to 100 staff members yesterday morning, and approximately 40 employees slept at the hospital during the day. “We have staff here during the night. For the most part, most of them are still here,” he said.

“We ended up keeping them in the hospital so they’ll be here, ready to go, for the third shift again.”

By NORM BRADLEY The Chronicle Despite the snowy weather outside, Medical Center caroatient care at the yesterday.

Although as usual on ried operations hospital many non-critical services wer e closed, all vital hospital and systems remained open throughout

the blizzard.

The volunteers with four-wheel-dnve of staff memcars who shuttled hundreds were the key to the work from and to bers day’s success, said many doctors, nurses are going out and and employees. “[Theyl picking up critical staff members within an eight- or nine-mile radius,” said Joanspena Downer, senior public relations cialist in the Medical Center News Office.

Although many departments were for emable to shuttle in replacements ployees at the end of their shifts, others were not as lucky. One nurse was noticeably exhausted as she waited for a ride home after a 19-hour workday. “None of our staff could get in,” she said.

Beds throughout the Medical Center were filled—not with patients, but with employees. Nurse Debra Hayes said many staff members were stranded at the hospital and were trying to find a quiet place to nap. “All of the hotels are booked,” she said. “People are sleeping in [patient] beds.”

Mary Lee Campbell, a manager at the hospital’s blood bank, is facing a problem that may turn out to be much more serious—the hospital has a shortage of platelets and certain blood types. “We are having a hard time providing blood supplies,” she said.

Although the shortage has not yet reached emergency levels, Campbell worried that a few more days of inclement weather would severely deplete supplies.

Emergency Department nurses said ambulances were able to pick up and deliver patients all night Monday, and the Medical Center News Office reported that roads were relatively clear. “[EMS] is making some excellent decisions in deciding which patients to go for,” said Kathy

Elective surgeries were postponed yesterday at all three hospitals.

In contrast to the bustling corridors of the emergency and critical care wards at Duke’s Medical Center, many large sections of the hospital were virtually abandoned. The Medical Center Library and Medical Center Bookstore were closed for the day. Work at clinics and research facilities ground to a halt.

“Nobody made it in,” said Assistant Professor of Genetics Hubert Amrein, who was the only member of his team to

make it to work. ‘The other labs are NORM BRADLEY/THE CHRONICLE

THIS MED CENTER CAFETERIA had many customers and plenty of food on hand, but that facility was suffering from a rather severe sled... er, tray shortage.

Finch, nurse manager of Emergency Medical Services. “It is treacherous out there. It impeded them, but they have been getting through. Some have been working more than 24 hours.”

Patients reported they were satisfied with the quality of the Medical Center’s care during the storm. “[The ambulances] were not as quick as they would have been if the roads were clear, but they have done a great job,” said Kevin Kelly, whose daughter was rushed to the emergency room last night.

Clinical Associate Paul Nagy, whose son had an appendectomy and a CAT scan last night, agreed. “If you’ve got a sick kid, this is the place to be,” he said. “The people here overnight have been wonderful.”

Most departments reported a low volume of patients during the storm. ‘We’re doing real fine,” said Garfield Jackson, an aide in the radiology department. ‘The

number of patients has been considerably lower [than usual,]” he said.

With fewer patients to attend to, many residents and medical students had little to do. Several passed their time on call by building snowmen or sledding down a nearby hill.

Raleigh Community Hospital also reported low patient levels and adequate staffing.

“I think we’re doing great. I’m so proud of our folks. People are really working extra...,” said Carla Hollis, vice president of marketing and development for the hospital.

As at Duke, volunteers transported staff, and many employees found places to sleep nearby. “A lot of employees are staying over as a precaution,” she said.

‘We have several hotels around the hospital. We’re using extra rooms [there.]”

Richard Liekweg, chief operating officer of Durham Regional Hospital, said his

Duke students’ play day �From previous page

to try to overcompensate for missed classes,” said Trinity senior Bashir Eustache, particularly because of the days when the snowfalls have occurred. “The snow seems to not favor Tuesday and Thursday classes, which is interesting since I only have one class on Mondays

Wednesdays.”

However, Eustache did not muse for too long, acknowledging his plan to have friends and

over for hot cocoa. “I’m not sick of [the snowl

yet,” he said.

While some students like Eustache planned to spend the day inside—as did many dorm dwellers who caught up on sleep, watched movies and held impromptu gatherings—more made use of the snowy environment as the day wore on.

Four students worked on a snowman at the West Campus bus stop, hoping to get materials mom Alpine Bagels in order to decorate their new friend.

We’ve got to beat the freshmen who made n<r Campus bus stop last [snowmU, said Erin Sparnon, a Pratt sophomore.

Eric Edison, a Trinity senior, said that he understands why Northerners might be sick of me continual snowfall.

However, the Floridian said, “The Universiat Pettiest moment.” Edison added ty ut he and friends were planning on playing °

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football on the quad.

Meanwhile, members of the Sigma Chi fraternity sat in the commons room watching American Pie on DTV. They were joined by several freshmen rushees who remained snowbound on West Campus.

Ryan Rhoades, a Trinity freshman, ended up watching movies at the section.

“I don’t think I’m getting back to East anytime soon,” he said.

At other fraternity sections, members made the most of their free time, although the snow

has forced them to cancel rush events.

Ervin, a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said Monday and Tuesday events had to be postponed.

The section has been the site for impromptu gatherings, Ervin said. “We were kind of being hosts of anyone who wanted to come out.”

Other aspects of Greek life were affected, as sororities have been forced to cancel their bid nights, or have attendees brave the elements.

Sue Chang, a Trinity senior, said that she has already taken two rolls of film, and a multitude of students roamed around the campus with cameras.

Looking out on a quad blanketed with white, Dunaway shared one last plea for a thaw.

“Please—break out the sundresses already.”

Katherine Stroup contributed to this story.

shut down.”

Research Associate Jochen Genschel said the only reason he made it to work was that he lived within walking distance. T’m almost the only person in [my] 1ab..,,” he said. “I don’t see many people around.”

The storm strained the Medical Center’s support staff as well. Steam Plant Operator Dan Rogers is responsible for providing heat to the Hospital. “I’m going to take a nap,” he said as he entered his 16th straight hour on the job. “Everything is running smoothly.”

The captive population of employ-

ees combined with the lack of patients to care for took a toll on the Medical Center cafeteria as well. “We’ve never been this busy,” said a cashier for the Domino’s stand.

Officials reported that the Hospital has four days worth offood supplies, with an additional shipment expected tomorrow.

For the latest information on Medical Center services and schedules, call 681-SNOW. Jaime Levy contributed to this story.

WEDNESDAY,

Advice on advising The University needs to improve its pre-major advising system to prepare for Curriculum 2000; professional advisers are the way to go

The

University’s pre-major advising system is adequate. The current system meets student need because students rarely use it. Upperclassmen and professors have a good working knowledge of the curriculum, so underclassmen look to them for advice rather than an assigned adviser. A student showing minimal initiative can survive to graduation in spite of advising, not because of it.

The possibility of opting out of the advising system will disappear next year when the University implements Curriculum 2000. Having a new course classification system will render relatively useless much of the knowledge base of professors and upperclassmen, leaving freshmen more reliant on their advisers than ever before. The current flaws in the University’s advising system will be greatly exacerbated in the fall.

The University has been wise to emphasize faculty involvement in advising. There is merit in linking each student with a faculty member from the beginning. But freshmen—especially freshmen who don’t have a specific major in mind—will demand information that professors, whose knowledge is necessarily limited to a few other departments, will not know. It is both impractical and inefficient to demand that professors learn the minutia of each individual course or department at Duke.

The time has come for Duke to hire professional advisers as supplemental resources. These advisers would be responsible for learning the intricacies of multiple departments. They would be a valuable asset for students seeking the path of least resistance to a double major, or younger students trying to determine their academic interests.

Most importantly, they would supplement the current stock of premajor advisers by answering any of their curricular questions.

But even with this added resource, professors cannot function as adequate advisers with the current adviser/advisee ratio —some teachers have groups of 15 to 20 students to look out for. The meaningful student-faculty relationship the advising system is meant to foster is virtually unrealizable when advisers must spread their limited time over so many students.

In addition to lowering the advising group size, the University should look into retaining upperclass peer advisers as an added resource for students. Each department could compile a list of successful upperclassmen who could receive basic training in the curriculum. These students would provide candid advice about professors and courses and answer questions that are simply too awkward or inappropriate to ask a professor-adviser.

Now that a relatively complex curriculum is being implemented, the University must take seriously its responsibility to its students to not only provide them an adequate education, but guide them through all its options as well.

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Confederate flag stands for more than just slavery Monday’s editorial chastising South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag shows just how out of touch The Chronicle is with the culture that surrounds it. I am a Southerner and the descendant of non-slaveholding farmers who fought and died for the Confederacy—a cause based on states’ rights. For The Chronicle to brand the flag under which they gave their lives as purely a “banner of racism” deeply insults my every and other Southerner’s heritage.

The issues at stake in the Civil War cannot be distilled down to just slavery. The South was fighting for freedom from a detached govern-

ment that promised to wreck its economic way of life, much like the colonies did the American during Revolution. Granted, slavery is odious, as is the discrimiforreferenced editorial,

nation of blacks because of their skin color; however, for people to argue that this single facet of Southern history justifies the flag’s removal is just as odious.

Need I remind the editors

that

the

Star-Spangled

Banner has plenty of unpopular history? Slaves were bought and sold, Native Americans massacred and deported from their homelands and JapaneseAmericans interred with no justification during World

War 11, all under the red, white and blue. I daresay that those clamoring for the Confederate flag to be lowered would protest so fervently against Old Glory’s removal. These transgressions are kindly overlooked, but woe to the poor Southerner who feels enough pride in his region and history to display any Confederate

flag, for he is immediately branded by outsiders as [ bigot and a member of tu Ku Klux Klan.

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American, to be a Southerner and of my ancestry. To pro. hibit me and like-minded people to be proud is an outright contradiction to the cultural acceptance creed The Chronicle constantly! harps upon.

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Carolina and Georgia have had ample opportunity to elect legislators who support the flag’s removal, and they have not done so. The decision should be left to the states free from outside influences and those screaming with uninformed opinions. The flag of the Confederacy is about heritage, not hate.

Justin Ford

Trinity ’O3

see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/export/www/www_docs/chronicle/2000/01/24/08Abanner.html

NAACP boycott hurts those it is supposed to help The Jan. 24 editorial shows some of the incredible that The ignorance Chronicle accuses the legislature of South Carolina of

Carolina’s tourism industry, held a rally not too long ago South which was attended by little thereby forcing Carolina into submission. more than 10,000 people, Yet, this boycott will will hurt black and whites alike. This both black- and white-owned number rivals the 15,000 true Carolinians that having. Being a resident of businesses, and this is South South Carolina and a supabsolutely not the aim. The attended the Martin Luther porter of the Confederate NAACP is preaching to the King Jr. Day rally. flag, I feel I must reply and choir by trying to hurt blackLastly, I would like to say point out some of the errors owned businesses. Also, this that I don’t argue the validity boycott—and I know this to of the need to remove the in the editorial.

First and foremost among be true because I know severflag. It does not represent the in the problems in this editorial al business owners in South government South is the fact that this issue can Carolina—has done next to Carolina, but it must be the be settled by no one else but nothing. It has had little-to- citizens of South Carolina the people of South Carolina, no effect on the industry. who decide this, not some And, as far as the rally is national organization that This is a state issue, and does not concern a national orga- concerned, it is incredible organizes a boycott that, even nization such as the NAACP. that the author left out the if it were effective, would Secondly, there are a few fact that of those 46,000 prohurt the people it was problems with the boycott in testers, nearly 30,000 were designed to help. and of itself. The boycott is from Georgia and North designed to hurt—and even- Carolina. And also left out Will Harton tually cripple—South that the supporters ofthe flag Trinity ’O2 http:/ /export!www/www_docs/chroniclel2ooololl24/ see www.chronicle.duke.edu editorial, 08Abanner.html for referenced /

Abortion has murdered many innocent children In light of the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, I thought this would be a good time to express my outrage

at what has been said in defense of this horrific practice called abortion. The proabortion lobby claims that there is nothing wrong with an abortion because a woman has the right to decide what happens to her own body. I don’t dispute that a woman has rights.

Nor will I dispute that the baby also has rights to his body, such as the right not to be poisoned, dismembered, sucked out of the womb piece by piece or be brought two inches from birth only to

have his skull cracked open and his brains sucked out —a procedure so gruesome it would make Adolf Eichmann shiver. But I must be off my Rocker now, comparing abortionists to Nazi war criminals. Well, actually, abortion in America has claimed several times as many lives as Hitler’s death camps ever did and about as many each year as Auschwitz did in all its years of operation.

We all know that the most basic right we have is the right to be alive, and that this right supercedes mere conveniences of the parents. Yes, I acknowledge that a woman has a right to

choose. I also acknowledge that, except for rape, she did choose. We all know this to be true, and nothing is going to change this truth. Nor will any amount of angry or evasive rhetoric or livid letters to The Chronicle change the fact that abortion ends a human life as a woman kills her own willfully conceived child.

My mother doesn’t believe in abortion. I’ve had bad days, but even on the worst days I’m glad that my mother didn’t abort me. Apparently, yours didn’t abort you either.

Paul Abernathy

Trinity 'Ol

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The reason I know this is because I was doing some research on what people are doing with all the food they bought in anticipation of a nightmarish Y2K and I ran across an Associated Press article that had a recipe from the Canned Food Alliance.

For those of you not in the know, the Canned Food Alliance is a partnership of the American Iron and Steel Institute’s Steel Packaging Council, the Can Manufacturers Institute and the National Food Processors Association’s Canned Food Information Council. The alliance says its primary mission is to serve as a resource for information.

That’s more than enough information for me in one day, but I can’t help but wonder how people’s lives are going to be changed by the tragic miscalculation made by mere mortals.

I wonder what all those unemployed computer consultants are going to do now. I didn’t even know anyone who was a Y2K consultant until about mid-1999, and now I know at least six. What are they going to do, now that no one wants Y2K advice? Can there be post-Y2K consultants?

What about all those books that were printed warning us of the Armageddon that would be Jan. 1, 2000? I wonder how many didn’t sell.

Would they even sell in the markdown bin now?

And of those that sold, how many now will be peddled this spring at rummage sales, like so many copies of Catcher in the Rye for a nickel apiece?

What about the people who sold MREs (meals ready to eat, k-rations or c-rations in military talk) and other survivalist supplies like there was no tomorrow? What are they going to do tomorrow? And the day after tomorrow? It’s too bad they didn’t think ,

about that.

As I listened to National Public Radio the other morning, there was a gentleman being interviewed who had many, many MREs and was willing to share his advice on getting rid of them. “Make a big pot of spaghetti sauce and throw in an MRE. They taste pretty good that way,” he said.

I wonder exactly how many batteries the battery companies sold in December, no, just the last week in December. If I use what happened in my house as a comparison, I would estimate six times the normal amount people buy in a year.

I wonder how many people are out there who had an experience like this one: This man was going to stay up until the new year and new century hit, and he decided since he was going to do that he’d better fill up the bathtub so he’d have some water to flush the toilets with if anything went wrong. After starting the water, he promptly fell asleep in his chair.

The man awoke at 2:30 a.m. to the sound of water overrunning the bathtub. The water went through the bathroom doorway, down a hallway to a stairway to the basement not far away. About three inches of water covered the floor of his basement, he said. “Y2K cost me a lot of money,” he told me.

Although I’m wondering about these things, I do not have the “postpartum Y2K depression” a psychologist described in an article just before the old year ended.

And a social worker said, “I believe we are going to see some people who are going to feel disheartened if nothing big goes wrong.’

Well, if it makes people feel any better, I’ll give them this advice: According to the Canned Food Alliance, “Canned food is nutritious, convenient and typically can last two years in storage.”

Look at that—l’m a post-Y2K consultant already.

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New York Times News Service.

tered with an attack on the Supreme Court, calling the Roe vs.

Wade decision “unconstitutional.”

What a lesson in Newspeak. It isn’t unconstitutional for the state to invade a woman’s privacy, refuse her the right to safe health care,

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and exercise control over her reproductive capabilities. It is “unconstitutional” for them to say that doing those things is unconstitutional.

Duke Students for Life also joined in the protest ofRoe vs. Wade last Friday with speeches and a protest. The hypocrisy was as transparent as that of Forbes and Bush.

Loretta Thompson, vice presi-

Never ones to outdo themselves in their race toward more restrictions on individual liberties, the Republican presidential candidates have once again tackled the big one: women’s reproductive rights.

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women to deal with on their own if Roe vs. Wade is repealed: the unsafe methods common in illegal abortions. Making abortions illegal will not stop them or make them any safer, but will only force them underground, into dark alleys. The punishment for disobedience—possible death.

Thompson says, “36 million babies have died through the legal act of abortion.” How many more have died from starvation or lack of access to adequate health care?

What do Forbes and Bush propose to do about these baby-killers?

The common “pro-life” line is that babies don’t get to choose.

They’re right. Babies never get to choose. They don’t get to choose if they’re born into an abusive family, starvation conditions or a society run by rich men. No one ever asks them, they are always forced.

Let’s not treat women like fetuses.

They have the ability, and therefore the right, to choose the course and quality of their lives.

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their lives and won’t hesitate to pass laws enforcing this morality.

He’s “conservative” in that he wants to retain, even augment, his own incredible wealth. What better way to do that than make sure that poor, single mothers (some of the most marginalized and therefore some of the most likely to challenge white male, Forbsian

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Southerners and As it were...

Richard Rubin Extreme weather always brings that familiar warning: Do not drive unless it’s absolutely necessary. Until Monday night it had never been necessary—l never had to do anything so essential that I had to take a chance on a snowy road.

As managing editor, I was given the honored—and onerous—task of driving The Chronicle to our printer in Research Triangle Park. My 18 years of life in New Jersey gave me at least a little confidence in my ability to forge through and ensure publication.

And indeed, for the first few minutes of the 1 a.m. journey, things were going smoothly. We were driving slowly, but making decent progress.

For a moment, I felt a real sense of American individualistic adulthood. After all, here I was, upholding my serious responsibilities, doing my job. I had companions with me in the car, but I was the one driving, I was the one making sure The Chronicle would be published.

That was all true, until I hit the tree branch. Heavy with snow, it had fallen onto the road, but I swear it came out of nowhere. At this point, my aura of infallibility suffered its first hit. I needed the help of the two people riding with me to pull the tree away.

But then I got going again, plugging along toward Research Triangle Park. Driving along Cornwallis Road, I neared what on a normal day would be only a mild incline. But to my Nissan Altima, it was Mount

snow

Everest. With wheels a-spinning, we came to a complete stop, and the fringes of despair started to set in.

Several attempts at pushing the car were futile.

Fortunately, a friendly gentleman in a truck with really big tires slid by. He stopped, and using expertise he gained somewhere, guided us into reverse and instructed me to go back down the hill and make another run at it.

On the second try, Everest shrunk, and we plunged forward. A few short minutes later, we made it to the printer. As my companions brought the paper inside, I tried to turn the car around. And as I spinned, I felt the car stop. I hit the gas, and again, the wheels spun endlessly.

My sense of independent adulthood now completely shattered, I headed inside, fully prepared to spend the night amidst ink and newsprint.

And then, much to my surprise and delight, that lovable bunch of Southerners who print The Chronicle slapped wooden blocks under my tires, directed me this way and that and guided us back to forward motion.

At this point, I realized that I had spend my night utterly dependent on others, a transplanted Northerner helpless in the snow. This new feeling was confirmed as I headed home, guided by the encouraging words of my passengers and closely following the tracks other drivers had laid before me.

I know it’s a horribly trite saying, but people really do band together in extraordinary circumstances.

And that goes for even the most independent-minded of us.

Richard Rubin is a Trinity senior and managing editor of The Chronicle. He picked Duke for the consistently lovely weather.

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Storm leaves 160,000 without power in N.C. STATE from page 1

Rockingham. We have crews responding, but the treacherous conditions are making our job extremely difficult.”

CP&L had 81,000 customers without

power and Duke Power Co. reported 87.000 people without power in North Carolina at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Terry Montross spent the day in one of more than 40.000 Charlotte homes without electricity. He was without power since 8:30 p.m. Monday night, but understood that he would have to wait for a repair crew.

“They must be someplace. They’re just not with you exactly,” he said.

State troopers and others agencies were checking stranded vehicles.

In Wake County, one of the hardest hit, emergency medical services were delayed up to an hour by the deep snow, said Emergency Management Director Martin Chriscoe. Police were experiencing similar problems and flights were suspended at the Raleigh-Durham airport.

“It’s just too dangerous to go out, and if you do go out, you risk being one of the stranded people we’re having to rescue,” said Renee Hoffman of the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. “The best thing people can do is just hunker down and get to know all your family members better.”

Hoffman said shelters were opened in Anson, Cabarrus and Union counties and more than 320 wrecks were reported in Durham, Vance, Johnson and Wake counties.

Four agents of the Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency were stranded in Waxhaw in Union County and helped local residents get to shelters, she said.

The blizzard, spawned when moisture from a northeaster coming in from

the coast met a cold front from the west, shut down businesses, schools and government.

At a Kroger store in Cary, a manager said he closed the store Tuesday morning after checking out all the customers himself for a couple of hours. “We didn’t have any employees able to get in. I was the only one to get in,” he said. He made it in a front-wheel-drive sedan.

Weary road crews continued battling snow and ice as they had since last Monday night, but this time they had a more formidable foe. “It’s been storm after storm after storm,” said Department of Transportation spokeswoman Sherri Creech-Johnson.

About 5,500 DOT employees worked to clear roads, using 2,750 pieces of equipment. The state ordered more road salt, having used 51,000 tons already, so that it would combat ice once the snowplows uncovered pavement.

“The crews are out there working as hard as they can to get pavement scraped,” Creech-Johnson said. ‘They’re clearing interstates first, roads that are the heaviest traveled, and then other roads will come after that.”

Hospitals in the affected area reported few weather-related cases and said their employees had stayed overnight at the hospital or nearby motels. Callers were asking how to recognize frostbite, prevent carbon monoxide poisoning and get prescriptions filled, said Carla Hollis, spokesperson for Raleigh Community Hospital.

Charlotte was digging out Tuesday morning from a surprise snowstorm that dumped as much as a foot of powder on the area just two days after the city was hit with another winter blast.

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Not springtime yet The wintry weather in the past week came as a huge surprise to the campus’ plant life, which had believed that the season for blossoming had already come. But even flower power could not overcome the snow.

Duke’s roads, power survive storm Ice will challenge employees’ travel >

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ment on the academic ramifications of the snow.

The University made the decision in time for the 5 p.m. local news to give employees ample notice.

The decision was made easier by the fact that Durham public schools would be closed, he said.

“A lot of [employees! have children who aren’t going to be anywhere tomorrow,” Trask said. “We have to be sensitive to that.”

The surprisingly strong storm began early Monday evening and continued until Tuesday afternoon; by then, it had dropped close to 15 inches on campus roads and roofs and created snowdrifts on stairwells and pathways that were even deeper than that.

However, critical University services remained up and running all day Tuesday, with no reported power or telephone problems. On West Campus, the Great Hall, Alpine Bagels and Brews and Han’s Fine Chinese Cuisine had enough employees and food to provide service. Armadillo Grill was serving beer, but not food.

Administrators said they are confident that students will have plenty to eat throughout the week.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said the University always keeps three days’ worth of food on hand, but he is a bit concerned about having enough fresh bread and produce.

Owners at the privatized eateries were a little less secure. “We’d run out [of food] today,” Ron Mazzei, an Alpine manager said Tuesday. “Flour was supposed to come [Tuesday], but the truck got stuck in Raleigh.”

Facilities Management personnel and supervisors worked on campus throughout Monday evening and Tuesday. “We’ve got a crew on the

ground doing everything humanly possible with the

equipment we have,” Director ofFacilities Management Jerry Black said around 1 p.m. Tuesday. “The roads on campus are cleared but the external roads connecting to campus are absolutely deplorable.”

Between 40 and 50 heating, electrical, mechanic and high-voltage equipment technicians monitored the campus for any snow-related problems.

“We’ve got enough to do what we need to do,” Black said. “We’ve had no heat calls from dorms, no broken water lines. Power is working well. The only trees we had down were on 751 off the Duke campus. There are quite a few pine trees down there, but we’ll get all those later.”

The Primate Center temporarily lost electricity, but it uses Duke Power’s overhead lines instead of

the campus’ independent, underground system.

Facilities personnel rigged emergency generators to restore power until local electricity service

could be restored.

Questions lingered yesterday afternoon about the ability of the campus’s flat and older roofs to support the weight of so much snow, but Black said that sending employees to clear the roofs would only introduce more weight.

Facilities Management continued to salt, sand and plow the roads all afternoon Tuesday, in hopes that if the roads refroze last night, they could be easily broken up in the morning.

“I’m on East Campus now and everything is fine,” Black said as he was surveying Campus Drive. “If we could, we would probably run the buses, but that’s always iffy. We’ll decide in the morning.”

Katherine Stroup contributed to this story.

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Wasiolek, who planned to spend Tuesday night in her office, said she spent her “totally unstructured day” answering e-mail, chatting with students and answering the oft-asked question, “Have they canceled classes yet?”

Wulforst was pleased that so many Dining Services employees made it in to serve the snow-bound students, and that most have been more than happy to

work. “It really has been galvanizing to see,” he said.

He added that it was not possible to open McDonald’s Tuesday, but said he thinks the available options should keep students “comfortable.”

Most students did not have a long trek to get food, and some were a little disappointed to find certain eateries closed. “I wish more were open—like McDonald’s,” said Samir Joshi, a Trinity junior. “But I completely understand their position. I mean, if I worked here I wouldn’t want to come in either.”

Tonya Earls, lead food service worker at the Great Hall, said she actually enjoyed braving the snow to get to work. “I was having a ball,” said Earls, who reported for work around 9 a.m. “Before I knew it, we’d walked half the way.”

While Dining Services and other employees made well-appreciated efforts to get to work this morning, the coming days may prove more challenging, not less.

With no foreseeable end to the cold weather, streets may ice over and transportation may become even more dangerous.

“It was just snow,” said Earls of her walk to work. 1 it had been ice I would have never thought of coming.

Katherine Stroup contributed to this story.

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Slick coating keeps campus closed

By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle

The light, white snow that blanketed the Triangle Tuesday has hardened into thick, slick ice, transforming a beautiful wintry scene into a nasty travel hazard.

Like a once-welcome dinner guest unwilling to leave, the ice will linger indefinitely, sitting on sidewalks and roadways and frustrating drivers and pedestrians.

On campus, several inches of ice buried the sidewalks, and the Bryan Center walkway could have been used for speed skating.

As the temperature threatened to head below 10 degrees, Duke administrators continued the severe weather policy through the first

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shift Thursday and canceled Thursday morning classes.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said he will probably extend the severe weather policy throughout the day Thursday, and he expects to make a decision by 9 a.m. “We don’t know enough yet,” he said. “It depends how cold it gets.”

An extension through Friday is “certainly a possibility,” he added.

Trask called the campus’ icy sidewalks “a big problem,” one that will not be solved quickly by breaking up chunks or laying sand.

The roads on campus are navigable, enough so that buses could run. But Trask said he is concerned about employees making it to Duke.

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SNOW PLOWS cleared streets around campus, but'ice remains a problem, especially on secondary roads

More class cancellations force consideration of make-ups

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

The 20 inches of snow that fell on the Triangle Monday night raised difficult administrative questions as it froze on the ground Wednesday. The call to cancel

classes

again would render make-up days unavoida normal schedule would risk professors’ lives and the safety of many students who would have to navigate Duke’s icy walkways.

At 3:30 p.m., Provost Peter Lange decided to play >t safe. Taking advice from state police and deans, he canceled Thursday morning classes.

A decision will be made about the remainder of the % by 10 a.m.

Drop-add period will be extended until at least Friday k account for all the missed Tuesday/Thursday classes, that Thursday morning’s classes have also been canCeDd, administrators mayJ rpush the deadline back further. urpi ltle roads are often very narrow due to snow and ce The temperature tonight is to fall well below } /eezing, making it likely that things will be very icy *n man Y places in the morning,” Lange said. “We also 0 not have a great deal of open space in the lots, 'nich will make things even more complicated when

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people arrive at work, a situation which will be worse if it is very cold and icy.”

Meteorologists predicted that above-freezing temperatures Wednesday would slowly melt the inchesdeep ice and snow covering most of the city’s streets and sidewalks, but they said near-zero temperatures overnight would just create another deep freeze.

Even on Wednesday, when the sun was out and snow was melting, one administrator called highway NC-751 a “war zone,” reporting that power lines and trees were down all over the road.

The provost is well aware that driving on many secondary roads remains treacherous, if not downright impossible; he was snowed into his Orange County home through Wednesday. ‘We’re operating on three different levels. The state level and the University with the severe weather policy and the classes level. The state has declared an emergency so everything’s supposed to be closed,” said Lange, who was without power or telephone service until 11 p.m. Tuesday and spent the day playing in the snow with his children and dog.

As of Wednesday, Ole Holsti, George V. Allen professor emeritus of political science, also could not drive See CLASSES on page 6

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PERHAPS FRUSTRATED AT LIFE IN TRENT DORMITORY, some students buHt an outdoor shelter in a nearby parking lot.

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South Africa bans unfair discrimination

Defying orders from Pakistan’s military ruler, six judges on the Supreme Court refused today to take an oath of

South Africa’s Parliament, once the rubber stamp for apartheid legislation, came full circle Wednesday when its office that would bar upper house approved a them from challenging law banning unfair discrimination. army decisions.

Germans will again Security Council selects Iraq inspector move nuclear waste The Security Council Germany will resume reached an informal con- transports of highly rasensus today on Hans dioactive waste from nuBlix of Sweden, the for- clear power plants after mer head of the U.N. nu- a nearly two-year ban clear agency, to head the triggered by safety connew U.N. weapons in- cerns, the government spection agency for Iraq. said Wednesday.

Drug use rises in Legislator challenges first lady’s air travel rural areas Illegal drug use among adolescents in smalltown and rural America is reaching alarming proportions, according to a private study that urges the government to spend more in its war on drugs.

Hillary Rodham Clin-

ton’s campaign-related air travel came under fire again Wednesday from Rep. Cass Ballenger, RN.C., who said the first lady took a jet he had reserved for a Latin American fact-finding trip.

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Coca-Cola announces 6,000 layoffs

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The world’s largest soft drink maker will begin restructuring its operations

By JUSTIN BACHMAN Associated Press

ATLANTA Coca-Cola plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs, its biggest employment cutback ever, as part of a major restructuring at the world’s largest soft drink maker.

The cuts announced today will affect 2,500 positions at the company’s Atlanta headquarters, 2,700 overseas, and 800 jobs around the United States. Coke estimated that the cuts will save $3OO million.

The size of the cuts surprised many analysts who had predicted Coke would trim 2,000 to 4,000 jobs.

It is the latest move by the company to boost its profits since Pres-

ident Douglas Daft was designated to become chair and CEO after its April shareholders’ meeting.

Daft has been trying to decentralize Coke’s operations so the company can react more quickly to problems that arise in its markets around the world.

Today, he said product recalls in several European countries last year had been “a wake-up call” that made company officials realize they were not well prepared to deal with local situations. More of the company’s international officers will be sent out of Atlanta to the areas they oversee.

Daft, who will succeed Douglas

Ivester in the company’s highest posts, called the layoffs “painful both for those within the company who will be directly affected and for those responsible for making this decision.”

Coke also said it will take an $BOO million charge before taxes this year to cover costs of the re-

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Daft said the decision was made after a six-month, comprehensive review of the company’s entire operation and the realization that Coke needed to revamp its structure.

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By CHARLES HUTZLER Associated Press

BEIJING China has extended its vague state secrets law to the Internet, ordering companies to register software used to transmit sensitive data and threatening punishment for any government secrets sent onto the World Wide Web. The regulations, announced Wednesday, could scare off foreign firms eager to tap China’s booming Internet market.

They also underscore the Communist leadership’s ambivalent desire to exploit the Internet for business while constricting information considered threatening to its rule.

Everyone, from Internet sites to chat-room users, must gain approval from agencies protecting govern-

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People’s Daily.

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‘White hurricane’ puts N.C. in another crisis Thousands of stranded motorists and North Carolina residents without power ponder Tuesday’s record snowstorm.

By SCOTT MOONEYHAM Associated Press

Four months after RALEIGH Hurricane Floyd, North Carolinians were struggling through another weather crisis Wednesday—the aftermath of a 2-foot snowfall that stranded travelers and left thousands of people in cold, dark homes.

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“I’m 45 years old and I’ve never seen it like this. Our fire trucks couldn’t go anywhere. Our ambulances couldn’t go anywhere,” said Rick Harris, emergency management coordinator in rural Montgomery County northeast of Charlotte.

Floyd drenched eastern North Carolina in 20 inches ofrain Sept. 16 and caused at least 51 deaths. Monday night’s snowstorm, accompanied by ice and winds that knocked down trees and plunged homes and businesses into darkness, lacked Floyd’s lasting impact, but made up for it in shock value in a region where wintertime often produces no snow at all.

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pened.... I’ve never seen anything like

this,” said Raleigh Mayor Paul Coble, snowbound Wednesday like many of his constituents. He called the storm that paralyzed his city a “white hurricane”; Harris and other emergency officials compared the storm to 1989’s Hurricane Hugo, which slammed through South Carolina and central and western North Carolina.

More than 100,000 homes and business remained without electricity Wednesday in North Carolina, where the storm was blamed for one death.

Erick Gonzales, 50, of Annandale, Va., was killed in a traffic accident Monday on Interstate 95 near Four Oaks, authorities said.

Rev. Anne Beach, pastor of the Biscoe Presbyterian Church in Montgomery County, said feeding people who had shown up at her church shelter was depleting her food supplies.

“We have plenty of cans of soup, but nothing much to go with it,” she said.

“I’m just praying for the loaves and the fishes to multiply.”

The snowstorm, which dumped a record 20-plus inches in the Raleigh area, was North Carolina’s fourth in a week. Road crews, accustomed to only occasional snow and ice storms, temporarily ran out of salt to melt ice on bridges and roads. Their stocks were replenished Wednesday.

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Although May seems far away, students are trudging through the snow to figure out where they will play in the sand.

The wintry weather has not quelled discussions about the NAACP’s boycott of South Carolina tourism—and how it will affect Duke students’ traditional week of fun and sun in Myrtle Beach.

At a Monday night meeting of the University’s chapter of the NAACP, Duke Student Government legislator Jason Freedman presented a resolution that was slated for debate at Wednesday night’s DSG meeting.

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s tourism boycott went into effect Jan. 1 to protest the Confederate flag flying over the state capitol and to convince the state legislature to remove it.

Freedman, a Trinity sophomore, explained that the resolution is not meant to be binding upon the entire student body.

The resolution says that “officially, DSG supports the boycott and will do what it can as a governing body to help coordinate others...,” he said. “If major student groups don’t decide to support

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But before legislators can decide whether DSG supports the boycott, they must first consider another resolution, also written by Freedman, clarifying whether it is within DSG’s role to take any political stances. In the draft of this resolution, Freedman argues that DSG should, at times, voice opinions about non-Duke issues.

He said he introduced the resolution to prevent confusion about why legisla-

tors vote down potential political statements. This way, he argued, legislators who oppose the Myrtle resolution will be separated from those who disagree with DSG’s taking a political stance.

However, legislators could just vote

down the resolution clarifying DSG’s role in order to block consideration of the NAACP boycott; If the first resolution is voted down, the Myrtle resolution will not be introduced for discussion. It is unclear how this vote will affect future political resolutions.

DSG President Lisa Zeidner noted that DSG and its predecessor organizations have a history of passing resolutions addressing political activity outside the University. In November, for example, DSG passed legislation affirming a position taken by Students Against Sweatshops.

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Glaxo merger worries Durham Officials fear that the new pharmaceutical giant will lay off workers

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

Glaxo Wellcome’s plans to buy rival SmithKline Beecham for about $76 billion in stock—and to locate the new company’s U.S. operational headquarters in the New York area—could bring both good and bad news to the Triangle.

The two pharmaceutical companies have long discussed merging, but did not announce a final decision to proceed until Jan. 17. Although the merger could mean more research and development in the Triangle, the relocation of operational headquarters and possible layoffs have local and state officials worried.

“We’re concerned in Durham both with the potential loss of the company headquarters and the potential loss of jobs,” said Durham County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow. She added that Glaxo’s 4,800 employees in RTF make it the fourth-largest

employer in Durham County; the company is also 5 one of the county largest property taxpayers.

In response to these concerns, Glaxo spokesperson Rick Sluder emphasized that although any merger usually entails job loss, company officials foresee minimal impact on jobs in RTF. He also said the new company—Glaxo SmithKline—will continue to have a significant presence in the area.

Sluder added that it is too early in the planning process to speculate on the location and number of job losses.

Ted Connor, vice president for economic development at the Durham Chamber of Commerce, said he was disappointed by the decision to locate company headquarters elsewhere.

“When a headquarters is not here, you tend to lose the philanthropic [contribution! of the company... and you become a little bit less of a focal point on their radar screen,” he said.

Nevertheless, Connor said the chamber would

do all it could to ensure that Glaxo keeps as much of its activity as possible in the Durham area.

The chamber and the North Carolina Department of Commerce had already taken steps to try to keep the new company’s headquarters in RTF, but several officials emphasized the corporate nature of the decision. “There’s really not much you can do in this kind of international merger. In the end, it’s a corporate decision based on their best interests,” said Secretary of Commerce Rick Carlisle.

Reckhow said the secret merger negotiations made- it impossible for local and state officials to negotiate with the two companies.

“We were not apprised of these negotiations.

We didn’t do anything, but that’s because we did not know what was going on,” she said.

Connor, however, said that North Carolina officials presented their case two years ago, when Glaxo and SmithKline openly discussed merging.

The merger of the two companies and the subsequent decision to relocate the new company’s headquarters raises larger questions about the role of the state and county in future mergers.

Carlisle said the state already stays in close contact with officials at large companies and noted the creation of a corporate headquarters tax credit a couple of years ago. Outside of measures that have already been taken, however, most officials agree that the state and county are powerless.

Most also agree that one potential benefit of the Glaxo-SmithKline merger is the expansion ofresearch and development in RTF. “These tw o companies, when they finally come together, will be looking at an R&D budget of about $4 billion,” Sluder said. He added that $415 million of a projected $1.7 billion threeyear savings from the merger are already earmarked for research and development.

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Blanton said RDU closed for several hours during Hurricane Floyd in Sepin 1996, but tember and Hurricane Fran ever rememnever for two days. “I don’t of this in history airport” time the ber a that had happened, he said.

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thousands of homes.

The northeaster swept up the East Coast from South Carolina, dropping heavy snow inland. Raleigh and Richmond, Va., which received 20 inches and 11 inches, respectively, were still largely paralyzed Wednesday.

“My guess is from what they’re saying is it’s going to be Sunday before you start to see any real movement,” Coble said. ‘Think how long it’s going to takes these piles of snow to melt.”

Stewart McGough, a First Union Bank employee from Charlotte, described downtown Richmond as a

ghost town when he arrived Tuesday night after several hours of treacherous travel.

“It was like a war zone—a demilitarized zone of sorts,” he said. “They had every conceivable piece of equipment with a scoop down here trying to clear away some of the ice and snow from the streets.”

From the Low Country of South Carolina to central Virginia, roads re-

mained icy and slick Wednesday and children enjoyed another day of play in the snow as schools were closed. Many government offices were also closed, and states of emergency remained in effect for North Carolina and Virginia.

National Guardsmen in North Carolina and Virginia used Humvees to help state troopers reach traffic accidents, substituted for ambulances on emergency calls and helped transport people to shelters.

Travel was especially treacherous along Interstate 85 just south of the Virginia-North Carolina border. The road was virtually shut down for several hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning by jackknifed and abandoned tractor trailers.

By noon Wednesday, traffic was moving slowly, said Rene Hoffman, spokeswoman for the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

“The problem is a lot of tractor trailers have been abandoned on the side of the road. We’re having to tow them out of the way,” Hoffman said. “The road is still icy, and it gets icier the farther north you go.”

In many communities, convenience stores became gathering places, with customers arriving by foot and car.

Shirley Berry, a clerk at the Country Corner Mini-Mart near Robbins, said the store had run out of bread and milk and worried about running out of everything else, too.

More snow fell Wednesday in the North Carolina mountains, which escaped the brunt of Tuesday’s storm. Up to six inches of snow fell in Robbinsville and Marshall in the westernmost tip of the state by noon. The snow was not expected to spread east of the mountains.

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In the meantime, NAACP representatives continue to promote a University-wide boycott.

At the Monday night meeting, coPresident Kameron Matthews suggested that students go to Virginia Beach instead of Myrtle.

Being that we are a prestigious university it’s going to look pretty shame. f° r South Carolina,” the Trinity senior said.

Zeidner suggested that students look or alternative locations before deciding

whether to cancel the beach week “If we have other options and then decide to go to Myrtle anyway, then it’s actively breaking the boycott,” Zeidner said. “If there aren’t other options, I think it’s less of an offense.”

Interfraternity- Council President Ken Collins, Trinity ’99, was ambiguous about whether IFC would recommend that students comply with the boycott.

Although he opposed the boycott in an initial interview, he was waiting to meet with representatives from the

Black Student Alliance and the National Panhellenic Council next week before taking a definite stance.

Collins said the issue did not come up at IFC’s first meeting of the semester. “I’m not sure IFC is in the position to mandate anything. We could encourage it,” he said.

Freedman remained supportive of the NAACP’s initiative.

“I really think a unified boycott of Myrtle will send a very serious message for hotel owners, bar owners, trip planners...” Freedman said. “What we want South Carolina to know is that we’re not boycotting South Carolina.... They’re losing money because of the legislature, not because of us.”

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Officials extend drop-add until at least Frida CLASSES from page I on the roads near his Chapel Hill home. “I actually planned to come into class today,” he said, “but we lost some trees and one of them is blocking my driveway. I called to see if the Triangle Transit Authority bus that goes from a stop about a mile and a half away from my house to the Hospital was running, and it wasn’t. I don’t own a pair ofskis, but it would have been a great opportunity for cross country skiing.”

With the Wednesday night freeze, Holsti doubted he would be able to make it to Duke today. “I don’t fail to show up for class for casual reasons,” he said.

By 3:15 p.m., the plow had just visited Professor of Classical Studies Peter Burian’s small neighborhood, and he thought he could get out of his Carrboro home.

“I teach a class in beginning Greek and so far we’ve just missed one class, but I really regret it because we need every class period,” he said. “On the other hand, I can’t fault Peter Lange for canceling

classes.”

Although he knew the streets would likely refreeze last night, Burian said he thought they would be navigable. “As it happens, I don’t have class tomorrow, but 111 still try to come in.”

Trinity College Dean Bob Thompson made it to campus Wednesday morning and began pondering the snow’s implications for Trinity College. A plow cleared his street at 11 p.m. Tuesday. He had a bit of trouble driving in his neighborhood, but he said the main roads were “passable.”

Thompson is charged with figuring out how Trinity College can make up the three Tuesday/Thursday sessions and one Monday/Wednesday/Friday meeting that have been canceled.

“When you think about it, there are not that many options,” he said. “One option is to use weekend time. Another option is spring break and the third option is reading period. Each has its plusses

and minuses, or mostly minuses.”

Trinity freshman John Siracusa said, above all, he did not want snow days to interfere with summer va-

cation. “You can’t just shrug off three days of classes,” he said. “I’d cut them out of reading period. I don’t use the reading period as much as I should. I need Saturdays and spring break.”

But Trinity freshman Mark Ammons said he needs reading period for exams and that spring break is not a viable option either.

By Wednesday afternoon, Lange was consulting with the deans to decide the best way to handle this round of cancellations. “I think it varies by school and that’s a significant issue,” he said. “Some schools have very different calendars. It’s easy to decide a general policy and then schools can vary in implementing it.

There are a number of different options, but we will make up or give the opportunity for schools to make up for lost class.”

For now, Thompson is weighing each of his three options and assuming that Lange will issue a directive to make up classes. He said the morning cancellation exacerbated the need to think through making up sever-

al class sessions.

“The exam schedule is pegged in, so you don’t want to mess with that, but also people’s plans may be made for spring break,” he said. “While these two might be options, I could see lots of difficulties with them.”

When Lange canceled classes as a precaution for Hurricane Floyd Sept. 16, he instructed each school’s dean to design a make-up policy to fit its own needs. Thompson allowed each instructor to decide individually.

Lange said he hopes to make a decision on make-up classes today.

One of Trinity sophomore Naomi Goldberg’s classes has scheduled a field trip over spring break, so she said making up others then is not an option. “There isn’t a time they could do it when people wouldn’t get upset,” she said. “Teachers will just make their classes more intense.”

Holsti, who has been at the University for 25 years, advised against treading on spring break plans.

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Administrators may have to continue making these decisions each day for the next week as meteorologists predict sub-freezing temperatures and another snowstorm on the way. “I just logged on to the forecast, and we’re supposed to get another snowstorm on Saturday,” Holsti said, “so I’m really worried about class next week.”

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Durham state of emergency continues until Friday DUKE from page 1 “Even in four-wheel drive, the secondary roads are pretty treacherous,” he on] where you live and said. “It [depends vehicle you’ve got.” kind of what Although all major county and city roads were technically open and passable Wednesday, several administrators who were terrible. drove said the conditions still discouragofficials were Government ing driving unless absolutely necessary.

However, many residents, temporarily barricaded by snowdrifts, are unable to drive on side streets and in subdivisions.

Their predicament is further complicated because many, especially those in outlying areas, lack power and heat.

Although Durham’s state of emergency continues until Friday morning, several days of cold weather will keep road conditions poor well into next week.

“Until the bulk of the snow melts, wg’re going to have to deal with that for the next week with these cold temperatures at night,” said Arnold Turner, road supervisor for Durham County. “We can push it off, but we can’t deal with the ice when it refreezes.”

Katie Kalb, director of public works for the city, said Wednesday night will be “tricky” as any standing water refreezes.

“If the weather warms up, it would certainly help things tremendously,” she said. “Pray for warm weather, eh?”

Road crews are working 12-hour shifts and salting heavily, but they face one thorny problem; supplies. “We’re running low,” Turner said, “but we’ve got shipments coming in, if they can get to us.”

The Duke University Police Department reported two weather-related acci-

have no power or because they have children at home—or both. All but two employees rode to work Wednesday in one of two four-wheel-drive, chained-tire Dining Services vans, Wulforst said.

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Campus operations continued under the severe weather policy again Wednesday, with only essential personnel coming to work.

Duke Hospital also remained on its

emergency schedule. It received some deliveries and is not low on any supplies, said Joanna Downer of the Medical Center News Office.

Dining Services replenished its supplies of produce Wednesday morning, and director Jim Wulforst reported that the dining halls are stocked adequately.

Although enough employees came to staff the facilities, Wulforst said that many are staying home because they

Duke is putting up some earlymorning employees—“the guys that turn the ovens on, get everything going”—in area hotels so they are closer to campus, he added.

Many Dining Services employees eager to get home before the freeze were quite distressed by students’ behavior Tuesday night. Many students did not throw away their own garbage, and although the cafeterias closed at 7 p.m., employees were forced to stay on West Campus until 8 p.m. and on East until 11:30 to clean up. If several students had not pitched in at the Marketplace, the crew would have* been there until 2 a.m., Wulforst said.

“If that’s the way they want to thank us, no thank you,” said Tonya Earls, lead food service worker in the Great Hall. “It took six or seven of us to clean this dining room for lunch. I just think they should be a little more considerate.

I love them to death, but they left this place a mess.”

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Let it snow, let it snow The University and its employees did a wonderful job dealing with the snow—now it’s time for students to do their part students enjoyed this week’s break from classes, celebrating the snow by sledding or building snowmen.

Administrators and employees, however, were hard at work to ensure that everyone remained safe throughout the storm and its aftermath.

The weather made the decision to cancel classes fairly straightforward, and administrators wisely took into account the closing of Durham Public Schools and the conditions ofroads and walkways; the danger associated with driving and walking on icy paths justified the cancellations. An extra day of class is not worth putting the safety of professors and students in jeopardy. The administration should be lauded for making its decision and efficiently disseminating the information early in the day.

Given the number of class cancellations, however, administrators should schedule makeup classes and spread them out over a couple of Saturdays. Individual professors should have discretion to decide whether to hold these sessions.

Although it has been suggested that classes be made up over spring break or during the reading period, neither ofthese options is feasible. Students should not be forced to change plans they have already made for break, and the reading period is short enough without mandatory class meetings.

The large number of missed classes also validates the decision to extend the drop-add deadline to Friday. In fact, the deadline must be extended further, probably to Tuesday night. Some students have met only one time with their Tuesday/Thursday classes, making it impossible to evaluate their course selections adequately.

Students should also show appreciation for the University’s employees, who showed their dedication to making students’ lives easier. Some employees, such as a few housekeepers and a dedicated post office worker, showed up for their shifts even though they did not have to. Others served meals in the Great Hall and the Marketplace and stayed late—as the roads became more dangerous—to clean up after students who left them a sizable mess. And still others began chiseling away at ice on walkways early yesterday morning.

Employees helped when they could but many simply could not make it to work. In their place, students should clean up after themselves in their halls and bathrooms. At the very least, they could take care of their living space. Maybe some enthusiastic students could find some shovels and help the University dig out.

Although some paths have yet to be cleared, the University has made the best of its equipment. It would be unreasonable to expect Duke to own multiple snowblowers and snow plows given the infrequency of snowstorms. All in all, the University acted appropriately and reasonably. Now it’s the students’ turn.

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No need to destroy works of art made from snow We all had a lot of fun during the snow holiday, throwing snowballs, sledding and making things from the snow. On the quadrangle in front of the Arts Theme House, Trinity sophomores Ted Hung, Joe Vuthiganon and Greg Kodama and Pratt sophomore David Wu created a snowman of Rodin’s “The Thinker” and one of the best recreations of the Duke Chapel I have seen in any medium At 2:30 a.m Wednesday, some people in a dark green sport utility vehifor referenced

cle felt they needed to destroy these fine works by running over them. This is pathetic.

Aside from the fact that driving on a snow-covered quad at night is not the most brilliant thing to do and that they actually missed the chapel on the first try, their destructive actions show great stupidity. Snow creations are fleeting, of course, and we cannot enjoy them for very long. But several hours of work should never be destroyed for a few seconds’

worth of idiotic enjoyment There is no rule that one must

appreciate beautiful things but anyone who feels a need to destroy beautiful things is not a worthwhile member of any community, especially not a community like Duke. I am ashamed to think that I go to school with cretins like these and I hope they will someday realize what a drain they are on the rest of us who try to act

like decent human beings.

Andrew

Chatham

Trinity ’O2

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Major Attractions has brought headliners in the past article The entitled “Major Attractions struggles” in Tuesday’s edition of The Chronicle is depressing both for current undergradu-

ates and for alumni who remember many fine shows put on by Major Attractions over the years. Many bands have performed at Duke while at the peak of their

popularity. I attended my

first concert at Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium back in 1974. Rod Stewart and Faces headlined. Over the years I saw countless other major performers: The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan,

the Doobie Brothers, Boston, Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana (probably the finest concert I have attended in

nearly 30 years), Allman Bruce Band, Springsteen, Smithereens, Roger McQuinn, Doc Watson, Frank Zappa (twice) and many more.

Although changes in concert promotion over the years have limited the market for performers at Duke, I can’t understand why Major Attractions is no longer able to bring in “major” performers. During my time around campus, there were usually

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year, and some smaller ones as well. Looking further back, the Joe College Festivals of the late 1960s and early 1970s were truly major attractions. Held in Wallace Wade Stadium, these were

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more like mini rock festivals, and they attracted several top concert acts for each show. Those interested in the history of popular music performance at Duke are directed to University Archives, which has a nice collection of posters and handbills for concerts at Duke dating back to the 19505. Reviews of major shows can also be found in the back issues of The Chronicle, which are located on microfilm in the library, present Major The Attractions committee might do well to look at Duke’s history of concerts by popular musicians for inspiration.

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The right thing to do is not necessarily obvious In his column published Jan. 21, William Raspberry very lucidly analyzes the pros and cons of returning Elian Gonzalez to Cuba to be raised by his father, and he correctly states that a reason has not been given to take someone else’s baby.

Raspberry fails to mention the wishes of his mother, who died attempting to bring young Elian to American shores. Local newspapers in Miami have reported that she took Elian with the full permission of the father, the latter who, upon learning that his son had been rescued, told relatives in Miami to “take good care of my son.”

Spanish newspapers in Miami may be biased, and so

are CNN, the Associated Press and the major networks. I obtain my facts from a large number of sources. I am a Cuban American who was sent to the United States 38 years ago by my parents to live in freedom with relatives. Therefore, my opinion is probably biased as well.

Cubans live under a repressive, totalitarian regime that does not permit, let alone foster, free speech. The government controls television stations and newspapers.

Crowds gather and demonstrations occur when and if the government allows them to occur. Retaliatory measures are taken against the families ofthose who anger the regime.

Based on the arguments

presented in the preceding paragraph, I find recent

statements made by the father and the grandmothers difficult to trust as being honest and accurate. I do not believe that they are made as freely as those in Raspberry’s column or in my own letter.

The facts in young Elian’s case are not straightforward.

The letter of the law says the child should be returned to the father. But is it clear that this outcome is what the father and mother intended for the child?

Doing the right thing is harder than it seems.

Luis Dominguez Graduate School

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On the record “Pray for warm weather, eh?”

Katie Kalb, director of public works for the city of Durham on the optimal solution for the city’s problems (see story, page 1)

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OK, so everyone likes having the day off! But aside frotn thinking snow is pretty, “adults” think about the consequences, dangers and limitations of snow, while kids think about how much fun it is.

Adults see an extra 10 minutes scraping the car in the morning.

Kids see sledding hills and snow-

have it all the time. But we sometimes forget about it until it makes us sit up and take notice by doing something unexpected—like when it snows in Durham.

Snow is interesting weather. It’s one of the few forms of weather, other than sun, which people want to be outside in. No one says, “Hey—let’s go play in the tornado,” or, “I hope there’s a hailstorm tomorrow.” When it rains, most people go inside—but this is not the case with snow. People gravitate toward it.

Snowfall draws some interesting distinctions between people. It separates the men from the boys

ball forts.

Regional differences are also highlighted by snow. Those who live in snowy climates and those who don’t experience snow in entirely different ways. Those from regions without snow become very excited. If it snows an inch, and they are outside with the meager amounts of snow wanting to do all of the cold-weather activities they have never experienced. They build snowmen, make snow angels and go sledding—all on snow that may not even completely cover the ground. Some who have never really lived through snow before are like 5-year-olds marveling at

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If I was President Nan Keohane, the first phone call I would have made would have been to the Screen Actor’s Guild. I would have probably talked to some cool guy from Hollywood who doesn’t wear ties,, maybe with a name like Mitch. I’d say “OK Mitch, I need 30 child actors, pronto.” When they came, I would have made them all act out the part of Tiny Tim, all over campus. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? Every hour on the hour one of them could get up in the Great Hall and say, “God Bless us, everyone 1 I would also give each of them a random time, each day, at which to drop his crutch and pretend to be healed by some miracle. Let’s say that Gary Coleman was playing Tiny Tim number 26.1 would say “Gary, this is your motivation. You have been cured by a miracle, and all of a sudden your leg ”

People like tofu, and usually associate it withGreenpeace, so this would give our Olympics a real feeling of social responsibility. works. You are really happy about this. Give me happy Gary, give me happy,” That would be great.

I would also ask Mitch, the Hollywood agent, who in addition to not wearing ties probably also calls people “baby” a lot, for some really fat guys. I would cover them in snow and make them play the role of Abominable Snowmen. I would hide them in snowdrifts all over campus, and have them leap out going, “Uh oh, it’s the Abominable Snowman!” Or maybe I wouldn’t give them lines at all. Maybe just some maniacal babbling, like “Gruu, ugu, ahhhh!” I would send the snowmen right over to the Duke Drama program for a crash course in acting, that way they could “really feel” what is “making their characters” behave “like this.”

After doing business with Mitch, I would call up the International Olympic Committee and get all of the athletes who had been rejected from the next Winter Olympics to come down to Duke for a mini Olympics. This would be expensive though, so we would have to raid the endowment. I would call it “The Tofu Games,” and tell everyone that all the proceeds of the games were going to further the use of tofu as an entree. People like tofu, and usually associate it with Greenpeace, so this would give our Olympics a real feeling of social responsibility. The Tofu Games would be fantastic. We could pour a lot of water on the traffic circle and have speed skating there. The slowest skaters would be ticketed by Parking Services. If they were continually in last place, they would be booted. Also, just for the Tofu Games, we would declare that the Cold War was back on. This would give us a good excuse to play a lot of funny jokes on the Russian team, like making them live in Trent and poisoning their food. Well, maybe we wouldn’t poison their food, but we would definitely spit in it, just to show those damn commies who calls the shots around here.

The day could end with all of Duke, the Olympic teams, the Three Tenors and the extras from guild singing “The Nookie” around a campfire. Now that would be special.

Trinity sophomore Dana Vachon likes Olympics, fat people and goats.

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sometimes. The first sign offlakes is exciting for everyone, but after the snow is on the ground, there is a surefire way to tell if you are a “grown-up” or a kid. Take this quiz and find out: 1. When it snows I a.) am excited for a chance to use my sled b.) worry

The people from snowy climates, on the other hand, react much differently. First they get an attitude about this “Southern snow,” as if any snow happening in the South could not possibly be up to standards. This includes smiling condescendingly at Southern friends who talk about how much snow is on the ground, and commenting that “this really isn’t

the depth, the snowflakes and the

much snow,” or “driving conditions aren’t that bad.” Some of the snowexperienced go to extremes, walking around outside in inadequate clothing and saying things like, “This is like spring weather back home.” Some snow veterans also manage to find snow activities beneath them, yet are willing to drive on unplowed roads to prove their hardiness.

Snow is like everything else—it takes all kinds. But, whatever kind you are, you should build a snowman or two. Or, if you are above that, you could just go outside and do a little observational research.

beauty of it all. They wouldn’t dream of “driving in a blizzard.”

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Change is inevitable Commentary Norm Bradley On my first night home during Thanksgiving Break, my parents informed me they had found their dream house for retirement. It’s just outside of Lake Placid, N.Y., more than six hours from Buffalo, the city in which I have always lived. After the initial shock wore off, I was very happy for them. I didn’t understand how they would finance owning two homes until they retired in a few years, but I was pleased they had found a home to make them happy.

So when I came home for Christmas, you can imagine my surprise when they told me they sold the house in Buffalo, were relocating the family business and would be departing for the Adirondack Mountains in March. Suddenly, I had only three more weeks of living in the house I grew up in.

As I packed my possessions in anticipation of the move, I became genuinely excited about moving to a new town. Although I will miss many of the people and places of my childhood, Lake Placid represents an opportunity to meet a brand new cast of characters. On the other hand, I might hate the mountains.

I could detest small-town life. Many things could sour the experience.

I worry about this for two reasons; first, I am an anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive worrywort, and second, I react poorly to negative changes.

I know the second part of that statement sounds

dubious—nobody likes it when negative changes occur. But I have found this to be a serious internal weakness over the last few years. Some people quickly accept this new reality and move on. Others—like me—desperately cling to the past, pretending that if we try really hard, things will revert to normal.

They won’t. People like me can accept or reject change, but we can’t stop it. Sometimes it comes rapidly, sometimes it develops over several years.

Sometimes it is for the good, and sometimes it is a negative. It is inevitable as families change cities, people grow closer or drift apart and events happen.

So what does this all mean? Will I like everything about Lake Placid? Certainly not. I just have to make the best of the circumstances instead of whining about the situation. Instead of complaining about my lemons, I need to go make lemonade.

I’ve found that this is a much healthier attitude to adopt. Sometimes we will be powerless as we watch something very important to us slip away. While it’s OK to mourn the loss, it’s also important to look to the future. There will be new cities to live in, new people to meet, new experiences to, well, experience.

And it’s not as if we have to make a complete separation with our past. Our past experiences will always be there—it’s up to us whether we fight changes kicking and screaming, or accept them and move on with our lives. When you take a step back from situations and analyze them objectively, accepting change makes so much sense. It’s the logical thing to do.

Now I just have to practice what I preach

Harm Bradley is a Pratt junior and editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

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Flexible hours. Duties include help with marketing, customer service and data entry. Please mail or fax resume to Regis Lyons, Salomon Smith Barney, PO Box 52449, Durham, NC 27717. Fax: 919-490-7135. No phone calls please. Salomon Smith Barney is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/DA/.

Positions are available for several work study students to assist a research group in the Psychiatry Department in the Medical Center.

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Two work-study students (75-25) needed for Literature Programs E. Campus. General office duties,

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mu Blue Devils try to sink struggling, unranked UNC � Bauer joins U.S.

Curtis

Cup team

United States Golf Association Women's Committee yesterday named

The conference leader looks to put the dagger in the Tar Heels, who have lost six-of-seven

By NEAL MORGAN

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Duke sophomore Beth Bauer to

the eight-woman U.S. Curtis Cup team, which will challenge Hie Europeans on June 24th25th at Ganton Golf Club in North Yorkshire, England.

Bauer, who is currently the toptanked women’s amateur golfer, competed on the U.S. Curtis Cup team that defeated the squad from Great Britain/lreland in

Carolina team takes the floor of

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This is not your typical Duke-UNC matchup, mostly because this is not your typical Tar Heel team.

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Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight at 7 p.m., the perennial ACC power will not be ranked in the top 25 and it will be seated near the basement of the conference rankings.

1998.

Ranked ninth in the country to start the year, the Tar Heels

(10-8, 2-5 in the ACC) have fallen to unimaginable lows, including a humiliating 69-56 loss to Wake Forest last week.

The season began respectfully enough as UNC built up a 9-3 record, losing to two topfour teams and llth-ranked Notre Dame.

But then it happened.

What it is is still a mystery, but it resulted in star point

guard Nikki Teasley leaving the team for what was

Bad weather cancels wrestling match The wrestling team was scheduled to compete against Campbell Tuesday night, but the match was postponed because of the snowstorm. The Campbell athletic department is expected to announce a makeup date for the match within the next few days.

Lacrosse adds “most talented” class ever >

Women's lacrosse head coach Kerstin Kimel announced the signing of seven new recruits for the class of 2004. "This is by far the most talented recruiting class that our program has secured in [its] short history," Kimel said.

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Virginia 86, FSU 81 Virginia used an 11-5 run late in the second half to put away Florida State and defend its homecourt with an 86-81 victory. Majestic Mapp scored seven points for the Cavaliers during the decisive run.

� Campo takes over America’s Team Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones promoted defensive coordinator Dave Campo to head coach yesterday, filling the void left by the firing of head coach and offensive coordinator Chan Dailey. Jones has yet to find an offensive coordinator, but secondary coach Mike Zimmer will take over Campo’s responsibilities as defensive coordinator.

“My wife and I were in Hollywood and we went to a wax museum. We went into the Chamber of Horrors and there was a wax dummy of me in a ca 9e. It devastated my wife. They humiliated and degraded me in front of my wife. All my life I have

been humiliated.”

—Mike Tyson

KRISTA GINGRICH and the Blue Devils will attempt to keep pace with ACC coleader Virginia when they host UNC tonight.

described as personal reasons and the Tar Heels losing five of their last six games.

“They’ve been going through some tough times, with Teasley Duke coach Gail out,” Goestenkors said. “It’s a tough adjustment and they’ve had two freshmen that they’ve been playing at the point position.

Any time you have to adjust to losing a player, especially a player that’s like an AllAmerican it’s tough, but when it’s also your point guard, the person that rubs your team and controls tempo, it makes it even more difficult.”

But North Carolina is still North Carolina, and the Tar Heels have shown improvement

on the court, if not in the rankings. Teasley returned to the team this week, and although Hatchell says she will not play until Sunday at the earliest, her first full practice with the team Wednesday must have provided a much-needed emotional boost for the struggling Heels.

“I think they’re really coming

together though,” Goestenkors said. “They’re just getting better and better and it’s just a matter of time because they have so many great players on that team. It wasn’t just a one-person team....

“I just hope they don’t put it together by [tonight]”.

But yesterday afternoon, it was Goestenkors who was the one frantically trying to put her team together.

Inclement weather delayed Duke’s flight out of Tallahassee and the Blue Devils were forced to miss a day of practice.

Although usually not a cause for too much distress, North Carolina plays a defense unlike any other conference foe, switching after every screen.

“It’s a tough team to prepare for and that’s why we wish we would have had [Tuesday] because it’s hard to prepare for Sec NORTH CAROLINA on page 14

Barksdale thrives while Tar Heels try to survive LaQuanda Barksdale didn’t

expect her team to struggle as

much as it has, but now she’s ready for the tide to turn.

By VICTOR ZHAO The Chronicle

CHAPEL HILL Standing in the tunnel leading to the court at Carmichael Auditorium, North Carolina forward LaQuanda Barksdale reluctantly spat out the frustration one wouldn’t normally expect to hear from the soft-spoken junior.

But it’s exactly the type of frustration one would hear from the workaholic star who has recently seen her amply talented team stumble to a 2-5 record in the conference and tumble out of the top 25.

I never thought we’d fall this far. I really don’t know [how it happenedl,” she said.

“I guess it’s more of a mental thing than an on-the-court basketball thing. I think outside factors had a lot to do with it, but I never expected this year to be like this.”

And how could she?

A little more than two years ago, Barksdale and her teammates had come within five minutes of a Final Four appearance. As a part of arguably the most highly trumpeted freshmen class in ACC history, Barksdale and classmates Nikki Teasley and Juana Brown looked to be on the cusp of a dominant run atop the ACC. Fast forward 30 months, however, and the promise has all but evaporated.

Ravaged by periods of lackadaisical play and Teasley’s puzzling temporary departure from the team, the Tar Heels’ downward spiral culminated last week in a “

shocking 69-56 loss to perennial ACC doormat Wake Forest.

One could cite several reasons for North Carolina’s demise, but Barksdale certainly isn’t one ofthem. Amidst North Carolina’s recent tumbles, Barksdale has quietly

thrived and established herself as perhaps the most dominant player in the conference. The 5-foot-11 Barksdale leads the ACC in scoring (17.6 ppg) and rebounding (9.3 rpg) and will be North Carolina’s most potent threat when Duke hosts the Tar Heels tonight.

“Barksdale reminds me a lot of Marcus Camby; she’s very, very good,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She can hit the three, she runs the floor very, very well, she’s

very thin and very athletic. She’s got probably the best right-handed hook of anybody in our conference.

You have to play her LAQUANDA BARKSDALE, who began her UNC career as a bench player, straight up because she’s now promises her struggling team will pull an upset victory. so good, she can score inside and outside.”

Barksdale sat the bench backing up AllThree years ago, few thought Barksdale American Tracy Reid.

But the reps in practice against Reid and could ever be this good. Almost an afterthought in a recruiting class that included the occasional game action went a long way the top prep player in the country in Teasley in shaping Barksdale.

See BARKSDALE on page and the No. 5 prep player in Brown,

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Barksdale brags Tar Heels will leave Cameron with victory NORTH CAROLINA from page 13

a totally different defense in just one day,” Goestenkors said. “You’re looking for different things because different options will be open for us.

“We haven’t been real patient in recent games offensively. Against their defense you have to show great patience and you have to be very intelligent with your screens and with your cuts.”

Last year the Blue Devils won both games by comfortable margins and a win tonight would give the Blue Devils their third straight win over North Carolina, a feat never accomplished by the program. But Barksdale doesn’t think Duke should count its chickens

too early.

“There is a revenge factor [after last year]” the junior said. “I’m feeling really good going into this game. I think we’re going to come out with a victory.”

Barksdale’s showdown with Duke’s Peppi Browne will have a lot to do with Carolina’s chances. The forward leads the conference in scoring and rebounding, but will be pitted against Browne, one of the ACC’s top post defenders.

“I think it’s going to be a great matchup because Peppi’s got a lot of guard skills too,” Goestenkors said.

“Peppi’s going to try and deny her as

North Carolina Game time: 7 p.m.

Place: Cameron Indoor Stadium TV/Radio: WDNC 620AM

much as possible, limit her touches, because she does make so many good things happen for them.”

Browne and frontcourt mates Rochelle Parent and Lauren Rice will have their hands full trying to contain both Barksdale and the ACC’s secondleading rebounder, Tar Heel center Jackie Higgins.

But Goestenkors, who along with

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With Teasley’s departure, UNC has been forced to turn to more people. But Duke turns to its bench not out of necessity but because of its talent. Freshmen Sheana Mosch, Michele Matyasovsky and Olga Gvozdenovic have proven most valuable, and the latter two might see extra time if Duke’s frontcourt gets in foul trouble.

Even if Nikki Teasley doesn’t get into the game, North Carolina should receive an emotional boost just knowing its star point guard is back. Duke, meanwhile, has struggled in its last two contests, a loss to N.C. State and a narrow escape from the ACC cellar-dwelling Seminoles. Bad weather keeps Cameron tame.

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Juana Brown, Jr. (11.6 ppg)

Leah Sharp, Jr. (6.8 ppg) LaQuanda Barksdale, Jr. (17.5 ppg) Forward Center Jackie Higgins, Jr. (10,5 ppg)

Without Teasley, UNC has struggled with two freshmen running the point. Brown has been reliable in the past, but she too has been missing shots. Although it doesn’t always show in the box score, Gingrich has done well running the team. Schweitzer has been off lately, but she’s always a big threat.

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Both coaches have stressed rebounding to their teams, and the frontcourt matchup should be the most interesting. Although UNC starts three guards, in Higgins and Barksdale the Tar Heels boast the conference’s top two rebounders. The BrowneBarksdale showdown is one to watch.

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No. 9 DUKE 17-2 (6-1) Coach Gail Goestenkors Guard Krista Gingrich, So, (7.2 ppg) Guard Georgia Schweitzer, Jr. (16.5 ppg) Forward Rochelle Parent, Jr. (5.8 ppg) Forward Peppi Browne, Sr. (13,6 ppg) Center Lauren Rice, Sr. (8.4 ppg)

Hatched feel rebounding will determine tonight’s outcome, says that her backcourt is expected to step up.

“Our guards have not been rebounding the ball well at all,” the coach said.

“And so I kind of issued a challenge to them. They have to do a better job rebounding for us [tonight] in order for us to be successful.”

And with their arch rivals in town, success means everything to the Blue Devils. For even if this year’s matchup seems less enticing than in years past, Duke-UNC is still Duke-UNC. “They always love playing Carolina,” Goestenkors said. “It doesn’t matter what the records are and who’s missing and who’s not, because it’s such a great rivalry and such an emotional game for both teams.

“We know we need to come to play and we need to be prepared.”

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Barksdale’s work ethic helps Tennis legend Budge suffers her move from reserve to star cardiac arrest, dies at age 84 BARKSDALE from page 13 After practically living the last two summers at the gym, Barksdale has more than stepped out of Reid’s shadoW —she is now commanding the same type of respect Reid received when she dominated the ACC.

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alum who knows a thing or two about basketball—Michael Jordan, “Every year, two of us get invited to work a camp up in Chicago, and I got invited this summer.” Barksdale said. “We played five-on-five. He guarded me, and I guarded him. My team won.”

Fresh off besting Jordan, Barksdale put up some early numbers that were larger than life, somewhat fitting for a person who cited _______

going to get that playing much time, if any at all,” Barksdale said. “I’ve been working hard, my freshman summer and my

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Barksdale reaped the rewards of her work when she played with the U.S. squad that

“[Michael Jordan and I] played five-on-five.

He guarded me, and I guarded him. My team won.” .

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medal at the World University Games.

Barksdale started all six games on a roster full of potential AllAmericans and finished second on the team in scoring at 11.8 ppg.

As an added bonus, Barksdale received the chance to go head-tohead last summer with an old UNC

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“We will turn it around.”

And if the rest of the Tar Heels adopt Barksdale’s work ethic, it’s a promise that could very well come to fruition, for a change.

By DAN ROBRISH Associated Press

Don Budge, who swept all four major tennis tournaments in 1938 to become the sport’s first “Grand Slam” winner, died Wednesday of cardiac arrest. He was 84.

He died at Mercy Hospital in Scranton, Pa., hospital spokeswoman Mary Leone said.

Budge was injured in a car accident in northeastern Pennsylvania Dec. 14 when he lost control and drove off the road. He was hospitalized in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., until Jan. 8, when he was transferred to a nursing facility near his home in Dingmans Ferry. Budge was taken to Mercy Hospital Jan. 17.

Budge had a complete game built around a whiplash backhand, which still is considered the best ever. He backed up a strong serve with power and accuracy off the ground and volleyed effectively.

Budge played in the shadow of a developing World War II and had a comparatively brief career. He found himself sandwiched between Bill Tilden’s heyday in the 1920s and the emergence of a breed of tough, young professionals who hit the ball at 120 mph and competed for purses that soared into millions of dollars.

“I respected him a lot for his achievements,” Pete Sampras said from the Australian Open. “I only met him a couple of times, but he was a very nice and friendly person.”

Budge was inducted into the

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International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1964, and selected one of Tennis Magazine’s 20 greatest players of the 20th century.

“What impressed me, and what distresses me now, he epitomized what we were all taught as tennis players so lacking now: Look like a champ, act like a champ, try to play like a champ,” Ted Schroeder, a top American player of the same era, said from the Australian Open.

During Centre Court ceremonies at Wimbledon in 1998, Budge was introduced as “the tall redheaded Californian with the greatest backhand ever.” His mark on the game, in fact, was much greater.

“I consider him the finest player 365 days a year who ever lived,” Tilden once said.

Born June 13,1915, in Oakland, Calif., John Donald Budge was a superb athlete who played all popular team sports, including baseball and basketball.

When he was 13, his brother Lloyd, who played on the tennis team at the University of California, persuaded Don to take tennis seriously.

Nine years later, Budge beat Germany’s Baron Gottfried Von Cramm in what is considered to be one of the best Davis Cup matches ever.

That same year, 1937, Budge won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships. In 1938, he became the first player to sweep all four major titles—Wimbledon and the championships of Australia, France and the United States.

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