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Traditional and Delaware-Delaware State • University artists promote not-so-traditional game preview ~_'-\.~ · World AIDS Day gift ideas page 1 page3 .· Faculty Senate votes ~~ · The Admiral . David M. Nelson, former athletic to uphold plus/minus· director, dies of heart attack at 71 However, professors may or may not use pluses/minuses By Bradley A. Huebner By Paul Kane Faculty Senate 'President Robert Taapn IIJd Assis!Mit Spotls Editor lldministr.llive Neon Editor Margaret Andersen, associate provost for David M. Nelson, the man who has been called the The Faculty Senate breathed new life into Academic Affairs, said the error could be foremost authority on national collegiate athletics and the lhe plus/minus grading system yesterday voting corrected in lhe minutes. coach who put University of Delaware football on the map, David M. for the continued use of the policy and Andersen said after the meetinJ, .. We died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon at the age of 71. Nelson, 71, specifying that its use be optional for faculty reaffirmed the plus/minus system and re After watching his former team lose a thrilling 42-35 former football members. affirmed the right of faculty's authority tO double-overtime playoff game to James Madison University coach, suffered After an hour-long debate which included determine .and. to measure a student's at Delaware Stadium, he returned to his Newark home and a heart attack three different amendments to the original performance." · collapsed. He was pronounced dead later at Christiana resolution, the senate agreed on a proposal and died Andersen told the senate Nov. 4 the sradilll Hospital. allowing the faculty to chose what grades lhey system could not be optional and senators wbo "Football has lost a great man, one who has made a Saturday give students. say they do not use the system .. leave greater contribution to the rules of football than any man in afternoon in his The resolution, the last of lhe three presented themselves open for possible grievance suits by the game's history," said Delaware head coach Harold R. Newark home. by Frank Murray, dean of the College of students." "Tubby.. Raymond. He was head Eduction, reads, "The senate re-affirms the R. Byron Pipes, provost and vice president Nelson came to the university in 1951 as football coach coach and existence of the 11-point grade system with the for Academic Affairs, said at the start of dle and athletic director. He served as the secretary of the athletic director understanding that faculty may use as many meeting "faculty have the authority and NCAA's Rules Committee for lhe last 29 years. at the university points in their academic judgement that are responsibility to measure a student's Nelson retired from coaching in 1965 to devote himself from 1951 to appropriate for the purposes of evaluating performance ... see NElSON page 4 1984. academic achievement." However, the current The Provost's Office would enforce any plus/minus grading system at the university position lhe senate took, Pipes added. contains 12 grade points including an 'F.' see PLUS/MINUS pap 4 Accrediting agency g1ven• repre1ve• Middle States diversity criteria questioned By Jonathan Thomas receive federal aid. CopyEditot Middle States has been under The final decision on the fate of scrutiny by lhe education ~i the Middle States Association of since last year because of its use of Schools and Colleges has been diversity as an accreditation standard. postponed by the Department of The report to the National Education Wltil February 1992. Advisory Committee by staff Rick Wyner, consultant to the members of the education Education Department's general depanment stated Middle Saaaes "bas council reviewing whether Middle used the threat of delayed or withdrawn accreditation to force schools to implement [Middle • See editorial page 6 States'} definition of diversity." Middle States' rep-esentatives say States should receive government diversity is used as criterion only recognition, said the organization when it is part of the institution's requested a chance to respond to a own goals. But the staff report said report accusing it of imposing the agency has applied diversity diversity standards on universities. where it was not pan of a school's Middle States, the agency which stated mission. will evaluate the university in Middle States was given until February, is an association of Dec. ·19 to respond tO the report and universities in the mid-Atlantic propose whatever amendments to A solitary fan blasts his horn, but spectators are too engrossed in the double overtime football playoff region that sets accreditation their accreditation criterion they feei guidelines for self-regulation to are necessary, Wyner said. A against James Madison University to notice. Delaware fell short 42-35 to end the season 1~2. See page 11. minimize government control. decision is expected to be reached in Schools not accredited will not see ACCREDmNC page 4 Expert outlines Police seek suspects in assaults Newark Police have composite drawings of two attackers in a rape Cuban socialism attempt and an assault. Police also have a suspect in a Nov. 3 rape of a student on Madison Drive. :Economist believes capitalism in state of crisis The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken samples 'By Vincent A. 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J.Oday ... it is the Soviet model of is still prominent in Cuba and what Officials said it will take between ilocialism as well as capitalism that needs to be done to ensure its four months and a year for the The Partners Reward Fund is November 11 at Amstel Avenue and Is in a state of crisis," said Carlos survival. Still a revolutionary results to be returned. offering $200 for any information Orchard Road, near Purnell Hall. :rablada, professor of economics at country in 1960, Cuba examined the Sgt. Roy Clough said Newark leading to the arrest and conviction The suspect is described a heavy ~ University of Havana. Soviet Union's model of socialism, Police have made 10 arrests in of the the suspected rapists. 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