City Ends Contract for Unfinished Reservoir

An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner THE Museum showcases Baseball loses season Depression-era photos, opener, 12-7, Bl Cl 250 University Center University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 _ Thesday & Friday • • FREE Volume 130. Issue 30 WH'lv.revielutdel.edu February 17. 2004 City ends contract for unfinished reservoir BY LINDSEY LAVENDER The reservoir is especially impor landfills." designed, the contractors decided they Last fall, the company said they Staff Reporter t.ant, he said, because the demand for The plans consisted of putting the wanted to finish the reservoir, Kalbacher were taking December, January and The Newark City Council terminat water doubles when Fall Semester begins liner down, sealing it with high-density said. February off because they are unable to ed its contract with Donald M. Durkin at the university. polyethylene to give it an impervious sur However, the council refused to work during the coldest months of the Contracting Feb. 2, ending its agreement Kalbacher said the council reached face and rolling soil on top to make it rehire Durkin Contracting. year, he said. with the company employed to build the a unanimous decision to terminate the cohesive, he said. "The reservoir has already been on Donald M. Durkin Contracting city's nearly-completed reservoir. contract because Durkin Construction "The contractors said the liner would hold for four months, and there are sever declined to comment on the issue. The council held a closed-session claimed it would be unable to complete erode," Kalbacher said, "but 90 percent al other contractors waiting to bid on the The reservoir should have been fin meeting to determine whether or not to the construction as designed. of the time, the liner would be under the project," he said. ished in April, Godwin said, but will be terminate the contract. "I was taken back by that," he said~ water and wouldn't erode." Godwin said he was also surprised now be completed by the end of the year. Councilman Karl Kalbacher, 3rd "It's· the same contract they signed a year Erosion could occur during heavy when the contractors told the council they "There was also some unanticipated District, said the council came to this and a half ago. Seventy percent down the rain, he said, but that there are ways to would not be able to complete the con blasting and all the rain we had in the fall decision because of potential litigation. road, and then they decide they can't protect it. tract. slowed down the schedule," he said, "but "Under these conditions, we're build it. So, we said, 'You're fired. '" "When the liner is exposed, it's the ''They took their people and equip there is no correlation with the [firing of allowed to go into executive session to The council tried to convince the responsibility of the city, not the contrac ment and left," he said. "[The contrac the] contractors." deliberate," he said,-=: contractor that the project could be com tors'," he said. tors] said they were not able to perform Godwin said the council has every Mayor Harold F. Godwin said the pleted as designed, he said. The discrepancy between the council some of the pro<;esses in the contract." intention of completing the reservoir reservoir, which is already 70 percent "The bottom of the slopes of the and contractors was the primary reason They discussed the situation with the within the allotted budget. completed, will provide relief for the city reservoir are the deepest and they call for the council decided to terminate the con contractors, Godwin said, and amongst "We're still in control of money, not during droughts. It is being built behind heavy duty plastic line, called gee-textile tract. themselves decided to terminate their over budget, and we will not need more Timothy's Restaurant on Paper Mill fabric, to protect the bottom," Kalbacher After the council explained how the contract because the contractors original money because of this disruption," he Road. said. "It's very thick, and it's used for project could be completed as originally ly said they could not fmish the job. said. "The taxpayers' money is safe." Show previews Global Agenda 'Monologues' series kicks off BY CARSON WALKER Robert Gallucci, dean of BY GRETA KNAPP Staff Reporter Georgetown University's Walsh StaffR eporter The university will kick off School of Foreign Service and Comedy skits featuring "The Super Sex Cafe" and "Intercourse its fourth annual Global Agenda former U.S. assistant secretary of Airlines" were just some of the attractions that drew more than 75 stu lecture series Wednesday in state for Politico-Military Affairs, dents to the Vagina Monologues Variety Show in the Scrounge Friday Mitchell Hall, featuring the theme will speak about the problem of night. "Enemies: Not Always What weapons of mass destruction on Despite the promiscuous jokes and light-hearted atmosphere, the They Seem." March 3. show's performers took care to deliver a serious, somber m~s .sage: the Ralph Begleiter, distin Begleiter said weapons of promotion of women's issues, the importance ofsafe sex and the cessa guished journalist in residence mass destruction encompass a tion of violence against women. and the organizer of the Global much broader problem than just in The variety show was organized to advertise and raise funds for the Agenda series, said the theme Iraq. university's fifth annual performance of the Vagina Monologues, a col originated shortly after the Sept. "Gallucci will focus on how lection of stories and poems intended to empower women while earning ll, 200 I terrorist attacks, but he dangerous these weapons are, money for women's organizations. did not solidify the topic until the how they are spreading and get Jenn Guise Schladen, co-organizer of the event and a monologue war in Iraq began last March. ting into the wrong hands," he performer, said controversy has always surrounded the play, but the 52 The Global Agenda lecture said. women performing in this year's production will not hesitate to use that series will explore cow1tries and Gallucci, who began working shock value to their advantage. regions traditionally considered at Georgetown in May 1996, said "We like to wake people up, but the signal that we've reached our enemies, he said. he has been involved in govern goal is when we don't need a show like this any more," she said. "We In a globalized world, how ment affairs for approximately 30 won't need to get on the stage and scream 'cunt' to have our message THE REVIEW/Jessica Duome ever, Begleiter said, these nations years. heard." Golden Blues performs at a variety show to raise funds · may be indispensable as allies to He started in the Arms Students who attended the variety show enjoyed an opening per for the March performance of the 'Vagina Monologues.' the United States. Control and Disarmament Agency fqrmance by junior Matt Winn, who alternated between six and 12- The first speaker in this and continued to work for five directly toward anti-violence charities. string guitar to play original songs like "Time Travel" and "Step Aside year's series is David Rothkopf, presidential administrations dur This year the show will donate at least 65 percent of the total funds Watermelon." chairman and CEO of ing his career, he said, including to the Emmaus House, a local family shelter. Junior Melissa Cox followed, playing songs such as "Goddess" Intellibridge, which advises former presidents Ford, Carter, Additionally, 20 percent of the collected money will go toward the and "Candy Love," which she wrote as a "prayer song" for the American companies about condi Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Delaware Women's Conference, which helps to educate women, and 10 oppressed women in Afghanistan. tions abroad. Jean David-Levitte, French percent will be awarded to the V-Day Spotlight of200.4, which is trying Cox said she was glad to be involved in a show with such a good "Intellibridge provides open ambassador to the United States, to end the mysterious outbreak of missing and murdered women in cause behind it. source intelligence and advisory will speak March 10 about the Juarez, Mexico. "There was a good, attentive audience who expected to get some services on international issues," strained relations between the Sophomore Kelly Kramer said she was impressed with the per thing out of the show," she said. "It was nice they were really listening he said. United States and France. formances, and although she came for the fun, she was grateful for the to you and responding to what it is all about; equality, love and vagi Beg leiter said Rothkopf is an Begleiter said David-Levitte, important messages. nas!" ideal candidate to give the first a close adviser to French "Really, I just like to say the word 'vagina,' " she said, "but I think Even the university a cappella·group, The Golden Blues, got caught lecture. President Jacques Chirac, will dis it's good that this event promotes anti-violence awareness because a lot up in the spirit of the night. In addition to singing more traditional songs, "Rothkopf was a good choice cuss the difficulty of managing the of people don't even think about it. !)1e group also performed "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and their to lead off the series because he is recently contentious relationship "It's good that they're having entertainment with something seri ~ersion of a John Mayer song, "Your Vagina is a Wonderland." a strategic analyst who looks at between the two nations. ous behind it." · Schladen said holding such events as the variety show and the the world from an American point Zahir Jamal, chief of regional The Monologues will be held in Mitchell Hall from March I 0 to upcoming "B-spot Bingo" game, organizers hope to raise enough of view," he said.

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