New Mayor and Councilman Take Office

An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner THE The bugs are back in Hens players prepare for town, NFL draft, Bl Cl 250 University Center University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 Tuesday & Friday • • FREE Volume 130, Issue 46 11'\1'\l'.reriewude/.edu April 2J, 2004 New mayor and councilman take office. BY RACHEL CffiONE .. give you any time to celebrate." hour orientation prior to the ceremony, she on Monday. mandate for the council to change the way Staff Reponer Funk said he does not believe the tran said. "It will take a meeting or two for me they do some things," Funk said. Vance Funk ill was sworn in as mayor sition will be too challenging because he "It is a lot of information to absorb in to get adjusted," Vonck said. In the beginning of his term, he said, at a special ceremony Tuesday night at the has been attending city council meetings one day and they have to be back for the Lamblack said after Funk was sworn it is important to attend more community city's Municipal Building. since October and served as city treasurer meeting at night," Lamblack said. in, Deputy Mayor, Jerry Clifton, 2nd meetings in order to introduce himself to The ceremony, held a week after the for 13 years. Funk said they went to department District, was elected and other officers the public and establish his philosophy. election, was packed with supporters, cam Lamblack swore Funk in, who then meetings to meet members and heads. were also appointed. New members then "It will be hectic the first six months," paign members and university sorority and swore in the other council members, However, Funk said the orientation adopted the rules of procedure. Funk said, "but government slows down in fraternity members. · including newly-elected 6th District was not too overwhelming. In response to the ceremony, Funk the summer." City Secretary Susan Lamblack said Councilman Kevin Vonck. "Eighty percent of what they told me said he was eager to begin his term. He said he will be spending less time one week is a short period oftime for tran Vonck, a research assistant at the uni I already knew," he said, "but Kevin's get "I am definitely excited," he said. "I in his law office so he can focus on his duty sition. versity's School of Urban Affairs, said one ting it for the first time." can't wait to get started." as mayor. "They get thrown into the water and of his reasons for running was to represent Vonck said the orientation was intense As a lawyer who deals with disputes Funk said in order to take on his posi either sink or swim," she said. students and youth in the city. but still a great learning experience. and problems every day, he said, he is pre tion, he had to give up running an elemen Funk said he was also surprised by "They have been under-represented He said he has a pile of documents to pared for the challenge of taking over a lot tary school volleyball league, which he did how quickly. he was sworn in. for a long time," he said. read to get him up to date on issues and of unfinished business. for 20 years. "I was amazed," he said. "It doesn't Funk and Vonck attended a seven- procedilres before the fust council meeting "The margin of victory established a Students VX gas controversy prepare for continues with Army: BY STEPHEN MANGAT percent of two phosphorus-type acids would leak Women's Staff Reporter into the river, but the company stated in a 350- This week witnessed another round in the page report that the concentrations of the acid controversy concerning whether toxic water would not approach levels that could cause dam from a VX gas neutralization plant will be treat age. March ed at a local DuPont plant and released into the Also, DuPont has agreed to let the Centers Delaware River. for Disease Control and Prevention complete a - Just prior to last Monday's deadline, the formal review of the Army's proposal before Army accepted a formal complaint by the gover moving forward. BY RENEE GORMAN nors of Delaware and New Jersey voicing their Patterson said the CDC's report will not Staff Reporter objection against the Army's plan. affect Minner's objection because it address dif Various student groups and musicians gathered Greg Patterson, official spokesman for Gov. on the Trabant University Center patio Tuesday to ferent issues. Ruth Ann Minner, said initial reports that stated raise awareness for the March for Women's Lives in "The CDC is about human health," the Army rejected the letter are incorrect·. Washington, D.C., Sunday. Patterson said. "The governors' letter is based on "It's an official comment with the Army," environmental effects, not health problems." Musical acts such as Sarah O'Reilly, Matt he said. "Obviously the governors expressed On Monday, the Mid-Atlantic Wino, Suspycious Aloycious, Amanda Kaletsky and clearly that this isn't a good material to have in Environmental Law Council at Widener Jordan Leitner serenaded the crowd, while mem the river." University submitted an objection on behalf of bers of various student organizations kept busy per Marilyn Daughdrill, spokeswoman for the the environmental group Green Delaware, call suading students to purchase bus tickets to the Chemical Materials Agency, a provisional Army ing for a full environmental impact study. march. agency designed to store and eliminate chemical Allen Muller, president of Green Delaware, In between bands, organizers of the rally read weapons, said the governors' comments were not said the Army is trying to avoid the law. quotes from people who supported maintaining the only ones they received. "The National Environmental Protection women's reproductive rights. "We have received comments from more Act says when federal money is being spent, Senior Kate Haney, a co-organizer of the rally, than 750 individuals ranging from total support environmental consequences must be looked at," said the March for Women's Lives is a march to THE REVIEW/Jessica Duorne to total opposition," she said. "We will go he said. " In our view, the Army hasn't complied defend women's reproductive rights, such as access Students and musicians rally support for through all comments and address any issues with the NEPA and they're just trying to weasel to safe abortion, birth control and family planning. they might comment on to see what course of out of complying with the law." She said the rally was organized to gain sup the national March for Women's Lives in action we should take." Daughdrill said the CMA received the port for the march and to sell bus tickets. Washington, D.C. this Sunday. On Monday, the Delaware River Basin objection and that it will be reviewed along with Freshman Ashley Bram-Johnson said 12 buses Commission disputed the tests DuPont used to have been offered to members of the university and world." all the other comments received. verify the company's claim that the treatment The resistance of these environmental the community. Senior Megan Burgess, a member of the Prolife would not have a significant impact on the envi groups comes on the heels of the joint letter from Haney said there were 300 tickets available, Vanguard, sat near the rally holding a sign stating Minner and New Jersey Gov. James E. and at the time of the rally, there were only 44 tick the dangers of abortion. ronment. Tom Fikslin, head of Modeling and McGreevey exhorting the Army not to send the ets left. She said it is important for her and other mem Monitoring for the DRBC, said the commission wastes to the DuPont plant in nearby Deepwater, Approximately I million people will be attend bers of the organization to have a presence at the wanted more tests to determine the effect the N.J., and instead dispose of them near Newport, ing the march, she said. rally. new wastewater would have on the level of Ind., where they are currently stored. "The March for Women's Lives on Sunday is "Everything they're saying about safe, legal treatment at the facility. With the Army having agreed to consider not a march strictly about abortion," Haney said, abortion is false," Burgess said. "Women are still Administered by officials from Delaware, the complaint, Patterson said the next step is the "but it is also about everything constitutional." being killed, physically mutilated and emotionally New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, the Roe v. Wade, she said, the Supreme Court case and physically harmed." Army's and DuPont's. DRBC supervises water supply and quality for "There is no permission that [the] Army and that legalized abortion in· 1973, only passed by a The Prolife Vanguard will also be making an small margin. appearance at the March for Women's Lives, she the entire watershed that drains into the DuPont have to get from Delaware, but New Delaware River basin. Jersey has not completely agreed that they have Sophomore Jen Kutney, a member of Men said. They will be peacefully protesting on the side Against Rape Society, said she thought the rally lines. Anthony Farina, spokesman for DuPont, nothing to get in New Jersey," he'said. "Iftbey decide to go forward with their plan was a great idea. Junior Sarah Archbald, a spectator at the rally, stated in an e-mail message DuPont will not "We need to show people that women aren't said she thought the cause of the rall y was impor ignore the concerns of other groups.

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