Report Shows Less Female Professors Annual Study Says Percentage of Female Faculty A.T University Below Other Comparable Colleges
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In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper The Lesher evils Halloween: of hitting .180 The Monster of =- in the minors all Holidays ~~~~ page BS page 81 · · -::. fREE FRIDAY Report shows less female professors Annual study says percentage of female faculty a.t university below other comparable colleges By Liz Lardaro Asslsrant News Editor Aithough undergraduate females comJXise rrore than half of the student population, only 11 percent of their professors are women, according to a report released last week. The Commission on the Status of Women, an annual report to President David P. Roselle, compared the university's percentage of female professors with those of the following regional institutions: -...merican University, has 18 percent; •Rutgers State University at New Brunswick, 14 percent; IIJniversity of Maryland at College Park, 13 percent; THE REVIEW I Walter M. Eberz IIJniversity of Pennsylvania. 11 percent Members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) protest Wednesday at a Du Pont plant In New Jersey. The report also showed that out of the 45 department chairmen at the university, only five were women. Joan Del Fattore, chairwoman for the .SEAC.protests Du Pont plant commission and associate English professor, said the figures may be low because of the region in which the university is located. Student environmentalists demonstrate again~t company's practices · "The region is very competitive," Del Fattore said. In 1991. promotions for females at the THE REVIEW I joshua Crookshank By Michael Regan chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the administrativp level fell 14.5 percent from AsWa-lt News Edt'ir leading compound responsible for 1990. In 1990, faculty promotiQJlS for women DEEPWATER NJ.- Eighteen ozme depletioo. by the end of 1995. Liane Sorenson, executive director of the were at 17. 1 percent, while in 1991, the university students and former The reason the phase-out can't Commission and director for the Office of number of promotions increased to 43.3 studrnls denmslraled at the Du Pmt . occur immediately. aa:G'ding to Du Women's Affairs. said the reason for the percent. Co. plant here Wednesday noning to Pont. is that CFCs "are required to large difference in numbers is because this Del Fattore said as women move up the protest the use of cheplicals which, meet vital societal needs." These year's report included more positions for the university employee ladder, the figures will according to the group; are hazardoos needs include refrigeration and air administrative level. naturally increase. to the ozooe. conditioning for hospitals, food Though the report showed the number of '~here are highly qualified women in the Members of the Student madcets. offices and the OOft. administrative promotions for women had mid-level ranks," she said. Envirmnmtal Actioo Coolition Rad &isling macltlnery in 1hese areas dec~. there was a marked increase .in Although the percentage of promotions Eco Tribe (SEACret) wore r.Kiiatioo cannot be coovened to use altemalive, faculty ·promotions. see ANNUAL REPORT page A7 suits to syrOOolize the potenlial danger environmentally sound sources of to the environment that refrigeration, such as ammonia, cJlluUlucm:artloos (CFCs) pose. according to Du Pmt offiCials. Similar protests occurred at Du DuPont currently offers an Pont plants on Wednesday in altemalive co~ for CR:s which Professional soccer Califmrla. Krnluclcy, Temessee arxJ could be used in these rmchires and T~ by oda environm:nlal~ have 95 to 98 percent less ozone Jason Halbert (AS SR), a depleting potmtial thlll CFCs. spokesman f<l' SEA<i'et. said the goal Hydrochlorofluorocarbons comes to Delaware of the demonstration was to raise (HCR:s) would wtxlc as a "mdging" public awareness about DuPont's chemical until a better alternative is envirmmental positi<n developed. according to Du Pmt. "It's up to us, ~o educate people · Tom Rooney (AS JR), a By Jeff Pearlman The Wizards will be Delaware's first aboot what's really going on. because spokesman for SEACret, said the Sporu Editor professional team since the early 1970s, Du Pool's ruming a !l:aiJl, and they're percentages that Du Pmt quoted for It's a 50 minute drive to Philadelphia to when the Wings played in the now-defunct, !lying to stall, just like they have sioce ozooe depletion C3ll'ied by HCR:::s are watch the Eagles, Phillies or 76ers. American Soccer League. 1974 when the first report about misleading. To catch an Orioles game in Baltimore "It's a thrill to bring Delaware its only ozone depletioo came out." Halbert HCFCs will deplete the ozone 95 try an hour in traffic. professional sport team." Wizard President said. to 98 pen:ent less thlll CfCs over 500 As the second smallest state in the nation, John David Gross said. "In May 1993, we Karen TueJk. a llliversity gra:luate. years, however the majority of the Delaware has always been sandwiched hope to bring some magic to Delaware." said ozone depletion causes global depldioo will oa:ur within the first 25 betwee" major sports markets that take away The Wizards will compete in the Atlantic warming and increases the risk of years. Roooey said. any chance of a First State professional Division of the United States Interregional sldn cancer. The use of HCFs as a bridging team. Soccer League (USISL), a six-year-old According to a Du Pont chemical in the short run is not an Until now. operation that features 35 teams throughout THE REVIEW I Wilter M. Eben spokesnm. the COIJ18ly's pial is to enviroomentally swnd altanalive, re In a press conference Tuesd~y at the the country. : phase out the production of said. Protestors wear radiation suits as part of SEAC's Holiday Inn in Newark, team officials The USISL plays a 16-game season from demonstration against a New Jersey Ou Pont plant announced that the Delaware Wizards, a May to July .- The Wizards' eight home professional soccer team, will begin play games are tentatively scheduled to be played next year. see DEL page A6 ·spe~ker asserts African pride pr. Leonard Jeffries, Jr. lectures on cultural diversity .Students By Lindsy Solomon promote ~Rrpott« : While about 400 students, faculty and community members gathered i,nslde Smith Hall Tuesday night to awareness • a speech on Mrican awareness, . students outside the hall held signs Demolished car in·protest. · "Go home hate monger" and draws a~ention "Roselle - Do you support · this?'' read the signs of Young A.mericans to drunk driving for· Freedom (Y AF) protesting the appearance of Leonard Jeffries, Jr., a By Jennifer Post professor from the City University St•ff Reporter of.New York (CUNY). Forty-eight people in. THE REVIEW I Maximllfian Gretsch In August 1991, Jeffries, a Black Delaware died in alcohol American Studies professor, Student interest group Tau Epsilon Phi reminds students not to drink related car accidents last year. and drive by placing a wrecked car outside the Perkins Student Center. received publicity for delivering a According to Delaware State speech which accused Jewish and Police, 28 people were added coming home from The Ground by Good Childs Junkyard in Jtalian people of controlling the to that ·toll between January Round on South College A venue in Newark. media to oppress African and September 1992. August. Her vehicle was 'struck by Schafetz said: "I was Americans. To promote alcohol a drunk driver traveling 104 miles dumbfounded. It was an intense During Tuesday's lecture, awareness and deter further per hour, said Marc Schafetz (BE feeling to think that iMocent lives ".(:ultural Diversity in African deaths, this week the Tau SO), president of the group. can be taken so easily by drunk <:;ommunities," Jeffries said it was Epsilon Phi interest group An artery in her heart was drivers." not in his "interest to attack any THE REVIEW I Mulmlllln Clrelsch promoted a familiar message: punctured and she was killed Students passed by the wrecked peoples or groups, but to raise the Dr. Leonard Jeffries speaks of the Importance of Africa In "Friends don't let friends drive instantly, Schafetz said. vehicle all week and read the question of truth." history to about 400 people in Smith Hall Tuesday night. drunk." The woman left behind a group's message, which was posted Jeffries said that he wants to "get The remains of a car crashed husband, 30. and two children, 3 on a board. Into the truth of who [African addressed was the lack of understandina in our educational in an alcohol-related accident and 5, he said. Nancy Budacz (ED SO) said, Americans) are and ask critical system of our African origin -Africa being the cradle of civilization in ancient times. were displayed in front of the Seth Klein (AS SO), a member "Hearing about drunk driving questions. Perkins Student Center. of Tau Epsilon Phi, said he was accidents doesn • t have the same "But if you can't put Africa in the He said that we ha~e been tauJht human history by rich white The car was driven by a 28- stunned when the group went to 'enter of things, then y~u can•t men in terms of "his story" not history, which is the flow of year-old woman who was pick out the car, which was donated see 51\JDENT GROUPpage A7 fathom this." human developrnenL One of the "truths" Jeffries s~ LEONARD JEFFRIES pqe A6 II J A2 • THE REVIEW. October 30, 1992 Textbooks of American schools plagued with Media makes African censorship Americans vidims or villains The oensiXIhip ltllt paps the lieXtboob Uled in Anaican classrooms is a result d the JRS5'R The media is rapoasible fm exerted (Jl piblisbing coa.-Ues by beJpiDa to aeare nepdve left 101 right wing extremists, a stereotypes of blacks.