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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Volume 133, Issue 19 / I I \ ...1 2 AprillO, 2007 . .ci .. JUSJ e . 2 News 6 Who's who in Newark 16 Editorial 17 Opinion 21 Mosaic 25 Fashion Forward 32 Classifieds 34 Sports THE REVIEW/Sara Davidson Flowers are a sign of spring, but the April weather remains frigid in Newark. 37 Sports Commentary }Vf~l> exclJJsives Check out these articles·and more on UDreview.com • Hagley Museum preserves duPont family's paSt • The evolution of television profanity • Facebook diaries provide medium for expressive Gen-Yers THE REVIEW/Meaghan Jones THE REVIEW/Sara Davidson Lynn Garafola finds a quiet place to study in Gore The gloomy weather keeps students inside hoping for Hall. warmer temperatures. The Review is published once weekly every Tuesday of the school year, Editor in Chief Administrative News Editor Columnist except during Winter and Summer Sessions. 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Enterprise News Editor Corinne Clemetsen, Andrea Ramsay Meghan Lobdell ')t April 10, 2007 3 ·in the news DEMS LOOK TO VETERANS FOR HELP IN RUNNING PRIMARIES MORE EDUCATED WORKERS MAKE UP FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY The Nevada Democratic Party is draft begun raising the $2 million they think their The federal work force has become more the CBO found full-time employees are clus ing veterans of Iowa's famous caucuses to caucus will cost, but little organizing has highly educated, increasingly clustered in tered in two basic groups: those who Q.irect its Jan. 19 nominating campaign, been done yet. professional and administrative jobs, with remained in government after the downsizing jncluding building a new precinct-level The Democrats are well on their way, substantial numbers of employees switching of the 1990s, and those who were hired as part organization and adapting a computerized fueled in part by a growing sense of confi agencies and occupations each year. With of the post-September 11, 2001 terrorist tabulation system initially designed for Iowa. dence that they can tum the state's five elec higher education levels and more complex attacks buildup. The party plans to spend more than $2 toral votes - which President Bush won by jobs, average salaries have increased. The newly hired employees are not espe million as Nevada moves to second on the approximately 20,000 votes in 2004 - from Those findings are drawn from a recent cially young - 36 years, on average. The 2008 Democratic primary caucus calendar in red to blue come November 2008. ly released report from the Congressional average age in the civil service is 47. an effort to reverse its largely irrelevant past The caucuses will be much more geo Budget Office, "Characteristics and Pay of Because of their job experience and edu role in determining the party's presidential graphically spread out than in the past. Federal Civilian Employees." The analysis is cation, thes~ new hires are joining govern front-runner. Organizers say they expect as Traditionally, the party holds all of' a coun based on data for approximately 1.4 million ment at higher grade levels than in the past. many as 100,000 ofthe state's 494,000 regis ty's precinct caucuses at one central site. salaried, full-time government workers in The CBO found 55 percent of new employees tered Democrats to take part, an exponential Come January, it hopes to run caucuses at December 2005. had a bachelor's degree, compared with 49 increase over the 8,000 who· turned out in scores of sites around the state, down to the Understanding federal work force trends percent of all full-time civil servants. 2004. precinct level in urban settings such as Las has been increasingly important for the Employees covered by the General Nevada Republican leaders agreed Vegas and in centralized locations in rural Congress. Projections show approximately 60 Schedule, the largest federal pay system, informally last month to move their caucus areas such as Elko County, which covers percent of federal workers will be eligible for received an average pay of $63,000 in to Jan. 19. The shift is expected to be ratified more than 17,000 square miles of northeast retirement over the next 10 years, putting gov December 2005, the CBO said. The average at the state central committee meeting April Nevada. ernment programs at risk if agencies falter in professional employee earned approximately 21, during which new state leaders also are hiring replacements. $80,000, and federal executives were paid, on expected to be elected. Party officials have In its review of the federal work force, average, $147,000. STAlES REJECT FUNDING FOR ABSTINENCE-ONLY SEX EDUCATION GINGRICH CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL In an emerging revolt against abstinence undermine the progress they have made to fight Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has touched off a political frrestorm and only sex education, states are turning down mil teen pregnancy and curtail the spread of sexual urged Attorney General Alberto R. become a test of the ability of Gonzales to lions of dollars in federal grants, unwilling to ly transmitted diseases, are becoming increas Gonzales to resign, saying the "self-creat manage the sprawling Justice Department accept White House dictates that the money be ingly alarmed. ed mess" over the firings of eight U.S. and its 110,000 employees. used for classes focused on teaching chastity. States have used the money to help public attorneys last year has hampered his abili Gonzales has said be was not involved Six states - Ohio, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and private schools start and run educational ty to do his job. in the details of deciding which prosecu Rhode Island, Montana and New Jersey- plan programs, develop classroom instruction for Gingrich, who is believed to be con tors were to be replaced, although his to drop abstinence-only programs, which is nonprofit groups and pay for advertising and sidering a run for the 2008 GOP presiden statements have been contradicted in managed by a unit of the U.S. Department of other media campaigns. tial nomination, is the latest prominent sworn testimony by his former chief of Heath and Human Services, by the end of the To critics, the policy shift addresses grow Republican to speak out against the attor staff, D~ Kyle Sampson. year. ing concerns that sexually-active youth are not ney general, and Democrats said the "' Gonzales is scheduled to appear April The program does not allow the money to getting access to medically accurate information remarks were evidence of waning support 17 before the Senate Judiciary Committee be used to promote condom or contraceptive about use of contraceptives and disease preven within Gonzales' own party. /. in what many view as a make-or-break . use, and requires teachers to emphasize ideas, tion. Gingrich defended Bush's right to opportunity to defend his handling of the such as bearing children outside of wedlock is In an Qct. 3 report that surveyed abstinence replace the federal prosecutors, who are all controversy and try to save his job. The harmful to society. nrograms in 10 states, the Government presidential appointees. But he said the White House bas said that Bush still sup Because states are walking away from such Accountability Office concluded that such pro administration and Gonzales had bungled ports Gonzales, a close adviser since the funding, abstinence-only groups, who insist that grams have not proven to work, and at times the explanation ofthe moves and should be president's years as governor of Texas, but cutting off this source of revenue will close teach kids medically inaccurate information held accountable. believes he has to repair his relations with dozens of nonprofit sex education groups, will about condoms and AIDS. The ?uster of the eight prosecutors Congress. - Compiled from the L.A. Times and Washington Post wire reports State police officer BULLET STOPPED BY REFRIGERATOR A 23-year-old victim reported a bullet was shot at her home on Patrick Henry Drive in the neighborhood of Cherry Hill between 9 p.m. on March 31 and 6 a.m. on April 1, Cpl. Paul Feld said. Newark police charged with rape responded to the scene and found the bullet had struck through the rear- sliding door and stopped after hitting the refrigerator. · Police conducted a search around the neighborhood and located a 54-year-old male suspect who also lives in Cherry Hill, Feld said.