Student Petitions Library Mortar Board Member Gathers Signatures to Protest Reduced Number of Hours by Darin Powell Fall Change," Be Said
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ROTC simulates New restaurant, Mirage, s hostage crisis ............. becomes a reality ~. f page9 page 2 • II--IE EVIEWA FOUR-STAR ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Task force Police install aims to stop drug sexual crime hot line By Raetynn Tlbayan rape crisis center, and stated the Staff Reporter necessity or a paid coordina&or. The Anonymous tips posilion would include a minimum may help officials The Solutions to Sexual salary of$26,000. Violence Task Force (SSVTF) The third recommendation was track offenders issued a re.port Wednesday giving the development <lf new lhree reeommendalions 10 combat educational programs and By Chrtstlna Rinaldi the problems of sexual violence on awareness campaigns, such as an Stall Reporter campus, a wk force official said annual Rape Awareness Week. The Friday. week would include several A new drug-tip hot line will be Following a two-month effort 10 speakers, workshops and used by Delaware police 10 help develop solutions to sexual brochures, costing about $19,000. gain information about the seDing violence against women, SSVTF, a Included in the budget would be and abuse of illegal drugs, said sub-commiltee of the Commission about $2 I ,000 allocated for Capt. Charles Townsend of the on the Status of Women, called for materials to educate incoming Wilming&on Police. more university interaction with students and their parents. Wh is ties The hot line, 1-800-HAS-DRUG, the S.O.S. rope crisis cenlet and for would be given 10 all females and which opened Wednesday, is open students to stop "an increasing buttons saying "Men Against 24 hours a day, seven days a week problem," said Liane M. Sorenson, Rape" 10 all males. and accepts anonymous tips on drug director of tho Office of Women's The report, drawn up at the dealings, he said. Affairs. request of President E.A. Trabant. Calls are taken and t'hen The first of the was the result of a cu.lminalion of disseminated to the proper recommendations was the efforts by various univertity groups authorities by the communication development or a strong university which make up the task force. reporting center of the Delaware The task force, consisting or 35 Leske 0. s..t110 State Police. response to the problem of sexual Gennan House residents constructed a replica of the Berlin Wall between Smith and Purnell people, fi1St met two weeks after a The hot-line idea fOf Delaware violence, of which Vice President halls to convey to student a East Gennan feelings of entrapment. for Student Affairs Stuart Sharkey's female university student reported was proposed by Majority Leader Oct 16 memorandum was a good a sexual assault at the Kappa Alpha Thomas B. Sharp, D-PinccTesl, and example, Sorenson said. fraternity bouse Sept. 10. Sen. James T. Vaughn, D·Cia)10Cl, The memorandum, directed "People were upset Ehat there Students build mock wall as part of a series of anti-clrug toward fraternity presidents, suled have been (sexual violence] programs. the university would "not tolerate incidents on campus." Sorenson A State Police omcer mannin& inappropriate behavior manifested said. to simulate Iron Curtain the hot line said Sunday that names by students," and would take civil "[The task force] was a way 10 By Christina Rinaldi and desa iptjons o( poll:llliaJ dealers. or legal action in CtiCS or "abuse of channel that frustration into Staff Raporter see editorial page 6 their activities or any other women." something positive. • informalion is e:x}Wided upon by the Sharkey also said action would The only reference made 10 the "Let's ~Car down the wall!" German House President dnas mfon:cmeollllliL be taken to close fraternity chapters incident, Sorenson said, was the William Thomas (AS 92) $!louted 10 about45 people at greater access 10 West Berlin. Since 1961, tbe Will ._ The bot line can also direct in the event of such "inappropriate task force's endorsement or a vigil in front of Smith and Purnell halls Friday night been a symbol of the division between communism llld addicu 10 Slale JIICIICics which Clll behavior." Re cited the closing of Sharkey's memorandum. It was not a real wall, but a model built with democracy in Gcnnany. bdp dnas IDCIS IRik wldjctjms Alpha Tau Omega fraternity "Anything we can do 10 decrease cardboard bo~es. paper, chicken wire and duct tape, Th0111as said mem bcrs of the German House llc:a "'bviously anytbina ...bdpl• several years ago and Theta Chi the incidents or sexual violence is erected and sponsored by German House residentS 10 construction of the wall at 6 a.m. and SUII1ed1D jlliDa it plher informalioo ... clqeroaa fraternity in 1988 as examples. really important." Sorenson said. celebrate the freed om rrom pain and oppression caused at !0:30am. subawces belps our job,• The report also recommended She also said Trobant's response by the Berlin Wall during the past t8 years. Symbols of peace and phrases such» "Free Elll Townsend laid. ·rne bot Uae] improving the amount or university to the formation of the SSVTF was Last week, Eost Germany une~pectedly began 1111ta i& -a [for die pablic) willa 8MWALLpiOe support and funding for the S.O.S te<~ring holes in the Berlin Wall, allowing itS people sea FORCE page B Student petitions library Mortar Board member gathers signatures to protest reduced number of hours By Darin Powell fall change," be said. thinks the time cuthack rellecLS a lack of concern Aseociale New. Edkor Patton bad gathered 1,436 signatures by about the academic atmosphere the university Sunday nighL representS. A student angry about the recent culbaclc in The petitioo will also be given 10 other student He also said he thinks the library should be weekend hours at the Morris Library began a groups so names can be collecled, he said. When supportive of his efforts. petition calling for the restoration oC the previous completed, it will be given to Library Dircc10r "It means higher wages for the warlcers. If they libraty opening and closing times. Susan Brynteson and President E. A. TrabanL would pay higher wages, they would have more John PallOR (AS 90), whose acliolu are being The library's hours were reduced earlier this volunteers and the library would stay open sponsored by the university's chapter or the semeslet because of a shortage of student workers. longer," Pauon said. Mortar Board National Honor Sociecy, !Cl up an The Friday and Saturday closing times of 10 p.m. Students are paying tuition to be educalled and unaulhcrized table on the library Slepil Sunday 10 were changed to 8 p.m., and the Sunday openi11g expect the library 10 be open, he said. begin collecting signatures. time of 11 a.m. was changed 10 I p.m. Sandra Millard, assistant dlrcc10r of librruies, John Schneider "I'm trying 10 get the university 10 reven the Pa110n, who stayed on the steps from I p.m. John Patton (AS 90) braves the November cold to garner library hours to what they uJed 10 be before the until the library closed at 12:30 a.m., said he sea PEnnoN page B support for re-establishment of fonner library hours. Th~ Presidential Search: Katharine C. Lyall .I Candidate's colleagues express Wisconsin administrator/professor to visit campus today satisfaction with job performance By Mitchell Powltz Delaware and her trip to Newllfk publications as Evaluation Staff Reporter will be very important. Quarterly, Journal of Evaluation By Rlchelle Perrone all groups. "I'm going 10 be talking 10 r. lot a11d Program Planning and Land Assistant News Editor "She has a broad background A woman looking to make of people and asking many Economics" and WOflcs well not only with ller history at the university wiD vtsit questions," she said. Lyall, born and raised in Presidential candidate students but with the [state and campus today as one finalist Lyall will be iniCtViewed by the Lancaster, Pa., has a master's Katharine C. Lyall has a reputation local) legislatures.· chosen for the position or Trustee Committee to Nominate a degree in business adminiltration for accessibility and genuine M a teacher, Lyall has received president President, meet members of the in economics from New York concern about campus events, a 4.42 cumulative average grade U selected, Katharine C. Lyall. Faculty Advisory Commitlee, the University and a doctorat.e in according 10 faculty memben and from student evaluations, one of 48, executive vice president fOf the Committee of Advisors and economics from Cornell teaching assistants. the biahelt for introductory University of Wisconsin, will be representatives or university University in New Yort. Lyall, 48, vice l)ftSldent of the microeconomics professors, said She added that Lyall's sccuon or the first female president at the commissions and orpnizations Lyall was vice president of Univeulty of Wisconsin in Underplduate Advilor Christine the class is taught at night when Universuy of Delaware. In 1985-86, she was acting Academic Affairs for the Madison, will visit the university Schindler, ldminislllt« of teacher attendance is traditionally low. "Women have been overlooked president or the University of University of Wisconsin from IOday. evaluaUolls. A 5.0 is the hi&hest George Ts ibouris, a former for faculty and administration Wisconsin, which emboches 1.5 1982-85. Donald Nichols, chairman of possible averqe. teaching assistant for Lyall, said positions for a long time,· she said campuses and 165,000 students She was also deputy asaistant the University of Wi1conain "[SbeJ consi1tenlly maintains she has a unique closeness wnh Friday. Lyall is also a tenured pro(esaor JDCre&ary for economic aft'ain for economics depenment, Mid Lyall the hipe.t auendlnce of all three the students.