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New bus stops ECC playoffs added to route begin today page 7 page 2 a e 11 rr---- -.q FREE FRIDAY Dean Pipes named new provost By Michelle Goeke president, and manges th e budget and is faculty member and co-founder of the Center Pipes said. " That will be a theme of the Staff Reporter responsible for all its academic aspects. for Composite Materials. future." R. Byron Pipes, dean of the College of Pipes, who will ass ume the post on July I, He said having that background gave him a Pipes noted the success of Resources to Engineering and Robert L. Spencer professor joined the university 's faculty in 1974 and distinct advantage over the other candidates Insure Su ccessful Engineers (RISE), a of engineering, has been named the new said he is exci ted about his new position. for the provost position. minority program for engineers. provost and vice president for Academic ''I'm honored and ve ry pleased LO take this " I consider myself a fi ghting Blue Hen , "It's a model which could be applied to Affairs. responsi bility," he said. tried and true, " he said. other areas of the university," he said, adding After Wednesday's announcement, Pipes will replace Ri chard B. Murray, who He said he expects to learn a few lessons that new ways to achieve the goal of a di verse President David P. Roselle said, ''I'm happy has served as interim provost sin ce the and encounter some new problems in hi s new environment must also be found. to report that we've found the talent we need resign ation of L. Leon Cam pb ell in job. Other major issues for the provost will right here at home." November 1988. "We have some specific challenges across in clude balancing the budget and assuring The provost is the second highest-ranking Pipes sa id he has studied the un iversity the institution. We are aiming for a more fa culty excellence, Pipes said. R. Byron Pipes administrator at the university after the from the various posi tions he has held as a multicultural environment here at Delaware," .. will become provost july 1 see PIPES page 4 ,Delaware University to play Del. State opts to keep Men's basketball department teams to meet Dec. 5 in Newark Compromise saves linguistics program By Paul Kane Assistant News Editor By Dan B. levine "This situation showed and Jeff Pearlman Despite university-wide budget Staff Reporters cuts , budget council members said the kind of cooperation The waiting is over. Wednesday it would not we need to get through After years of anticipation, the recommend eliminating the the budget crisis." Delaware men's basketball team linguistics department, reversing a -Jeff Quirico will face Delaware State College four-month-old position. Assistant Provost for the first time in history on Dec. Th e linguistics department and for Budget Planning 5, 1991, at the Delaware Field the council reached a compromise House, giving birth to a state that calls for a two-year, $200,000 rivalry. budget reduction, including the It will be the first time the two elimination of three staff positions. Academic Budget Planning. state schools will meet in a high said Richard B. Murray, acting The counterproposal also called revenue sport. provost and budget co unci I for an increase in undergraduate The two-year contract, agreed president. courses offered by the department, upon yesterday morning by The council an nounced Jan. 17 Quirico said. Delaware Athletic Director Edgar it would propose eliminating the Mu rray said the two faculty ,N. Johnson and Delaware State linguistics department because of jobs slated to be cut would be :College Athletic Director John C. the university-wide budget crisis. untenured positions. :Martin, specifies Delaware will The university has predicted a Quirico said the faculty position :travel to Dover to play on the $9-million budget shortfall in the to be el iminated for the 1991-92 :Hornets' home court, Memorial next fiscal year, and officials had school year is currently vacant. :Hall Gymnasium, on Dec. 10, estimated the decision to cut the The proposal also calls for 1992. department would save about an other position to be removed by "As an institution we feel it is $225,000. th e 1992-93 school year, he said. important that University of But linguistics officials offered If a vacancy occurs before then, Delaware play Delaware State a counterproposal, which th e the position may be cut to avoid College," Johnson said in a written Pamela Wray DeS tefano council accepted, that calls for firing a current professor, Quirico cutting two facu lty positions and said. statement yesterday. "And this SPRING TIME Jason Brown (BE 94) enjoys the sunshine and spring weather while playing one secretarial position before the Peter Cole, chairman of the basketball game contract is the frisbee on Harrington Beach with Jon Callens (AS 94). beginning of what we hope will be 1992-93 school year, said Jeff lingui stics department, said the Quirico, assistant provost for a broadened and strengthened see LINGUISTICS page 4 relationship between the athletic programs of the two schools." Martin said yesterday, Faculty Senate tightens multicultural course list "Delaware State is extremely j)leased that we are able to begin By Paul Kane all courses listed as multicultural and Hall said when the multicu ltural satisfy the requiremenL Smith Hall by Concerned Black what I hope is a long and fruitful Assistant News Editor eliminated classes such as FREN requirement was first implemented Hall said the departments of the Students (CBS), said members of relationship in athletics." A Faculty Senate committee has 205: French Conversation and HIST four years ago, the committee only questionable courses were sent CBS attended the committee's last : Matt Santos, sports information cut more than half of the 207 classes 347: The History of the French had several months to approve notification and given time to justify week of hearings in March, but the director at Delaware State, said the from the list of courses that satisfy Revolution and Napoleon. courses that departments recom that course as a requirement to the group is still unsatisfied with the Hornets had an open date on their the university 's multicultural Forty percent of the course's mended. committee. requirement. 1991-92 basketball schedule requirement because some failed to content must focus on a culture that Some courses were approved by "Some departments clearly didn't "I'm looking for the university to because a scheduled game with meet the definition of a multicultural is not white, male or Western the committee which should not have understand what the requirement was flfSt defme the word multicultural," Brooklyn College, which is course. European for it to satisfy the been, he said. about," he said. Johnson said, "before it can moving into the East Coast Coast The Faculty Senate 's Committee multicultural requirement, said After the elimination of the 109 Brian Johnson (EG 92), an determine what courses meet that Conference (ECC) next year, had on Undergraduate Studies exami.ned Committee Chairman Harrison Hall. classes there are now 98 classes that organizer of the March 11 sit-in at 10 be dropped because of see COURSES page 4 Brooklyn's commitment to its new league. According to Benjamin M. Sherman, Delaware's assistant A soldier's story athletic director for media brought Alex Riuberg to th e Drew Pyle relations and marketing, with the Gulf war veteran talks Elementary School in Wilmington university moving from the ECC with fifth grade class Wednesday. to the North Atlantic Conference Rittberg, a 1987 university chemical next year, "the whole basketball By Lori Salotto engineering graduate who returned to the Schedule was in flux." Staff Reporter United States from the Persian Gulf April These occurrences left an "Back from Iraq" 21, was finally able to meet the 31 fifth qpening in both teams' schedules. graders he had been corresponding with University President David P. Alex, We're proud of you and all the while in the anny. Roselle said conversation between troops, Originally from Newark, Riltberg is now the schools had been occurring for That had to survive without Fruit Loops. stationed in Fort Hood, outside Austin, sometime. You had to fight in another land, Texas. He and his wife Nora are visiting "At the Lime The Review article N!d had to fight in the hot, dry sand, their families in the Newarlt area. ["Delaware vs . Delaware State: You're our heroes, because you made Rittberg and his platoon of20 men began the sports rivalry that never was," peace in the Middle East. receiving letters from fifth -grade teacher April 16] came out, discussions - josh Garland, <JBe 12 Lenore Sochaczewski and her class in were taking place, but we weren't October. Leslie D. Barbaro ready to talk about it," Roselle Poems like this and a reception complete "The first batch of letters came in a Lt. Alex Rittbers, a university alumnus, finally meets the fifth grade class who said. with cheese doodles and juice boxes see SOlDIER piJ8e 5. kept his mailbox full during the Persian Culf War. Delaware men's basketball see HORNETS page 4 2 • THE REVIEW • May 3, 1991 Speaker says media Bus loop underrepresents blacks to alter Hillel to relocate to Delaware Avenue desegregation of schools in that state. campus Hunter-Gault says diversity She recalled one of many nights when students necessary in journalism gathered to protest her enrollment at the The university's largest Jewish university. routes organization will be moving to a By Robb Enright Students had turned off the lights in their dorm new location after the fli'St of the Staff Reporter rooms except for Hunter-Gault, who was year.