Athletic Dept. on Watch for Stub Violations
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Voi . 103No. l3 Plans Er~ierge Athletic Dept. For $8 Million On Watch for Library Annex - Stub Violations By JANINE JACQUET By DIANE BACHA Tentative plans to build a new wing for the In an attempt to crack down on the misuse Morris Library will cost about $8 million and .of free student football tickets, the athletic be funded by private contributions, but of department has warned students that gate at ficials can't say when construction will begin. tendants will check student ID's more closely Meanwhile, library users will have to cope before allowing them to enter the stadium. with increasing shortages of space for books Coach Raymond Duncan, assistant director as well as studies. of the athletic department, said his depart According to a report from the president's ment has evidence that students are violating ad hoc committee for the library, proposed use of both their free ticket stubs, which are plans are to square off the library by knocking non-transferrable, and their ID's which they out the reference room wall and adding a four are required to have when using student foot story wing to that side of the building. ball tickets. A change in the method of The estimated cost will have to be met by distributing tickets is being considered, and private sources, according to university may be implemented at the Nov. 3 game President E.A. Trabant, because the state has against Maine if violations continue Duncan turned down the university's requests for said. funds. He said a capital fund drive will be This week Duncan informally discussed created for the project. with university and student officials the possi Once the wing is completed, students will ble chan·ge in policy. Under the present have more study space and librarians more system, full-time students can turn in their shelving space, according to the committee's stubs for reserved tickets prior to the game. projected plans. _ The proposed policy would eliminate advance' · Dr. Kenneth Toombs, director of libraries at ticket exchanges and require students to show the University of South Carolina, was hired by their IDs at the gate, where they would be the university to make recommendations to given tickets for a student section in the ease these and other problems students and stands.- facility will be facing. This method might also eliminate Trabant, in a speech to a Faculty Senate distributing blocks of tickets to student groups Committee on Monday, said "the tenative two weeks before the game, but Duncan said conclusion" is to expand existing branch he's hesitant to do this. libraries, as Toombs suggested, and to con Duncan met this week with representatives sider the use of remote ·storage. · from the Dean of Students Office, Security, Remote storage is a facility outside the """' -·--·- the athletic department and the student main library where little-used material is ,,, government to address the problem, but stored. Presently, no remote storage exists. ·'*' .~. stressed that final action will not be taken un Trabant has asked the Faculty Senate Com Photo by Joy Greene A clear path is now available for traffic-weary cyclists til further input from these groups is received. mittee and members of the President's Coun "I think we need to sit down and discuss cil to consider the recommendations. In a along Delaware Avenue as part of a campus-wide bike lane what should be done with the 1980 program," (Continued to poge ~) renovation program. (Continued to page 2) On the Housing: Hoffman Lucked into Christiana By JANICE MITCHEll apartments remained unoc mef1t where they knew none freshmen and Towers ' Inside Dutch Hoffman, a transfer cupied. All students still on of their roommates. waiting list people had been student whose Chrisfiana the Christiana waltmg list Transfer students who still offered the same thing." residency raised questions and all incoming freshmen in hadn't made living ar A letter to the editor recently, was just in the right extended housin.g were rangements were offered published in the Sept. 25 Homecoming Queen: place at the right time, ac notified of the vacancies and these spaces as well. Hoff Review suggested Hoffman, cording to Stuart Sharkey, given the opportunity to take man was among those. "But as a potential Delaware foot Two Views director of Housing and them. in an effort to be totally ball player, was exempt from An alumni tradition ....... 6 Residence Life. · "There were only a few equitable, we went back and normal housing rules. The controversy arose over takers," said Sharkey, who sent letters offering all According to Head Football A choice, not on echo ..... 10 how HoHman, a former explained that most students transfer students the same Coach Tubby Raymond, "the quarterback at West Virginia had already made ar accommodations," Sharkey athletic department had University, received housing. rangements or were hesitant said. nothing to do with Hoffman's to take a space in an apart- in Christiana Towers despite " And this was after the (Continued to page 3) the Christiana waiting list Football Feature and the 526 freshmen assign Jim Brandimarte ......... 16 ed to extended housing. Although the Residence DART Adds More Buses for Extra Riders Halls Handbook states that The Delaware Authority for Regional Tran • One additional bus will arrive at the B&O transfer students cannot be sit (DART), which provides bus service bet Station, bound for Wilmington, at 6:33a.m. accommodated with on ween Newark and Wilmington, has added campus housing until all three buses to its regular schedule in an effort • One additional bus will service the stop at freshmen have been placed, to meet the demands of increased ridership. Eastburn Acres, leaving for Wilmington at Classifieds ......... .. ... 11 transfer students could leave Ridership jumped 39 percent between 8:50a.m. their names with Housing in August 1978 and August 1979, and additional It now costs 85 cents to go to Wilmington and Editorial ..... ........... 6 the event that they might be buses were needed to alleviate overcrowding, 50 cents to ride the Newark local, said the EtCetera .. ... ........ 9 accommodated. said a spokesman for DART. spokesman. In the latter part of August, The schedule changes, which were in DART's contract with Newark will continue Retrospect . .............. 5 Sharkey said, a few spaces stituted Oct. 8, are as follows: to run until the city finds a solution for its own (single beds in single and dou • One more bus will depart from 2nd and Sports .................. 16 . ble apartments) in Christiana transit system . French streets, bound for Newark, at 7:55 For more rider information, call655-3381. Towers and some Paper Mill a.m. \ Page 2 • THE REVIEW • October 19, 1979 FOURTH ANNUAL RETREAT .. .Football Stubs (Continued from page 1) f said Duncan. He plans to do the student gate at the Students pay for part of the FOR ALL UD WOMEN so at November's athletic Homecoming Game against "free" stubs indirectly, ac Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27 department board meeting. C.W. Post. If long lines form cording to Dean of Students (5 p.m. to 5 p.m.) Duncan also' called this again because of the ID Raymond Eddy. The univer Camp Wright, Hockessin week's meeting to address checks, he said, he'll ease up sity's allocation to the inter complaints from the Oct. 6 on the ID checks. collegiate athletic program is Between Women: Friend-ship Cost: $9.00 game against Lehigh, where President of the Delaware paid for in part by tuition. measures to enforce ticket Undergraduate Student Con ''The last time we figured it Sponsored by Women's Coordinating Council Offices of Residence gress Bob Lucas, who attend out," Eddy said, "tickets cost Life and Women's Affairs, Comi~s i on on the Status of Women and rules made many late for the Women's Studies. • game. ed this week's meeting with students about 37 cents a Call Women's Affairs, x8063 for more info. At the Lehigh game gate at Duncan, said he's anxious to game." tendants began checking IDs stop abuse of tickets. But The tickets have been free closely and required holders "the solutions they're coming for full-time students for 27 of student ticket stubs to up with are coming down on years, said Duncan, while enter a single student gate. the students as a whole" in non-students and community Lines of up to 800 people form stead of on the violators, he m e m b e r s 'p a y $ 6 for ed, said Duncan, and the said. equivalent seats. athletic department was later flooded with complaints from students who said they had Man Charged in Student Rape missed the first touchdown. A 22-year-old university tim reported the alleged rape Duncqn said he lacked the student was allegedly raped immediately. Within ten manpower ·to conduct ID in her · apartment on minutes of her call, police checks quickly. When he saw Cleveland Avenue around 4 picked up Zeisberg, based on the line outside the student a.m. Sunday morning, the victim's description llf.! gate he authorized gate atten Newark Police said. blocks away from the scene. dants to stop checking. Police arrested Andrew Police said they recovered a Some gates were unusable Zeisberg, 25, from Elkton, knife from the suspect. due to the weather, Duncan Md., and charged him with Police did not have suffi said. · rape, kidnapping, burglary, cient evidence to hold the Students complained that and possession of a dangerous suspect at that time, and ar they had not been given ade weapon. ranged an interview with him quate warning about the ID The student was examined for Tuesday morning.