Delaware Passes up Match Against Dei.State: by Jeff Pearlman Towson Team
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In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Basketball Dire Straits wins 17th back after straight seven years page BS page B1 Delaware passes up match against Dei.State: By Jeff Pearlman Towson team. Spom fd.tor Towson State finished last season with a The waiting was finally over. 8;: Football teams will not meet despite open schedules record of l-10. The Hornets posted an 8-3 When the University of Delaware and 1 1991 mark, including a victory over Delaware State College agreed last May to gridiron ·~~ slipped away. been an opening in both Delaware and · why not do it?" eventual NCAA 1-AA champiO'n meet in a men's basketball game it was the In an effort to downsize its football Delaware State 's 1993 Division 1-AA It is a decision many have questioned. Youngstown State. ... first time the two Division I state schools program, Towson State University football schedules. "The players would love to play "I feel like Delaware believes they have a would compet~ in a high revenue span. eliminated Delaware State from its 1993 Instead, Johnson opted to continue a Delaware State anytime, anywhere," said lot to lose," said Delaware State senior The game was supposed to spark a new schedule. Towson athletic department three-game series with Towson that begins Hens ' senior co-captain Marc Sydnor. halfback Wendell Watson. "We don't have athletic rivalry. officials then gave Delaware, who has a this season at Delaware Stadium. "We'd play them in the parking lot, on the anything to lose. They're definitely a little Almost 10 months later, the spark had the three-year agreement with the Tigers, the "I' m happy with the [Towson State] field, anywhere. unsure about playing Delaware State." potential to burst into a fire with a possible green light to abandon the 1993 schedule as game and our longtime relationship," "It went well as a basketball game, I feel After years of speculation, the two football matchup. well. Johnson told the Wilmington News Journal it will even be better as a football game." schools finally met in men's basketball on But the opportunity for the two schools to lf Athletic Director Edgar Johnson had this week . "Their coach and [athletic Some question whether Delaware is Dec. 5, 1991, when Delaware State upset compete in an inaugural meeting on the accepted Towson's offer, there would have director) are willing to continue playing, so dodging tougher competition for a weak see DELSTATE pageA6 Elkton council Roselle solicits rejects Klan state bid for parade funds By larry Dignan decision, but had expected the Speci;ll Assi8"mMI Reporter commission would deny the permit. By Doug Donovan ELKTON, Md. - The Elkton The NAACP had planned a AOministmive News Editor Town Commission unanimously countermarch to divert attention President David P. Roselle returned to rejected the Ku Klux Klan's request from the Klan if the commission Dover Tuesday to request that the state's Joint for an April II parade permit granted the permit. Finance Committee support Gov. Castle's Wednesday night. Chester Doles, leader of the budget plan which will allocate $74.2 million Mayor James Crouse cited a Cecil County Klan, said he planned to the university for the 1992-93 school year. police recommendation to reject the to file a complaint with the Last fall, Roselle requested $75.8 million request which stated that the Klan's American Civil Liberties Union from the state, but on Tuesday urged proposal would not benefit the because the commission decision "positive consideration of Castle's budget." community and would lead to violated the group's First Roselle also asked that the committee violence despite security measures. Amendment rights. allocate an additional $2 million if the state's "The confrontation of the group Crouse said the decision does not budget outlook improves. is eminent," he said. "I recommend violate the KKK 's First Although Roselle expressed support for to deny the permit." Amendment rights because he felt Castle' s budget, he cited statistics that All four members of the the march would be similar to illustrate "inequitable state aid" in the past. commission agreed with Crouse "yelling fire in a crowded room." "We are concerned with state support," that the march could lead to Doles said the Klan wanted to Roselle said at Legislative Hall in Dover. potential violence. march to protest an "open-air drug "[State aid to the university] is significantly Jesse Boyd, a commission market" on Booth Street, a below other state agencies." member, said allowing the Klan to predominantly black area of town. During fiscal years 1988-1992, the march despite the police In the commission's Feb. 12 university has received 10.9 percent of state recommendatiot• " would be like meeting, Doles withdrew the white appropriations, while Delaware State College paying a doctor for a visit and not supremacist group's permit request was allocated 20.3 percent and Delaware taking his advice." · for April 4, the anniversary of Technical Community College received 27.8 Bernard James, president of the Martin Luther King's assassination. percent. local chapter of the National The Klan leader was upbeat "If state support is further eroded," Roselle Association for the Advancement of despite the decision, adding the said, "the academic core will be very difficult Colored People (NAACP), said he money saved from the parade could to protect." commended the commission's be used for other purposes. A portion of the additional money Roselle requested includes $1 million that was : originally given to the university in the state's : 1991 budget, but was returned because of a · shonage of state revenue. · Cross burning keeps "Reallocation [of these funds] is essential," : Roselle said. "We will have no choice but to . raise tuition or cut programs and personnel." By 1993 the university plans to eliminate • 271 positions and will cut its budget by $24.3 . racist fires raging million. · The university's additional request also · ELKTON, Md . - It didn't seem Klan members stand around a 30-foot burning cross in a field outside Elkton, Md. asked for $248,000 for student scholarships . real. Wednesday night after the City Council denied their request to parade. and financial aid programs. But that was a real cross, burning Commentary Currently, in-state students receive $1,600 ~ in a field somewhere in Cecil less in financial aid than they require, Roselle ~ County, Md. Wednesday night. By Richard said. : And they were real members of ]ones Two ne'w scholarship programs that the : the Ku Klux Klan circling it. KKK members burn cross additional funding would support are the • I'd heard rumors that the Klan had Delaware Scholars Program and the Nursing ! a major base in Eastern Maryland Scholarship Endowment Fund, he said. j but somehow it still just seemed like protest an "open-air drug market" in "The programs would retain these brilliant l the stuff of rumor. Elkton. following council meeting students within the state," Roselle said. : "The Klan, in Maryland," I'd say, Originally, the Klan wanted to David E. Hollowell, senior vice president r always amazed, but with a touch of march on April 4, the 24th By Larry Dignan Zionist government. for Administration. said if the university does : disbelief. anniversary of the assassination of Sp ecial Assignment Reporter "The Klan is the most Christian not get the additional money it will not ; "But that's just a half hour away the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ELKTON, Md . - As the smell of diesel organization," he says. "We will win the war." institute the programs. : from campus." but withdrew that petition to avoid fuel and warmth of fire emanated from a 30- Currently, it is a religion without churches The university also requested $44,000 for ; But there I was about a half an offending members of the foot wooden cross, Chester Doles, leader of and ministries, but Doles hopes to build a few aid to student athletes, $160,000 for library ! hour's drive away from campus community. the Cecil County branch of the Ku Klux Klan in his lifetime. books and periodicals and $70,600 to : huddled in the woods watching a Elkton Mayor James G. Crouse said: Doles indicated the religion has a limited establish two new library positions. : Klan cross burning. denied the Klan's petition to march "Behold the fiery cross, the way to be a true membership as he was leaving a town Roselle addressed the state on the medical · But it just didn't seem real. because he felt the parade would not Christian, the way of Christ. " commission meeting Wednesday in which the technology program which is in the process : Not a half an hour before the cross benefit the city and "more than likely Cross burning is the cornerstone of the KKK's request to march April11 was refused. of being downsized. i burning, the Elkton Town erupt into a civil commotion and belief that white supremacy is the highest form "All are invited if you are white and not of "We're admitting freshman now, and if we : Commission denied the Klan's result in serious injury." of Christianity. Jewish ancestry," he said as he was leaving the can build enrollment we will keep the 1 application to march on April 11. Commissioner Kennard Merrey For the Klan, their beliefs "are religion," meeting. program," he said. : The Klan said its march, which agreed and said, "I don't believe Doles said. Doles said he will not attend any churches Robert C. Knowles, of the Conunittee of• would have just happened to roll anything good can come of this They said they are embroiled in a religious because they are "contami.nated." Citizens to Save Medical Technology, : right through a predominantly black parade for the good people of war to recapture the country from ethnic He explained that the cross with a blood recommended that the university establish : section of town, was planned to see FIRE page A6 minorities and a media who has supported a see CROSS BURNING page A6 medical technology scholarships.