Student Hospitalized with Meningitis More Than 80 People Seek Treatment at Student Health Services After Possible Exposure to Virus Saturday
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Itt Section 2 In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Five-Star All-American Newspaper Delaware 26 and a National Pacemaker Geared up for a Del. state 7 primus album This ain't football page 81 FREE FRIDAY Student hospitalized with meningitis More than 80 people seek treatment at Student Health Services after possible exposure to virus Saturday By Stacey Bernstein Wilmington Hospital and was throat discharges of an infected Delucia is Delaware's ninth quarters during the incubation Assistant Fratu~ Editor declared to be in intensive care as person during its incubation case of meningitis since the period. After complaining of chills, a of Wednesday night. Siebold said. period from one to 10 days, most beginning of 1993, as compared In addition, parties and other fever, a headache and a rash, a However, he said, Delucia is commonly being less than four, to two cases in 1992, Siebold social gatherings involved in university student was transferred continuing to improve each day. Siebold said. said. These cases are not related, close personal contact like sharing to Wilmington Hospital and Approximately 80 students, People who should be he said. of beverage glasses may also diagnosed with meningitis who were either at the 271 Towne concerned are those who have However, he said, it is spread the disease. Monday night, officials said. Court party or were in direct come in direct contact with the impossible to know exactly how Siebold said It is hard, Kevin Deluci'a (BE JR), who contact with Delucia, have infected individual, Siebold said. Delucia contracted meningitis or however, to contract bacterial was at a Towne Court party already been checked and were Meningitis, which is literally an if he will suffer any long term meningitis unless one was kissed, Saturday, went to the Student given the antibiotic, rifampin, as a inflammation of the covering effects because "it's still too early directly coughed on when one's Health Services Monday with precautionary measure, Siebold around the brain and the spinal in his treatment." mouth was open or has come into symptoms of meningitis, said said. cord, tends to occur more In a memo to the university contact with the infected saliva Joseph Siebold, director of Meningitis, a rare bacterial frequently in infants and young community, Siebold said direct while sharing the same glass. Student Health Services. infection, is transmitted through adults, although cases have contact is classified as living with Students, faculty and staff He was then transferred to the direct contact from nose and ranged from age 1 to 34. an infected person in close seeMENINCrTIS P"Be AS Students lobby in Washington Support campagn finance reform bill By Clare Lyons Rep. Michael N. Castle and Sen. N-. FN!Ures Editcx William V. Roth from blocking it. WASHINGTON, D.C.- Two Campaign reform legislation, Bielen university students took their conunon said, should give every candidate an cause to Washington Wednesday to equal chance in an electoral race. influence the powers that be in the "Unless you have something very Senate and Congress. peculiar about you. if you're a non Alan Reuter (AS SR) and Adam incumbent Demoaat. you can't raise Scheinback (AS SR), members of the money," Biden said Delaware chapter of the national non "You can be an idiot and a partisan lobbying group Common Republican in Delaware and drive up Cause, discussed campaign finance to 12 driveways and raise $10,000." reform with other state Common Campaign reform centers on four Cause members and Delaware points: bundling, the adding together CongreSsional and Senalaialleaders. of private donations to make one large Reuter said Common Cause works contribution; Political Action toward government structural reforms, Committees (PACs), special interest many similar to those suggested by groups which fund candidates; soft fooner presidential candidate R Ross money, contributions to parties rather Perot, in order to create a "level than directly to individuals; and public playing field for citizens in the fmancing. political JXOCCSS." Biden came closest to representing The group's sttategy Wednesday in Conunon Cause's goals. three separate sessions with state "If you said to ml there's only one government officials was to express law to change, the single thing I would support for reform and make an change is the way we finance THE REVIEW twllter M. Eberz impression on them before they vote campaigns," Biden said. Elections for the Delaware Undergraduate Student Congress (DUSO have been postponed because the student 10 card machine on a bill which should be put forth this Biden was the first to propose a which prevents students from voting twice broke Thursday. Wednesday's results were invalidated because of the malfunction and month. reform bill, which called for total new elections will be held Tuesday April 27 in Smith Hall and Perkins Student Center between 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and in the Rodney The group intended to encourage public financing and subsequently was and Pencader Dining Halls during lunch and dinner. Sen. Joseph R. Bielen (D-Del.) to stick not passed. with his reform bill, and to dissuade see COMMON CAUSE pi18e AS ,.----INDEX-----, Debating in Dover News analysis ................... .A2 Groups Campus Briefs .................. .A2 UD Democrats, Republicans gather at Wesley Classifieds ......................... 88 Comics .............................. B9 College to discuss plan for multi-national army Police Report .................... .A2 gather Review and Opinion ......... .A6 By jim Miller Biden's proposal also includes a Sports ................................ BS Lunatic Ringe .................... .AJ !iUIH~ provision for adding members from for open The university's College DeJOOCrats Japan and India to the Security and College Republicans went to bat CouOOI. ---Also itrSide: --- against Wesley College students in The debate was conducted by the Dover Wednesday in a debate about a Rhet.oricans, a noo-profit, non-partisan Delaware Dialogues .......... .AJ forum recent proposal by Sen. Joseph Bielen educational group operating in the Earth Day Conference ....... .A4 (D-DE). Delaware and Washington, D.C. areas. Cancer research ................ .A3 By Qaham Segroves Biden recently proposed that the The Rhetoricans were founded in ~iilf~ Tlif REVIEW I M.uimillion Greltdl United States should support a United March 1988 to conduct and promote Last year, Joshua Greene (AS SR), Two members of the Young Americans for Freedom listen as Nations multinational standing army to public formal debates on vital then president of the Black Student another student group expresses its views during the Open Forum. handle such world aises as the present dollK:Slic and inlemalional issues. Union, .proposed a meeting of student situation in Bosnia. The debate included three groups to discuss diversity and cultural The proposal calls for each nation university students, and was sponsored issues. Moderated by The Review editor in the National Association for the of the U.N. Security Council to in part by the Young Republican's Although the meeting never took chief, Doug Donovan (AS SR), 11 Advancement of Colored People delegate 5,000 lroopS to lhe army, with Club of Wesley College and the place, the idea for an Open Forum in student groups attended the Open (NAACP) and the BSU supported the United States maintaining a power College Democrats and College which student groups could share their Forum. strengthening the requirement for the of veto over its use. see STUDENTS DEBATE page AS ideas on imp<xtant campus topics was The evening began with an multicultural course. planted. introduction from each group Healh Buzin (AS SR), chairman of About a year later after an editorial explaining its role on campus. Y AF, said he was concerned about appearing in The Review renewed the Discussion then moved to the topic of forcing students to take courses in call for a forum, many student groups the university's multicultural which they might experience political University revolves Baseball demolishes responded and fmally, after months of requirement. "indoctrination." DeiSttte, page A4 preparation. the first Open Forum was While the Young Americans for "'think lhe !Tlllticultural move~Ia~t held Tuesday night in the Rodney Freedom (YAF) opposed the is an anti-Western culture move~Ia~t." around Earth Week Room of the Perkins Student Center. requirement, the collegiate chapter of see OPEN FORUM page AS By jessica Mayers meat and the production of grain IWNI Fratu~s Editor to feed the animals takes up food People who toss wrappers of that could be feeding someone eaten hamburgers out their else." SEAC member Rebecca Yew tree offers hope for cancer patients windows while driving cars Drury said. through the rainforest into a On Thursday the group had a By Nadine Boisnier director for the American Cancer SEAC member and graduate where they are, producing taxol is nearby river should think twice. reading of Dr. Suess' book, The Sraff~ortrr Society of Delaware, said the student Scott Gianelli said the a very expensive process, Tripp This week is Earth Week and Lorax, "because it shows how Cancer researchers came a step clinical trials of taxol, which have lumber industry must be said. local environmental groups are important it is to protect the closer to finding a cure for the had a reproducing rate of 20 to 3S controlled. If we deplete the Researchers are looking for doing all they can to raise environment," Drury said. disease when a substance shown percent in more than 200 ovarian forests, valuable medicine can't be ways to produce the drug awareness so people will avoid Today's cleanup of White Clay to fight breast and ovarian cancers cancer patients, have been obtained from these trees, Gianelli synthetically instead of using such behavior. Creek marks the end of SEAC's was discovered recently. encouraging. said. plant tissue, the journal reported.