THE CHRONICLE tennis t j; B_thth,-m [ . i_o%throug fe\v days. I • learns nts in the past w TUESDAY. APRIL 9. 1996 ONE COPY FREI DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA rniTTHFW Latin honors change meets mixed reaction By MARSHA JOHNSON A proposal that would in- crease the difficulty of receiv- ing Latin honors has gar- nered both support and criticismfrommembers ofthe University community. One aspect ofthe proposal, formulated by the Academic Affairs Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council, would eliminate the Latin Honors by Honors Project program. As the program stands now, students choosing to complete an honors project can earn Latin honors above the level for which they would have qualified by GPA alone. Latin honors are currently awarded using the following cut-off guidelines: 3.4 for cum laude, 3.7 for magna cum laude and 3.9 for summa cum laude. Brett Busby, Trinity '95, was able to increase his Latin honors from cum laude to summa cum laude by com- pleting an honors project in public policy. He said that he opposed eliminating the hon- ors project program. "My project was the most rigorous academic experience I had in all of my years at Duke," said Busby, a first- year student at Columbia University Law School. "It helps to bring together all the different skills you learn in the course of a major. Just giving department distinction isn't sufficient recognition." See HONORS page 5 »- Franklin speaks on 21st century Renowned historian confronts nation's future By ALEX GORDON In the past 50 years, John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, has established himself as one of the nation's most esteemed historians by virtue ofhis study of blacks and the 19th-century South. On Monday night, before an audience of more than 100 in the North Gallery of the Duke University Museum of Art, Franklin looked toward the fu- ture in a speech titled "Ameri- cans Preparing for the 21st Century." During the course of the talk, he discussed historical trends and their relevance to 21st-century America. In the speech, co-sponsored by FOCUS and the Faculty As- sociates Program, Franklin ad- dressed the issue of what it means to be an American in the 21st century. Franklin pointed to increased diversity as a defin- ing characteristic of America in the next century, indicating that with this diversity will come a significant "demographics revo- lution" which will reform the concepts of "American" and "mi- nority." "There is an old belief that the term '.American' would refer to only those people of Euro- pean and Scandinavian de- scent," Franklin said. "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place that George Washington would not recognize. By the year 2025, 'minority' will mean someone of European descent." Franklin also spoke about the times in American history when those in power, primarily White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, held a myopic definition of what it meant to be a true "Ameri- can." For the well-being of today and the next century, Franklin said that Americans need to fos- ter a sense of tolerance and un- derstanding. He also said that Americans should shed—yet not forget—the long-standing tradition of prejudice against minorities. "The absence of religious tol- eration early on precipitated the bigotry that still exists in this country today," Franklin said, citing the historical practices of See FRANKLIN on page 6 >• Prominent Durham industrial leader Teer dead at 82 By LESLIE DEAK Nello Teer Jr., a leader in Durham industry, died Satur- day night after a long bout with Parkinson's disease. He was 82. Teer led the Durham-based Nello L. Teer Company, founded by his father. The company built roads, bridges and dams in construction projects world- wide. The Teer Company was responsible for such projects as the Pan-American Highway through Central America and the Lilongwe International Air- port in Malawi, Africa. Teer may be more widely known to University students as the son of the honoree for whom the Nello Teer Engineer- ing Building on Science Drive is named. The building, complet- ed in 1984, was named for Nello Teer Sr. by his children Nello Jr., Dillard, and Mary Outlaw in 1982. Three years ago, Teer Jr.'s wife Ethel established the Nello L. Teer Jr. Professor in Engi- neering Endowment. The Teer professorship is currently held by Erol Gelenbe, chairman of the department of electrical and computer engineering. "In terms of the community, the Teer Company was and is a major force in the loeal econo- my," said Earl Dowell, dean of the School of Engineering. "Not only was the Teer Company a very important economic force, but the family is as well." Dowell described Teer as a very likable, yet driven person. "He was tun to be around, but also a person who wanted to get to the task at hand," Dowell said. "He was in many ways a no-nonsense kind of a person." Teer also served as a mem- ber of the Engineering Dean's Council, a group of alumni and friends who have a leadership role in advising the dean. "He was highly respected by all of us who knew and worked with him," Dowell said. Neither of the Teer brothers attended the University, Dowell said. Nello Jr. earned his diplo- ma from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his brother Dillard attend- ed North Carolina State Uni- versity. "But they always had very strong Durham roots," Dowell said. Teer is survived by his wife, Ethel and four children, Nello Teer III, Sondra Robertson, Dorothy Teer and Michael Teer. Teer is also survived by a broth- er, Dillard Teer; a sister, Mary Outlaw; and five step-children. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. April 10 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at 82 Kimberly Drive in Durham. Visitation will be held at 7 p.m. today at Howerton-Bryan Fu- neral Home at 1005 W. Main St. in Durham. Family members ask that donations be made to charity in lieu of flowers. Leaders discuss new greek rush process By ROD FEUER A wide range of community leaders, including administra- tors and independent students, joined leaders of the fraternity community Monday night to discuss the merits of this year's revised fraternity rush process in a forum hosted by the Interfraternity Council. The Duke Community Leaders Forum started with a discussion of current fraternity pledges perceptions of the new formal rush process. Trinity sophomore Tom Sowers, IFC vice president for rush and pledging, presented an IFC survey of several hundred freshman that found the pri- mary motivation for rushing was the opportunity to meet new people. Many forum par- ticipants indicated that they encouraged many of the rushees to interact with all up- perclassmen, including both fraternities and selective hous- es. Trinity junior Ben Mul- roney, resident of Wayne Manor, said he liked the new rush process because there was a mixture of selective house and fraternity rushing. "It's a good chance to get out and meet a lot of people," he added. The -questionnaire also raised the issue of this year's shortened rush period. Trinity See FORUM on page 6 • EMILY MARTIN/THE CHRONICLE Lights, camera... where's the film? Tim Myers (I.) films Deon Lategan, general manager for dining and special events, who gets ready for an award presentation in the Trinity Cafe.
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Latin honors change meets mixed reaction By MARSHA JOHNSON
A proposal that would inshycrease the difficulty of receivshying Latin honors has garshynered both support and criticism from members ofthe University community
One aspect ofthe proposal formulated by the Academic Affairs Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council would eliminate the Latin Honors by Honors Project program As the program stands now students choosing to complete an honors project can earn Latin honors above the level for which they would have qualified by GPA alone Latin honors are currently awarded using the following cut-off guidelines 34 for cum laude
37 for magna cum laude and 39 for summa cum laude
Brett Busby Trinity 95 was able to increase his Latin honors from cum laude to summa cum laude by comshypleting an honors project in public policy He said that he opposed eliminating the honshyors project program
My project was the most rigorous academic experience I had in all of my years at Duke said Busby a first-year student at Columbia University Law School It helps to bring together all the different skills you learn in the course of a major Just giving department distinction isnt sufficient recognition
See HONORS page 5 raquo-
Franklin speaks on 21st century Renowned historian confronts nations future By ALEX GORDON
In the past 50 years John Hope Franklin James B Duke Professor Emeritus of History has established himself as one of the nations most esteemed historians by virtue ofhis study of blacks and the 19th-century South
On Monday night before an audience of more than 100 in the North Gallery of the Duke University Museum of Art Franklin looked toward the fushyture in a speech titled Amerishycans Preparing for the 21st Century During the course of the talk he discussed historical trends and their relevance to 21st-century America
In the speech co-sponsored by FOCUS and the Faculty Asshy
sociates Program Franklin adshydressed the issue of what it means to be an American in the 21st century Franklin pointed to increased diversity as a definshying characteristic of America in the next century indicating that with this diversity will come a significant demographics revoshylution which will reform the concepts of American and mishynority
There is an old belief that the term American would refer to only those people of Euroshypean and Scandinavian deshyscent Franklin said The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white a place that George Washington would not recognize By the year 2025 minority will mean someone of
European descent Franklin also spoke about
the times in American history when those in power primarily White Anglo-Saxon Protestants held a myopic definition of what it meant to be a true Amerishycan For the well-being of today and the next century Franklin said that Americans need to fosshyter a sense of tolerance and unshyderstanding He also said that Americans should shedmdashyet not forgetmdashthe long-standing tradition of prejudice against minorities
The absence of religious tolshyeration early on precipitated the bigotry that still exists in this country today Franklin said citing the historical practices of
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Prominent Durham industrial leader Teer dead at 82 By LESLIE DEAK
Nello Teer Jr a leader in Durham industry died Saturshyday night after a long bout with Parkinsons disease He was 82
Teer led the Durham-based Nello L Teer Company founded by his father The company built roads bridges and dams in construction projects worldshywide The Teer Company was responsible for such projects as the Pan-American Highway through Central America and the Lilongwe International Airshyport in Malawi Africa
Teer may be more widely
known to University students as the son of the honoree for whom the Nello Teer Engineershying Building on Science Drive is named The building completshyed in 1984 was named for Nello Teer Sr by his children Nello Jr Dillard and Mary Outlaw in 1982
Three years ago Teer Jrs wife Ethel established the Nello L Teer Jr Professor in Engishyneering Endowment The Teer professorship is currently held by Erol Gelenbe chairman of the department of electrical and computer engineering
In terms of the community the Teer Company was and is a major force in the loeal econoshymy said Earl Dowell dean of the School of Engineering Not only was the Teer Company a very important economic force but the family is as well
Dowell described Teer as a very likable yet driven person He was tun to be around but also a person who wanted to get to the task at hand Dowell said He was in many ways a no-nonsense kind of a person
Teer also served as a memshyber of the Engineering Deans
Council a group of alumni and friends who have a leadership role in advising the dean He was highly respected by all of us who knew and worked with him Dowell said
Neither of the Teer brothers attended the University Dowell said Nello Jr earned his diploshyma from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his brother Dillard attendshyed North Carolina State Unishyversity But they always had very strong Durham roots Dowell said
Teer is survived by his wife
Ethel and four children Nello Teer III Sondra Robertson Dorothy Teer and Michael Teer Teer is also survived by a brothshyer Dillard Teer a sister Mary Outlaw and five step-children
Funeral services will be held at 2 pm April 10 at St Stephens Episcopal Church at 82 Kimberly Drive in Durham Visitation will be held at 7 pm today at Howerton-Bryan Fushyneral Home at 1005 W Main St in Durham
Family members ask that donations be made to charity in lieu of flowers
Leaders discuss new greek rush process By ROD FEUER
A wide range of community leaders including administrashytors and independent students joined leaders of the fraternity community Monday night to discuss the merits of this years revised fraternity rush process in a forum hosted by the Interfraternity Council
The Duke Community Leaders Forum started with a discussion of current fraternity pledges perceptions of the new formal rush process Trinity sophomore Tom Sowers IFC vice president for rush and pledging presented an IFC survey of several hundred freshman that found the prishymary motivation for rushing
was the opportunity to meet new people Many forum parshyticipants indicated that they encouraged many of the rushees to interact with all upshyperclassmen including both fraternities and selective housshyes
Trinity junior Ben Mul-roney resident of Wayne Manor said he liked the new rush process because there was a mixture of selective house and fraternity rushing Its a good chance to get out and meet a lot of people he added
The -questionnaire also raised the issue of this years shortened rush period Trinity
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EMILY MARTINTHE CHRONICLE
Lights camera wheres the film Tim Myers (I) films Deon Lategan general manager for dining and special events who gets ready for an award presentation in the Trinity Cafe
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
World and National
Newsfile Associated Press
Rostenkowski pleads Forshymer Rep Dan Rostenkowski has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges and serve 17 months in prison a lawyer in the case said Monday
Liberia erupts Shelling and gunfire raged in the capital Monshyday sending at least 15000 civilians fleeing to a US Emshybassy compound Clinton is conshysidering evacuating Americans from Liberia
Stocks plummet Stock prices tumbled nearly 90 points Monshyday as long-term interest rates continued a sharp ascent that is at odds with the Federal Reshyserves policy of keeping rates stable Analysts said that rise could endanger the moderate growth rate expected this year
Weather Wednesday High 5 9 Sunny Low 4 2 Winds sassy
Have you hugged your child today Be honest now
Kaczynski further tied to Unabom attacks By DAVID JOHNSTON NY Times News Service
WASHINGTONmdashOne of two live bombs found at Theodore Kaczynskis Montana cabin was virtually identical to an explosive device used in one of the Unabombers fatal attacks federal law-enforcement officials said Monday
They said the bomb matched one used in one of the Unabombers two most recent killings in 1994 and 1995 but did not specify which
The discovery of the first live bomb last Friday at Kaczynskis cabin had been made known shortly after it was found but the discovery of a second live bomb over the weekend and the
results ofa design comparison between the two devices and known Unabomber bombs was only revealed Monday
One official described the similarishyties between one of the bombs found in the cabin and one used in a fatal attack as striking akin to two cars of the same make and model It was as if once he found the right design he stuck with it the official said
Kaczynski has not been charged in any of the Unabom attacks and is being held on a charge of possessing an explosive device But investigators say they are certain they will be able soon to charge him in the 17-year string of 16 bombings that killed 3 and woundshy
ed 23 The information about the second
bomb in the cabin came to light as a lawyer for Kaczynskis family provided new details about the man who the aushythorities believe is the Unabomber
The lawyer Anthony Bisceglie said Kaczynski had been estranged from his family and had not seen his younger brother or mother in six years
In addition to similarities in bomb design features other areas of investishygation linked Kaczynski to the Unshyabom crimes including a preliminary analysis that matched bomb fragments found at crime scenes with evidence taken from Kaczynskis cabin
North Korean motives puzzle Pentagon By STEVEN ERLANGER NY Times News Service
WASHINGTONmdashAmerican officials while playing down the threat posed by North Koreas sudden round of violashytions of the military armistice that keeps the peace between the two Koreshyas said Monday that they were baffled by the message Pyongyang was trying to send
They presume North Korean troop movements inside the two-and-a-half-mile-wide demilitarized zone are part of a continuing effort to undermine the
1953 Military Armistice Agreement and push the United States into bilatshyeral peace negotiations with Pyshyongyang Yet they think the timing is symbolic possibly aimed at the parliashymentary elections in South Korea this week and a brief visit there planned for next week by President Clinton
But without direct contact with the secretive Pyongyang government relashytively faceless after the death of Kim II Sung in July 1994 Kim Jong II Amershyican officials do not really know
I think theyre trying to coerce the
United States to sit down with them and negotiate a peace treaty without Seoul and we have no intention of doing that a Pentagon official said
The good news he said was that after three nights of armed incursions North Korean troops did not enter the demilitarized zone Monday night
But as to why they did it to begin with the Pentagon official said we probably wont know that until we ask them And asking them is problematshyic he said since the North Koreans no longer attend meetings at the DMZ
SPRING SALE
Brighten your day with Books
Artwork Spring Clothes
Searle Center Tuesday April 9
Wednesday April 10 8am-4pm
Fundraiser Sponsored by Duke Hospital Auxiliary Proceeds to Benefit Duke Pediatrics
Chaplains Fund amp Other Projects at DUMC
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In Commemoration of the Third Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Lawson Fusao Inada Professor of English Southern Oregon State University Celebrated Poet-Musician Performer and Author of
Legends from the Camp
will present a speech entitled
Seven Lessons of Humanity Tuesday April 9
800 PM Von Canon C
Reception and Booksigning to follow at
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Raspberry to kick off Kenan lecture series April 10 From staff reports
Washington Post columnist and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism William Raspberry will speak at the Fuqua School of Business April 10
Raspberrys speech marks the first in a new series of talksmdashthe Kenan Distinguished Lecture series estabshylished by the Kenan family earlier this year The series is a part of the continuing Kenan Ethics Program which strives to blend commitment to ethical action with education in ethics
The speech is scheduled to take place in the Geneen
News briefs Auditorium at 730-pm with a reception to follow
President to speak Miguel de la Madrid former bullpresident of Mexico will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills-Hamilton Hall tonight at 5 pm
De la Madrid will speak about the challenges he faced during his six years as president from 1982-88 During that time he confronted his countrys economic problems by reducing government spending and raising taxes to curtail chronic deficits and slow inflation
In addition to speaking de la Madrid will also be visshyiting with students faculty and administrators on the Duke and UNC campuses and will participate in a class on presidential leadership and government reform that includes students from both universities
The talk is sponsored by the Duke-UNC Program in Latin -American Studies De la Madrid is the most reshycent of threff former Latin American presidents to be brought to the Duke and UNC campuses this year by the Latin American Studies Program Belisario Betanshycur former president of Colombia visited in February and Raul Alfonsin former president of Argentina visitshyed in March -
Beard to address Social Security Sam Beard the founder and chairman ofthe National Development
Council will speak about Social Security reform April 10
In an article in the Aug 141995 edition of the Wall Street Journal Beard advocated the revamping of the Social Security system so workers could accumulate capital for themselves and for later generations
The National Development Council a national nonshyprofit corporation invests in poor urban and rural comshymunities in all 50 states and is credited with creating more than 500000 private sector jobs during the last 25
years Beard is the author of an upcoming book Restoring
Hope in America The Social Security Solution which will be published this year by the Institute for Contemshyporary Studies
Beards talk which is open to the public will begin at 730 pm in the Fleishman Commons ofthe Sanford Institute of Public Policy The talk is sponsored by the John Locke Foundation the Concorde Coalition Citishyzens Against Government Waste and the National Deshyvelopment Council
Hunt praises graduate students Although many of North Carolinas graduate students are probashybly coping with the pressures of defending their theses a recent proclamation by Gov Jim Hunt should brightshyen their week
A proclamation issued March 23 by Hunt has named this week Appreciation Week for Graduate and Professhysional Students
Hunt will meet April 11 with graduate student leadshyers from several North Carolina schools as part of the weeks festivities The delegation includes Graduate and Professional Student Council President Michael Tino a third-year graduate student in cell biology
Representatives from Wake Forest University North Carolina State University and the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Greensboro and Charlotte will also attend the ceremony Tnursday
In the proclamation Hunt praised graduate stushydents for their contributions to North Garolina
The 33583 Graduate and Professional Students in the state university system are North Carolinas future teachers doctors engineers lawyers and business leadshyers the proclamation states
Hunt also lauded students for their work in undershygraduate teaching and in university research These acshytivities improve the efficiency of the states institutions of higher learning and their international reputations he wrote
Where did we put those nails Carpenter Harvey Craig (I) is assisted by Henry Frans in hanging the Red White Blue And God Bless You photo exhibit which opens Thursday in the Duke University Museum of Art
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History 193 An interdisciplinary TeleVideo Course
Taught jointly by Faculty -at Duke UNC and NCSU Universities
John RichardsmdashHistory Duke Joanne Punzo WaghornemdashUNCChapel Hill
David GilmartinmdashHistory NCSU
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Center for Applied Ethics and
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Bill McKibben
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STRIKING THE BALANCE BETWEEN
HOPE AND FEAR
Thursday April 11 7 pm
Love Auditorium LSRC
THK CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
Arts
C Q e n d a r
Hoof n Horn The Best Lirtle Whorehouse in Texas Hoof n Horns spring musical wi i l run Thursshyday through Saturday Apr i l 1 1-13 and 18-20 at 8 pm and Sunday Apri l 14 and 21 at 2 pm in Reynolds Theater Tickets are $7 for the public and $6 for students and are available through Page at 684-4444
I - W W Sculpture Exhibit The Visual Arts Commi t te of the Duke Union and the Craven Quad Council w i l l sponsor a one-day open-air -sculpture show on Tuesday Apr i l 23 from 8 am to 5 pm on the main quad o n West Campus Any student faculty member or resident o f t h e Durham commun i ty is inv i ted to showcase an artwork Those wish ing to part ic ipate must RSVP to the Union at 684-291 1 by Friday Apr i l 19
Jazz greats to perform on campus this month By JANET RIDGELL
During the end of April the campus will be overflowing with the strains of various jazz styles
On Friday April 19 at 8 pm the much emulated tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins will- perform in Page Auditorium as a finale to the North Caroshylina International Jazz Festivalwhich is dedishycated to Rollins achieveshyments
His career has spanned more than three decades much of which has been spent leading his own band cutting records and touring extensively A reshycipient of countless awards Rollins has been honored with the Grammy award which was awarded to him in 1965 for the soundtrack to the film Alfie The city ofNew York has also designated a Sonny Rollins Day each year
A legend in his own time Rollins is probably one ofthe most admired jazz saxophonshyists alive today His upcoming perforshymance at the University is sure to be as legendary as his name
The heart-pounding jazz will not cease with Rollins performance however as LeRoy Jenkins will take the stage with his virtuosojazz viohn stylings The great
jazz violinist will perform in the Ark along with several special guests on Thursday April 25 at 8 pm Jenkins known for his wild and exshypressive jazz improvisations is a pioneer in his still-growing field Once described as being as quick as a cat emotional as
LeRoy Jenkins
an actor and precise as a mathematishycian his experience is not limited to the world of jazz
The musical works Jenkins has comshyposed are as well-travelled as the artist himself His resume includes composing scores for prominent chamber ensembles orchestras dance companies and theaters
Recent years have seen Jenkins in a speshycial recording collaboration which paired great jazz artists with hip-hop rappers
The Ciompi Quartet tiie Universitys resident string quartet will perform a few of Jenkins pieces While the Ciompi Quartet usually performs more traditional
pieces they should bring some interestshying new flavor to Jenkinsusually avant -garde works
Also joining the festivities will be modern dance soloist Felicia Norton who will pershyform to select pieces of Jenkinscomposhysitions
Tickets to RollinsAprill9 performance in Page are $20 for the public and $15 for students
It is highly advisable to purchase tickets as soon as possible
The Jenkins performance will take place at 8 pm in the Ark on East Campus Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for the public and are available through Page Box Office at 684-4444 or at the door 45 minutes before show time
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
The Heyman Center on Ethics
ofthe
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
presents _ -
The Inaugural Lester Crown Lecture on Ethics
Senator Bill Bradley Rethinking American Leadership
Senator Bradley is retiring this year after 18 years in the United States Senate Noted scholar Cornel West calls Bradleys recently published memoir Time Present Time Past - now on the New York Times bestseller list - a candid and sophisticated story of the making of a member of an endangered species in our public life the respected statesman who fuses the life of the mind with public service Says Jack Kemp Anyone who loves America should take a look at it through Bill Bradleys eyes
Fleishman Commons at the Sanford Institute Monday April 15
800 pm
Selch nKellogg Productions and
The John Spencer Bassett Fund
cordially invite you to a poetry reading
by
Alan Shapiro author of Mixed Company (Chicago 1996)
and Covenant (Chicago 1991)
April 10 1996 700 pm
Breedlove Room Perkins Library
reception and book-signing to follow
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Students faculty debate merits of current system bull HONORS from page 1
But one problem with the current sysshytem of awarding Latin honors by project is that the increase in honors that each stushydent receives for a project varies among departments said Kay Singer assistant dean of Trinity College and adviser to pre-med students Honors projects in the biolshyogy major for example add only a virtushyal one-tenth of a point to students GPAs to calculate Latin honorsmdashwhich may not qualify them for an honors increase at all The public policy and English departshyments however do not use the virtual points system and often bump Latin honors by one or even two levels
It would be unfair that a person who had done an equally good job should not be raised the same amount Singer said
But Busby said the program provides students who may have taken a little more time to adjust and had a low GPA their freshman year a chance to put in extra effort to improve their class standshying Unless the University converts to a pass-fail system for freshmen it would be unfair to eliminate the program he said
Eliminating the honors-project proshygram would not be the only change to the Latin honors process made by the proshyposal It would also determine Latin honshyors on a percentage basis instead of on GPA alone Under the new system the top 5 percent of the graduating class would graduate summa cum laude the next 10 percent magna cum laude and the next 10 percent cum laude
During the past four years the pershycentage of students who receive Latin honors has increased from 375 percent to 504 percent according to a report reshyleased by the Academic-Affairs Commitshytee of the Arts and Sciences Council -
With so many students now receiving Latin honors the current system dilutes what it means to graduate with honors said Owen Astrachan director of undershygraduate studies for the computer scishyence department
Nevertheless some students and faculshyty see drawbacks to the proposed system
I think that people who are getting distinctions deserve them said engishyneering senior Pascal Phares He said that by basing the awards on percentshyages the proposed system will make stushydents more competitive which he sees as a negative effect The awards currently achieve their purpose of rewarding stushydents for hard work he added
Singer said that one problem with the proposed system is that there will be many students clusterednear the top of their class with approximately the same GPA and drawing a line among them might be unfair You could have a pershyson with a 393 not getting summa and a person with a 395 getting it she said
Astrachan voiced a similar concern with the proposed alterations Under the new system he said students will not know what GPA they need to achieve in order to receive honors He suggested that one remedy would be to base the necshyessary GPA not on the percentages ofthe graduating class but on those ofthe preshyvious class which would allow students to know for the entire year what GPA was necessary to achieve Latin honors
Despite the fact that the proposed regshyulations would result in fewer students receiving honors both pre-med and preshylaw advisers said that this will not result in fewer University students accepted into graduate and professional schools
Even if they could no longer be used to attain Latin honors honors projects could still earn students distinction withshyin their departments and thus might help their chances of getting into a gradshyuate or professional school The value of the project goes beyond Latin honors Singer said
The proposal will be discussed and possibly voted on at Thursdays meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council If passed it would go into effect starting with the Class of 2001
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
PAT KIMTHE CHRONICLE
John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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PACE 6 bull CURRENTS Spotlight
4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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World and National
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Rostenkowski pleads Forshymer Rep Dan Rostenkowski has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges and serve 17 months in prison a lawyer in the case said Monday
Liberia erupts Shelling and gunfire raged in the capital Monshyday sending at least 15000 civilians fleeing to a US Emshybassy compound Clinton is conshysidering evacuating Americans from Liberia
Stocks plummet Stock prices tumbled nearly 90 points Monshyday as long-term interest rates continued a sharp ascent that is at odds with the Federal Reshyserves policy of keeping rates stable Analysts said that rise could endanger the moderate growth rate expected this year
Weather Wednesday High 5 9 Sunny Low 4 2 Winds sassy
Have you hugged your child today Be honest now
Kaczynski further tied to Unabom attacks By DAVID JOHNSTON NY Times News Service
WASHINGTONmdashOne of two live bombs found at Theodore Kaczynskis Montana cabin was virtually identical to an explosive device used in one of the Unabombers fatal attacks federal law-enforcement officials said Monday
They said the bomb matched one used in one of the Unabombers two most recent killings in 1994 and 1995 but did not specify which
The discovery of the first live bomb last Friday at Kaczynskis cabin had been made known shortly after it was found but the discovery of a second live bomb over the weekend and the
results ofa design comparison between the two devices and known Unabomber bombs was only revealed Monday
One official described the similarishyties between one of the bombs found in the cabin and one used in a fatal attack as striking akin to two cars of the same make and model It was as if once he found the right design he stuck with it the official said
Kaczynski has not been charged in any of the Unabom attacks and is being held on a charge of possessing an explosive device But investigators say they are certain they will be able soon to charge him in the 17-year string of 16 bombings that killed 3 and woundshy
ed 23 The information about the second
bomb in the cabin came to light as a lawyer for Kaczynskis family provided new details about the man who the aushythorities believe is the Unabomber
The lawyer Anthony Bisceglie said Kaczynski had been estranged from his family and had not seen his younger brother or mother in six years
In addition to similarities in bomb design features other areas of investishygation linked Kaczynski to the Unshyabom crimes including a preliminary analysis that matched bomb fragments found at crime scenes with evidence taken from Kaczynskis cabin
North Korean motives puzzle Pentagon By STEVEN ERLANGER NY Times News Service
WASHINGTONmdashAmerican officials while playing down the threat posed by North Koreas sudden round of violashytions of the military armistice that keeps the peace between the two Koreshyas said Monday that they were baffled by the message Pyongyang was trying to send
They presume North Korean troop movements inside the two-and-a-half-mile-wide demilitarized zone are part of a continuing effort to undermine the
1953 Military Armistice Agreement and push the United States into bilatshyeral peace negotiations with Pyshyongyang Yet they think the timing is symbolic possibly aimed at the parliashymentary elections in South Korea this week and a brief visit there planned for next week by President Clinton
But without direct contact with the secretive Pyongyang government relashytively faceless after the death of Kim II Sung in July 1994 Kim Jong II Amershyican officials do not really know
I think theyre trying to coerce the
United States to sit down with them and negotiate a peace treaty without Seoul and we have no intention of doing that a Pentagon official said
The good news he said was that after three nights of armed incursions North Korean troops did not enter the demilitarized zone Monday night
But as to why they did it to begin with the Pentagon official said we probably wont know that until we ask them And asking them is problematshyic he said since the North Koreans no longer attend meetings at the DMZ
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In Commemoration of the Third Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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Raspberry to kick off Kenan lecture series April 10 From staff reports
Washington Post columnist and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism William Raspberry will speak at the Fuqua School of Business April 10
Raspberrys speech marks the first in a new series of talksmdashthe Kenan Distinguished Lecture series estabshylished by the Kenan family earlier this year The series is a part of the continuing Kenan Ethics Program which strives to blend commitment to ethical action with education in ethics
The speech is scheduled to take place in the Geneen
News briefs Auditorium at 730-pm with a reception to follow
President to speak Miguel de la Madrid former bullpresident of Mexico will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills-Hamilton Hall tonight at 5 pm
De la Madrid will speak about the challenges he faced during his six years as president from 1982-88 During that time he confronted his countrys economic problems by reducing government spending and raising taxes to curtail chronic deficits and slow inflation
In addition to speaking de la Madrid will also be visshyiting with students faculty and administrators on the Duke and UNC campuses and will participate in a class on presidential leadership and government reform that includes students from both universities
The talk is sponsored by the Duke-UNC Program in Latin -American Studies De la Madrid is the most reshycent of threff former Latin American presidents to be brought to the Duke and UNC campuses this year by the Latin American Studies Program Belisario Betanshycur former president of Colombia visited in February and Raul Alfonsin former president of Argentina visitshyed in March -
Beard to address Social Security Sam Beard the founder and chairman ofthe National Development
Council will speak about Social Security reform April 10
In an article in the Aug 141995 edition of the Wall Street Journal Beard advocated the revamping of the Social Security system so workers could accumulate capital for themselves and for later generations
The National Development Council a national nonshyprofit corporation invests in poor urban and rural comshymunities in all 50 states and is credited with creating more than 500000 private sector jobs during the last 25
years Beard is the author of an upcoming book Restoring
Hope in America The Social Security Solution which will be published this year by the Institute for Contemshyporary Studies
Beards talk which is open to the public will begin at 730 pm in the Fleishman Commons ofthe Sanford Institute of Public Policy The talk is sponsored by the John Locke Foundation the Concorde Coalition Citishyzens Against Government Waste and the National Deshyvelopment Council
Hunt praises graduate students Although many of North Carolinas graduate students are probashybly coping with the pressures of defending their theses a recent proclamation by Gov Jim Hunt should brightshyen their week
A proclamation issued March 23 by Hunt has named this week Appreciation Week for Graduate and Professhysional Students
Hunt will meet April 11 with graduate student leadshyers from several North Carolina schools as part of the weeks festivities The delegation includes Graduate and Professional Student Council President Michael Tino a third-year graduate student in cell biology
Representatives from Wake Forest University North Carolina State University and the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Greensboro and Charlotte will also attend the ceremony Tnursday
In the proclamation Hunt praised graduate stushydents for their contributions to North Garolina
The 33583 Graduate and Professional Students in the state university system are North Carolinas future teachers doctors engineers lawyers and business leadshyers the proclamation states
Hunt also lauded students for their work in undershygraduate teaching and in university research These acshytivities improve the efficiency of the states institutions of higher learning and their international reputations he wrote
Where did we put those nails Carpenter Harvey Craig (I) is assisted by Henry Frans in hanging the Red White Blue And God Bless You photo exhibit which opens Thursday in the Duke University Museum of Art
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Arts
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Hoof n Horn The Best Lirtle Whorehouse in Texas Hoof n Horns spring musical wi i l run Thursshyday through Saturday Apr i l 1 1-13 and 18-20 at 8 pm and Sunday Apri l 14 and 21 at 2 pm in Reynolds Theater Tickets are $7 for the public and $6 for students and are available through Page at 684-4444
I - W W Sculpture Exhibit The Visual Arts Commi t te of the Duke Union and the Craven Quad Council w i l l sponsor a one-day open-air -sculpture show on Tuesday Apr i l 23 from 8 am to 5 pm on the main quad o n West Campus Any student faculty member or resident o f t h e Durham commun i ty is inv i ted to showcase an artwork Those wish ing to part ic ipate must RSVP to the Union at 684-291 1 by Friday Apr i l 19
Jazz greats to perform on campus this month By JANET RIDGELL
During the end of April the campus will be overflowing with the strains of various jazz styles
On Friday April 19 at 8 pm the much emulated tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins will- perform in Page Auditorium as a finale to the North Caroshylina International Jazz Festivalwhich is dedishycated to Rollins achieveshyments
His career has spanned more than three decades much of which has been spent leading his own band cutting records and touring extensively A reshycipient of countless awards Rollins has been honored with the Grammy award which was awarded to him in 1965 for the soundtrack to the film Alfie The city ofNew York has also designated a Sonny Rollins Day each year
A legend in his own time Rollins is probably one ofthe most admired jazz saxophonshyists alive today His upcoming perforshymance at the University is sure to be as legendary as his name
The heart-pounding jazz will not cease with Rollins performance however as LeRoy Jenkins will take the stage with his virtuosojazz viohn stylings The great
jazz violinist will perform in the Ark along with several special guests on Thursday April 25 at 8 pm Jenkins known for his wild and exshypressive jazz improvisations is a pioneer in his still-growing field Once described as being as quick as a cat emotional as
LeRoy Jenkins
an actor and precise as a mathematishycian his experience is not limited to the world of jazz
The musical works Jenkins has comshyposed are as well-travelled as the artist himself His resume includes composing scores for prominent chamber ensembles orchestras dance companies and theaters
Recent years have seen Jenkins in a speshycial recording collaboration which paired great jazz artists with hip-hop rappers
The Ciompi Quartet tiie Universitys resident string quartet will perform a few of Jenkins pieces While the Ciompi Quartet usually performs more traditional
pieces they should bring some interestshying new flavor to Jenkinsusually avant -garde works
Also joining the festivities will be modern dance soloist Felicia Norton who will pershyform to select pieces of Jenkinscomposhysitions
Tickets to RollinsAprill9 performance in Page are $20 for the public and $15 for students
It is highly advisable to purchase tickets as soon as possible
The Jenkins performance will take place at 8 pm in the Ark on East Campus Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for the public and are available through Page Box Office at 684-4444 or at the door 45 minutes before show time
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Senator Bill Bradley Rethinking American Leadership
Senator Bradley is retiring this year after 18 years in the United States Senate Noted scholar Cornel West calls Bradleys recently published memoir Time Present Time Past - now on the New York Times bestseller list - a candid and sophisticated story of the making of a member of an endangered species in our public life the respected statesman who fuses the life of the mind with public service Says Jack Kemp Anyone who loves America should take a look at it through Bill Bradleys eyes
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Students faculty debate merits of current system bull HONORS from page 1
But one problem with the current sysshytem of awarding Latin honors by project is that the increase in honors that each stushydent receives for a project varies among departments said Kay Singer assistant dean of Trinity College and adviser to pre-med students Honors projects in the biolshyogy major for example add only a virtushyal one-tenth of a point to students GPAs to calculate Latin honorsmdashwhich may not qualify them for an honors increase at all The public policy and English departshyments however do not use the virtual points system and often bump Latin honors by one or even two levels
It would be unfair that a person who had done an equally good job should not be raised the same amount Singer said
But Busby said the program provides students who may have taken a little more time to adjust and had a low GPA their freshman year a chance to put in extra effort to improve their class standshying Unless the University converts to a pass-fail system for freshmen it would be unfair to eliminate the program he said
Eliminating the honors-project proshygram would not be the only change to the Latin honors process made by the proshyposal It would also determine Latin honshyors on a percentage basis instead of on GPA alone Under the new system the top 5 percent of the graduating class would graduate summa cum laude the next 10 percent magna cum laude and the next 10 percent cum laude
During the past four years the pershycentage of students who receive Latin honors has increased from 375 percent to 504 percent according to a report reshyleased by the Academic-Affairs Commitshytee of the Arts and Sciences Council -
With so many students now receiving Latin honors the current system dilutes what it means to graduate with honors said Owen Astrachan director of undershygraduate studies for the computer scishyence department
Nevertheless some students and faculshyty see drawbacks to the proposed system
I think that people who are getting distinctions deserve them said engishyneering senior Pascal Phares He said that by basing the awards on percentshyages the proposed system will make stushydents more competitive which he sees as a negative effect The awards currently achieve their purpose of rewarding stushydents for hard work he added
Singer said that one problem with the proposed system is that there will be many students clusterednear the top of their class with approximately the same GPA and drawing a line among them might be unfair You could have a pershyson with a 393 not getting summa and a person with a 395 getting it she said
Astrachan voiced a similar concern with the proposed alterations Under the new system he said students will not know what GPA they need to achieve in order to receive honors He suggested that one remedy would be to base the necshyessary GPA not on the percentages ofthe graduating class but on those ofthe preshyvious class which would allow students to know for the entire year what GPA was necessary to achieve Latin honors
Despite the fact that the proposed regshyulations would result in fewer students receiving honors both pre-med and preshylaw advisers said that this will not result in fewer University students accepted into graduate and professional schools
Even if they could no longer be used to attain Latin honors honors projects could still earn students distinction withshyin their departments and thus might help their chances of getting into a gradshyuate or professional school The value of the project goes beyond Latin honors Singer said
The proposal will be discussed and possibly voted on at Thursdays meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council If passed it would go into effect starting with the Class of 2001
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
PAT KIMTHE CHRONICLE
John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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Pre-med students must stop to reconsider decisions Its Friday night and by all rights I
should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Chal lenges Facing Women in t he Professhy
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Biracial Forum - Spec t rum Commons
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Douglas G Hill Memor ia l Lecture - How W e Wii l Study DNA After t h e Human Geshynome Project - Charles M Cantor Professhysor of Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology Bosshyton Univ 1 0 7 Gross Chem 8 p m
Community Calendar Duke Episcopal C e n t e r - 1 2 noon Holy-Eushycharist Memorial Chapel Morning prayer in Memorial Chapel Tuesdays - Friday mornshyings at 8 3 0 am
Bapt ist Student Union Bible study every
Tuesday 7 p m Brown (East Campus) Comshy
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Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) - Hoiy
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Taize Worship - Memoria l Chapel inside Duke Chapei Prayer chanting meditat ion in t he sty le of the Taize community Come worship in th is moving mystical set t ing 5 15 pm every Tuesday
Duke Univ wind Symphony-Thomas Jenner
conductor 8 pm Baldwin Auditor ium
French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
Amnesty International - weekly meet ing
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Wednesday Hillel - Lunch and Leam Kosher lunch with
Rabbi Cary Friedman Newcomers welcome
1 2 - 1 pm every Wed
Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
Voter Registration - Bryan CenterWalkway
1 1 am - 3 pm All week
Handwri t ingAnalysis ATool fo r the 9 0 s
Teer House 7 pm 4 1 6 - 3 8 5 3
12 noon - Cognitive Robotics as a Means to Understand Human Intelligence -Rodney Brooks - lunch colloquium sponshysored by the Center for interdisciplinary Studiesin Science Cultural TheoryD106 Levine Science Research Center 681-5013 7- bull
Insect Robots and their Humanotd Progshyeny Technology Science amp Philosophy-Rodney Brooks Prof of Computer Science amp Assoc-Director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT 4 pm Love Auditorium Levine Science Research Center
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
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VOTE ON CONDOMS Think all condoms are the same Au ContraireH Compare rate and vote on your favorite condom at THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONDOM COMPARISON Your condom of choice will be the brand of conshydoms made available at The Healthy Devil Votge 11-2 Wednesday at the Bryan Center Walitway
BUGS 4 9 This weeks BUGS seminar 100 Years On Krakatau with Dr Mark Bush Tuesday (49] 630pm 144 BioSci supper provided Brought to you by BMU
WE WILL DRIVE Your car rental truck or van to the West Coast (AZ NV CA CO OR etc) Two Duke 96 grads looking to go West for the summer You pay for gas amp tolls we do the rest Call Corey a( 286-3766
WHOREHOUSE Plenty of SEXUAL INNUENDO The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas runs 411-414 amp 418421 in Reynolds Theatre Get your tickets now from Page or buy them at the door $6 for students
Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
of undergraduates studying abroad In Fall 1996AY 96-97 Saturday 413 930am-230pm BALDWIN AUDITORIUM EAST CAMPUS Crossing Cultures amp Trying to Get Back Home Again How to Survive Study Abroad Questions etc call 684-2174 Office of Foreign Academic Programs 121 Allen
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students interested in buying Hideaw^ shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom C
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MAKE AN EASY $101 Participate in a 1-hour advertising study Snacks provided Call Jennifer Escalas at 660-7902
BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
Interested In being a Hideaway owner General information sesshysion - Wed 410 630pm Fuqua School of Business Classroom-C For additional details call Greg Anderson 383-5368
Leadership Positions Available
The Community Service Center is selecting individuals to serve on its staff for 1996-1997 We are looking for responsible students interested in promoting community involveshyment and service-related issues on campus Work-study stipends are available Stop by the CSC for an application For information call 684-4377 Deadline April 12
KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Raspberry to kick off Kenan lecture series April 10 From staff reports
Washington Post columnist and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism William Raspberry will speak at the Fuqua School of Business April 10
Raspberrys speech marks the first in a new series of talksmdashthe Kenan Distinguished Lecture series estabshylished by the Kenan family earlier this year The series is a part of the continuing Kenan Ethics Program which strives to blend commitment to ethical action with education in ethics
The speech is scheduled to take place in the Geneen
News briefs Auditorium at 730-pm with a reception to follow
President to speak Miguel de la Madrid former bullpresident of Mexico will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills-Hamilton Hall tonight at 5 pm
De la Madrid will speak about the challenges he faced during his six years as president from 1982-88 During that time he confronted his countrys economic problems by reducing government spending and raising taxes to curtail chronic deficits and slow inflation
In addition to speaking de la Madrid will also be visshyiting with students faculty and administrators on the Duke and UNC campuses and will participate in a class on presidential leadership and government reform that includes students from both universities
The talk is sponsored by the Duke-UNC Program in Latin -American Studies De la Madrid is the most reshycent of threff former Latin American presidents to be brought to the Duke and UNC campuses this year by the Latin American Studies Program Belisario Betanshycur former president of Colombia visited in February and Raul Alfonsin former president of Argentina visitshyed in March -
Beard to address Social Security Sam Beard the founder and chairman ofthe National Development
Council will speak about Social Security reform April 10
In an article in the Aug 141995 edition of the Wall Street Journal Beard advocated the revamping of the Social Security system so workers could accumulate capital for themselves and for later generations
The National Development Council a national nonshyprofit corporation invests in poor urban and rural comshymunities in all 50 states and is credited with creating more than 500000 private sector jobs during the last 25
years Beard is the author of an upcoming book Restoring
Hope in America The Social Security Solution which will be published this year by the Institute for Contemshyporary Studies
Beards talk which is open to the public will begin at 730 pm in the Fleishman Commons ofthe Sanford Institute of Public Policy The talk is sponsored by the John Locke Foundation the Concorde Coalition Citishyzens Against Government Waste and the National Deshyvelopment Council
Hunt praises graduate students Although many of North Carolinas graduate students are probashybly coping with the pressures of defending their theses a recent proclamation by Gov Jim Hunt should brightshyen their week
A proclamation issued March 23 by Hunt has named this week Appreciation Week for Graduate and Professhysional Students
Hunt will meet April 11 with graduate student leadshyers from several North Carolina schools as part of the weeks festivities The delegation includes Graduate and Professional Student Council President Michael Tino a third-year graduate student in cell biology
Representatives from Wake Forest University North Carolina State University and the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Greensboro and Charlotte will also attend the ceremony Tnursday
In the proclamation Hunt praised graduate stushydents for their contributions to North Garolina
The 33583 Graduate and Professional Students in the state university system are North Carolinas future teachers doctors engineers lawyers and business leadshyers the proclamation states
Hunt also lauded students for their work in undershygraduate teaching and in university research These acshytivities improve the efficiency of the states institutions of higher learning and their international reputations he wrote
Where did we put those nails Carpenter Harvey Craig (I) is assisted by Henry Frans in hanging the Red White Blue And God Bless You photo exhibit which opens Thursday in the Duke University Museum of Art
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I - W W Sculpture Exhibit The Visual Arts Commi t te of the Duke Union and the Craven Quad Council w i l l sponsor a one-day open-air -sculpture show on Tuesday Apr i l 23 from 8 am to 5 pm on the main quad o n West Campus Any student faculty member or resident o f t h e Durham commun i ty is inv i ted to showcase an artwork Those wish ing to part ic ipate must RSVP to the Union at 684-291 1 by Friday Apr i l 19
Jazz greats to perform on campus this month By JANET RIDGELL
During the end of April the campus will be overflowing with the strains of various jazz styles
On Friday April 19 at 8 pm the much emulated tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins will- perform in Page Auditorium as a finale to the North Caroshylina International Jazz Festivalwhich is dedishycated to Rollins achieveshyments
His career has spanned more than three decades much of which has been spent leading his own band cutting records and touring extensively A reshycipient of countless awards Rollins has been honored with the Grammy award which was awarded to him in 1965 for the soundtrack to the film Alfie The city ofNew York has also designated a Sonny Rollins Day each year
A legend in his own time Rollins is probably one ofthe most admired jazz saxophonshyists alive today His upcoming perforshymance at the University is sure to be as legendary as his name
The heart-pounding jazz will not cease with Rollins performance however as LeRoy Jenkins will take the stage with his virtuosojazz viohn stylings The great
jazz violinist will perform in the Ark along with several special guests on Thursday April 25 at 8 pm Jenkins known for his wild and exshypressive jazz improvisations is a pioneer in his still-growing field Once described as being as quick as a cat emotional as
LeRoy Jenkins
an actor and precise as a mathematishycian his experience is not limited to the world of jazz
The musical works Jenkins has comshyposed are as well-travelled as the artist himself His resume includes composing scores for prominent chamber ensembles orchestras dance companies and theaters
Recent years have seen Jenkins in a speshycial recording collaboration which paired great jazz artists with hip-hop rappers
The Ciompi Quartet tiie Universitys resident string quartet will perform a few of Jenkins pieces While the Ciompi Quartet usually performs more traditional
pieces they should bring some interestshying new flavor to Jenkinsusually avant -garde works
Also joining the festivities will be modern dance soloist Felicia Norton who will pershyform to select pieces of Jenkinscomposhysitions
Tickets to RollinsAprill9 performance in Page are $20 for the public and $15 for students
It is highly advisable to purchase tickets as soon as possible
The Jenkins performance will take place at 8 pm in the Ark on East Campus Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for the public and are available through Page Box Office at 684-4444 or at the door 45 minutes before show time
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Senator Bill Bradley Rethinking American Leadership
Senator Bradley is retiring this year after 18 years in the United States Senate Noted scholar Cornel West calls Bradleys recently published memoir Time Present Time Past - now on the New York Times bestseller list - a candid and sophisticated story of the making of a member of an endangered species in our public life the respected statesman who fuses the life of the mind with public service Says Jack Kemp Anyone who loves America should take a look at it through Bill Bradleys eyes
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Students faculty debate merits of current system bull HONORS from page 1
But one problem with the current sysshytem of awarding Latin honors by project is that the increase in honors that each stushydent receives for a project varies among departments said Kay Singer assistant dean of Trinity College and adviser to pre-med students Honors projects in the biolshyogy major for example add only a virtushyal one-tenth of a point to students GPAs to calculate Latin honorsmdashwhich may not qualify them for an honors increase at all The public policy and English departshyments however do not use the virtual points system and often bump Latin honors by one or even two levels
It would be unfair that a person who had done an equally good job should not be raised the same amount Singer said
But Busby said the program provides students who may have taken a little more time to adjust and had a low GPA their freshman year a chance to put in extra effort to improve their class standshying Unless the University converts to a pass-fail system for freshmen it would be unfair to eliminate the program he said
Eliminating the honors-project proshygram would not be the only change to the Latin honors process made by the proshyposal It would also determine Latin honshyors on a percentage basis instead of on GPA alone Under the new system the top 5 percent of the graduating class would graduate summa cum laude the next 10 percent magna cum laude and the next 10 percent cum laude
During the past four years the pershycentage of students who receive Latin honors has increased from 375 percent to 504 percent according to a report reshyleased by the Academic-Affairs Commitshytee of the Arts and Sciences Council -
With so many students now receiving Latin honors the current system dilutes what it means to graduate with honors said Owen Astrachan director of undershygraduate studies for the computer scishyence department
Nevertheless some students and faculshyty see drawbacks to the proposed system
I think that people who are getting distinctions deserve them said engishyneering senior Pascal Phares He said that by basing the awards on percentshyages the proposed system will make stushydents more competitive which he sees as a negative effect The awards currently achieve their purpose of rewarding stushydents for hard work he added
Singer said that one problem with the proposed system is that there will be many students clusterednear the top of their class with approximately the same GPA and drawing a line among them might be unfair You could have a pershyson with a 393 not getting summa and a person with a 395 getting it she said
Astrachan voiced a similar concern with the proposed alterations Under the new system he said students will not know what GPA they need to achieve in order to receive honors He suggested that one remedy would be to base the necshyessary GPA not on the percentages ofthe graduating class but on those ofthe preshyvious class which would allow students to know for the entire year what GPA was necessary to achieve Latin honors
Despite the fact that the proposed regshyulations would result in fewer students receiving honors both pre-med and preshylaw advisers said that this will not result in fewer University students accepted into graduate and professional schools
Even if they could no longer be used to attain Latin honors honors projects could still earn students distinction withshyin their departments and thus might help their chances of getting into a gradshyuate or professional school The value of the project goes beyond Latin honors Singer said
The proposal will be discussed and possibly voted on at Thursdays meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council If passed it would go into effect starting with the Class of 2001
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
PAT KIMTHE CHRONICLE
John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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Pre-med students must stop to reconsider decisions Its Friday night and by all rights I
should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Douglas G Hill Memor ia l Lecture - How W e Wii l Study DNA After t h e Human Geshynome Project - Charles M Cantor Professhysor of Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology Bosshyton Univ 1 0 7 Gross Chem 8 p m
Community Calendar Duke Episcopal C e n t e r - 1 2 noon Holy-Eushycharist Memorial Chapel Morning prayer in Memorial Chapel Tuesdays - Friday mornshyings at 8 3 0 am
Bapt ist Student Union Bible study every
Tuesday 7 p m Brown (East Campus) Comshy
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Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) - Hoiy
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Taize Worship - Memoria l Chapel inside Duke Chapei Prayer chanting meditat ion in t he sty le of the Taize community Come worship in th is moving mystical set t ing 5 15 pm every Tuesday
Duke Univ wind Symphony-Thomas Jenner
conductor 8 pm Baldwin Auditor ium
French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
Amnesty International - weekly meet ing
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working for human rights around the globe
Wednesday Hillel - Lunch and Leam Kosher lunch with
Rabbi Cary Friedman Newcomers welcome
1 2 - 1 pm every Wed
Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
Voter Registration - Bryan CenterWalkway
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Handwri t ingAnalysis ATool fo r the 9 0 s
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12 noon - Cognitive Robotics as a Means to Understand Human Intelligence -Rodney Brooks - lunch colloquium sponshysored by the Center for interdisciplinary Studiesin Science Cultural TheoryD106 Levine Science Research Center 681-5013 7- bull
Insect Robots and their Humanotd Progshyeny Technology Science amp Philosophy-Rodney Brooks Prof of Computer Science amp Assoc-Director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT 4 pm Love Auditorium Levine Science Research Center
Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) -Holy Communion Wesley Office Chapei basement Everyone is invited to attend 1 pm
TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
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ROOM FOR GRADUATION
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Do you want to help stop a nuclear waste dump In North Carolina Help NC WARN do pubIiceducation research media work admin and more to keep NC from becoming the most polluted state in the nation To volunteer for spring or summer call 4900747
VOTE ON CONDOMS Think all condoms are the same Au ContraireH Compare rate and vote on your favorite condom at THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONDOM COMPARISON Your condom of choice will be the brand of conshydoms made available at The Healthy Devil Votge 11-2 Wednesday at the Bryan Center Walitway
BUGS 4 9 This weeks BUGS seminar 100 Years On Krakatau with Dr Mark Bush Tuesday (49] 630pm 144 BioSci supper provided Brought to you by BMU
WE WILL DRIVE Your car rental truck or van to the West Coast (AZ NV CA CO OR etc) Two Duke 96 grads looking to go West for the summer You pay for gas amp tolls we do the rest Call Corey a( 286-3766
WHOREHOUSE Plenty of SEXUAL INNUENDO The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas runs 411-414 amp 418421 in Reynolds Theatre Get your tickets now from Page or buy them at the door $6 for students
Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
of undergraduates studying abroad In Fall 1996AY 96-97 Saturday 413 930am-230pm BALDWIN AUDITORIUM EAST CAMPUS Crossing Cultures amp Trying to Get Back Home Again How to Survive Study Abroad Questions etc call 684-2174 Office of Foreign Academic Programs 121 Allen
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Week of 48413 Wednesday wear black to show that we are a united people Other events will be advertised
USHERS NEEDED for Chapel Choir concert Sunday April 14 Ushers meet at Chapel at l45pm Call 684-3898 or sign up on door of 03 West Union
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students interested in buying Hideaw^ shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom C
LEARN TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF
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MAKE AN EASY $101 Participate in a 1-hour advertising study Snacks provided Call Jennifer Escalas at 660-7902
BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
Interested In being a Hideaway owner General information sesshysion - Wed 410 630pm Fuqua School of Business Classroom-C For additional details call Greg Anderson 383-5368
Leadership Positions Available
The Community Service Center is selecting individuals to serve on its staff for 1996-1997 We are looking for responsible students interested in promoting community involveshyment and service-related issues on campus Work-study stipends are available Stop by the CSC for an application For information call 684-4377 Deadline April 12
KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students intershyested in buying Hideaway shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom
SOPHOMORES and JUNIORS INTERESTED IN THE RHODES LUCE MARSHALL CHURCHILL ANO FULBRIGHT Come and hear Elizabeth Ayer Jessica Erdmann-Sager Eric Greitens and Adam Russell share their experiences about applying for and winning thoml Tuesday April 9 from 6-730pm In VonCanon Hall B and C of the Bryan Canter Dessert will ba provided so coma and get pre-
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
ease By CARRIE FELLRATH
John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Hoof n Horn The Best Lirtle Whorehouse in Texas Hoof n Horns spring musical wi i l run Thursshyday through Saturday Apr i l 1 1-13 and 18-20 at 8 pm and Sunday Apri l 14 and 21 at 2 pm in Reynolds Theater Tickets are $7 for the public and $6 for students and are available through Page at 684-4444
I - W W Sculpture Exhibit The Visual Arts Commi t te of the Duke Union and the Craven Quad Council w i l l sponsor a one-day open-air -sculpture show on Tuesday Apr i l 23 from 8 am to 5 pm on the main quad o n West Campus Any student faculty member or resident o f t h e Durham commun i ty is inv i ted to showcase an artwork Those wish ing to part ic ipate must RSVP to the Union at 684-291 1 by Friday Apr i l 19
Jazz greats to perform on campus this month By JANET RIDGELL
During the end of April the campus will be overflowing with the strains of various jazz styles
On Friday April 19 at 8 pm the much emulated tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins will- perform in Page Auditorium as a finale to the North Caroshylina International Jazz Festivalwhich is dedishycated to Rollins achieveshyments
His career has spanned more than three decades much of which has been spent leading his own band cutting records and touring extensively A reshycipient of countless awards Rollins has been honored with the Grammy award which was awarded to him in 1965 for the soundtrack to the film Alfie The city ofNew York has also designated a Sonny Rollins Day each year
A legend in his own time Rollins is probably one ofthe most admired jazz saxophonshyists alive today His upcoming perforshymance at the University is sure to be as legendary as his name
The heart-pounding jazz will not cease with Rollins performance however as LeRoy Jenkins will take the stage with his virtuosojazz viohn stylings The great
jazz violinist will perform in the Ark along with several special guests on Thursday April 25 at 8 pm Jenkins known for his wild and exshypressive jazz improvisations is a pioneer in his still-growing field Once described as being as quick as a cat emotional as
LeRoy Jenkins
an actor and precise as a mathematishycian his experience is not limited to the world of jazz
The musical works Jenkins has comshyposed are as well-travelled as the artist himself His resume includes composing scores for prominent chamber ensembles orchestras dance companies and theaters
Recent years have seen Jenkins in a speshycial recording collaboration which paired great jazz artists with hip-hop rappers
The Ciompi Quartet tiie Universitys resident string quartet will perform a few of Jenkins pieces While the Ciompi Quartet usually performs more traditional
pieces they should bring some interestshying new flavor to Jenkinsusually avant -garde works
Also joining the festivities will be modern dance soloist Felicia Norton who will pershyform to select pieces of Jenkinscomposhysitions
Tickets to RollinsAprill9 performance in Page are $20 for the public and $15 for students
It is highly advisable to purchase tickets as soon as possible
The Jenkins performance will take place at 8 pm in the Ark on East Campus Tickets are $6 for students and $12 for the public and are available through Page Box Office at 684-4444 or at the door 45 minutes before show time
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The Heyman Center on Ethics
ofthe
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
presents _ -
The Inaugural Lester Crown Lecture on Ethics
Senator Bill Bradley Rethinking American Leadership
Senator Bradley is retiring this year after 18 years in the United States Senate Noted scholar Cornel West calls Bradleys recently published memoir Time Present Time Past - now on the New York Times bestseller list - a candid and sophisticated story of the making of a member of an endangered species in our public life the respected statesman who fuses the life of the mind with public service Says Jack Kemp Anyone who loves America should take a look at it through Bill Bradleys eyes
Fleishman Commons at the Sanford Institute Monday April 15
800 pm
Selch nKellogg Productions and
The John Spencer Bassett Fund
cordially invite you to a poetry reading
by
Alan Shapiro author of Mixed Company (Chicago 1996)
and Covenant (Chicago 1991)
April 10 1996 700 pm
Breedlove Room Perkins Library
reception and book-signing to follow
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Students faculty debate merits of current system bull HONORS from page 1
But one problem with the current sysshytem of awarding Latin honors by project is that the increase in honors that each stushydent receives for a project varies among departments said Kay Singer assistant dean of Trinity College and adviser to pre-med students Honors projects in the biolshyogy major for example add only a virtushyal one-tenth of a point to students GPAs to calculate Latin honorsmdashwhich may not qualify them for an honors increase at all The public policy and English departshyments however do not use the virtual points system and often bump Latin honors by one or even two levels
It would be unfair that a person who had done an equally good job should not be raised the same amount Singer said
But Busby said the program provides students who may have taken a little more time to adjust and had a low GPA their freshman year a chance to put in extra effort to improve their class standshying Unless the University converts to a pass-fail system for freshmen it would be unfair to eliminate the program he said
Eliminating the honors-project proshygram would not be the only change to the Latin honors process made by the proshyposal It would also determine Latin honshyors on a percentage basis instead of on GPA alone Under the new system the top 5 percent of the graduating class would graduate summa cum laude the next 10 percent magna cum laude and the next 10 percent cum laude
During the past four years the pershycentage of students who receive Latin honors has increased from 375 percent to 504 percent according to a report reshyleased by the Academic-Affairs Commitshytee of the Arts and Sciences Council -
With so many students now receiving Latin honors the current system dilutes what it means to graduate with honors said Owen Astrachan director of undershygraduate studies for the computer scishyence department
Nevertheless some students and faculshyty see drawbacks to the proposed system
I think that people who are getting distinctions deserve them said engishyneering senior Pascal Phares He said that by basing the awards on percentshyages the proposed system will make stushydents more competitive which he sees as a negative effect The awards currently achieve their purpose of rewarding stushydents for hard work he added
Singer said that one problem with the proposed system is that there will be many students clusterednear the top of their class with approximately the same GPA and drawing a line among them might be unfair You could have a pershyson with a 393 not getting summa and a person with a 395 getting it she said
Astrachan voiced a similar concern with the proposed alterations Under the new system he said students will not know what GPA they need to achieve in order to receive honors He suggested that one remedy would be to base the necshyessary GPA not on the percentages ofthe graduating class but on those ofthe preshyvious class which would allow students to know for the entire year what GPA was necessary to achieve Latin honors
Despite the fact that the proposed regshyulations would result in fewer students receiving honors both pre-med and preshylaw advisers said that this will not result in fewer University students accepted into graduate and professional schools
Even if they could no longer be used to attain Latin honors honors projects could still earn students distinction withshyin their departments and thus might help their chances of getting into a gradshyuate or professional school The value of the project goes beyond Latin honors Singer said
The proposal will be discussed and possibly voted on at Thursdays meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council If passed it would go into effect starting with the Class of 2001
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Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
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John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
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Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
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BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
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KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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But one problem with the current sysshytem of awarding Latin honors by project is that the increase in honors that each stushydent receives for a project varies among departments said Kay Singer assistant dean of Trinity College and adviser to pre-med students Honors projects in the biolshyogy major for example add only a virtushyal one-tenth of a point to students GPAs to calculate Latin honorsmdashwhich may not qualify them for an honors increase at all The public policy and English departshyments however do not use the virtual points system and often bump Latin honors by one or even two levels
It would be unfair that a person who had done an equally good job should not be raised the same amount Singer said
But Busby said the program provides students who may have taken a little more time to adjust and had a low GPA their freshman year a chance to put in extra effort to improve their class standshying Unless the University converts to a pass-fail system for freshmen it would be unfair to eliminate the program he said
Eliminating the honors-project proshygram would not be the only change to the Latin honors process made by the proshyposal It would also determine Latin honshyors on a percentage basis instead of on GPA alone Under the new system the top 5 percent of the graduating class would graduate summa cum laude the next 10 percent magna cum laude and the next 10 percent cum laude
During the past four years the pershycentage of students who receive Latin honors has increased from 375 percent to 504 percent according to a report reshyleased by the Academic-Affairs Commitshytee of the Arts and Sciences Council -
With so many students now receiving Latin honors the current system dilutes what it means to graduate with honors said Owen Astrachan director of undershygraduate studies for the computer scishyence department
Nevertheless some students and faculshyty see drawbacks to the proposed system
I think that people who are getting distinctions deserve them said engishyneering senior Pascal Phares He said that by basing the awards on percentshyages the proposed system will make stushydents more competitive which he sees as a negative effect The awards currently achieve their purpose of rewarding stushydents for hard work he added
Singer said that one problem with the proposed system is that there will be many students clusterednear the top of their class with approximately the same GPA and drawing a line among them might be unfair You could have a pershyson with a 393 not getting summa and a person with a 395 getting it she said
Astrachan voiced a similar concern with the proposed alterations Under the new system he said students will not know what GPA they need to achieve in order to receive honors He suggested that one remedy would be to base the necshyessary GPA not on the percentages ofthe graduating class but on those ofthe preshyvious class which would allow students to know for the entire year what GPA was necessary to achieve Latin honors
Despite the fact that the proposed regshyulations would result in fewer students receiving honors both pre-med and preshylaw advisers said that this will not result in fewer University students accepted into graduate and professional schools
Even if they could no longer be used to attain Latin honors honors projects could still earn students distinction withshyin their departments and thus might help their chances of getting into a gradshyuate or professional school The value of the project goes beyond Latin honors Singer said
The proposal will be discussed and possibly voted on at Thursdays meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council If passed it would go into effect starting with the Class of 2001
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Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
PAT KIMTHE CHRONICLE
John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
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The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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PACE 6 bull CURRENTS Spotlight
4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
poundve poundiampetampwq-
Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
Spotlight CURRENTS bull PACE 7
have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Forum centers on merits disadvantages of process bull FORUM from page 1 freshman George Vlahakos who is pledging Kappa Alpha fraternity said that the shortened time prevented him from meeting enough different fraternishyty members bull
Chuck VanSant associate dean of student development said however that the revised rush process benefited both freshmen and fraternities It al-
lowed freshmen to first establish friendships within their class after which they could better make a decishysion to rush andor pledge he said
Adam Mitchell the president and co-founder of the Independent Students Association said that a shortened rush process like that of sororities puts addishy
tional pressure on students and can lead to personal devastation People get overwhelmed and friendships break in the shorter process Mitchell said
Trinity junior Christina Ponig Panshyhellenic Council vice president for rush countered this view saying the shortshyened period forced the sororities to be more creative and efficient in the rush process
Mulroney added that people isolate themselves if they choose only to meet people and make friends through the fraternity system The-rush process can only be successful if it can coexist with the other areas of the University comshymunity he said
Trinity sophomore John Lambert
IFC vice president for rush turned the forum discussion to address percepshytions of anti-intellectualism surroundshying fraternities Fred Asian a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity said that they incorporate mandatory study halls into their pledgeship so that there is still a major emphasis on academics
Seth Coren Trinity junior and presishydent of Phi Kappa Psi said that he would like to de-emphasize the party nature of rush by incorporating philanshythropy and intellectual activities into the process Youre not just joining a social organization there is a lot more responsibility involved he added
VanSant said that his primary critishycism of the old rush process was that
fraternities were constantly recruiting or initiating Now they have a chance to just be their fraternity he said
The effects of the new housing and alcohol policy were also discussed at the forum Based on the results ofthe IFC questionnaire housing was not a major factor in determining whether or not to rush a fraternity The availabilishyty of alcohol however seemed to be inshyfluential in terms of initially attracting potential rushees
It seems counter-intuitive if the emshyphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served said Trinity junior Takshycus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs
Professor emeritus calls for future unity
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John Hope Franklin
bull FRANKLIN from page 1 discrimination against Catholics Jews and Mormons
Franklin also discussed the xenophoshybia of Whit1 Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to create an Eden in their own image and the historical bigotry against blacks in this country
In 21st-century America Franklin said that Americans must establish a constructive cooperation among themshyselves citing increased political activity and voting as primary goals for the next century
Franklin continued on the theme of unity saying that Americans need to forge a meaningful trust with each other
It is this lack of trust Franklin noted that- enables legislation like the conshycealed-weapons law to exist
In the present we do not trust those who are designated to protect us Franklin said If this trend continues vigilantes instead of the police will enshyforce the law and undermine official law enforcement
Franklin said that by working togethshyer in such an environment of tolerance and compassion America will improve its condition significantly in the 21st century
We all have common experiences and concepts upon which to build construcshytively like succor sharing pain suffering and tolerance Franklin said Such an
effort will result in a new person for a new century that will be better for all of us
After his speech Franklin fielded questions from audience members after which time he received a standing ovashytion
Franklin drew praise from many of those who attended the speech including Andrew Schneider a third-year gradushyate student in history
The 21st century is a big mission and a topic that has been addressed a lot lately Schneider said Professor Franklin articulated it better than I have heard it but it is hard to expect anything less from someone of his stature
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Duke Univ wind Symphony-Thomas Jenner
conductor 8 pm Baldwin Auditor ium
French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
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Wednesday Hillel - Lunch and Leam Kosher lunch with
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Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
Voter Registration - Bryan CenterWalkway
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Handwri t ingAnalysis ATool fo r the 9 0 s
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12 noon - Cognitive Robotics as a Means to Understand Human Intelligence -Rodney Brooks - lunch colloquium sponshysored by the Center for interdisciplinary Studiesin Science Cultural TheoryD106 Levine Science Research Center 681-5013 7- bull
Insect Robots and their Humanotd Progshyeny Technology Science amp Philosophy-Rodney Brooks Prof of Computer Science amp Assoc-Director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT 4 pm Love Auditorium Levine Science Research Center
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
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VOTE ON CONDOMS Think all condoms are the same Au ContraireH Compare rate and vote on your favorite condom at THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONDOM COMPARISON Your condom of choice will be the brand of conshydoms made available at The Healthy Devil Votge 11-2 Wednesday at the Bryan Center Walitway
BUGS 4 9 This weeks BUGS seminar 100 Years On Krakatau with Dr Mark Bush Tuesday (49] 630pm 144 BioSci supper provided Brought to you by BMU
WE WILL DRIVE Your car rental truck or van to the West Coast (AZ NV CA CO OR etc) Two Duke 96 grads looking to go West for the summer You pay for gas amp tolls we do the rest Call Corey a( 286-3766
WHOREHOUSE Plenty of SEXUAL INNUENDO The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas runs 411-414 amp 418421 in Reynolds Theatre Get your tickets now from Page or buy them at the door $6 for students
Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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Week of 48413 Wednesday wear black to show that we are a united people Other events will be advertised
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students interested in buying Hideaw^ shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom C
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BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
Interested In being a Hideaway owner General information sesshysion - Wed 410 630pm Fuqua School of Business Classroom-C For additional details call Greg Anderson 383-5368
Leadership Positions Available
The Community Service Center is selecting individuals to serve on its staff for 1996-1997 We are looking for responsible students interested in promoting community involveshyment and service-related issues on campus Work-study stipends are available Stop by the CSC for an application For information call 684-4377 Deadline April 12
KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
of undergraduates studying abroad In Fall 1996AY -96-97 Saturday 4 13 -930am-230pm BALDWIN AUDITORIUM EAST CAMPUS Crossing Cultures amp Trying to Get Back Home Again How to Survive Study Abroad Questions call 684-2174 Office of Foreign Academic Programs 121 Allen
HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students intershyested in buying Hideaway shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom
SOPHOMORES and JUNIORS INTERESTED IN THE RHODES LUCE MARSHALL CHURCHILL ANO FULBRIGHT Come and hear Elizabeth Ayer Jessica Erdmann-Sager Eric Greitens and Adam Russell share their experiences about applying for and winning thoml Tuesday April 9 from 6-730pm In VonCanon Hall B and C of the Bryan Canter Dessert will ba provided so coma and get pre-
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
ease By CARRIE FELLRATH
John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
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Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
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By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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PACE 6 bull CURRENTS Spotlight
4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Letters to the Editor
With great power CBS wrong to break Unabomber story
Freedom of the press is among the most cherished of American liberties To a significant extent it provides the foundation for a democracy in which opinshyions and beliefs can flow freely withshyout fear of intrusion by a suspicious fedshyeral government
Were it not for this nearly boundless freedom to investigate potential stories the American media would be little more than one big press release issued by whatshyever government happened to be in power It is not difficult to see why reporters hold this freedom so dear for without it they would be out of both a job and a purpose Reporters love the First Amendment because it helps make them what they are lets them pursue the stories they know are hot without having to worry that some obtuse censor is going to come along and deem their stories fit for publication
Sometimes however love can be blind and even the best news organishyzations can forget the delicate balance between having the right to do someshything and considering the impact that doing it will have on their constituents
CBS news seems to be the most recent victim of this noxious myopia as demonstrated by its coverage last week ofthe arrest ofthe man whom authorshyities suspect to be the infamous Unabomber
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the only reason federal agents went ahead with their arrest of the suspectmdashwhom they had been monshyitoring for more than a monthmdashwas because CBS news was going to break a story blowing the supposedly secret investigation wide open
Because of CBS precipitous action the FBI had to rush its arrest of the susshypect Theodore John Kaczynski Federal agents were not able to go through the careful planning that usually precedes such crucial arrests
Why did CBS do it The most natshy
ural reason in the world They heard ABC was going to beat them to the punch
The gain here is obvious The first news organization to report that the FBI had found a Unabomber suspect would be the temporary darling of investigashytive journalism and in CBS case such a boost is long overdue and very very needed CBS news executives defendshyed their decision and said they acted extremely responsibly by not breakshying the story until the FBI was ready to move in
Of course the FBI wouldnt have moved in were it not for CBS so what the Tiffany network did was about as responsible as pushing someone off a bridge and arguing that at least you gave them a life preserver If CBSmdashand every other network for that mattermdash were truly interested in acting responshysibly they would have let the investishygation take its course and report on the bust when the FBI was ready
This is not censorshipmdashit is responshysible behavior The FBI and other fedshyeral agencies had plenty of agents in the area and snipers had their guns trained on the cabin day and night Kaczynski was going nowhere so for the media to argue that they broke the story to serve the public interest is a rather tenuous assertion
Investigative journalism is about exposing corruption keeping people honestand preservingthepublictrust This is not what CBS did and they know it Fortunately federal investigators say that despite the rushed arrest they do not think their case against Kaczynski will be compromised
But what if it had What would CBS ABC and the rest have done then Wrapped themselves around the flag and clamored about the freedom ofthe press Probably But perhaps they should have had another goal in mind Its called responsibilitymdashmaybe they can get a reporter who can look into it
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Editorial understated role of educators I take offense with the conclusion of
the April 3 editorialmdashthat people are cruel and life is tough and that homoshyphobia and gay bashing are to a cershytain extent inevitable and so the peoshyple responsible for the well-being of stushydentsmdashadministrators and teachers-ought not be held liable for such things as the abuse kids inflict upon each other within school walls That laissez-faire approach to violence is what makes Kate-crimes possible Nabozny in suing his high school is fighting a battle to make homophobia and gay-bashing not inevitable but intolerable Why not expel or suspend students for harassshying others
Letting an abused student use the home economics bathroom so that he wont get beaten up and pissed on by his schoolmates or changing his schedshyule so that these people wont abuse him while he is pursuing his studies isnt enough Responses to hate-crimes which isolate the targets of such crimes (as if he were the one the general popshyulation needs to be protected irom) punshyishes the wrong people I imagine Nabozny has the following complaint My school not only condoned this behavshyior but then punished me for it
As a teacher I see interventions
against abuse of students by students as part of my job If I cant call out a homophobic attack on one of my stushydents by another then who will Ignoring harassment supports itmdash and teaches other students to do the same
Schools have been able to intervene against harassment by looking to writshyings about healthy workplace envishyronments as a model Educational instishytutions are responsible for creating envishyronments where students will feel safe enough to learnmdashjust as companies are responsible for creating a workplace environment in which employees can do their work free from harassment or fear of retribution To apply a less strinshygent model to schools (be they of eleshymentary secondary or higher educashytion) is to hold back from students their dignitymdashit is to deny to them (because oftheir sex race religion class or sexshyuality) equal access to an education Shame on you as students and as the voice of your college newspaper for thinking any less ofthe responsibilishyties of education
Jennifer Doyle Graduate student
Department of Literature
Chomicle misconstrued church stance In the cover article of your April Fools
day issue you refer to the Chapels strict if baseless prohibition of gay marriages However the Christian Church has a 2000 year-old theology regarding the meaning and purpose of marriage which provides a solid and rational basis for such a prohibition
According to this theology marshyriage has three main purposes First it provides for the procreation of the human race and the raising of chilshydren in a loving and nurturing envishyronment Second it unites two indishyviduals ofthe opposite sex in a bond of love each supplying what the other lacks and forming together a whole which either could not form alone Third it is a profound symbol of the love of Christ for His Church Each of these three purposes for marriage requires that it be a permanent bond between a man and a woman excludshying both homosexuality and promisshycuous heterosexuality
I am aware that most members of The Chronicles staff no doubt disshyagree strongly with this view of marshy
riage and sexuality seeing it as cruel and unjust to those to whose sexual desires it denies expression However traditional Christian theology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church evangelical Protestants and many other Christians does provide a coherent rationale for the Chapels prohibition of single-sex marriages
It is true that the arguments explicshyitly presented by the Chapel authorishyties are rather lame However in glibly dismissing a view backed by the weight of Judeo-Christian tradition and supshyported by arguments drawn from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (not to speak of the example of most culshytures in human history who have denied the name of marriage to homoshysexual relationships even when regardshying them as legitimate) you are guilty of transgressing the norms of rational discourse as well as the conventions of journalistic objectivity
Edwin Tait Graduate student
Department of Religion
On the record It seems counter-intuitive if the emphasis is on brotherhood why is there a competition based on how much alcohol can be served Trinity junior Takcus Nesbit Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs on the centrality of alcohol at fraternity rush parties
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Commentary
Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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Pre-med students must stop to reconsider decisions Its Friday night and by all rights I
should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
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Chal lenges Facing Women in t he Professhy
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Biracial Forum - Spec t rum Commons
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Douglas G Hill Memor ia l Lecture - How W e Wii l Study DNA After t h e Human Geshynome Project - Charles M Cantor Professhysor of Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology Bosshyton Univ 1 0 7 Gross Chem 8 p m
Community Calendar Duke Episcopal C e n t e r - 1 2 noon Holy-Eushycharist Memorial Chapel Morning prayer in Memorial Chapel Tuesdays - Friday mornshyings at 8 3 0 am
Bapt ist Student Union Bible study every
Tuesday 7 p m Brown (East Campus) Comshy
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Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) - Hoiy
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Taize Worship - Memoria l Chapel inside Duke Chapei Prayer chanting meditat ion in t he sty le of the Taize community Come worship in th is moving mystical set t ing 5 15 pm every Tuesday
Duke Univ wind Symphony-Thomas Jenner
conductor 8 pm Baldwin Auditor ium
French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
Amnesty International - weekly meet ing
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Wednesday Hillel - Lunch and Leam Kosher lunch with
Rabbi Cary Friedman Newcomers welcome
1 2 - 1 pm every Wed
Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
Voter Registration - Bryan CenterWalkway
1 1 am - 3 pm All week
Handwri t ingAnalysis ATool fo r the 9 0 s
Teer House 7 pm 4 1 6 - 3 8 5 3
12 noon - Cognitive Robotics as a Means to Understand Human Intelligence -Rodney Brooks - lunch colloquium sponshysored by the Center for interdisciplinary Studiesin Science Cultural TheoryD106 Levine Science Research Center 681-5013 7- bull
Insect Robots and their Humanotd Progshyeny Technology Science amp Philosophy-Rodney Brooks Prof of Computer Science amp Assoc-Director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT 4 pm Love Auditorium Levine Science Research Center
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VOTE ON CONDOMS Think all condoms are the same Au ContraireH Compare rate and vote on your favorite condom at THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONDOM COMPARISON Your condom of choice will be the brand of conshydoms made available at The Healthy Devil Votge 11-2 Wednesday at the Bryan Center Walitway
BUGS 4 9 This weeks BUGS seminar 100 Years On Krakatau with Dr Mark Bush Tuesday (49] 630pm 144 BioSci supper provided Brought to you by BMU
WE WILL DRIVE Your car rental truck or van to the West Coast (AZ NV CA CO OR etc) Two Duke 96 grads looking to go West for the summer You pay for gas amp tolls we do the rest Call Corey a( 286-3766
WHOREHOUSE Plenty of SEXUAL INNUENDO The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas runs 411-414 amp 418421 in Reynolds Theatre Get your tickets now from Page or buy them at the door $6 for students
Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
of undergraduates studying abroad In Fall 1996AY 96-97 Saturday 413 930am-230pm BALDWIN AUDITORIUM EAST CAMPUS Crossing Cultures amp Trying to Get Back Home Again How to Survive Study Abroad Questions etc call 684-2174 Office of Foreign Academic Programs 121 Allen
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students interested in buying Hideaw^ shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom C
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MAKE AN EASY $101 Participate in a 1-hour advertising study Snacks provided Call Jennifer Escalas at 660-7902
BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
Interested In being a Hideaway owner General information sesshysion - Wed 410 630pm Fuqua School of Business Classroom-C For additional details call Greg Anderson 383-5368
Leadership Positions Available
The Community Service Center is selecting individuals to serve on its staff for 1996-1997 We are looking for responsible students interested in promoting community involveshyment and service-related issues on campus Work-study stipends are available Stop by the CSC for an application For information call 684-4377 Deadline April 12
KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students intershyested in buying Hideaway shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom
SOPHOMORES and JUNIORS INTERESTED IN THE RHODES LUCE MARSHALL CHURCHILL ANO FULBRIGHT Come and hear Elizabeth Ayer Jessica Erdmann-Sager Eric Greitens and Adam Russell share their experiences about applying for and winning thoml Tuesday April 9 from 6-730pm In VonCanon Hall B and C of the Bryan Canter Dessert will ba provided so coma and get pre-
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Amid myriad of conspiracies revolution will continue Student protests are the newfad on camshy
pus It is obvious that many radical undershygraduates are angry with the tenure selecshytion process prompting the recent demonshystration that culminated in a discussion with President Nan Keohane
I am not familiar with any ofthe reject-edtenure candidates andlneverwill bemdash unless one of them reads this column knocks on my door and punches me in the face For the record I am not attempting to besmirch the reputations of any former or present faculty members at this University
Nevertheless I recently began quesshytioning the motives of students who pubshylicly support a professor who has been denied tenure Being curious I watched as many pencil-headed protesters walked out of Hudson Hall on March 28 in objecshytion to the tenure process This promptshyed me to ask a simple question Do tenure protesters harbor top-secret agendas
I decided to look for answers in each let-terto the editorthathas appeared throughshyout the entire history of The Chronicle I discovered thathundreds of students have recorded their opinions of the tenure process My project included translating these letters into simple English After
weeding through intense verbiage I conshycluded that several opinionated undershygraduates are full of crap
A typical letter to the editor reads I am writing in regards to the controversy surrounding Professor X I cannot believe he has been denied tenure I know that the University places a premium on
research but this is ridiculous I am curshyrently enrolled in Professor Xs course and he is unquestionably the finest instructor at this University
Veni vidi whatever Christopher Kyle
Here is the same letter after my transshylation Unfortunately I am doing very poorly in Professor Xs course I went to CAPS and pretended to be depressed but they wouldnt let me drop the course So I decided to write a glowing recommenshydation on behalf of my instructor and his failed tenure bid After Professor X reads my letter in The Chronicle he will hopeshyfully feel obligated to give me an A+ for the course
I uncovered many similar letters durshying my meticulous research suggesting that many students are brown-nosers obsessed with theirpretty transcripts But this was only one of many factors that caused 150 people to appear outside the Allen Building for the Msirch 28 protest
The leaders ofthe student group were crafty They decided to hold the tenure demonstration at220pmonaThursday creating a legitimate excuse for anyone to miss class Their back-up plan probably involved free T-shirts although this was unnecessary I think it is wonderful that many undergraduates were willing to skip class for a demonstration concerning their commitment to education
These same radical students have capshyitalized on the momentum of their sucshycessful tenure protest by planning for the future I recently overheard a rumor conshycerning the groups next top-secret target co-president of Spectrum Anji Malhotra Apparently the student group is prepar-ingto protest Malhotras constant protests
The elaborate plan involves hiring two militiamen from a random ranch in Montana The two men will travel to Durham and will be required to circle Malhotra 24 hours a day while holding picket signs that read TVe are against Malhotra and everything she stands for
The militiamen will grant Malhotra a respite on the weekends During this time the two men will feverishly write letters to The Chronicle taking anything Malhotra has said during the week comshypletely out of context And after dealing with Malhotra the student group will sup-posedly focus on another target President Keohane
Surprisingly I learned that many undershygraduates are jealous of President Keohanes large calf muscles In protest ofthe Presidents legs the student group
is preparing to hide hundreds of banana peals around her office Before long President Keohane will trip and break both legs
President Keohane will then be confined to a wheelchair in which she will spin angrily around campus while demanding thenames ofthe evil conspirators During this time President Keohanes legs will atrophy leaving her with no remaining legmuscles Benches will burn during the celebration that follows
There are many other campus issues that need reform including the high cost of Rice Krispy Treats at The Trent Cafe At last check this yummy snack was sellshying for $125
Prepare for a revolution The worst is yet to come
Christopher Kyle is a Trinity senior
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Pre-med students must stop to reconsider decisions Its Friday night and by all rights I
should be observing the Friday night ritshyual at the Singer housemdashwatching The X-Files with my son But tonight my mind isnt on Fox and Dana Im thinking of the students I met this week
Spring in my office brings the opporshytunity to meet students planning to become physicians Most are doing so to help people be intellectually challenged and have professional stability In equal numbers women and men relate their hopes ofbalancinga career with a meanshyingful family life These are admirable qualities and dreams So whats the problem Its my impression that some students have been swept up in the notion of becoming a physician without having considered other ways to make a difshyference in the lives of others Still othshyers have an unrealistic idealistic or even naive idea of what being a physishycian entails
Almost every University student who has an aptitude for science has been told Youd make a great doctor Its easy to be flattered by such comments especialshyly ifyou admire your physician or your physician-parents Once the notion of becoming a physician has been planted it seems so natural that it may remain unchallenged as one enters college and begins to plan for ones future
I often hear students faculty and administrators say Almost everyone at Duke is pre-med Actually only about 13 percent of University seniors apply to
medical school Surprised People believe it is much higher Because another 40 or 50 individuals apply after graduation the figure rises to about 15 percent of each class The proportion of freshmen conshytemplating medicine is somewhat highshyer but not the 50 to 75 percent often erroshyneously quoted In the survey adminisshytered in 1995 28 percent of University freshmen stated that their probable career occupation is physician
Is it bad that so many students change their minds I dont think so Some disshycover that their interest in science is not strong enough for science-intensive course work required in medical school But most students who change their minds do so because they discover other intellectual pursuits that they find more compelling Others who had no thoughts ofit as freshshymen will develop an interest in medicine before graduation or even years later
My greatest concern is for students who never challenge their decision to pursue a career in medicine Several have come to see me after being accepted to medical school to share the disturbingreality Im not sure medicine is for me How can they get so far without realizing this
There are several reasons and frankly the atmosphere at the University can conshytribute in a damaging way All too often students accept the goals of others as their own I cant count the number of students who have said to me It was so easy to decide to be pre-med because all of my friends wereThis situation perpetuates
Guest column Kay Singer
itself because pre-med students spend a lot of time in classes together Before too long they find themselves having comshypleted all ofthe prerequisites though it would be a stretch to say that they have explored the curriculum But they have done everything possible to be perfect pre-med (as a medical school dean once disparagingly described it) and the natshyural next step is to apply to medical school So they domdashsometimes without gi ving serishyous thought to why they are doing so Their perception is that to do otherwise would be giving up and that giving up is not acceptable at the University
Still others are under great pressure from their parents to become physicians Though the parent generally thinks this is in the best interest of the child it is often detrimental Too frequently it becomes clear to me and to medical schools that it is the parent who wants to go to medical school not the student Or perhaps the parent is anxious for the child tobe respected and physicians genshyerally are respected members oftheir comshymunities I have seen students in tearsmdash or worsemdashover this kind of pressure I have also seen them stoically accept it
These observations prompt me to offer some advice to University students In
her first convocation address President Nan Keohane challenged students not simshyply to use their fouryears at the University to prepare for what comes next She urged you to use the University to its fullest to explore academic areas new to you to surround yourselves with people who are different from you to learn from them and to learn more about yourself in so doing Good advice
I would suggest that you blend it with the advice given in last years comshymencement address by David Gergen Gergen reminded the audience that your generation is the first in a long while to be graduating from college without the pressure of war and that the peace we enjoy today gives your generation the gift of time Accept that gift Use it wisely Dont rush decisions about the rest of your life Dont narrowly track yourself in order to meet the perceived requirements for a career goal that you might find yourshyself not pursuing Dont think that you have to have that dream job lined up by graduation day or else consider yourself a failure Dont think you have to apply to medical school (or law school or busishyness school) just because your friends do or because your parents say you should or because you always thought you would Dont be so focused on the future that you ignore the present or rush blindly toward a goal that might not be your own
Kay Singer is an assistant dean of Trinity College and the director of the Health Professions Advising Center
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Douglas G Hill Memor ia l Lecture - How W e Wii l Study DNA After t h e Human Geshynome Project - Charles M Cantor Professhysor of Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology Bosshyton Univ 1 0 7 Gross Chem 8 p m
Community Calendar Duke Episcopal C e n t e r - 1 2 noon Holy-Eushycharist Memorial Chapel Morning prayer in Memorial Chapel Tuesdays - Friday mornshyings at 8 3 0 am
Bapt ist Student Union Bible study every
Tuesday 7 p m Brown (East Campus) Comshy
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Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) - Hoiy
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Taize Worship - Memoria l Chapel inside Duke Chapei Prayer chanting meditat ion in t he sty le of the Taize community Come worship in th is moving mystical set t ing 5 15 pm every Tuesday
Duke Univ wind Symphony-Thomas Jenner
conductor 8 pm Baldwin Auditor ium
French Corridor (Language Dorm) French Table - Union Bldg Alumni l ounge or U-Room in formal conversat ion I i i French Open to all f r e n c h speakers and students o f French 6 3 0 - 7 30 pm 7
Amnesty International - weekly meet ing
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Wednesday Hillel - Lunch and Leam Kosher lunch with
Rabbi Cary Friedman Newcomers welcome
1 2 - 1 pm every Wed
Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
Voter Registration - Bryan CenterWalkway
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Handwri t ingAnalysis ATool fo r the 9 0 s
Teer House 7 pm 4 1 6 - 3 8 5 3
12 noon - Cognitive Robotics as a Means to Understand Human Intelligence -Rodney Brooks - lunch colloquium sponshysored by the Center for interdisciplinary Studiesin Science Cultural TheoryD106 Levine Science Research Center 681-5013 7- bull
Insect Robots and their Humanotd Progshyeny Technology Science amp Philosophy-Rodney Brooks Prof of Computer Science amp Assoc-Director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT 4 pm Love Auditorium Levine Science Research Center
Wesley Fellowship (United Methodist) -Holy Communion Wesley Office Chapei basement Everyone is invited to attend 1 pm
TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
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BIOLOGY MAJORS BioMajors Union General Body Meeting - THIS WEDNESDAY NtGHT (410) Come decide next years leadership goals 8pm 144 BioSci plus refreshments to make the hike worthwhile Gel involved
ROOM FOR GRADUATION
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Do you want to help stop a nuclear waste dump In North Carolina Help NC WARN do pubIiceducation research media work admin and more to keep NC from becoming the most polluted state in the nation To volunteer for spring or summer call 4900747
VOTE ON CONDOMS Think all condoms are the same Au ContraireH Compare rate and vote on your favorite condom at THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONDOM COMPARISON Your condom of choice will be the brand of conshydoms made available at The Healthy Devil Votge 11-2 Wednesday at the Bryan Center Walitway
BUGS 4 9 This weeks BUGS seminar 100 Years On Krakatau with Dr Mark Bush Tuesday (49] 630pm 144 BioSci supper provided Brought to you by BMU
WE WILL DRIVE Your car rental truck or van to the West Coast (AZ NV CA CO OR etc) Two Duke 96 grads looking to go West for the summer You pay for gas amp tolls we do the rest Call Corey a( 286-3766
WHOREHOUSE Plenty of SEXUAL INNUENDO The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas runs 411-414 amp 418421 in Reynolds Theatre Get your tickets now from Page or buy them at the door $6 for students
Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
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USHERS NEEDED for Chapel Choir concert Sunday April 14 Ushers meet at Chapel at l45pm Call 684-3898 or sign up on door of 03 West Union
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students interested in buying Hideaw^ shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom C
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MAKE AN EASY $101 Participate in a 1-hour advertising study Snacks provided Call Jennifer Escalas at 660-7902
BIRACIAL FORUM Biracial identity issues Short film followed by informal discussion Tuesday (49) 630pm Spectrum Commons Free dinner provided
Interested In being a Hideaway owner General information sesshysion - Wed 410 630pm Fuqua School of Business Classroom-C For additional details call Greg Anderson 383-5368
Leadership Positions Available
The Community Service Center is selecting individuals to serve on its staff for 1996-1997 We are looking for responsible students interested in promoting community involveshyment and service-related issues on campus Work-study stipends are available Stop by the CSC for an application For information call 684-4377 Deadline April 12
KILGO QUAD The last meeting until fall with the Faculty Associates is this Tuesday evening (April 9) at 730 in Cleland Commons Please come and share the pizza and soft drinks Meet the Faculty Associates Share your thoughts with them about what they might do to enhance the qualshyity of your experience while at Duke (they think they can do anything) What is it that youre not getting as a Duke student that you would like to have made available Changes in the way dorm assignments are made the nature of the food sershyvices improved faculty interacshytions changes in the medical sershyvices changes in the curriculum or the student government - or what Become an active member in designing a meaningful Duke expeshyrience for yourself and future stushydents And chow down
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SUMMER WORK DUMC Development seeking stushydent for 15-20 hrswk Duties include data-entry filing and other office work Located three miles from campus transportation necshyessary Starting at $625hr Please contact Donna Parkinson at 419-3207
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WORK STUDY URGENT NEED- 10 hrswk (could be shared between two students) Assisting with research project involving mostly data-entry into computer Contact Dr Harold Koertlg 681-6633
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Mandatory Study Abroad Orientation
of undergraduates studying abroad In Fall 1996AY 96-97 Saturday 4 13 930am-230pm BALDWIN AUDITORIUM EAST CAMPUS Crossing Cultures amp Trying to Get BacK Home Again How to Survive Study Abroad Questions etc call 684-2174 Office of Foreign Academic Programs 121 Allen Bldg
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HIDEAWAY SHARES A meeting for all students intershyested in buying Hideaway shares wil be Wednesday April 10 at 630pm in Fuquas Classroom
SOPHOMORES and JUNIORS INTERESTED IN THE RHODES LUCE MARSHALL CHURCHILL ANO FULBRIGHT Come and hear Elizabeth Ayer Jessica Erdmann-Sager Eric Greitens and Adam Russell share their experiences about applying for and winning thoml Tuesday April 9 from 6-730pm In VonCanon Hall B and C of the Bryan Canter Dessert will ba provided so coma and get pre-
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WANTED 23 students Lose 8-100 lbs New metabolism breakthrough I lost I5lbs In 3 wks Cost $35 1 -800-776-9503
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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F R O M T H E E D I T O R 3
Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Duke Professor Emeritus C Eric Lincoln -book s ign ing o f his new book Coming through The Fire Surviving Race and place in America in The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center 4 3 0 - 6 p m
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
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Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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F R O M T H E E D I T O R 3
Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
PAGES CURRENTS Cover story
In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
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The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
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Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
Jbdquoon LauehHnCURRENTS | Q o m o n ^ ^
health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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PACE 6 bull CURRENTS Spotlight
4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Sports
Womens tennis fights off Notre Dame in 5-2 victory Blue Devils win again despite sudden change in location I By ALLISON CREEKMORE and CARRIE FELLRATH
The third-ranked womens tennis teams match with No 8 Notre Dame on Monday did not start off as expectshyed but its ending produced the same result as usualmdashwith a victory for the Blue Devils as Duke downed Notre Dame in a 5-2 decision
The contest started at 2 pm at the Duke Tennis Stadium By 330 however rain had forced the teams to leave for indoor courts in Chapel Hill
The setback did not faze the Blue Devils as they picked up their seventh straight victory bettering their record to 17-3 for the season
The conditions werent good today outside junior Karen OSullivan said It was a- little bit chilly and it was drizzling the whole time That can be very distracting particularly for me today that was a factor [The change fo indoor courts] was good for some bad for others
OSullivan benefitted from the court change coming back after dropping the first set to down Notre Dames Erin Gowen at the fifth seed 4-6 6-3 6-2 The Blue Devils picked up three other points in singles play in straight set victories Freshman Kristin Sanderson dominated the Fighting Irishs Holyn Lord 6-0 6-4 at the No 2 position
Because the Chapel Hill Tennis
Sportsfile From wire reports
Rasheed arrested Washington Bullets rookie forward Rasheed Wallace who is sidelined with a broshyken left thumb was arrested over the weekend in North Carolina and charged with misdemeanor assault
The teams top draft pick was arshyrested Sunday and charged after alshylegedly failing to obey a restraining order filed against him by Chiquita Bryant police said Bryant is Walshylaces ex-girlfriend and mother of his son Ishmiel according to police
Bulls streak broken The Chicashygo Bulls 44-game regular-season home winning streak ended Monday as the team they embarrassed just four nights earlier the Charlotte Hornets rallied for a 98-97 victory
The Bulls hadnt lost at the Unitshyed Center since March 24 1995 mdash Michael Jordans first home game after coming out of retirement Jorshydan had 40 points and 11 rebounds Monday but missed a tip-in in the closing seconds
Nomo allows no runs Hideo Nomo the 1995 NL rookie of the year pitched a three-hitter Monday in the Dodgers home opener and Los Angeles beat Tom Glavine and the Atlanta Braves 1-0
Nomo (1-1) struck out six walked five and did not allow a runner past second base until the ninth in a game played before a sellout crowd
Club only has four indoor courts Sanderson was one of the players who had to endure a wait until she- and Lord could retake the court
It was pretty hard because I was up 6-0 4-1 Sanderson said It was deuce and I didnt really like stopping in the middle of a game When I got [to Chapel Hill] I didnt play first onmdashI had to wait for a couple hours It was kind of hard she came on and started playing really really well
Junior Diana Spadea outlasted Notre Dames Wendy Grabtreeat the third singles slot 7-5 7-6 while jushynior Wendy Fix took little time to earn her singles point as she dropped just one game to Molly Gavin 6-0 6-1
Despite the change of courts Duke did not seem to be bothered much by the transition
I think that the team put all the transitions Out oftheir minds OSullishyvan said We just continued to focus once we got to Chapel Hill to the indoor club just to focus on our matches and really pull through Thats what we ended up doing
In fact the rain has been a factor in several ofthe Blue Devils last few conshytests so moving indoors was not unshyusual for the players
I think our team liked [moving indoors] because weve had to play our last four matches indoors Sanderson said That means we
kind of had the adshyvantage in that asshypect
Freshman Vanesshysa Webb who is ranked second nashytionally fell at No 1 singles to Notre Dames 20th-ranked Jennifer Hall 3-6 6-4 6-3 while the Fighting Irishs Marisa Velasco deshyfeated sophomore Lushyanne Spadea 6-3 6-0
The Blue Devils took a 4-2 lead into the doubles competishytion needing just one additional point to seshycure their victory OshySullivan and Luanne Spadea finished off Notre Dame at the second doubles posishytion to clinch the 5-2 win for Duke_
Luanne and I pretshyty much dominated that match from the beginning OSullivan said We were very pumped up we were very into it and we played well today We reshyally took advantage of the situationmdash those bull two girls werent volleying at their best today and we were playing smart doubles
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Kristin Sanderson sets up for a shot during her No 2 singles win In Mondays match against Notre Dame
We just kept going for it and we made our shots so it ended up being a pretty easy second set for us
The Blue Devils take on 16th-ranked South Carolina at the Duke Tennis Stadium at 2 pm this aftershynoon for their final home match of the
Mens tennis blasts past Maryland UVa By DAVE BERGER
The lOth-ranked mens tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charshylottesville Va
The Blue Devils (14-4 5-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confershyence) entered the weekshyend on a roll having knocked off three top-30 teams in the previous two weeks They battled poor weather in topping Virshyginia 5-2 on Saturday then shut out Maryland 7-0 on Sunday
Virginia is a good team and the bad weather kind of served as an equalizer Rob Chess but our guys fought really hard head coach Jay Lapidus said
Against the Cavaliers (8-9 3-3 in the ACC) Duke overcame difficult conshyditions and a foot injury to senior Peter Ayers Senior Rob Chess ranked No 11 nationally led the charge with a come-from-behind victory over Edwin Lewis at No 1 singles 2-6 6-3 6-4
At No 2 and No 3 singles however the Blue Devils dug themselves into a hole Freshman Dmitry Muzyka was upset at No 2 by Virginias Scott Lebovitz 6-4 3-6 7-6 and at No 3 jushynior Sven Koehler fell to Hyon Yoo in straight sets 6-2 6-2
But the final three singles matches gave Duke the lead for good At No 4 singles junior Adam Gusky defeated Bear-Schofield 6-3 7-6 while at No 5 singles freshman Jordan Wile beat Justin Smith 6-4 5-7 6-0 Senior Jorshydan Murrays three-settriumph at No
6 sealed the Blue Devils win
It was a good team efshyfort head coach Jay Lapidus said Jordan Wile played very wellmdashJustin Smith is a really good playshyer
Duke added an extra point by takingtwo out of the three doubles matches Muzyka and Koehler fell to Lewis and Yoo at No 1 doubles but the No 2 and
No 3 doubles teams of ChessGusky and MurrayWile knocked off their opshyponents 8-4 and 8-5 respectively In Sundays match the Blue Devils had no problem with Maryland Chess cruised by Terry Schultz at No 1 singles 6-2 6-1 and at No 2 Koehler clubbed Karim Emara^ 6-1 6-1 The onslaught continued at the next three levels even though Duke used players who competed at differshyent flights from their usual levels Wile and Murray won straight-set matches at No 3 and No 4 singles and at No 5 sophomore Ramin Pejan playing in just his third dual
match of the season demolished Jeff Wang 6-0 6-1 Maryland defaulted at No 6 and the Blue Devils swept the doubles competition to win 7-0
In a pleasant development for Duke the ChessGusky team at No 2 doubles and MurrayWile pair at No 3 doubles enjoyed a successful weekend Ayers absence forced Lapidus to employ different pairs than usual but the switch worked well
Weve been doing a lot better at third doubles and we had to juggle the lineup a little but they played well Lapidus said Theyre good players and were a versatile team There are a lot of different lineups that we can use and still do well
In addition to their match with Virshyginia the Blue Devils were supposed to play South Alabama Sunday in what would have been a rematch of last Thursdays 4-3 Duke victory But the weather prevented the Blue Devils from facing the Jaguars- who are tied with Duke for the nations No 10 rankshying
We would have liked to play them again Lapidus said It would have given us a chance for another good win
The Blue Devils return home for a 230 pm Thursday match with North Carolina and a Saturday contest against Clemson their final showing before the-ACC Tournament
THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRILS 1996
Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996 THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
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Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
Jbdquoon LauehHnCURRENTS | Q o m o n ^ ^
health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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PACE 6 bull CURRENTS Spotlight
4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Commercialism takes over ruins true Olympic spirit Imagine this scene in ancient Greece The guy who
unintentionally invented the marathon is running up his final hill His side awaits the message this brave soldier has carried with him for 26 miles His mouth opens and these magic words fall from his lips Just do it
I hope any Nike executives reading this column give me due credit when they steal the above scene and remake it into a commercial The famous shoe company is just one of thousands of companies who are participating in the Olympic fever thats hit the US Most of the corporations have paid insane amounts of money to declare themselves official Olympic sponsors If youre thirsty in Atlanta you better not like Pepsi because Coca-Cola is the offishycial drink of the Olympics Living in LA and you want to catch the opening ceremonies in person No problemmdashjust hop on a Delta jet the official airline ofthe Olympics If youre hungry at the Olympics grab a Big Mac at McDonaldsmdashthe Olympics official fast-food joint And lets not forget how you can pay for all of those Olympic souvenirsmdashwith your Visa card Ae only card accepted at the Atlanta Olympics
Tired of it all Wait theres more Sears has beshycome the official sponsor of the US womens basketshyball team Even the US Olympic volleyball team has its own sponsormdashsome company thats so unknown that I cant even remember it Kind of fitting because I dont think many people can name anyone on the volleyball teams But the best one is Hanesmdashthe offishycial briefs ofthe Olympics The company has Michael Jordan an athlete who is not even in the Olympics describing great Olympic moments
I guess it could be worse I mean Right Guard hasnt been named the official deodorant of the Olympics And Charmin has yet to be declared the official toilet paper of Olympic athletes Great I just handed out another idea Watch for the commershycials in JulymdashUse Charmin All the Olympic ath-
Spelling Bee John Seelke letes wipe with us
Olympic commercialism first became a big issue in 1992 when the US mens basketball team began using professional players instead of college players The Dream Team was sponsored by Reebok so every warm-up jersey and duffel bag with refershyences to the Dream Team also had the little Reebok symbol on it The only thing is that Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson two of the teams stars were sponsored by Nike Obviously Jordan and Johnson couldnt support both companies at one time So when the Americans were on the platform to accept their gold medals Jordan and Johnson were draped in the US flag covering the tiny Reebok on their warm-up jerseys
Can you think of a better way to show patriotism then have two of the greatest basketball players in the nation covered in the American flag Reebok was happymdashthey had Jordan and Johnson on the Dream Team Nike was happy since when the camera was on its two stars its competitors name was nowhere to be found Johnson and Jordan are happy since they get to make tons of money from Nike and get a gold medal in the Olympics Everyones happy
Except this disgruntled columnist The Olympics were originally created so that the worlds best amshyateur athletes could compete against one another Athletes like Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali first competed in the Olympics for the love oftheir sport The most famous Olympic team in American histoshyrymdashthe 1980 hockey teammdashdidnt have any professhysionals and it had no companies sponsoring it Part of that was because none of the players were fashymous so no one would buy anything from them Thats why the Olympics used to be so specialmdashit
was able to turn athletes that no one had heard of into instant stars The former unknown becomes the hero
Now with professionals and the pre-Olympic hype there will be very few unknowns on the Amershyican team come this July The draw that professionshyal athletes can attract has created another type of Olympic fervormdashthe fight for television rights Earlishyer this year NBC outbid CBS Fox ABC and PBS for the rights to broadcast not only the 1996 Summer Games but also both Summer and Winter Games from 2000-2006 By the way the games in the year 2000 are being held in Sydney Australia meaning it will be very rare to run live footage This from the geshyniuses who brought you the Triplecast the pay-per-view adventure that allowed real sports fans to catch the Olympic ping-pong match that wasnt being teleshyvised to everyone
The attraction of pre-Olympic endorsements only raises the question of the real reason some athletes decide to participate in the Olympics For some money isnt the issue For example some of the womens basketball team members gave up conshytracts worth over $200000 to play overseas for the chance to wear the red white and blue And of course there will be a few stories ofthe courageous Olympian who trained hours each day and paid her own way to the trials just for the chance to represent the USA
Those stories are around every year and they are the ones that capture our hearts Thats what the Olympics should stand formdashthe glory of the athlete and his triumphs The only gold should be found hanging around an athletes neck not in the hands of companies
John Seelke is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor of The Chronicle He can be seen walking around campus with the Nike swoosh tattooed on his forehead in support oftheir sponsorship of this sumshymers Olympic marathon
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
PAGES CURRENTS Cover story
In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
DANCING D A R E D E V I L S
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Sophomore John Fay adjusts to new position with B i P A D D I C ETEI I D A T U Klbdquo olaquo_] Ubdquo -t raquo -1 1 Ubdquor-bdquo i^U-- bdquon _ 11 _laquo A T ^laquoraquo E
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John Fay has already begun the practice of leaving his mark with the Duke mens lacrosse team The sophoshymore from Canton NY has made a huge impact on this years team curshyrently ranking second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 31 goals scored
However the way the other players and coaches beat on him in practice youd never know hes anything speshycial In a scrimmage last week Fay reshyceived the ball near the opposing goal Four sticks flew at him at once and he fell to the ground The coachs whistle
blew and he got up slowly before breaking into a run towards the action A few minutes later he fell again This time the coaches werent so lenient
Get up Fay the coaches screamed at him No special treatment here
When his side scored and the opposshying team took possession Fay hung back in what may have been his only chance to rest In a minute the ball returned to his side again and he scrambled after it Fay got the ball and was nearly mauled by his opponent but he still managed to pass it off Despite the long distance Fays pass was fast and right on target
He relaxed for just a momentmdashbut
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Sophomore John Fay is second in the ACC in scoring
soon found this to be a big mistake
Keep your man occupied Fay you gotta move assisshytant coach Steve Finnell called out
Fay responded with a move inshyside as he caught a pass despite being surrounded by defenders Quickly he tossed it into the goal for a score
Nice handle
Johnny This comment seemed to be an unshy
derstatement as Fay was catching and holding onto passes when he should have been worried about making it unshyinjured to his next game After pracshytice head coach Mike Pressler became much more complimentary toward Faymdashnot within his earshot of course
When asked about Fays perforshymance Pressler immediately spouted off praises of his sophomore star Pressler chose to move Fay from midfield to atshytack this year When asked about this decision he cited Fays natural talent
John has a gift Pressler said Hes a goal-scorer Scorers arent made theyre born Hes very slick around the net He has the ability to catch the ball get around the net and deposit it
One reason Fay did not move to atshytack until this season is that the Blue Devils lost their top scorer from last year according to Pressler The other reason is that Fay is left handed From the right side of the field Pressler exshyplained a team needs a southpaw to create more scoring opportunities
Yet despite high praises from his coach Fay refuses to take the credit for his success When he was asked how he has done so well this season he named everything and everyone but himself
The whole teams been playing
well really moving Fay said Ive been getting some good feeds from Gonnella and Heavey Ive had to try to score some goals and get open
Even though Fay is not willing to talk about his accomplishments he has played a major role in the Blue Devils contests this season At the same time however Fay knows that the competition will continue to chalshylenge lOth-ranked Duke
There are no easy games left Fay said We have to take one game at a time
Fay however should be ready for the challenge which the rest ofthe seashyson presents His work ethic sprouts from his intense high school and sumshymer work which has springboarded him to his successful lacrosse career Over the summer Fay plays box lacrosse in Canada He said that this indoor game helps him to improve his stick handling During high school he not only played lacrosse but also comshypeted in football and hockey the latter of which contributed to his current knack for scoring and conditioned him for play at the Division I level
Fays endless training and work ethic has paid off for the mens lacrosse team as he has converted goal after goal to help Duke gain its top)-10 national ranking and another shot at the NCAA Tournament
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APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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F R O M T H E E D I T O R 3
Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
A R T S P A C E 1 1
The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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From the editor CURRENTS bull PACE 3
A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
Jbdquoon LauehHnCURRENTS | Q o m o n ^ ^
health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
Gothic view CURRENTS-PAGE 5
according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY APRIL 9 1996
APRILS FEST96
APRILFEST96 Dukes Annual Month-Long Celebration of Artistic Creation and Performance by Students Faculty Staff and Guest Artists
THOSE WOMEN by Nor Hall April 11-13 18-20 at 800 pm April 14 and 21 at 200 pm Sheafer Laboratory Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Those Women is based on a book by Nor Hall which explores women dealing with transitions The setting is a group of modern women playing card games Their experiences expressed through text movement and vocals highlight a womans struggle through socialgroup energy to follow her individual path Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students with valid ID Ails Discovery Card is valid for this event
This Week bullApril 9 1996 ON TAP1 is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of lhe Arts with funding provided by participating arts presenters and support from Ihe Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS April 11-13 at 800 pm April 14 at 300 pm Reynolds Industries Theater Bryan Center West Campus
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas chronicles the surprising true story of a Texan televangelists crusade to close down the states last surviving brothel The events leading to the close of the Chicken Ranch are told in musical styles ranging from rock to blues-and of course country The performance will also run the weekend of April 18-20 and May 10-11 General admission price is $7 Students pay $6 you may use your Flex account
SPRING ORATORIO Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra Sunday April 14 at 300 pm Duke Chapel West Campus
Join Dukes Chapel Choir and orchestra conducted by Rodney Wynkoop for an inspiring afternoon of music in the Chapel- the annual spring oratorio performance Sundays program will feature two works Gloria by French composer Francis Poulenc and Dona Noblis Pacem by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Tickets are $10 general admission $3 for Duke students with ID They can be purchased in advance from the Box Office or on the day of the performance
CIOMPI QUARTET Saturday April 13 at 800 pm Nelson Music Room East Duke Building East Campus
The enchanting soprano Susan Dunn joins the Ciompi Quartet for a performance of Respighis beautiful II tramonto Dunn former leading soprano of the worlds stages is now a member of the faculty of Duke University The Quartet also performs works by Schubert and Brahms Admission is $12 general and FREE to Duke students
ARK DANCES Thursday April 11-Saturday April 13 at 800 pm The Ark Dance Studio East Campus
Dance explodes into a spectrum of styles Duke students and faculty perform jazz modern ballet African and more The Duke Modem Repertory Ensemble makes an appearance as well as the African dance class The latter will not perform on Thursday night An Irish step-dance is among the three solo works Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students Come early because space for this popular event fills up fast
MAGNIFY THE LORD THE GOSPEL BOMB Sunday April 14 at 330 pm Page Auditorium West Campus
Duke Universitys Modem Black Mass Choir joins the voices of members from varying ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds to celebrate the tradition of African-American spiritual music Expect an uplifting feeling and a downright fun performance Admission is FREE a reception open to the public will follow
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Duke University Museum of Art
EVERY THURSDAY FROM 5-8 PM SPECIAL PROGRAMS BEGIN AT 630 PM FREE HORS DOEUVRES AND CASH BAR Hois doames provided courtesy of George Baktsias ofParizade in Durham
Gallery Talk Alex Harris photographer Upper Foyer Gallery 630 pm Free
Gallery Tour Student curators of Fractured Fairy Tales Main Gallery 630 pm Free
Dance Demonstrations Swing Lindy Cajun and others North Gallery 630 pm $3 $2 Students and Friends
Exhibitions Open Friday April 12
Fractured Fairy Tales Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration Through May 25 Main Gallery
Resistance and Rescue Denmarks Response to the Holocaust Through May 25 North Gallery
Red White and Blue and Qod Bless You A Portrait of Northern New Mexico Photographs by Alex Harris Through May 25 Upper Foyer Gallery
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Currents editor Russ Freyman discusses magazine journalism and his prospects for the future in an essay commemorating his last issue of the year and his four years atThe Chronicle
G O T H I C V I E W 4
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
C O V E R S T O R Y 8
Coach of recent NCAA national champion UCLA Jim Harrick is one of many college coaches who feel intense pressure to win graduate their players be a role modelmdashand more
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The rhythmically gifted dance troupe STOMP came to Duke for three performances last week It was just another venue in which they wowed audiences w i th their almost indescribable antics
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A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
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Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad is a member of the growing class of twenty-somethings who have no medical insurance Its not just a Generation X problemmdashhospitals are troubled by it as well
S P O T L I G H T 6 Twelve freshmen had an experience unlike any other freshmen this yearmdash they were part of the cross-sectional housing exper iment in Epworth dormitory Hear their story
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A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
PACE 4 CURRENTS
Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
poundve poundiampetampwq-
Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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A FAREWELL TO CURRENTS The editor looks at the future oi the magazine and Uie
m_4asgt summer I lived in the Foggy Bottom district of Washington DC across the street from George Washington University And every day I walked down a crowded humid 23rd Street through Washington Circle and then onto 24th finally arriving at a cubicle atthe office of Governing magazine where I served as an editorial assistant learning the ins and outs of magazine writing editing and publishing
Bhatts piece in this issue on North Carolinas medically uninsured in which he makes someshything of a breakthough talking about a policy-oriented topic by telling stories of people and places Dave Berger and Leslie Deak take a similar approach in discussing pressure in the college coaching ranks and the freshman cross-sectional living experience respectively
I tell these details of my summer vacation not only because ofthe influence they had on my ability to improve Currents this year but also because during that 12-block walk I passed the same homeless man on the corner of G Street and 23rd every day sitting on a short brick wall next to a clear bowl contain-
The relationship to the Parnell aneedote lies in the fuel thai the
vast majority oi the Uuhe community probably does not
recognize ihe improvements or even the changes
ing some change Wemdashthat is my roomates and Imdashknew the man as Parnell and each time our paths crossed he greeted us with a Hello how ya doing perhaps while glancshying up from his copy of The Washington Post He appeared to eat regularly and more imshyportantly despite all of our interactionsmdashand the glaring presence of that bowlmdashhe never asked us for money
Near the end of the summer I was walking back to the apartment with a high school friend who roomed with us when the thought crossed my mind that I wanted to do something for Parnellmdashmaybe give him some money My friend asked me Well what if hes not there
Then Im not sure if Ill leave anything Why my friend asked Because I want him to know that I gave it to
him I replied which prompted a short debate My friend said that a more generous person would leave the money for Parnell regardless of whether he was sitting on the corner The mere act of giving the cash should be satisfaction enough the good deed should stand on its own
I understood this And even though I threw in the wrinkle What if 1 leave the money for him and it gets stolen before he comes back I left Parnell a $5 bill thus affirming the liberal-minded notion that a good deed need not be recognizedmdashthe act itself should be enough
cmlthough 1 do not think of my work with Currents as a good deed per se I did make what I feel to be definitive improvements to the magazine The relationship to the Parnell anecshydote lies in the fact that the vast majority ofthe Duke community probably does not recognize
the improvement or even the changes noneshytheless 1 am content with the job I have done and the results that I have produced
Perhaps what has taught me mostmdashsorry if this is starting to sound like an acceptance speechmdashhas been my constant perusal of mashyjor magazines The New York Times Magashy
zine Rolling Stone Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly are some of my favorshyites and are especially good learning tools Even Governing whichmdashnot to brag (okay to brag)mdashwas reshycently nominated for Magazine of the Year was and continshyues to be a great learnshy
ing device What I gleaned from my study of such magashy
zines was affirmed during an interview with Clay Felker a Duke grad and in many ways the father of American magazine journalism As an editor Felker employed a style called new journalism another label for literary journalshyism According to Felker his purpose in assignshying and editing stories during the 1950s and on through the early 80s was to achieve the classhysic English literary techniques of narrative strucshyture dialogue characterization scene setting Above all scene setting
Although I never stated my own goals in such lofty terms this was exactly the type of writing I sought to instill in my writers and editors It was the style I attempted to employ in writing the profile of Felker by deshyscribing the beautiful artwork tremendous fireplace and for those who read the piece that awesome red-carpeted spiral staircase that led down into the living room of his seventh-floor New York City pentshyhouse Literary journalshyism is the same style that perhaps was best emulated this year in a feature on The Coffeehousemdashwhich along with the Felker piece appeared in the January editionmdash as well as a piece on Honeys
W h
tmnd for the most part other writers and editors achieved it For example read Sanjay
here do I go from here One would think that spending a total of approximately 3350 hours (yes I broke out the calculator) at The Chronicle during the last four years workshying at summer internships working hard in classes and thinking about journalism as much as I do that a job would not be incredibly difficult for me to come by But the journalism market is a tough nut to crack and right about now I sure could use a sledgehammer
As for the future of Currents Jeca Taudte who is currently studying in France will take over next year She served as associate editor of the magazine last semester as I did during my sophomore year My hope for her is that she will break out of the mold of most previous editors that is break out of the mold by keeping the mold Currents has gone through about as many changes in the last few years as Bob Dole has gone through abortion stances
While 1 have made some changes myself they seemed to be with in the construct set by last years editor Roger Madoff More than anyshything I wanted this year to provide some stabilshyity for the magazine by helping to create a production technique that had the ability to withstand the test of time Although all editors bring their own unique editing style to a publishycation I hope that Jeca will honor the construct that Roger and I have set
This years volume is one I will remember fondly perhaps because if nothing else I have attempted to bring Currents to a new level Playwright August Strindberg captured my feelshyings well in the 19th century when he wrote the introduction to Miss Julie He said of the
Currents has gone through about as ninny ehanges in the Inst fetvyeaiS its
Boh Hole hits gone through abortion stances
somewhat experimental form he employed If it fails there is surely time enough for another I can think of no better sentiment with which to enter the world of magazine journalism Now all I need is a job
mdashRuss Freyman
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Gothic view
DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
Continued on page 14
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By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
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Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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DEALING WITH THE U N I N S U R E D Generation Xere are a disproportionate component of NCe uninsuredmdashand hospitals are having a tough time coping
Stephanie Grant a 24-year old UNC grad works
a job that does not provide her medical
insurance if a medical catastrophe should hit
the Puke emergency room would be one of her only
recourses KranbuhlCUR RENTS
By Sanjay Bhatt
Altera longdayatwork in Chapel HillStephanie Grant stretches out on the Indian tapestry-covered garage-sale couch in her eclecticliving room The concept of rush hour is still something to which she is acclimating herself helped by a cache of favorite tapes in her car
The 24-year old redhead graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill two years ago with a bachelors degree in history Like a number of college graduates she made the post-graduation pilgrimage to Europe and still fantasizes about living the good life in Prague
But much to her chagrin finding a full-time job in the United States was more of a challenge than she had originally imagined This seems often to be the case for recent college graduates who decide to defer applying to professional or graduate schools
Ayear after wearing a number of hats thatdid not fit for one reason or another Grant now is enthusiastically working a part-time job as an office manager for a small music marketing firm in Chapel Hil l despite the fact that she often spends up to 35 hours a week in theoffice They do this so they dont have togive you [health] benefits she says wryly
Some of Grants friends have been luckier Most of my friends have ended up working for the state as teachers which means they receive health insurance coverage through the state employees health plan she explains
But Grant says that for many graduates today the reality is harsh Those of us who were liberal arts majors our plans are up in the air and we dont have health insurshyance she says
Annually about 14 million North Carolinians lack health insurance because they do notqualifyforpublic aid and cannot get private insurance for various reasons cost
Sanjay Bhatt a Trinity senior is Medical Center editor of The Chronicle His last story for the magashyzine was on the Levine Science Research Center
being lhe most common reason cited About 61 percentof them areunderthe age of 35about 40 percent of the states uninsured range in age from 18 to 34 Nationally 55 percent of the estimated 40 million uninsured are adults under the age of 30 In addition the uninsured are disproportionately non-white
If Grant would not think twice about buying auto insurancemdashaside from the fact that it is required by state lawmdashwhy would she risk not owning health insurance
Because I havent needed to Grant says matter-of-factly Thaf s a lame answer but she pauses thoughtshyfully right now health care is not a priority because I am in good health
This attitude common among many young adults conceals a harsher realitymdashnot being able to pay the premiums that health insurance companies charge Grant
says her first priority is paying her rent on time
I wanttoget health insurance she says Whenlgetachunkof change so to speak I willprobably seriously lookintogetting health insurance but I canshynot afford a serious emergency now
The emergency room like it or not is indeed where most uninsured people go when they need health care whether for chronic health probshylems or moreoften in the case of people like Grant for sudden inshyjuries
My biggest worry would be some sort of random accident she says and pausing adds if something happened to me that I had no control over
A r r e s t i n g t h e Robin Hood effect
Control is a key concept for hospitals as well It is precisely what Duke Hospital for instance is losing as the public and prishyvate reimbursement systems undergo change WhileRepub-lican-proposed cutshybacks in public proshygrams like Medicaid (which serves the poor) and Medicare (which serves the blind disshyabled and elderly)
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health-care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the middle classs income causing more and more people to forfeit their coverage
Soon enough they end up in emergency rooms beshycause they have no other route to gain access to the health system without paying fees up front As part of its mission Duke provides care to these persons knowing it wil l not be reimbursed For 1995 30 percent of Dukes hospital charges remained uncompensated a figure that includes losses due to contractual adjustments with insurers
Hospitals have historically been able to recover the cost by charging others more explains William Done in the Medical Centers chief financial officer and vice chancellorforadministrationThisshifting of costs onto the rich orcost-shifting as it istermed made up about one-third of the hospital bill for a full-paying patient in 1993
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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according to Blue Cross Blue Shield But hospitals like Duke are becoming
unable to shift costs because of fiscal presshysures from government and managed care insurers to reduce its charges for services
Says Donelan At some point a finite limit to how much charity care we can provide is reached
Though the surplus revenue from prishyvate insurers is steadily diminishing the hospital has been able to continue providshying uncompensated care because of other funding sources
[The Hospital has] been able to do reasonably wel I with investment income though operating income has dropped considerably Donelan reports Weve been riding a bull market You dont want to rely on investment income as a way of prudently managing hospital [finances]
He adds This is where non-reimshybursement is having an effect on hospital income Which perhaps explains whythe Hospitals net income for 1995 was $321 million a little less than half the hospitals peak net income in 1992 of $618 million Part of this decrease is due to a change in accounting standards that all non-profits were required to adopt during the period
While all hospitals in the state are havshying to deal with the cost-shift issue Duke could feel more than just a pinch Duke has nobody to turn to At the same time Duke is not going to turn away patients says Paul Vick director of government relations for the University
Ifs a very big problem agrees Ralph Snyderman chancellor for health affairs
and chief executive officer of the Duke Health System Ifs a problem that could be a much bigger problem just because of the nature of this institution We have been akin toa public hospital even though were a private hospital We have not turned people away he says
As community hospitals feel the presshysures of managed care they start decreasshying theirservicesforexpensive kinds of care such as high intensity neo-natal nursery or they limit the number of beds for high intensity costly services So when they get full the patients get transferred to Duke So our cost of non-reimbursed care has to go up and were beginning to see this alshyready Snyderman explains
Since 1992 Dukes expenditures for indigent care have increased by nearly 74 percent while its uncompensated share of Medicaidcosts has risen 65 percent Meanshywhile since 1993 UNCs hospital has decreased its expenditures on the indigent
At the same time managed care does not appeartobe lowering health-care costs or insuring more people in North Carolina causing many to ask What are we doshying
Evelyn Hawthorne director of governshyment relations for the North Carolina Hosshypital Association attempts toexplainMan-aged care is not something youre either for or against she says Ifs a market reality and health-care systems have to be able to deal with the new reality
As most twenty-somethings know by now reality can bite The inability of the uninsured populationmdashyoung working
class adults are among its fastest growing groupmdashto gain proper access to health systems and hospitals eroding power to shift costs raises serious concerns about managed care and whether Raleigh-Durhammdashthe most competitive managed care market in the statemdashcan sustain a long-standing invisible safety net
What happened Managedcare health
plans began to prolifershyate in North Carolina after 1989 in response to the cry for cost conshytainment The number of state-licensed health maintenance organiza-tions(HMOs) has grown fromthreein1989to27 as of April 1996 with another dozen applicashytions pending
Sensingthedramatic D r R a l P h
changes to come Duke Hospital began a major restructuring proshygram in April 1994 to ensure itself a place in the emerging managed care marketshyplace The way the health-care system is changi ng we need to be ascost-effective as we can while continuing to provide supeshyrior quality Michael Israel chief operatshying officer of Duke Hospital told The Chronicle in March 1994
Tothatend the Hospital hasdownsized its workforce by 1500 full-time positions has bought more than 60 local primary
care practices and is implementing a plan to reduce the number of hospital beds by 32 percent during the next several years redirecting those resources toward outpashytient surgery and primary care By altering its facilities to serve outpatient health-care needs Duke hopes to compete with reshy
gional hospitalsforalim-ited pool of insured pashytients while meeting its comm itment to research and education
Another creative way in which Duke has preshypared itself to be comshypetitive in the marketshyplace is to become a health insurance comshypany itself Duke along with New York Lifesub-sidiary Sanus has formed its own HMOmdash WellPath Community Health Plansmdashto com-petewith other managed care plans in the region
and increase its shrinking revenues Thefeeling I believe throughout most
ofthe Medical Center is that we havea real opportunity based on the modelsthat weve developed to become the premier acashydemic health center in the 21st century said Snyderman at the Board of Trustees meeting last December
Snyderman who during the 1993 health-care debate supported the prinshyciples of choice universal coverage and
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
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Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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4 outiqcte faeAAwuztt yean Twelve freshmen embarked on a journey like none oftheir peersmdashthey lived in Epworth
By Leslie Deak
Photos by Jason Laughlin
The chandeliers in the front hallway are the first thing you notice They casta warm incandescentglowunlike the stale yellow fluorescents you find in other campus dormitories Your eyes wander to the right where there is a framed tapestry on the wall All the doors are open The harsh white walls are softened by periwinkle blue highlights below the chair line Its easy to see why Epworth residents call this building home
The residential life debates of recent years left resishydents of Epworth dormitory worried about the future of their living group So they-mdashalong with the help of a few deansmdashintsituted a small-scale experiment admitting freshman for the first time For the most part the experishyment has worked well almost all of the original 12 freshman residents say theyve had a good year in Epworth
What follows is a look into the lives of some of the people involved in the project At the very least one can describe each of these individuals as strong personalishyties each with a unique take on life in Epworth
Freshman Austin Chang knows fewer freshmen than most ofhis classmates But that doesnt bother him at all As a resident of Epworth a cross-sectional living group located on East Campus Chang values the interaction hes had with upperclassmen during the year
I like the fact that there are upperclassmen here as opposed to a homogeneous dorm he explains Its very small basically everyones door is open Its like a big family The family atmosphere is evident as you walkdown the halls Everyones door is extensively decorated some with artwork and magashyzine clippings others with bottles of iced tea vodka wi ne and beer
Chang was one of ahandful of incoming freshmen who applied the summer before matriculation to live in Epworth during theirfirst year His decishysion to live there resulted from a positive experience he had in a similar setting in his home state Chang spent the last two years of high school atthe Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton Texas where junshyiors and seniors lived in dorms at the University of North Texas My first year most ofthe stuff I learned was from the seniors he says pausing a moment for reflection And as a senior I really enjoyed teachingthe juniors I was kind of alarmed
Leslie Deak a Trinity sophomore is assoshyciate University editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associshyate photography editor of Currents
seemed like it isolated one class from all the rest -As a resident of the only portion of East that is not all
freshmen Chang says that he still does not support the all-freshshyman campus 1 havent met any tudents that are 100 percent
In te rms of both its structure and its contents Epworth is something of
an enigma on East Campus
by the all-freshman East plan [at Duke] because it residents are leaving Epworth next year I dont think thatanyaredisappointedlthinkthateveryoneherelikes experiencingdifferentthingsChangexplainsanoteof concern in his voice
ldontthinkthattheirleavingisabadthingthatthey had a bad experience I have a concern that the adminshyistration will see [the six students leaving] as negative I
behind it If it is Dukes goal to thinkirstheverynatureofpeoplewholiveheretowant make the freshman experience to experience as many different things as possible and the best itcanbetheadministra- they may come back [to Epworth] if they find that they
liked it better at home Chang says that unfortunately not many freshrt7en
are aware of Epworth and the opportunities it affords to all kinds of students despite its location o i East Campus Most of the people who know abffut it do end up here hanging out and stuff he ays We dont actively try to make our name known Its a passive friendliness and they get suckee in
Austin Chang
tion should ask the freshmen what they want
Comparing his experiences in Epworth to his peersexperishyences in freshman dorms is difficultdeclaresChang That sort of thing is hard to talk about he says Most of my friendsarentfreshmenlknow all the freshman in Epworth but not too many outside
For the most part his experishyence in Epworth has lived up to his expectations Although the general atmosphere ofthe dorm is one that he says he envisioned before his arrival Chang did not
anticipate every peculiarity that he would encounter You never expect specifics Epworth doesnt have a particular tone ifs a collection of individuals Every person adds to the flavor he says brightly
But not every student is completely happy with the overall flavorof Epworth Six of the original 12 freshman
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Eve Eisenberg stands on the seond floor porch of Epworth peering over the edge vhile a smirk crawls across herface Wecanseea lotrfthingsfrom uphere says the Trinity freshman So w sit up here a lot But i f s kind of known as the smokef-porch so sometimes the non-smokers feel intimidate
Byherwillingenthusiam it isevidentthat Eisenberg loves living in Epworth-she allows that adoration to spill out into her opiniois oi East Campus in general
I think the uppercassmen should be pretty pissed about not being abt to live on East Eisenberg says forcefully On Wet youre right close to where you
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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Eve Eisenberg l t1 g e s o n t h e Epworth porch (above) while
Aaron Miller hangs vt j n t h e c o m m o n s r o o m gt T h e ^ 0 a r e m e m bers of the 12-persoi e s h m a n C | a s s j n t h e experimental cross-
sectional ing group on East Campus
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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have to do all your work It takes a few minutes on the bus to gettoand from East but ifs a much nicer atmosphere than West Youre away from the hustle and bustle and the politics Ifs just a much nicer place to live
This definite detachment from the daily grind is one of the reasons Eisenberg has chosen to remain a resishydent of Epworth next year as a sophoshymore She is one of the six freshmen who have been residents of Epworth since the beginning of the fall semester and will continue to reside there next year
Eisenberg explains how her taste of cross-sectional experience during four years of boarding school in Kent Conshynecticut left her hungry for more 1 never got to live in [a freshman dorm] but I saw how itfragmented the classes When 1 found out that (East Campus at Duke] was going to be all freshmen and be kind of separated that kind of threw me for a loop she explains I didnt like the idea at all and I still dont
Eisenberg pondered heroptions but when she received Epworthsbrochure in the mail she says she was hooked Like her freshman year at Duke she says her freshman year at boarding school would have been an entirely different experience had she not had the beneficial interaction with uppershyclassmen After I read about Epworths living group it sounded like a great
place to live like the place I would have chosen for myself after a while she explains
And Eisenberg seems to have fit in well While talking about the renovashytions scheduled for this summer she participates in friendly banter with resishydents who wal k past Thats not one of ours she says referring to a girl trotshyting past the front porch in clogs Comshyments like that peppered throughout her conversations indicate the familial nature of the dorm
In Eisenbergs opinion Epworths biggest selling point sight unseen is the introductory brochure I got a genshyeral feel for the people from the light teasing tone of the brochure It was obvious that the people who had done it loved their living group and thought it was a better alternative to the freshshyman living groups on East
Eisenbergs easygoing manner with the upperclassmen is indicative of her experience with them in the dorm 1 guess 1 got my best idea of that in [the University Writing Course] Of course if you get to UWC 10 minutes early you get all the gossip before the teacher comes into the room I heard all the confusion that [other freshmen) were in and I think I was extremely lucky as were all the Epworth freshmen Atthe beginning you want someone there to explain all the easy stuff
Freshman Advisory Counselors and Resident Advisors dont always make
the grade Eisenberg says Theyre not always around and you may not feel comfortable with them We have 40-odd people to get help from when you want to know When do you call ACES and Is it normal for people who have never lived away from home before to call home three times a week
She smiles and adds This dorm is like a bigfamily while putting her arm around Jason Fagg Epworths co-president who is sitting beside her Were all really active and involved with each other
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The purple walls of Epworths Purple Parlor were probably only a component of Aaron Millersshock upon realizing he was to experience cross-sectional living during his freshman year I didnt know what to expect Miller says recalling his initial reaction to the assignment afar cry from the traditional freshman dorm he had been expecting
When Miller applied to be a resishydent of Epworth he didnt realize acshyceptance was binding He thought by applying he would allow himself one more housing option from which to choose I didnt know it was binding and I had no idea what Epworth was I was expecting to apply to live in Epworth and keep my choices open It wasnt a conscious decision by any means he says gruffly
The 12 freshmen that were assigned came from a pool of fifteen applicants last summer About 15 residents of Epworth traveled to Durham to pick through the applications and choose 12 freshmen For the most part were not a hugely selective group Our appl ication is more of a formalitymdasha lot of it had to do with creativity says co-president Fagg
While Epworths brochure which is sent to all matriculating freshmen atshytempted to portray an accurate image of Epworths atmosphere it was also deshysigned to encourage everyone to apply We didnt want to exclude people from applying Fagg says with polite emphashysis We wanted to show we could live
with all kinds of peoplemdashthafs kind of what were all about
Miller has chosen to move out of Epworth next year though he says that decision does not stem from a bad expeshyrience in the dorm My primary reason [for moving out] is that I want to live on West I dont want to be a sophomore on an all freshman campus I play rugby I havea jobin the Sanford Instituteon West Campusandlwanttobeabletocontinue all that he says unapologetically Im not leaving Epworth because ifs Epworth I think Ive had a good first year stay here but 1 want to live somewhere else
Eisenberg gives her own insight into Millers ordeal I think he has some close friends here she reflects pulling her legs up into a chair in the computer cluster Hes got lots of goals while hes here at Duke and he doesnt see Epworth as fitting into those goals
Fagg turns away from his monitor nodding his head I think thafs why hes stayed [for the entire year] Hes got some friends who are going to stay [next year] so he doesnt think badly of Epworth
Miller emphatically continues to asshysert that his year in Epworth has not been a bad one The influence ofthe upperclassmen has helped him a lot he says especially in the first confusing weeks of his col lege experience 1 was certainly not as clueless as the other freshmen at the beginning he says
But Miller seems to regret that he has not had the typical freshman experience at Duke What Ive had is nothing like what [most freshmen have] experienced Im ready for a change
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A Trinity junior Fagg believes that at some moments during last years resishydential debate Epworths fate did not look promising The residential colshylege program was not feasible at Duke with the way the dorms were set up and we didnt like the idea of an all freshman campus he contends
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
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basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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In the line of fire The pressure to perform in the college coaching ranks
may be unrivaled too often the pressure bears negatives
By Dave Berger When youre a purist and youre a high school coach youre looking at Xs and Os and
Charlie Parker was living a dream After serv- trying to figure out how your team can run plays rng as a mens basketball assistant coach for six and run a defense and beat another team and yearsattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia he thats coaching explains former Duke mens had earned the schools head coaching job During the 1995-96 season his second season as head coach his players were showing significant progress on the courtmdash the Trojans had beaten three ranked opposhynents and only halfway through league play had doubled their conference win total from the previous yearmdashand were performing well in school They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year
But this winter the great sense of hope that had seemingly become a part of Parker came crashing down to earth In early Febshyruary shortly before he was to take his team on a road trip USC athletic director Mike Garrett called the coach into his office Garrett stated that he had not seen enough growth in the program during Parkers year-and-a-half reign as head coach With that Garrett relieved Parker of his duties and said nothing more
He didnt explain it to me he didnt have any other logical reason Parker says I have not talked to him since and there is no administrator at the University that will talk with me
The athletic director made promises to players made promises to me that I was the coach and that I would be there for the duration oftheir college careers and that he was putting all his faith in me Then a few months later I was let go for no apparent reason
Parkers situation is representative ofthe turbulent state of college coaching a glamshyorous but unpredictable profession whose members toe a fine line between promishynence and unemployment While college coaching once emphasized teaching youngshysters lessons about sports and life it now involves relentless pressure from the media university administration and fans as wel many other new factors
and lost theyd fire him says Louisiana State University mens basketball head coach Dale Brown The only spokesman a coach has is victorymdashthats it Everything else that a sport should be made ofmdashteaching discipline self-
image direction motivation everythingmdash I think weve gotten away from that Everybody wants to make the almighty dollar and win the national championshyship and as a result I think our value system has been grossly decreased
In addition to financial concerns other considerations have weighed more heavily in the last decade than in previshyous years The publication of student-athlete graduation rates in recent years has escalated the pressure on coaches not only to build winning teams but also to ensure that their players gradushyate As a result coaches depend on their student athletes to succeed in the classshyroom Because ofthe enormous demands that varsity sports put on student athshyletes time and because of the tremenshydous pressure on student athletes to win excelling in both the academic and athshyletic realms presents an arduous task
You have national television with all this exposure Parker says you have young kids deciding to go early into the draft you have agents working against kids you have family members wanting for a star player to make it so they can get their rewards you have practices and the physical nature ofthe game
LSUs Dale Brown is one of many college coaches who have felt the
huge pressure to in short win as
Dave Berger a Trinity sophomore is assisshytant sports editor of The Chronicle
Photos come courtesy of the Sports informashytion Departments of Florida State University the University of Wisconsin Louisiana State University and the University of California at Los Angeles
basketball assistant coach Pete Gaudet Well that isnt coaching anymore Coaching has beshycome so much more what that means is the pressures of an unbelievable microscope
In recentyears with multi-million-dollartele-vision contracts making football and mens basshyketball a cash cow for universities pressure on coaches to win has increased exponentially Coaches who produce anything but immediate on-court success often receive a pink slip for their efforts
If Attila the Hun was coach and won hed keep his job If St Francis of Assisi was coach
And each of these issues creats an individual effect Parker demonstrates Is a tremendous amount of distractions for a oung man to be a student athlete Its very togh and in a lot of ways I find it almost impostble to do It takes a tremendous commitmerfby a young playermdash and particularly those tM may have some acashydemic deficiencies coring into a universitymdashto have great success I tm1 think people give our athletes enough creit for going through everyshything that they go trough and still being able to graduate Its a trmendous responsibility
Aside from tl w aY i n which pressure de-
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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tracts f rom student athletes acashydemic pursuits the physical and emot iona l wear-and-tear of an athshyletic season leave student athletes w i th l i t t le energy for their studies W h e n players struggle w i t h their s c h o o l w o r k coaches of ten take much o f t h e b lame
[Compet ing ] def in i te ly puts a strain on [schoo lwork ] says Danny Hur ley a senior guard on the Seton Hal l mens basketbal l team and brother of Duke a lumnus Bobby You re tak ing red-eyes home after the games and you re t rave l ing a round and it s tough to get wo rk done
I t s also tough to get wo rk done after you play a bad game because you just want to go and do anyth ing but that Early on in my col lege l i fe 1 cou ldn t separate my academics f rom my basketbal l
Poor academic per formance by student athletes can put coaches in j t rouble w i t h universi ty adininistra-tors a n d the media But i^hi le adshyministrators consider student athshyle tes a c a d e m i c success w h e n eva luat ing coaches they often put dol lars ahead of grades w h e n it comes to revenue-earning sports l ike footba l l and mens basketbal l Accord ing to former M ich igan head footbal l coach Gary Moel le r some a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a p p r e c i a t e h i g h graduat ion rates as long as their teams make money but ignore them w h e n the program falls in to the red
Televis ion has created so much of this because it gets to be a money th ing Moe l le r contends A d m i n shyistrative people w i l I ta lk graduat ion
result coaches need direct c o m m u shynicat ion w i t h administrators beshycause w i thou t clear guidel ines f rom thei r superiors many coaches reshymain uncertain about what they must accompl ish
There need to be def in i te de f in i shyt ions of what you re go ing to be measured i n Parker asserts Tel l me exact ly what you expect out o f m e mdash h o w many w ins how many losses what the graduation rate has to be h o w many speaking engageshyments I have to havemdashand tell me exact ly what I have to do to ma in -
tat ion w i t h the players and the Badshygers matched their on- f ie ld success w i th outstanding achievement in the classroom boasting a 30 team grade-point average and 10 Acashydemic A l l -B i g 10 honorees but short ly after the season ended U W administrators requested Launders resignation c la iming that the coach had fa i l ed to p r o v i d e a p roper amount of d isc ip l ine and soccer knowledge and that he d id not comshymand respect f rom his players
Wisconsin associate athlet ic d i shyrector Cheryl Marra w h o asked
In the end Launder persevered standing his g round deny ing the adminis t rat ion s c la ims and keepshying his pos i t ion Yet his s i tuat ion proved that in col legiate athlet ics even those coaches w h o w i n c h a m shypionships graduate their players and behave we l l do not necessari ly have job securi ty
As destruct ive as controversies such as Launders and Parkers are to a coachs pub l i c image they can be even tougher on the coachs fami ly l i fe Col lege coaches work extremely long hours and travel fre-
Tell me exactly what you expect of me and tell me exactly what I have to do to maintain my position says
USCs former head mens basketball coach Charlie Parker
ta in my pos i t ion Don t j us tsay W insomegames
and graduate your players You have to be more def in i te than that par t icu lar ly if my job is go ing to depend on i t he cont inues bitshyter ly I have to know exact ly what is go ing to mean success and what is go ing to mean fai lure and if thats not fu l l y exp la ined then you run into a si tuat ion l ike I have where
Launder to step d o w n stated that one year earlier the University had asked Launder to focus on giving his players m o r e d i s c i p l i n e a n d socce r knowledgeTheadministrationscom-plaint seems minor however when compared to Launders numerous acshycomplishments and accolades
The end decis ion comes d o w n to the student-athlete exper ience Marra explains You might say if
good public speakers does it put additional pressure on you Yeah it does says
Dukes Pete Gaudet
rates until one guy doesnt buy a seat and they lose 10 cents Thats what it really gets down to and thats where its so sadmdashif you keep the stadium f i l led then they l l listen about gradushyation rates But if theres an empty seat or theres a dol lar to be made on television or something else now they want that
Adminis t rators wan t to see their schools succeed in f inanc ia l a thshylet ic and academic areas but pershyhaps they do not always relay their e x p e c t a t i o n s to t he i r c o a c h e s Ach iev ing success in a n y o n e area presents an unenv iab le task for a coach and p roduc ing on al l levels can be next t o imposs ib le As a
you get f i red and don t really know why Tel l me and put it in wr i t i ng exact ly wo rd - f o r -wo rd what is exshypected of me Then if Im not pershyfo rm ing everything word - fo r -wo rd then maybe you have some just i f i shycat ion for let t ing me go
In some cases m iscommunica-t i o n be tween administrators and coaches creates problems in what seem l ike mode l programs The Univers i ty o f Wiscons in mens socshycer t eammdashwh ich has never suffered a losing season in head coach Jim Launder s 14 years at the h e l m mdash w o n its first nat ional championsh ip in 1995 and yet problems have surfaced Launder had a great repu-
[they] lose a lot student-athletes arent having a good exper ience you might say if theyre not do i ng we l l academica l ly theyre not havshying a good exper ience you might say i f they re not gett ing the teachshying and the coach ing and the reshyspect that they re not hav ing a good exper ience
W h i l e w i n n i n g the n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p p l ays a r o l e in admin is t ra to r s d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g the bot tom l ine is if you re not true to the student-athlete exper i shyence and the message that was sent out the year before then in my m ind the ends do not just i fy the means says Marra
quent ly so even w i t h o u t much j ob -related cont roversy they cannot d e v o t e adequa te t i m e to t he i r spouses and ch i l d ren W h e n they must handle cr i t ic ism on the j o b the pressure sometimes carries over to their h o m e l i fe
Coach ing puts a great strain on your l i fe Parker says The t ime c o m m i t m e n t is inc red ib le I have six kids so I have not been a l l owed to enjoy their g rowth and spend t ime w i t h them It hurts your relashyt ionsh ip w i t h your w i f e and you have to have a very understanding fam i l y
A l though job insecurity causes problems for coaches and their famishylies crit icism from the media and fans wh ich is extremely common can be at least as damaging if not more Because the media spotlight invariably focuses on the coach co l shylege coaches must learn to deal w i th cri t icism For the many coaches who lack the gift of publ ic speaking abi l shyity however interaction wi th the media causes endless headaches
Most coaches are not very good pub l i c speakers Gaudet contends They don t care about that and they re not real ly great w i t h be ing e x t e m p o r a n e o u s o r c a t c h y o r funny there are guys w h o are goshying to be put t ing their foot in their m o u t h and a l l o f that is conduc ted in the med ia Does it put add i t iona l pressure on you Yeah it does
Another ma jor source o f media and fan c r i t i c ism in co l lege athletshyics stems f rom exceed ing ly high exshypectat ions A t schools w i t h long trad itions of excel lence such as UCLA in mens basketball and Notre Dame in footbal l fans expect their team to
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
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Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
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And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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continue the tradit ion annually If the team produces anything less the fans demand the coachs head
You create a standard and then once you create [it] everybody exshypects you to stay at that standard explains Florida State mens basketshyba l l head c o a c h Pat Kennedy [Florida State head baseball coach] Mike Mart in goes to the Wor ld Series every year Hes created such a stanshydard that it could become a monster because now people want you simshyply to w in a national championship So I think its the standard the coaches create but once you create those standards then you live wi th those pressures
In addit ion to demanding annual titles many fansmdashespecially those in metropol itan areasmdashtreat student athshyletes as though they were professionshyals Such observers upset UCLA mens basketball head coach Jim Harrick who asks that his schools supporters remember the educational and deshyvelopmental purpose of collegiate athletics
I think people sometimes in our city cross the line between a co l shylege player and a professional player Harrick said W e have so many pro sports in our town that sometimes they think its easy and they can get on the college player too because they do it to the pro players all the t ime
But I wish they wou ld understand that these are young adolescents who are ful l- t ime students and ful l- t ime players and that theyre in a growing stage he continues [If crit ical fans would] just turn around and look in the mirror and see themselves as 18-to-22-year olds [they would ] realize that we re just educat ing young people
In the last decade coaches have experienced additional diff iculty edushycating their student athletes for reashysons other than fan cri t icism Specifishycally mens basketball and football players tendency to leave school early forthe professional ranks has changed the face of collegiate athletics in var i shyous ways First it has compromised collegiate athletics focus on educashy
t ion transforming mens basketball and football into virtual minor leagues Second it has limited coaches from maintaining stability in their programs When their student athletes turn pro early coaches either scramble to find replacements or watch their talent level drop
Its hard to bui ld your program LSUs Brown says Weve had five guys in a row that went out early and its hard to develop consistency in your program Its hard to get conti-
Unti l the 1972-73 season the Nashytional Collegiate Athletic Association banned mens basketball and footshyball players from competing during their freshman year Players could use the year to adjust to the rigors of college life without facing serious pressure and their coaches could more easily teach them about sports and life
Yet wi th freshmen competing the wor ld of high-profile college sports has changed dramat ical ly N o w
gifted youngster [Freshman eligibi l i ty] is one of
the greatest disservices weve done to athletes and it wou ld help a great deal if freshmen were inel igible Brown argues One the glamor that goes wi th it and all the recruiting wouldn t be as demonstrative Two it gives them a chance to academically and socially adjustmdashhe doesnt walk in here as a 17-year-old and think its the Second Coming of Christ
It just gives h im opportunities and it lessens pressure on a freshman star and it probably wou ld cut down on the volumes of stuff thats written on recruiting because hes not going to play the next year
Problems such as freshman eligishybi l i ty and players turning pro freshyquent ly plague major col legiate coaches but compared to the overall pressure that coaches face they repshyresent little more than a bl ip on a radar screen Coaches can win games graduate players and succeed in virshytually every manner possible but sometimes even apparent perfection does not exempt them from crit icism Coaches l i ke USCs Parker and Wisconsins Launder who excel in numerous facets of coaching see their jobs tossed around like worthless debris Even respected veterans like Brown who in his 24 years at LSU has won over400 games guided 13 teams to the NCAA Tournament andmdashper-
Florida States Mike Martin goes to the College World Series almost every year but the pressure to go back continues to mount
nuity and it hurts your recruiting If Im out recruiting and [former LSU star] Shaquille ONeal is my center nobody wants to come here Then he [leaves] and I cant get a player
Some top athletes such as Georshygia Tech mens basketball guard Stephon Marbury enter college exshypecting to stay only one or two years But 25 years ago such brief stints at the college level were impossible
highly-touted freshmen receive endshyless praise as high schoolers and enshyter college wi th tremendously high expectations Some stars succeed immediately and depart school early whi le others struggle dur ing their freshman year and crack under the overwhelming pressure In both sceshynarios the coach suffers either losing a talented player to the pros or having to repair the crushed confidence of a
haps most importantlymdashhas carried himself w i th class and taught his playshyers to do the same come under fire when their teams stumble It is this pressure-cooker-style environment that prompts Brown to offer young coaches an ominous last bit of adshyvice Wear a bulletproof vest and watch your backside along wi th your front
If only it were that easy
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
DANCING D A R E D E V I L S
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
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Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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STOMP keeps the audience guessing grooving gawking and GRINNING
DANCING D A R E D E V I L S
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mime For instance one of the most
memorable scenes involves the four male performers making rhythms with sinks full of dishes strapped about them By splashing the water slapping the sinks with wet rags and clinking the dishes a surprisingly musical beat emerges When the four decide to drain the sinks into buckets directly below them their stances are those of four men standshying side-by-side at urinals trying to relieve themselves while making a
By Janet Ridgell Photos by Jason Laughlin
Most people can probably reshymember being four years old and reveling in the ecstasy of banging on a few of moms pots and pans There are some however who never stop banging
STOMP a group of the most unshylikely sort of entertainers may be the salvation for rambunctious four-year olds everywhere For someone who is not at least vaguely familiar with the trash can people their performance techniques are just about inconceivable
STOMP is based on uniqueness creativity and brute force But to talk about them merely in those terms would be a reduction Stradshydling the line between dance and percussion music their style has brought the group worldwide recshyognition and fame
After countless television appearshyancesmdashincluding a performance on the Academy Awardsmdasha few comshymercials and a seemingly endless tour the members of STOMP should be about ready for a physical and mental breakdown by now But in their April 2 and 3 performances in Page Auditorium they didnt miss a beatmdashso to speak
The first performance on April 2 was an essay in both chaos and order The eight performers on this occasion Morris Anthony Michael Bove Darren Frazier Mindy Haywood Ameenah Kaplan Kimmarie Lynch Danielle Reddick and Henry Shead utilized push brooms matchboxes rubber tubes saws newspaper and various and sundry parts oftheir bodies to proshyduce the most complicated and catchy rhythms imaginable The set was an amalgam of scaffolding barrels hub caps and anything else large loud and made of metal Sand on the stage floor and chalk on the hands of the performers altered the texture of the sound of the perform-
janet Ridgell a Trinity sophoshymore is associate editor of Curshyrents and arts editor of The Chronicle
Jason Laughlin a Trinity senior is associate photogrpahy editor of Currents
Brooms take on a new perhaps unparalled significance in STOMPs performances Brushing against a sandy floor or banging against one another they create catchy beats
ers stomping feet and pounding hands By the time their 90-minute performance was complete the stage was a slimy yet gritty mess despite the fact that the performers used the brooms to sweep the stage at certain intervals
But the brooms had a much larger significancemdashto some extent they played the brooms STOMPs techshynique involves both brushing the brooms against the floor in varying strokes and clicking the broom handles against thefloor and against other handles Shaking matchboxes produces an altogether different beat Several artists simultaneously creating this sound engenders a veritable symphony the performshyers moving to their own rhythm
The performance also allows for several solos Kaplan a muscular black woman with short hair and an incredible stage presence graces the stage with her hand-clapping foot-stomping solo that both imshypressed the Page Auditorium audishy
ence and incorporated them into the performance Without saying a word Kaplan challenges the audishyence to imitate her complex clapshyping rhythms and with only facial expressions and hand gestures eishyther comshymends or condemns t h e audiences p e r f o r shymance
T h e s e w o r d l e s s gestures are what brings a large amount of humor to STOMPs show The performers interaction with one another their attempts to outdo each other and their generally goofy looks and guttural eruptions creates an atmosphere reminiscent of old sishylent comedies or even (cringe)
point of not looking at each other Much ado is made when one of the men urinates for far longer than the other three All of this is pershyformed without one word
Much ado is made when one actor urinates for far
longer than the other three All of this is performed
without one word
Perhaps the most impressive part of the show is when two of the performers tether themselves to the scaffolding high above the stage and swing back and forth banging on pots hub caps and signs with unbelievably precise and forceful
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
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debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
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r~ Duke University Program in Drama in co-production with Archipelago Theatre
present
~1
e btage Theater 95 wan a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
Those Women by Nor Hall Directed by Ellen Hemphill
at the Emma A Sheafer Theater April 1112 13 at 8pm and April 14 at 2pm April 1819 20 at 8pm and April 21 at 2pm
Post-performance discussion Friday April 19 with Nor Hall
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rhythms This seemingly dangerous feat however is
not the only exposition of daredevilism of the evening The performers frequently swing trash can lids and wooden staffs at each others heads or meet such blows with similar force without one miss It is like watching a kung fu movie except all the stunts were real
A group of Evel Kneivels a comedy troupe as well as dancers and pershycussionists and more STOMP brings the term variety show to a new level This singular media mix can only be owed to its eclectic and intrigushying group of performers and creators
1 needed to at the time says Kaplan about her decision to drop out of New York University during her sophomore year to join STOMP It was the right decision for me at the time She is standing under the harsh spotlights of the Louise Jones Brown Cal lery in the Bryan Center where the Duke University Unions Performing Arts Commitshytee is holding a reception for STOMP after their third and final performance in Page
The gallery is filled with the avant garde work of artist Cici Stevens A bundle of tree branches hangs from the ceiling over a large triangular pile of rusty nails which takes up most ofthe floor space In a corner two starched white shirts covered with dirt lay suspended over chicken wire Bowls and vases filled with shards of glass line the walls
just like everyone else at this gathering Kaplan regards the work with sishylence letting heropinions deteriorate to sidelong glances and squints she casts toward the pieces while she talks about other things
Speaking with Kaplan it is easy to forget who she ismdashthat just moments ago she was dazzling hunshydreds of people with her talent She is much smaller than her stage presence She asks as many quesshytions as she is asked Oh youre from Atlanta too What part she inquires Then What year are you Whats your major and What do you want to bemdasha teacher or a writer
When a sheepish student approaches her and asks for an autograph she scoffs then begrudg-ingly signs his program
With Brooke a three-year old who attended the last performance with her mom Kaplan is a
bit more judicious She bends down politely to sign the childs t-shirt as Brooke slowly calls out the letters of her name Thats the lady who was dancing Brookes mom reminds her The child nods indifferently
Kaplans modesty and discomfort with her position is understandable One must remember that she is only 21 years old If she had remained at NYU she would just now be a senior But
Ameenah Kaplan (below) shakes her head at a Duke audiences attempt to mimic her abilities Four of STOMPs male performers (above) drain their sinks
into buckets to the crowds uproarious pleasure
even though Kaplan is the self-proclaimed baby of the cast she has been with STOMP for longer than most of the current membersmdashtwo years And it shows She is one of the most visible and impressive of the regular performers garnering much applause from audiences and seeming to be the troupes leader Presumably she made the right decision in joining STOMP
Mario Torres approaches beer in hand proshyclaiming the negative points of drinking on an empty stomach right after a performance His small stature and peroxided bleached hair osshytensibly make him a visual standout among the cast members but he is not as recognizable as some of the others Of the three Page perforshymances heonlyperformed inonemdashhesaswing I kinda take up the slack when someones on
their day off he casually explains Like tonight I was him he says point-ingto Darren Frazier who is currently manning the refreshment table Torres too has been bitten by the modesty bug He inshysists that the group doesnt practice that much and when they do its usually on an individual basis Torres just chills mostly Certainly performing six or seven days a week is practice enough anyway
Like most of the curshyrent cast Torres has only been with STOMP for a few monthsmdashsince July in his case But although the group of artists who pershyformed at Duke have been together for a relatively short period of time they are only the latest incarshynation of an institution that goes back to 1991
In that year STOMP creators and directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas developed the group in Brighton England as an experishyment It was the culmishynation of their previous work together which dates back to 1981 when they were memshybers of Pookiesnackenburger a street band and Cliff Hanger a theater g r o u p Pookiesnackenburger was very successful in the UK cutting two alshybums and starring in a television series as well as touring extensively They also made a comshymercial for Heineken beer written and choshyreographed by Cresswell which feashytured band members rhythmical ly beating metal trash cans
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s
Cresswell and McNicholas created and parshyticipated in a string of performance groups and ensembles ultimately filming a series of video shortsmdashfeaturing the percussivedance stylings that would eventually be characterisshytic of STOMPmdashunder the tit le YesNo People
By the end of 1991 STOMP had made its
Artspace CURRENTS PAGE 13
debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
Are You Opinionated
Do you want to share your thoughts with 15000 people on a bi- or tri-weekly basis Then apply to be a regular columnist for The Chronicle Several spaces are available for both summer sessions and the fall semester Pick up your application from 301 Flowers today Completed applications along with your 750-word sample column are due to Ed Thomas box in 301 Flowers by Wednesday April 17 Questions Call 684-2663 Happy writing
M0NPAY M0NPAY
Are you funny Do your friends agree Then apply to be Monday Monday The Chronicles weekly humor columshynist All interested undergraduate students need to pick up an application in 301 Flowers and return it along with a 750-word sample column to Eds box by Wednesday April 17 Questions call Ed Thomas at 684-2663 Happy humoring m j ~
THECHRONICLE The Duke Communitys Daily Newspaper
r~ Duke University Program in Drama in co-production with Archipelago Theatre
present
~1
e btage Theater 95 wan a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
Those Women by Nor Hall Directed by Ellen Hemphill
at the Emma A Sheafer Theater April 1112 13 at 8pm and April 14 at 2pm April 1819 20 at 8pm and April 21 at 2pm
Post-performance discussion Friday April 19 with Nor Hall
I 1
L
General Admission $10 and $6 for students or Senior
Citizens Tickets are available at Page Box Office
(684-4444) or at the theater one hour before curtain
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Attention Students S P ECl A L
ffree Express Shuttle
To Duke Unjyersitv Two Bedroom from $116 One Bedroom from $197
i Per person based on two persons per bedroom and use of coupons
Guaranteed occupancy for those who apply
early bull Plenty of Free Parking bull Central Air Conditioning bull Separate
dining areas and large vanity baths bull Affordable rent levels bull On-site laundry facilities
bull Spacious apartments with fully-equipped kitchens dishwasher amp disposal
wall-to-wall carpeting bull Furniture and Cable TV available bull Complimentary Student
Social Program bull Free use of facilities including beautiful
clubhouse Olympic-size swimming pool hot tub saunas fitness
center 6 tennis courts platform tennis volleyball courts bull
Choose your own roommate bull Furnished Student Apartments and
Summer session leases also available
Toll Free 1-800-433-2801
ii_t_-383-6678
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Artspace CURRENTS PAGE 13
debut in Londons Bloomsbury Theatre and The Assembly Room in Edinburgh The groups original all-UK cast (which included Cresswell himself) was an instant hit in performances all over the world
In 1993 STOMP was featured in an ad for Coca-Cola Called the Ice Pick commershycial the memorable spot featured members of STOMP (you guessed it) stomping with large blocks of ice and ice picks The widely-viewed ad brought even more notoriety to the nascent troupe
STOMP came across the Atlantic to New York City in 1 994 where they were met with enthusiasm during a long run at the Orpheum Theatre most of that year As would its later tour the New York performances featured an all-American cast
Creatordirector Cresswell does not think that the groups immigration to the States changed much of the original flavor I think you could say that most of the show was influenced by America before we got here he explains in his British accent Our version of New York in our heads has always been an influence in STOMP
STOMP has a peculiar attraction that has drawn sell-out audiences since practically day one of its current tour Part of this may be owing to the fact that the group is the only one of its kindmdashwhatever kind that may be STOMPs undefinable nature is a large part of its attraction People who see STOMP are witness to an art form and a dynamic that has never been and may never be replicated As a result it is truly difficult to describe the group to someone who has never seen them pershyform
Perhaps McNicholas description is as simple and accurate as any Its a piece of theater thats been created by musicians he
Mario Torres attempts to read while other STOMP members rhythmically disrupt the quiet environment in which he began the endeavor
says It doesnt have narrative and it doesnt have dialogue and it doesnt have melody particularly but it is totally rhythmically based
However one may describe STOMP it ali comes down to a matter of individual impres-
STOMPers get to fulfill the childhood kitchen fantasy of banging on moms pots and pans for audiences nationwide And not only do they bang to a beat they also do it in a
death-defying position
sion Their worth is in the eyes of their beshyholdersmdashraw entertainment value cannot alshyways be expressed in words
Back at the Brown Gallery Kaplan Torres and the other attending members of STOMP continue to be besieged by friends and admirshyers They are all admittedly tired but remarkshyably patient STOMPs performances are if nothing else very physicalmdashmost of these artists have performed three shows in little more than 24 hours with the two April 2 shows performed consecutively The strain is certainly enough to make the strongest of the strong exhausted
As for the future of STOMP its looking very Hollywood The group has recently completed some film shorts that will run on Nickelodeon Its directors hope this film trend will lead to an eventual feature-length film Says McNicholas Were really wanting to develop the ideas beshyhind STOMP as filmmdashinitially as short film and hopefully one day a longer piece
As evidenced by their numerous commershycials film clips and television appearances STOMP does have an enormous viability in the world of fi lm that is STOMP has a quality that transcends the Oh its the people from the Coke commercial attitude that often meets their arrival There is an ingenious creativity that they bring to their work that makes everyone who sees them perform wish that they could stomp too They have a remarkable unity and dexterity not to mention originalitymdashwho else could make music out of scrap metal and litter
For now though they are content to induce headaches and equally violent enjoyment for their live audiences and continue to build their fan base in a tour of the United States that will continue this year Perhaps they can even change a few attitudes Well says Cresswell I hope [STOMP] is a positive injection of go and do itmdash get up off your ass and do it
PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
Are You Opinionated
Do you want to share your thoughts with 15000 people on a bi- or tri-weekly basis Then apply to be a regular columnist for The Chronicle Several spaces are available for both summer sessions and the fall semester Pick up your application from 301 Flowers today Completed applications along with your 750-word sample column are due to Ed Thomas box in 301 Flowers by Wednesday April 17 Questions Call 684-2663 Happy writing
M0NPAY M0NPAY
Are you funny Do your friends agree Then apply to be Monday Monday The Chronicles weekly humor columshynist All interested undergraduate students need to pick up an application in 301 Flowers and return it along with a 750-word sample column to Eds box by Wednesday April 17 Questions call Ed Thomas at 684-2663 Happy humoring m j ~
THECHRONICLE The Duke Communitys Daily Newspaper
r~ Duke University Program in Drama in co-production with Archipelago Theatre
present
~1
e btage Theater 95 wan a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
Those Women by Nor Hall Directed by Ellen Hemphill
at the Emma A Sheafer Theater April 1112 13 at 8pm and April 14 at 2pm April 1819 20 at 8pm and April 21 at 2pm
Post-performance discussion Friday April 19 with Nor Hall
I 1
L
General Admission $10 and $6 for students or Senior
Citizens Tickets are available at Page Box Office
(684-4444) or at the theater one hour before curtain
PAGE f t CURRENTS
Attention Students S P ECl A L
ffree Express Shuttle
To Duke Unjyersitv Two Bedroom from $116 One Bedroom from $197
i Per person based on two persons per bedroom and use of coupons
Guaranteed occupancy for those who apply
early bull Plenty of Free Parking bull Central Air Conditioning bull Separate
dining areas and large vanity baths bull Affordable rent levels bull On-site laundry facilities
bull Spacious apartments with fully-equipped kitchens dishwasher amp disposal
wall-to-wall carpeting bull Furniture and Cable TV available bull Complimentary Student
Social Program bull Free use of facilities including beautiful
clubhouse Olympic-size swimming pool hot tub saunas fitness
center 6 tennis courts platform tennis volleyball courts bull
Choose your own roommate bull Furnished Student Apartments and
Summer session leases also available
Toll Free 1-800-433-2801
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PACE 14 CURRENTS Gothic view
Continued from page 5 local control in cost-effective quality health care said that achieving such heights will involve some growing pains and doubt
Were going to have to look different and were going to have to understand that areas we go into sometimes have risk he added at the Board meeting
Gambling on lower health costs The risk to Duke and the regions uninshy
sured is very real A study of the effects of Californias market changes during the 1980smdashchanges similar to those being experienced in North Carolinamdashshowed that by the end of the decade there was a 36 percent reduction in charity care as a percentage of total care provided at not-for-profit hospitals and community hospitals
Furthermore some California hospitals have developed emergency room policies that discourage use by the uninsured othshyers transfer indigent patients to public hosshypitals or academic medical centers still others haveclosed emergency departments
Probably there is no one in California who wanted that outcome but it hapshypened said Robert Morrison president of North Carolinas Randolph Hospital adshydressing the North Carolina Health Care Reform Commission in March
It continues and I believe it wil l occur here Morrison added As the cost shift disappears we must recognize that while charges to managed care firms go down resources to care for the uninsured shrink proportionately
1 am anxiously awaiting news about the impact on the community and on the closest community hospitals when the uninsured population fills their emergency departments Morrison continued In Asheboro North Carolina with unemshyployment below 4 percent 25 percent of our emergency room visits are uninsured patients Can you imagine the potential load in an inner-city during a recession
Durhams unemployment rate is 31 percent as of January 1995 and 22 percent of Dukes unadmitted emergency room patients in 1995 were uninsured
The emergency room also is a more expensive point in the health-care system to treat patients7lf youre only going to take care ofthe end stage of anything its going to cost you more money let alone the humanwasteexplainsDrEvelyn Schmidt executive director of the Lincoln Commushynity Health Center which is located in one of Durhams most needy neighborhoods If you dont want to worry about the human waste which I have to worry about look at it strictly economically
Despite the fact that Durham County ranks third in the state in uninsured popushylation and has almost 48000 persons anshynually at risk for being medically indigent and despite the fact that three state-sponshysored commissions have looked at the uninsured problem the pressure to do something about the problem has been thrust to the side
Dukes Vick says that the complexity of the health-care system prevents anything from being passed by the legislature Its the same problem thats occurred at the federal level he says
For Schmidt talking about the uninshy
sured is a question of priorities Ive raised that question at meetings and nobody reshyally wants to discuss the uninsured she says with frustration Right now were really in a state of flux but whats being left out is really the people Im talking aboutmdash the uninsured low-income populations
When asked why Schmidt takes a deep breath and leans forward her voice sudshydenly hushed Because I dont think anyshybody has an answer
A prescription for reform TheanswerforChrisConover is largely
a political one An associate in research at Dukes Centerfor Health Pol icy Education and Research Conover has played a sigshynificant part in North Carolina health-care reform debates by conducting annual surshyveys of state residents analyzing healthshycare trends and presenting reports to the states Health Planning Commission and
Conover says Other states tax hospitals Generally three options for universal
coverage are availableasingle-payer govshyernment insurance program a mandate that employers provide coverage or a requirementthatindividualsmustbuycov-erage
Amongall the plans proposedConover admits that noneof them is self-financing or politically attractive You can never make it self-financing so the question becomes How big is the hit and who pays for it
Its not likely to be the profit-making HMOs The amount of money being made by for-profit [HMOs] is bordering on the obscene says Chancel lor Snyderman Nevertheless he says he is cautious about government regulation
The key to addressing the uninsured problem Snyderman says is some form of public-private partnership Ifs a problem that we ultimately need to deal with The
Helen KranbuhlCURRENTS
Dr Evelyn Schmidt of Durhams Lincoln Community Health Center says that nobody wants to talk about the uninsured
Health Care Reform Commission His 1985 report on the uninsured poor
in North Carolina opened the eyes of many legislators to the growing problem and called for a tax on hospital revenues to create a pool of funds for primary care for the uninsured Such a tax could provide voluntary universal coverage to North Caroshylina residents but would offer only a little more than half the services offered by private insurance The states hospital assoshyciation lobbied successfully for expansion of the Medicaid program
Theyve never wanted to be taxed
question is Will there be the political courage to do it But I dont see the for-profit HMOs dealing with this issue
Lincoln Health Centers Schmidt says that any reform plan must emphasize four elements affordability hours of availabilshyity transportation and communication
One option that has been touted by politicians and endorsed by the Health Care Reform Commission is medical savshyings accounts Under one proposal all state residents would be required to make regular deposits to these accounts for pershysonal health careand would also be able to
purchase catastrophic insurance cheaply A bill passed in the US House of Represhysentatives in March and now underdiscus-sion in the Senate would allow individuals with high-deductible insurance plans to make tax-deductible contributionsto simishylar accounts which Democrats object to saying it ignores the working poor
Snyderman also disputes the feasibility of this idea It increases the risk of the conventionally insured and increases their pricing and it tends to pulloutthe healthier populations into the medical savings acshycounts Now what becomes even worse is [that] thepeoplestay in the medical savings account getting the benefits of that but what happens iftheygetaserious illness [T]hey kick right back into the insurance pool [and] youve driven up the costs of the average insurance population
Another option that advocates for the uninsured have supported is allowing all state residents to buy coverage through the state employees health plan The $600 million insurance program covers about half a million state employees teachers and retirees Each worker has a choice of seven different insurance plans including thestatesown plan and commercial HMOs like Kaiser Permanente The program has generated asurplus for the pasteight years while premiums have remained static for the past three years
In order to give the uninsured coverage under North Carolinas program howshyever the state would have to levy a tax on everybody which is politically problemshyatic Meanwhile the states current pool of insured people has a majority of persons older than 65 and actuarial estimates sugshygest that if the states uninsured were admitshyted to the state plan the more favorable age and sex mix of the projected uninsured could result ina 10-15 percent reduction in thestatescurrent employee premium rates This seems to bode well for UNC graduate Grant and her friends many of whom receive insurance from the state
Vick places his faith in private ingenushyity The real solution isgoingtocomefrom the private sector he says [Afterthat] the private sector is going to have to incorposhyrate the public sector Government has failed to come up with a solution
For institutions like Duke the coming changes present an opportunity to address the long-term health needs of society Were part of the safety net We treat people no matter what says Dr Richard Serra assistant director of the emergency division [Cost] is not part ofthe prospecshytive evaluation of a patient
Nevertheless managed care is forcing hospitalsto examine theirdual identity asa charitable institution and as a business though the larger question of whether and even how to provide pre-emergency or primary care for the uninsured seems to linger beneath the surface Schmidt says that hospitals are caught in the horns of a dilemma That is hospitals may wish to help the indigent and uninsured but may not be able to afford to do so That comes as ominous news to uninsured people like Grant For now she can turn to Duke in an emergency but as forthe future her fate in the managed care environment remains quite uncertain
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
Are You Opinionated
Do you want to share your thoughts with 15000 people on a bi- or tri-weekly basis Then apply to be a regular columnist for The Chronicle Several spaces are available for both summer sessions and the fall semester Pick up your application from 301 Flowers today Completed applications along with your 750-word sample column are due to Ed Thomas box in 301 Flowers by Wednesday April 17 Questions Call 684-2663 Happy writing
M0NPAY M0NPAY
Are you funny Do your friends agree Then apply to be Monday Monday The Chronicles weekly humor columshynist All interested undergraduate students need to pick up an application in 301 Flowers and return it along with a 750-word sample column to Eds box by Wednesday April 17 Questions call Ed Thomas at 684-2663 Happy humoring m j ~
THECHRONICLE The Duke Communitys Daily Newspaper
r~ Duke University Program in Drama in co-production with Archipelago Theatre
present
~1
e btage Theater 95 wan a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
Those Women by Nor Hall Directed by Ellen Hemphill
at the Emma A Sheafer Theater April 1112 13 at 8pm and April 14 at 2pm April 1819 20 at 8pm and April 21 at 2pm
Post-performance discussion Friday April 19 with Nor Hall
I 1
L
General Admission $10 and $6 for students or Senior
Citizens Tickets are available at Page Box Office
(684-4444) or at the theater one hour before curtain
PAGE f t CURRENTS
Attention Students S P ECl A L
ffree Express Shuttle
To Duke Unjyersitv Two Bedroom from $116 One Bedroom from $197
i Per person based on two persons per bedroom and use of coupons
Guaranteed occupancy for those who apply
early bull Plenty of Free Parking bull Central Air Conditioning bull Separate
dining areas and large vanity baths bull Affordable rent levels bull On-site laundry facilities
bull Spacious apartments with fully-equipped kitchens dishwasher amp disposal
wall-to-wall carpeting bull Furniture and Cable TV available bull Complimentary Student
Social Program bull Free use of facilities including beautiful
clubhouse Olympic-size swimming pool hot tub saunas fitness
center 6 tennis courts platform tennis volleyball courts bull
Choose your own roommate bull Furnished Student Apartments and
Summer session leases also available
Toll Free 1-800-433-2801
ii_t_-383-6678
SUBIECT TO NORMAL LEASING POLICIES copy CSC Managing Agent 1996
Spotlight PAGE 15CURRENTS
Continued from page 7
And so in something of a small-scale experiment Epworth became the only building in which all four classes are mixed together the residents think this is a better alternative to the isolation of one class in traditional freshman dorms Before the new residential plan freshshymen did not live in Epworth unless they chose to move there after their first semester
By Faggs account the experiment has been a great success But now that its been in place for a year there are some issues Epworth residents hope to address The changes are minor howshyever Fagg says One of them is to increase the amount of formal fresh-man-upperclassman interaction that takes place atthe beginning ofthe year
This year we relied a bit too much on informal interaction but we didnt integrate as quickly as was expected Fagg says College is a difficult transishytion to begin with and you throw [the freshmen] in with all different people and they dont have the time
One of the major barriers to that desired interaction has been the freshshyman meal plan Fagg laments The freshman meal plan discouraged our upperclassmen from eating at the Union We would have a large group go over to the Union for dinner last year and it doesnt happen this year
Many upperclassmen choose to
make their own food in the kitchen or justeatintheirroomsFaggisoneofthe few of the upperclassmen who chose to purchase a reduced board plan which requires the upperclassmen to eat at the Union about five times a week
But those upperclassmen who did purchase a meal plan have made a significant impression on the freshmen says Eisenberg [The meal plan] defishynitely separated the freshmen from the upperclassmen at the beginning It esshy
pecially separated us from the people who decided at midnight that they wanted to go to Honeys she says
Another change in store for the proshygram is an adjustment in the brochure Fagg says The dorm motto Oil My Lizard is featured prominently in the brochure and Fagg fears this may have scared some parents We put some jokes in there The dorm motto is in there but theresno real meaning from it But that may have freaked some people out Epworth has coed bath-
Jason Fagg co-president of Epworth says he is very happy with the results of this years experiment
rooms and we sort of mixed up the pictures and I think that may have scared some of the parents
Those fears may be well-founded as Trinity freshman Matt Reade can attest Reade wanted to live in Epworth as a freshman but his parents disapshyproved After reading the brochure they thought it sounded too weird Reade moved into Epworth at the beshyginning of the spring semester and says he is much more comfortable with the people there than the people in his freshman dorm
University officials say they are pleased with the results of the experishyment as well As far as I know its been positive for both the freshmen and the upperclassmen saysCharles VanSant associate dean for student developshyment Its an active house and Im glad they wanted to choose their resishydents instead of having to force-place them like in the other dorms
But VanSant says he is not optimistic that the success of this experiment will lead to similar cross-sectional houses in the future Given the logistics and situations we have here it would be difficult to enact he explains
Nonetheless most Epworthians conshytinue to exist in theirquaint white house on East basking in cross-sectional bliss I dont know that theres anyone really disappointed says Fagg happily Theyve told me they like the guidshyance and advice
Are You Opinionated
Do you want to share your thoughts with 15000 people on a bi- or tri-weekly basis Then apply to be a regular columnist for The Chronicle Several spaces are available for both summer sessions and the fall semester Pick up your application from 301 Flowers today Completed applications along with your 750-word sample column are due to Ed Thomas box in 301 Flowers by Wednesday April 17 Questions Call 684-2663 Happy writing
M0NPAY M0NPAY
Are you funny Do your friends agree Then apply to be Monday Monday The Chronicles weekly humor columshynist All interested undergraduate students need to pick up an application in 301 Flowers and return it along with a 750-word sample column to Eds box by Wednesday April 17 Questions call Ed Thomas at 684-2663 Happy humoring m j ~
THECHRONICLE The Duke Communitys Daily Newspaper
r~ Duke University Program in Drama in co-production with Archipelago Theatre
present
~1
e btage Theater 95 wan a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad
Those Women by Nor Hall Directed by Ellen Hemphill
at the Emma A Sheafer Theater April 1112 13 at 8pm and April 14 at 2pm April 1819 20 at 8pm and April 21 at 2pm
Post-performance discussion Friday April 19 with Nor Hall
I 1
L
General Admission $10 and $6 for students or Senior
Citizens Tickets are available at Page Box Office
(684-4444) or at the theater one hour before curtain
PAGE f t CURRENTS
Attention Students S P ECl A L
ffree Express Shuttle
To Duke Unjyersitv Two Bedroom from $116 One Bedroom from $197
i Per person based on two persons per bedroom and use of coupons
Guaranteed occupancy for those who apply
early bull Plenty of Free Parking bull Central Air Conditioning bull Separate
dining areas and large vanity baths bull Affordable rent levels bull On-site laundry facilities
bull Spacious apartments with fully-equipped kitchens dishwasher amp disposal
wall-to-wall carpeting bull Furniture and Cable TV available bull Complimentary Student
Social Program bull Free use of facilities including beautiful
clubhouse Olympic-size swimming pool hot tub saunas fitness
center 6 tennis courts platform tennis volleyball courts bull
Choose your own roommate bull Furnished Student Apartments and
Summer session leases also available
Toll Free 1-800-433-2801
ii_t_-383-6678
SUBIECT TO NORMAL LEASING POLICIES copy CSC Managing Agent 1996
PAGE f t CURRENTS
Attention Students S P ECl A L
ffree Express Shuttle
To Duke Unjyersitv Two Bedroom from $116 One Bedroom from $197
i Per person based on two persons per bedroom and use of coupons
Guaranteed occupancy for those who apply
early bull Plenty of Free Parking bull Central Air Conditioning bull Separate
dining areas and large vanity baths bull Affordable rent levels bull On-site laundry facilities
bull Spacious apartments with fully-equipped kitchens dishwasher amp disposal
wall-to-wall carpeting bull Furniture and Cable TV available bull Complimentary Student
Social Program bull Free use of facilities including beautiful
clubhouse Olympic-size swimming pool hot tub saunas fitness
center 6 tennis courts platform tennis volleyball courts bull
Choose your own roommate bull Furnished Student Apartments and
Summer session leases also available
Toll Free 1-800-433-2801
ii_t_-383-6678
SUBIECT TO NORMAL LEASING POLICIES copy CSC Managing Agent 1996
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