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An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper FRIDAY May 16, 1997 Volume 123 • THE • Number 55 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Permit No. 26 Six sections memorialize Delaware AIDS deaths :Local First 5-star brings evaluation ;quilt to released 1 No fraternities earned 5 stars; Newark our sororities gained high honors BY ROBERT ARMENGOL City News Editor BY STEFANIE SMALL 'We were pretty much confident in our Student Affairj· Editor In the dungeons of Newark High School this standing before the awards," Delta Gamma week, two 12-by-12-foot woven sheets hung as When the results of the ftrst-ever Greek President Jocelyn Gillies said. "We knew bright testaments to power, beauty and sadness. Five Star Evaluation System were we did everything right and were on top of The contrast between the dark, forbidding announced Monday night, four sororities it." hallways of the school's basement and the solemn received five-star ratings, while no Gillies said she thinks the Five Star light of its small Distance Learning Lab, where the fraternities did, making first semester System is a fair evaluation of a chapter. :two mammoth cloths stood draped from the ceiling, freshmen ineligible for rush next Fall. The sorority has not decided what to do ·was radical, humbling, perfect. Two fraternities received four stars, nine with the award money, but they plan to use Thanks to the idea of one spirited young leader, others three stars each, and six fraternities the money to benefit the entire sorority visitors got the chance Wednesday night to see were ranked with just two stars. Four academically. what more than 600 Newark High students sororities received five-star ratings, while Sigma Kappa received the si lver cup experienced throughout the week: two sections of the other seven were awarded four stars. and a $500 scholarship and Chi Omega the Names Project Foundation AIDS Quilt The Five Star System is a new method earned the bronze cup and a $250 award, Memorial. of rating the academic, social and financial Hart said. In all, the quilt project amounts to a lO-year-old, standings of each chapter. lt was instituted The Greek Affairs office released the 52-ton collection of 43,000 panels dedicated by this academic year by the Interfraternity star status of only those chapters that friends and family to their loved ones who have Council, Panhellenic Counci I and th e received special recognition at the banquet, died of the disease since its outbreak in the early National Panhellenic Council, along with Hart said, so that fraternities would not be 1980s. the help of Greek Affairs and the Office of concerned that their status could be used The AIDS Quilt burst into the national spotlight the Dean of Students. against them. in full-force last October when organizers had it Fraternities with one- and two-star Dean of Students Timothy F. Brooks sprawled across The Mall in Washington, D.C., in a ratings will have privileges taken away, said he thought the Five Star System was three-day open tribute that occupied an area larger while five-star chapters have incentives effective in evaluating the perfonnance of than 25 football fields. such as monetary awards and the privilege fraternities and sororities. "As a ftrst time ewark High senior Elise H. Cole and her of being able to rush first semester in dealing with this system, I was very friends were there. freshmen, said Noel Hart, Greek Affairs pleased that all the groups complied. ' "It was tear-jerking," she said. "I couldn't coordinator . Brooks said he was glad that no believe there were so many people and so many Five-star orority Delta Gamma won the chapters earned only one star and added gold cup and a $1,000 scholarship award that the chapters indicated they could make panels. It absolutely amazed me. We went up to the THE REVIEW I John Chabalko Capitol Building and looked out and the quilt was for earning 99.7 percent of the total the next step up. Newark resident Melissa Blansfield examines one of two sections of the Names possible points, Hart said. see AIDS QUILT page A3 Project Foundation AIDS Quilt Memorial on display at Newark High School. see 5-STAR page AS :Fraternity alcohol policies to change !PC • BY SHAWN P. MITCHELL "As ;:;n IFC we're encouraging chapters to admission and providing unlimited alcohol, Margalit said he sees these new policies Imp 0 s e s Assistanl Edilorial Ediwr limit the number of events they hold that are a practice which violates city law, a third as a deterrent for underage drinking. A resolution currently before the open to non-Greeks," he said. "For students party vendor would now be brought in to "For example we' re going to do away • Interfraternity Council could mean a number who aren' t Greek it will be harder to get into sell alcohol an d check IDs, he said. with markers and use wrist-bands [to denote strl c ter of changes in the group's social policies, parties. Students won't be able to get in "The days of buying mass quantities of who is legal)," he said. "No more worrying particularly those dealing with fraternities unless they have a valid inv itation." beer are over," Margalit said. about people wiping off the M and putting and alcohol, lFC President Dave Margalit Another change this resol uti on would The third major change this resolution an Lon their hands." said. make is in the way alcohol is made available would make, he said, is in strengthening the These changes didn 't come about because standards One of the changes this resolution would at fraternity parties, he said. The new policy enforcement of the policies denoted by of any pressure from the university or an make is to limit access to fraternity parties would help reduce the amount of underage fraternities' insurance companies. outside group but have been in discussion which have always been open to all students, drinking that occurs at these parties. "These changes are something we need to within the IFC all year, he said. Margalit said. Instead of the fraterniti es chargin g for do to minimize our liability," he said. see NEW POLICY page A6 BYJAMES JANVIER Swff Reponer The Interfraternity Council tightened its reigns on fraternities this semester by implementing a new scholarship policy expected to raise standards of fraternal academics. The IFC scholarship policy, proposed Do you know who's who? and outlined by president Dave Margalit, was voted in by a unanimous IFC decision and put into effect in April. 'The old policy was no longer applicable Which one of to all of the changes occurring within the these is not like uni versity and its regulations," Margalit the other? said. 'We are trying to help the students More students recognize that fraternities are well-rounded, recognized and not just known for their social aspects." actor Andrew Under the new policy, fraternities must Shue than the set up an academic assistance program, four politicians appoint a scholarship chairman who is combined. responsible for maintaining the policy and require a minimum of six study hours for TilE REVIEW I John Chabalko associate or pledge members. Fraternities must also maintain a In an unofficial survey, students of varying majors and see SCHOLARSHIP page A2 INDEX ages could not correctly identify Delaware politicians Campus Calendar ................ ..A2 Police Reports ....................... A2 World News ........ .... ........... ... A3 BY R. RYAN KOPKO what an overwhelming majority of the 70 Kirkbride Hall, Ewing Hall and Gov. Carper," said Hi sham Sabrin, a Editorial .... ... .............. ............ A8 Sla/f Repor/er students questioned failed to answer. All Memorial Hall. senior political science major. He met the Five large photographs were dangled but one of the men shown were Shue was correctly identified by 64 four other politicians while they were ---Also inside: -- in front of Jeff Liss, a junior political Delaware's political officials. percent of the students, receiving more campaigning during election time. A second examination of traffic science major. The unofficial survey conducted notoriety than any of the other Hisham was one of only five students in Newark looks at the Deer Puzzled at first, he stammered for a Tuesday asked students of various "prominent" Delaware faces. who correctly named all of the Delaware Park intersection, the crosswalk moment before attempting to identify the majors and ages if they could identify The students responded to the Shue political figures. situation and the Newark faces before him. pictures of Sen. William V. Roth Jr., R photo with "Billy," the name of the Only 11 percent of those surveyed Chicken. See page A4. "I feel stupid. Are we supposed to Del., Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., character he plays on the show, "that could name Biden or Castle and a mere 5 know these?" he asked. Rep. Michael N. Castle, R-Del., Gov. Melrose boy" and "Elizabeth Shue's percent recognized Roth as a senator "I've seen that guy before on the Thomas R. Carper and actor Andrew brother." from the First State. news," he said, examining the pictures Shue from the television show "Melrose Carper was correctly identified 20 Marisa Temler, a sophomore more closely. " He looks like a Place." percent of the time, which accounted for communications major, said the men politician." The survey took place across campus the second most popular response. looked like politicians because they were Liss' response to the photos reflect including Smith Hall, the Scrounge, "I've met them all and had lunch with see WHO'S WHO page A2 J Delaware libraries rank lowest in nation weeks ago.