Sues Provost, Board Gross Said Her Constitutional by Sue Winge Regarding Summer Session Salaries for Professors
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Vol. 112 No. 1 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, September 5, 1986 Asst. provost fired; sues provost, board Gross said her constitutional by Sue Winge regarding summer session salaries for professors. right to freedom of speech wa Administrative News Editor She is seeking compensatory violated when she was fired A former university assis damages and attorney fees. for ·responding to the memo. tant provost, citing violation of She is also asking the courts to In her lawsuit, Gross al o her constitutional rights to reinstate her position of assis said her constitutional right to freedom of speech and due tant provost for specia I due process was violated process, appeared in federal sessions. because she was denied a cour~ ~ednesday to begin In federal court proceedings hearing and proper notifica preliminary proceedings in Wilmington Wednesday, tion of her termination. charging that she was Judge Jane Roth denied Gross will teach in the unlawfully fired from her posi Gross' application for department of languages and tion July 28. preliminary injunction to literatur until her contract reinstate her as assisstant pro with the university run out on vost until the suit is decided. June 30, 1987. She will be paid see editorial p.6 Roth said Gross did not show the aJary and benefits sh the likelihood of winning on the received as assistant provost. Dr. Janet S. Gross, former merits of her claim she was The following is an account assistant provost for special denied freedom of speech and of the events leading up to sessions, filed suit in August due process. ~ross dismissal a stated in against Vice President for Roth also said Gross did not official affidavits: Academic Affairs and Provost adequately show she had suf n July 15, Burmeister sent L. Leon Campbell, and the fered irreparable harm. to Gross a memo which board of trustees of the After the hearing Gross pointed out the difference in university. said she was uncertain pay between the university Gross, who has worked for whether any further action and the University of ·. the university since 1979 was would be continued. Maryland for teaching sum fired by Campbell after She declined to comment on mer session. responding to a memo sent to the case at the r,equest of her Gross responded to The Review/ Sue Winge her by Dr. John Burmeister attorney, Sheldon Sandler. Burmeister with a brief memo Pro':ost ~Leon Campbell"leaves courtroom after Wednesday's Associate Chairman of th~ Campbell could not be on July 17, noting· she was hearmg. / . Chemistry Department reached for comment before continued to page 8 896 bridge opens early · or after the hearing. by Cellne Lundin around the construction and ly opened the adjacent Staff Reporter also affected Newark walkway which was finished Gov. Mike -Castle cut the businesses, according to just before bridge construction blue ribbon; officially reopen mayor William Redd Jr. began. ing the 896 bridge on Thurs ''There was concern about The pedestrian bridge cost day, August 28, on budget and the closing of the bridge coin $685,528 and was completely ahead of construction ciding with the holidays," said funded by the Federal schedule. Redd. "But the highway Highway Administration. "We were determined to get department did its best to Delaware Secretary of the bridge done before school make the closing as conve Transportation Kermit Justice started and the football season nient as possible for everyone said the walkway was com began," said Castle. : "I'm involved." pleted to coincide with the pleased to see that we made The original date for the closing of the vehicular bridge it." opening of the bridge was so students would not be great The bridge, which has been Sept. 6. Mike Baiocco, prin ly inconvenienced getting to closed since July 1985, was cipal bridge inspector for Del and from classes by the rebuilt at a cost of more than DOT said the bridge was fieldhouse. $1.3 million. finished early because of dry Kristin Shannon (ED 88), a The entire deck of the bridge weather over the summer varsity cheerleader, said she was replaced and paved and months. was glad all the construction repairs were made to ''The lack of rain really was finally finished. strengthen the bridge struc helped," said Baiocco. "When "It was a pain trying to get ture. The new two-lane bridge it rains we lose time." to cheerleading practice,'' is one-foot wider on each side Ironically, the re-opening said Shannon. "We would and includes a three-foot ceremony was held inside the forget the bridge was closed shoulder on both sides. lobby of the Delaware Field and we would wind up being Eighty percent of the con House due to rainy weather late." struction cost was paid for by conditions. Castle said the 896 bridge the U.S. Department of Congressman Tom Carper project was just the begining Transportation and the rest by ( D-Del. ) and State Represen of a number of highway pro the Delaware Department of tative Ada Leigh Soles (23-D) jects to be completed in the Transportation (Del DOT). were among the fifty people Newark area. The contractor was Greggo who also attended the 10 a.m. "We have a situation where and Ferrara, Inc. of New opening festivitie~. not just a bridge is being Castle. "The bridge opening is good built," Castle said. "It's a step THE REVIEW/ Lloyd fox The closing of the bridge in- news for all of us," Carper toward other projects so convie.nced Chrysler said. Newark will not have the traf M•..... lle•utlful 111ualc - Two-year-old Adam Hamant, employees who had to detour The ceremony also official- fic problems of other cities." smiles in response to the sights and ounds of Delaware's band. Page 2 • The Review • September 5, 1986 · Brought to you by RSA ... THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RSA---RESIDENT STUD·ENT ASSOCIATION RIDING R.S.A. BUSES PRESENT.S... AND WALKING TO HOME FOOTBALL GAMES STOPS TO THE GAME STUDENT CENTER 11:50 12:20 12:50 1:20 1:50 CHRISTIANA COMMONS 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 RODNEY/ 11:35 12:05 12:35 1:05 1:35 2:00 DICKINSON STADIUM 11:45 12:15 12:45 1:15 1:45 2:15 STOPS FROM THE GAME STADIUM 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 STUDENT CENTER 3:05 3:35 4:05 4:35 5:05 5:36 CHRISTIANA COMMONS 3:15 3:46 4:15 4:45 5:16 6:45 RODNEY/ DICKINSON 3:20 3:50 4:20 4:60 6:20 6:50 25C W /I. D. make checks payable to the Resident Student Association SPONSORED BY: RESIDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION . AND PUBLIC SAFETY ... ))\ ' ~, ... .. ;.-.; .. · ~ :. .. .;··Jh] ."! • • .r ' . ' M 1 . ~ ~ \ . ) .. f September 5, 1986 • The Review • Page 3 Freshmen keep close quarters by Martha lodge She explained that groups of number to be 3,200 - many Carey explained. Pelton, who is in the base Copy Editor eight to 16 students will tem more than housing can Elise Hart (AS 90 ) is one of ment of Smyth Hall with 15 ''Basement Sweet Base porarily live together in accomoda te. eleven students who lives in other women, also complained ment?" designated residence hall Carey said the students liv the basement of Warner Hall. about persons entering the That's what some of this basements recreation rooms ing in recreation rooms, She said she }{new she would room at all hours. year's freshmen wiD be calling and lounges until they can be basements and first floor be in extended housing but The housing office contacted their home for the next few placed in permanent housing. Dickinson lounges will be didn't know she would be in the all extended housing students weeks. Some doubles have been given first consideration in basement until she arrived at during the summer to notify · They are the students in ex made into triples to ac relocation. check in. them of their housing situation tended housing - 244 of them comodate the overflow of in The office of Housing and "I think it's great," she said. for the fall. to be exact, according to Lin coming students. Residence Life hopes to have "There's so much more room Carey said the housing office da Carey, assistant~ of According to Dr. Bruce permanent assignments for to put my things." plans to keep all the extended housing/room assignments. Walker dean of admissions, those students in two or three Another freshman had a dif housing students informed of The reason for extended 3,271 freshmen have paid weeks, she said. "It depends ferent op1mon of her the situation and of any possi housing is a result of 2'15 addi deposits to come to the on the no-shows.'' pridicament. ble changes. tional upperclass applications university. · Extended housing residents "If they couJdn't room us," Dr. Timothy Brooks Dean for housing., as well as a larger However he questions how in triples probably won't Kelli Pelton <PE 90) said, of Students, said he hasn't freshman class than an many freshmen will actually receive permanent housing "they shouldn't have accepted continued to page 20 ticipated, Carey said. show up. He estimates the assignments this semester, (all of) us." Building letters stolen, vandals comm_it felony by Chuck Arnold $.19.~0 each, Rahmer explain<'d. The Ass ist.a n.t News Edri!Lor lolal damage co.