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Dupont and Delaware: Academic Life Behin~D the Nylon Curtain t) ~ I ) /... ) L ;~ . DuPont And Delaware: Academic Life Behin~d The Nylon Curtain (DuPont and Del'aware:"Academi c institutions in this area, the university has university. It is a land-grant institution; it assured it of fiscal autonOlny. Local Life Behind The Nylon Curtain", been greatly influenced by Delaware's admits all qualified residents of the state; politicians still reminisce about "Rolls is being reprinted from the May 10 · wealthiest family, the du Ponts, and by it performs various service functions for Royce Day" in Dover, the state capital, a issue of "Science" magazine, The the nearby chemical complex created by the state; and it draws about 35 percent of reference to the assemblage of author is Philip M, Bolley, Bolley E. I. du Pont de Nemou~ & Company, the its operating budget from state sources. multimillionaire trustees who descended spent several days on campus world's largest chemical company. Indeed, Yet the ultimate authority is vested in a on the legislature to support the earlier this year interviewing stu• the university comes close to being a du 32-man board of trustees which is largely university's cause. dents, faculty and administrators, Pont-directed enterprise. Of the 14 Though the university is of only 'self-perpetuating and thus not directly average reputation and medium size As the article reveals, he also did trustees currently serving on the controlled by the state. And within that extensive work outside the uni· university's executive committee, nine are (about 6500 full-time undergraduates, unwieldy board, power tends to reside 1800 full-and part-time graduate students, versity in interviewing numerous either members of the du Pont family by with the du Ponts. When Science asked Delawareans, Permission was blood or marriage, or are executives of the 425 full-time faculty), -the du Pont John A. Perkins, president of the presence has made it richer than many granted by "Science" magazine to Du Pont Company or of a family-owned university from 1950 to 1967, to name reprint the entire article, • The bank. The university draws great strength larger and more prestigious institutions. A the most influential current trustees, he survey by the American Alumni Council Editors) from its ties with the du Ponts, but, cited eight men-six of them Du Pont Tucked away in this tiny eastern according to many faculty members and and the Council for Financial Aid to executives or family members. Education indicates that Delaware had an seaboard state that considers itself the students, it has also been "distorted" and The university's largely independent "chemical capital of the world" is an "intimidated" by the du Pont presence. endowment of $65.5 million (book value) status was underlined a few years ago in 1965-66, the fourth highest endowment institution whose overall quality is l'he university is an -unusual blend of when a state budget director tried to force considered only average but which has among 183 public institutions surveyed public and private characteristics. National the univer~ity to give a detailed accounting and an amount exceeding the endowments nevertheless achieved considerable surveys often lump it in the "public of all its expenditures and finances instead eminence in engineering and somewhat of such well-known private universities as institution" or "state university" category, of merely an audit of its use of state Duke, Brown, Southern California, and lesser recognition in science--the_ but !)elaware generally refers to itself as a funds. After a bruising and bitter fight, the University of Delaware. As is true of many Tulane. Delaware's first major benefactor "state-related" or "state-assisted" university pushed through legislation that (Continued to page io) VOL. 90 NO. 53 FINAL UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DEL. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968 Review Surveys Women's Hours: C~eds Vote for Self-Regulation (-- Women's hours has been a en, or none at all." a total of 74.8% named stu­ subject of much heated debate "I feel that junior.s and sen­ dents above freshmen as cap­ at. the univer .5ity for a long iors have experienced enough able. time. However, we know of no responsibility and self-dis­ We were highly criticized for recent comprehensive surveyto cipline to enable them to be-­ our choice of words, especially show how Delaware women feel prepared to accept a no-hour on the first question. This ques­ about the topic. policy." tion asked the women if they A Review team decided to 11 If I want to sleep with thought the present hour regu­ conduct a survey as a service someone, a closed dorm is not lations are "too lenient," "rea­ to the campus. We do not see going to prevent me." sonable,'' 'Or "unjust." Only it as a professional job, but A significant 60.5% of the three women, one sophomore, with a return of 1,300 of the women listed either freshmen one junior and one senior said ~,900 surveys distributed, or a or sophomores and above as ma­ too lenient. Reasonable was the 68.4% return, we feel that it is ture enough to handle self-regu­ (Continued to page 15) significantly comprehensive and lated hours. On the other hand, informative. As individuals, 97.7% of the women on campus seem to feel that they "could adequately Drew Pearson handle the responsibilJt.y of self-regulated hours." How­ ever, their faith in other women "WE SHALL OVERCOME," was sung by university students residents does not match their To Visit Del. Wednesday night in sympathy march for Delaware State student's faith in themselves. The women protest. See story on page 7. Review Photo find much difficulty in agreeing Drew Pearson, nationally­ Pearson's journalistic car­ on where to draw the line, if any syndicated political columnist eer began after his graduation is to be drawn. Only 22.4% of will speak Monday night in from Swarthmore College in all women felt that freshmen Mitchell Hall at 8 p.m. 1920. He spent a year in and up "could handle the re­ Pearson's column "Wash­ graduate school at the Univer­ Gilbert A Director sponsibility of individually de­ ington Merry-Go-Round," is sity of Pennsylvania and then termined hours." The opinions the most widely circulated shipped out as a seaman to are further fragmented as 38.1% political column in the nation the Far East. He became a said sophomores and up are re­ and is currently pUblished correspondent tor several ResignsOn Policy _ ; sponsible enough, 23.2% said in our 625 newspapers. T. Allen Comp, a graduate pus involving students over juniors, and 13.5% said only The total readership is es­ (Continued to page 14) student . and director of Gil­ _the past two years. seniors. In speaking of the timated at 45 million. bert A dormitory, resigned Pearson, 70, has been writ­ When contacted by The Re­ classes below senior, the sta­ his post Wednesday because ing his seven-day-a-week view, Comp said, "Until this tistics apply to all the classes of what he termed, "the vin­ column since 1931 when he Last Issue system finds itself capable of above the one mentioned. dictive caprice that substi­ was a reporter in the Washing­ This is the last issue of admitting public crittcism tutes for 'justice' in this in­ ton Bureau of the Baltimore The Review for the spring from within its own ranks, it TO BE OR NOT TO BE stitution." sun. He came to prominence term. The Review will resume · is forced to perpetuate its own SOme of the pro and con argu­ Com p said that "if you' re in the national political scene publication on September 23, alienation and rigidity." ments of discriminatory hours 1968. going to be a law enforcer, were the following: through two books he co­ authored with Robert Any unclaimed articles, you've got to be a consistent Comp, who had served as a 11 Freshmen definitely should s. Allen, a contributing editor to advertising copy and law enforcer." In a letter to dorm director tor almost two have strict hours because ofthe classified advertisements that The Review May 7, he had years, and his wife, will live sudden freedom they obtain." the Christian Science Monitor. were not published may be criticized the handling of the with friends in Wilmington un­ "I do not think that hours The books were entitled picked up at the Review obscenity arrests and other til they move into a new home should be different from the "Washington Merry - Go - office on the third floor of judicial procedures on cam_- early in the summer. different classes. There should Round" and "More Merry­ be a certain code for all worn- Go-Round." :::~[:i:::i~:]:ti:[~::::fi[:E:~~III::::::::::rr::r:II: : PAGE 2 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DE!-., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968 BIRTHDAY PARTY To- be held May 14, May 28, June Information see the notebook morrow the PHOENIX wlll 11, and June 25 at the Robin on Student Center Inform a­ celebrate its tlfth birthday. Hood Theatre, Ardentown, at tion Desk. The "Graveyard Train" will 8 p.m. Students can buy tickets entertain. If you play an In­ at the Student Center Desk. 0 U Tl NG CL UB Pool party strument, bring it along with Buses wt11 leave the Student meeting, sllde show, song­ you. Admission Is $1. Every­ Center for the May 28 show. fe:;t, square dance, etc., to be one Is Invited. held Sunday. Wtll leave Stu­ GEOLOGY COLLOQUY dent Center at 3 p.m. BRIDAL FAIR --AWS Bridal Dr. Thomas E. Pickett of the show to be In the Rodney Room, OUTING CLUB Demonstra­ Delaware Geological Survey Monday night.
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