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In Section 2 In Sports Guide to Women's An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper networks' soccer fall TV crushes season Lafayette page B I page BlO Non-profit Org. FREE U.S. Postage Paid FRIDAY Newark. DE Volume 122, Number 2 Student Center B-1, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Permit No. 26 September 8, 1995 UD ranked 52nd in the nation for Money magazine's best buy BY CRAIG L. BLACK 95th best college value as it broke into the honor roll is a secondary goal, Kirkpatrick "College is probably the second most R ounding off the institutions making Seniur Staff Reponer financial publication's top 100 list for the said. He added that if a consistent reputation expensive thing people will buy in their life M o ney Magazine's top 10 list are: Rice The university earned another stellar first time. of quality instruction is built, students will after a house," said Jillian Kasky, associate University, Northeast Missouri State report card from Money Magazine as the Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, chairman of the come. editor of statistics at Money Magazine. University, Trenton State, California institution was named the 52nd best college university's Board of Trustees, said offering " Applications have decreased at many "It's a way to comparison shop," she said. Institute of Technology, University of North buy in the nation and the II th best value in quality education and extracurricular institutions," he said. "They've more than "You pick up Consumer Reports to purchase Carolina- Chapel Hill, State University of the Mid-Atlantic. activities for a competitive price, is an held their own at the University of Delaware a refrigerator. This is a way to make sure New York at Binghamton, Spelman College, A team of nine researchers for the 1996 ongoing challenge. and the caliber of students applying has you' 11 know all the parts of the colleges University of Illinois and State University of edition of Money Guide analyzed 16 "We've got some programs that are top steadily been a little higher." you're looking at." New York at Albany_ measures of the educational quality of I ,049 flight on a worldwide point of view and they The sixth annual best college buys list hit For the third year in a row, New College Stabilizing tuition and fees is the key to four-year schools. After factoring in the bring prestige to the university as a whole," the stands three and a half months after of the University of South Florida reigns as moving to the top of the list and unlocking tuition and fees of each college, a value said Kirkpatrick, who has been a member of researchers began p rocessing more than valedictorian. The No. I value in the country the potential to provide a valuable academic rating was assessed. the Board of Trustees for 10 years. 200,000 pieces of data resulting from I 0,000 increased its tuition by only $7 since last atmosphere, Kasky said. Last year the university was ranked the Maintaining a spot on Money Magazine's telephone calls. year. see UD RANKED page A9 Is that a beach? Controversy surrounds gay benefits BY KRISTIN COLLINS President David P. Roselle said their Administrative News Editor Aug. 30 story, claiming the Diversity has become the university decided to deny the administration's No. I buzz word in benefits, ·'doesn't bear any reality." recent years, but a controversial David Colton, president of the faculty proposal may force it to put AAUP and a member of the its money where its mouth is. committee that proposed the A committee comprised of university faculty and administrators see GAY PROFS page A9 sent the final version of a proposal that , if approved, would give medical , dental and educational benefits to same-sex domestic Hawaii partners to the Board of Trustees at the end of June. The proposal had been under discussion since could December. The committee that approved and • THE REVIEW I Kelly Bennett sent the benefits pro posal was Kris Clark (AS JR) and Rob Perisi (AS JR) enjoy games and festivities at the Life-0-Matic promotional event on fo rmed as a result o f a faculty recogmze Harrington Beach. See story page AS. request. Despite reports in The Delaware Spectator, a conservative newspaper gay mates published by Young Americans for Freedom, the proposal has not yet come before the board fo r Island state may be discussion, according to Andrew first to legalize '95 drought could be worst ever Kirkpatrick, chairman of the Board of Trustees. No decision regarding same-sex marrzage 35 the benefits proposal has been made. October is the While the board hasn't yet BY GARY GEISE formally discussed it, the proposed Copy Desk Chief driest month in benefits have become a heated topic While individual companies with clearly drawn sides- the and institutions across the United Del., so it's going ... American Association of University States debate extending domestic ~=25 Professors taking a stand for p'artncr benefi ts to their to get worse ... domestic partner benefits and Y AF employees' same-sex and willing to go to any length to defeat unmarried opposite-sex " life BY MARK JOLLY Copy Editor ~ 20 the proposal. partners," Hawaii is edging closer ~ YAF President Paul Smith Jr. to being the first state in the union The rainfall deficit caused by ...... e': this year's drought is the largest in (AS SR) said he believes the to legally reco gnize same-sex marriages. the past 29 years and is fast Q 15 benefits would "belittle marriage," ~ and by passing them the board The H awaiian Supreme Court approaching some of the worst ~ .... has charged t he state to sho w records of the century. ... would be " recognizing something =1o that does not exist," s ince gay " compelling state interest" for On Monday, Gov. Thomas R . ~ ~ marriage is not legally recognized. denying two persons of the same Carper declared northern New Ill gender the right to marry. The Castle County's water shortage an " Besides the fact that we think § 5 homosexuality is wrong, we don't trial date, originally set fo r this emergency, the first official u think the university should be fall , was recently pushed back to emerge ncy since the system funding it, especially since the state July 15, 1996. designed a way to determine a 0 doesn't legally recognize it," said The lines are drawn for a drought's severi ty. Nov. '63 Sept. '66 Oct. '68 Nov_ '76 May '86 Dec. '88 Today Delaware has not experienced O ct. '59 Nov. '64 Feb. '68 O ct. '73 Feb. '77 July '88 Nov. '9 1 Michael Kaplan (BE SR), editor in spectacular legal battle, with an actual drought since a five-year Dry Periods of 20 Days or Longer Since 1948 chief of The Spectator and member Hawaiian politicians, outside legal period in the mid 1960s, according ofYAF. experts, gay rights activists and to Dr. R obert Jordan, director of THE REVIEW/Kelly Bennett When they heard last spring that the Church of Jesus Christ of the the Delaware Geological Survey. magnitude is seen only about once A lo ng with the population , the News Journal. domestic partner benefits were Latter-Day Saints (the Mormo ns) mentioned in the AAUP contract, set to lock horns on the issue. This drought is probably more every 50 years. demand for water has probably Dr. J o hn Martin, associate Y AF made their opinion known to detrimental than the one in the "It's the worst one we've seen doubled since the earlier drought, director of the university's Water The original decision by the '60s, according to Stewart Lovell, since I've been here," Lovell said. he said, and the water shortage is Resources Center, said he believes all the members of the board, all Hawaiian Supreme Court (Baehr state representatives and the student v. Levin, in M ay 1993) explicitly manager of water supply with the "It goes beyond our experience." nearly the same_ the f requent drought warnings body. compared same-sex marriage to Delaware Natural Resources Although the drought in the In the past 20 years, however, reveal a trend for which Mother Environmental Commission. 1960s had a slightly higher deficit Delawar e has heard drought Nature may not be solely YAF members believed their interracial marriage in ruling that lobbying efforts had successfully the court could find no reason to He said a drought of this of rainfall, Lovell said he believes warnings every four to six years, responsible. defeated the proposal, although this one will be worse for the area. according to The Wilm ingt on see DROUGHTS page A8 see HAWAil page A 7 .-----INDEX ----. Dining changes ..................... A2 U.N. women's News Analysis ...................... 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