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Fall season sizzles Hens stu.n with new shows The Tribe, 28-21 page 11 page 19 TUESDAY Alleged Consistency drug of plus/minus money questioned . · seized Professors exercise own discretion Police confiscate in implementing grading system By Robb Enright Rob McAnnally (EO SR), over $30,000 Senior Staff Reporter president of· the Delaware Students can expect lower grade Undergraduate Student Congress in two days point averages and inconsistent (DUSC), said many professors will grade more strictly, now th~t By Gretchen Wahl grading because of the new City News Editor plus/minus grading system, said plus/minus is an option. McAnnally said DUSC has State troopers seized $30,000 in university administrators, faculty opposed implementation of the suspected drug money from two cars and students. The new system, which went into plus/minus system since the initial stopped for speeding on 1-95 near effect this semester, almost six proposal began in 1985. Newark last week, a state police . Those opposing the system see spokesman said. years after its proposal, will not be university-wide. It calls for three major flaws in the policy: Cpl. David Baylor, of the state individual professors to decide if •There is no provision for an A+ . police, said troopers pulled over a grade, which could help balance out car travelling northbound on the they will use the plus/minus system or continue using single letter minuses. interstate about 1 p.m. Thursday. grades. •Bepuse professors have .a The driver and two passengers, Several departments and choice, the application of the all from New York, each gave professors have already said they system can be inconsistent, and conflicting stories about the.ir ·will not use the policy because of professors teaching the same course identities and their destination the detrimental effects they say it may be using different grading raising police suspicions, Baylor will have on students systems. said. Under the new grading system •The new system affects After obtaining written consent plusses will be .33 points higher and upperclass students more, since from the driver to search the car, minuses .33 points lower than the plus/minus grades will only ap~ Baylor said $20,000 cash was found letter grade alone. For example, on pan of their college transcripts. in the trunk. while a B is worth 3.00, a B+ will Because grading may be tougher He said one day earlier troopers be worth 3.33 and a B- 2.67. seized $10,000 from the trunk of see PLUS/MINUS page 9 another car speeding northbound about 8:30 a.m. The driver, a woman from North Carolina, and her passengers, two Panamanian men, also gave DUSC requests conflicting information when questioned ,by the trooper, leading the officer to search the car, he said. budget council seat- In both cases, Baylor said law enforcement officials were able to link the individuals involved with Group asks for voice in d~cision making previous drug activity through background checks. David E. Hollowell, senior vice Troopers confiscated the money ~Jm~n~s~!~~!n;ews Editor president for Administration and from both cars, issued speeding The Delaware Undergraduate council member, sent McAnnally tickets and released all parties Student Congress (DUSC) and the a counter-proposal Friday saying involved, he said. · university's administration are the two could have regular Police can take the assets of a Michele Bartley hammering out a plan which meetings with R. Byron Pipes, crime, but not have enough evidence would add student input on chairman of the council, to to prosecute. AIMING FOR NO. 1 Ed Helenski (AS SR) celebrates Delaware's final touchdown in Saturday's university budgetary matters. discuss issues which affect 28-21 triumph over third-ranked William and Mary. For full game coverage, see page 17. DUSC President Rob students. see DRUG BUST page 3 McAnnally (EG SR) submitted a McAnnally would not be able proposal to t'op-level budget to regularly attend council council members last week asking meetings under Hollowell's that he be admitted to the council proposal. Fraternity reinstated after Suspension as a non-voting representative in Hollowell said it would not be order to provide input into matters prudent to have a student attend By Paula Winters Richard Anderson (AS 'SR) said organization were regained, such as which pertain to students. every meeting because of the Sl.atrReporter increased committment to community participation in fall rush and use of McAnnally said the council, a sensitive nature of issues Tau Kappa Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is back services and a high grade point average university facilities for activities, Geist group of 10 administrators and discussed at the meetings; some on campus after successfully appealing led to the reinstatement. said. faculty who make confidential matters the council Epsilon to an eleven month suspension stemming The fraternity was convicted of the Tau Kappa Epsilon representatives recommendations to the president handles include personnel and from an October hazing incident, undisclosed hazing incident last presented Dean of Students Timothy F. regarding budgetary decisions, salary decisions. remain on university officials said. January, losing status as a campus Brooks with a petition Thursday, listing does I)Ot seek enough input from "The counci I certainly does The fraternity, however, is still on Greek organization and being changes made within the fraternity. students when those cuts involve want student input on student probation until probation until the fall of 1992, said temporarily suspended from their "We went through an extensive them. issues," he said, "but student fall of 1992 Nancy Geist, . assistant Dean of national organization. membership review and removed 39 He said students "don't have an opinion is not as critical on some Students. Because they were reinstated, full percent of the chapter for not meeting indication of how decisions [by issues as others." Tau Kappa Epsilon Vice-President priviliges as a campus Greek see FRATERNITY page 4 the council] are being made,'' see COUNCIL page 5 Review editor finalist Bar's dress code called unfair BSU claims Down Under clothing policy discriminatory for journalism award By Mike Martin Students' Union said he senses more comfortable, relaxed Senior 5t~ff Reporter some discriminatory overtones in atmosphere for such customers. A new dress code at a local the Down Under's new policy. "Alternative Night was Student nominated for Gulf War series nightclub'siSpecialty night has "This dress code sounds like a originally meant for college drawn fire from the Black Students' definite attempt to single out a students," Tyer said ...We would By Doug Donovan certain group, and to flush out a like to see this code bring in more 1\ssislanl News Editor Union who called the policy a "discriminatory practice." certain element," Greene said. college students, inch&ding people While most students viewed the Persian Gulf war from According to the Down Under's "This is a discriminatory from schools like Del Tech and a detached perch on the university's lush campus last Thursday Alternative Nights' practice," he said, "If I am willi ng Goldy's, as well as some older semester, a university senior watched the war up close on policy, club patrons will no longer to pay for your services, I should be customers who might WIUU to come the barren deserts of Saudi Arabia and reported on what be allowed to wear hats, tank tops, able to go into your establishment in for a drink," he saw. T-shirts, ripped jeans (even "pre dressed however I choose." "I' m not knocking non Now, that student, Robert Weston (AS SR), the tom" designer styles) or excessive Tyer defended the dress codeby students," Tyer said. "Most of editorial editor of The Review, has been named one of jewelry, nor will beepers be saying it was meant to attract more them, just like the students, come in three finalists for the College Journalist of the Year permitted inside the club in most students to the Down Under on the just to have a good time. Award .He was accepted to the competition, sponsored by circumstances, said Clint Tyer, 18-and-older night by providing a see DRESS CODE page 4 the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and U. - The assistant manager at the club, National College Newspaper, for his coverage of Tyer said in order to improve the Operation Desert Storm. image of the club, overalls will ~-----INDEX------------------------~ Weston, who authored a nine-part series on various probably be added to the above list Opinion .......................... 6 aspects of the war, will travel to Denver next month for when the dress code takes full the annual ACP convention. At the convention he'll vie effect in early October. Vivant. ..........................11 with with college journalists from Pacific Lutheran "We want to see the clientele a Entertainment ............... 13 University and Missouri South State College for a $3,000 little dressier," Tyer said. "This first prize. dress code should be more Classifieds .....................15 "The war was the biggest thing to happen to me in my conducive to a nice atmosphere - Sports .............. ............. 17 life," said Weston, formerly a staff sergeant in the Air a little more relued for students Comics. .........................19 National Ouard during the war. • and older customers." "Before I went I knew I wu going to write. I knew it Tyer said while the code was ---Also inside: --- wu something unusual,'' he said. established primarily for the Parkulator controve.rsy ........ 3 Before being sent overseas, Weston wrote stories about Alternative Nights, it will actually the then-escalating situation in the Persian Gulf, the be used as a standard policy for all Lost professors ...................11 possibility of a draft and Kuwaiti students volunteering to nights for the time being.