Today's A four-star weather: All-American Mostly sunny. newspaper Highs in the low 60s. Vol. 115 No. 23 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday,Apri114, 1989 Gardner beats rival ·Plus/ • in mayoral election ffilllUS by Wendy Pickering paign finished. "I'll be a long time forgetting Staff Reporter "Quite frankly, I'm not as it," he added. "The loss was slated happy tonight as I could be deserved." City Councilman Ron because I'm still a little miffed But Miller said Tuesday Gardner (District 5) swept the and disgusted over what has night that he does not harbor Newark mayoral elections happened in the last week," bl;ld feelings about the cam­ for '90 Tuesday with 2,024 votes, Gardner said. paign. Harold F. Godwin easily defeating rival Councilman Ed Miller had recently accused "It was a hard-fought race defeated university math pro­ Miller (District 3) by a margin Gardner of paying transfer and I look forward to working fessor David L. Colton with by Kathy Hartman of more than 2-to-1. taxes only on the land where he with Mr. Gardner on the 800 votes to 3 10. · Staff Reporter University student Scott built his house and taking a Council,~' Miller said. Godwin said he has an A tentative date of fall 1990 Feller (AS 90) grabbed only 55 consultant job with the builder, The race for City Council, in aggressive agenda facing him has been set for the implementa­ votes. causing a "conflict of interest." District 1 was uneventful in and is anxious to begin work. tion of the plus/minus grading Gardner said he was pleased "I tried to run a clean cam­ comparison to the mayoral con­ "I want to encourage the system, a university oJficial said with the victory but was not paign from day one," Gardner test. police department to establish Monday. happy about the way the cam- said. Incumbent City Councilman conzinued to page 10 The grading system was approved May 6, 1985. The implementation of the Multi ~cultural plus/minus system has been delayed because the university computer system must be repro­ grammed to accommodate the training gives change, said Dr. Frank B. Dilley, president of Faculty Senate. The olus/minus system will affect all students, not just new insight incoming freshmen, said Dr. Jeffrey A. Raffel, acting dean of the College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. International firm Each plus and minus in the system will be worth one-third conducts program of a quality point above or below the letter grade, respec­ by Mary Ellen Colpo 1987, he set aside funds to hire a tively. No A plus grades will be Copy Editor consultant for what was then awarded. called sensitivity training. The "Professors couldn't give a The initial phase of a three­ program offered Thursday was a freshman a B minus and a senior day Multicultural Organizational result of that original plan, Miles a B if they have the same point Development Program began explained. grade just because the senior yes~erday to improve cultural Miles estimated the cost of hadn't used the plus/minus sys­ awareness at the university, a the program to be -$50,000. tem [in previous years]," Raffel university official said. About 120 university offi­ Affirmative Action Officer cials, from the President's conJinued to page 11 Jack Miles said the goal of the Administrative Council, college program is to "identify areas of deans and department chairmen Inside:· unintentional exclusion in poli­ and chairwomen were to attend • Trabant defends hir­ cy, procedures, structures and the program, Miles said ing of affirmative action climates and, therefore, make Tuesday. Student affairs, aca­ The Review/Dan Della Piazza oflieer ....................... p. ·Z the university more inclusive. pemic and administrative direc­ Kicks are for kids- Matt Keister, 5, has a ball during "Since oppression t~nds to tors were also expected to Wednesday's baseball game at Delaware Diamond. • Fitness Center gets operate on institutional, cultural attend. the program to the university · tiona! human relations consult­ 'Women in and personal levels, each of "Based on an evaluation of community," said Miles, who is ing firm, signed a contract with Motion' ..................... p. .23 these areas will be addressed in the program, the president's also executive director of the the university Jan. 31 to bring its • Delaware basketball the program.'' Commission [to Promote] Racial commission. program to campus. teams announce Miles said that before and Cultural Diversity will Equ·ity Institute, Inc., an President E.A. 'rrabant retired in decide whether or not to offer Amherst, Mass.-based interna- conzinued to page 11 recruits.................... _p. ,34: Pagt2•TMR~·A~l4,1989~~-----~· .-.-.-~-..-~-.----.-------.--.-..-~~----~~~~~~------------- Trabant defends position on officer search prOcess Senate approves President upholds Miles's qualification minimum wage raise by Wendy Pickering lions made by the commission. months. he said. Staff Reporter Trabant explained Tuesday "Saying the process didn't The Senate voted lil to 39 that the search process was work is not the simple truth," Tuesday to raise the minimum President E.A. Trabant lengthy and yielded only one Trabant said. "The process was wage of $3.35 an hour to $4.55 defended the appointment of qualified candidate. followed and it did not produce E.A.Traballt an hour by Oct 1, 1991, despite Jack Miles, the new affrrmative "I didn't think the candidate. an acceptable candidate." a veto threat from President not meet the requirements is a action officer, Tuesday at a meet­ although qualified in a formal Miles was considered for the Bush. the PIWadelphia Inquirer matter of interpretation," ing with the Commission on the sense. [possessed] what I thought position after the search had offi­ reported. Trabant said. "' think be's fully Status of Women. [were] the necessary require­ cially ended. he said. The increase would occur in qualified to be our affirmative The commission charged that ments.'' Trabant said. The Commission on the Status three annual steps beginning this action officer.· the search process for the affrr­ To follow the process. a new of Women also charged that fall. but the Senate bill may He added that job descrip­ mative1action officer was violat­ search committee would have to Miles did not meet the minimwn never become law. tions are one way of blocking ed when the position was fllled be appointed. which would take job requirements. Congressional Democrats and in mid-March. an additional six or seven "The fact that Mr. Miles did Bush are disputing whether or ~topagel7 Trabant denied· the accusa- not to allow employers to pro­ vide a subminimwn. or training wage. for some workers. pdated Foriner arena.clerk Soviet Union to deal Ian nears to face grand jury harshly with protesters draft 'J'he Communist Party of the at May 10 hearing Soviet Union warned nationalist tive action movements Tuesday that newer, ·by Jim Musick actually gone out to tbe banks harsher laws wiD be used to deal ·icy outlined Assistant News Edilor yet,.. be added. with the leaders of public by J9hn Robinson Ivory. commander of demonstrations, according to Staff Reporter,, A grand jury bearing for the Criminal Investigations for The News J01111t1Jl. former University Ice Arena University Police, said abe sub­ A violent uprising in lbilisi, An updated pllln for affir­ employee charged with embez­ poenas should be distributed by the capital of Soviet Georgia. left action, which stream­ zlement is scheduled for May today. 18 protesters dead and 200 or policies on hiring and and Cultural Diversity 1.0. according to a University Deputy District Attorney more people 'injwed. 13u~u 1~r;u ........ areas for certain Miles said, "We are waiting Police spokesman. Thomas H. Ellis said, "We're lrninorities, should be complet­ institutional research and Thomas F. Andrews, a for­ waiting for more information Death tolls of terrorist in two or three weeks, a ning to supply us with mer records clerk at the ice with respect to the amount of victims rise since 1987 ....., ... ,. ...... ,,.., administrator said work force and utilization arena, was charged with one tbe alleged thefts.• needed, whereby the goals count of theft March 20 after a Ellis; abe prosecutor in the American deaths from terror­ "We have been working targetS of the plan can be seL" routine audit by the university case, said be did not have an ism rose from seven in 1987 to a law frrm and we have a Hollowell said the plan revealed discrepancies in ice estimate of the amount stolen. 192 in 1988. The increase was of the basic text complet­ be distributed to arena records. ·we are reviewing the case due largely to the 189 American said Senior Vice President Lt. Joel Ivory of the [from the attorney general's deaths caused by the December for Administration David E. University Police said Tuesday, office] and we're thinking we bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 Hollowell. ~The new plan is the investigation is continuing. will probably indict it some­ over Lockerbie, Scotland, report­ strengthened in the areas of A number of other charges, time in the near future,• Ellis ed the PhiladelpfUa Inquirer. handicapped persons and vet­ versity community. which could include forgery said Wednesday. Attacks on U.S. targets erans." "A lot of what is in the and conspiracy, might develop Records from both the uni­ increased worldwide from 149 in Hollowell said the last time is defined in I!:O'ver·nnlellttal upon receipt of records from versity and the Delaware 1987 to 185 in 1988. There were text of the plan was updat­ terms." Hollowell said. the bank. Ivory said. Amateur Skating Foundation about 140 bombings of U.S.