Miles Appointed New Affirmative Action Officer

Today's A four-star weatlfer: All-American Partly cloudy and newspaper warm. Highs in the mid 60s. Vol. 115 No. 17 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, March 17, 1989 Miles appointed Programs new affirmative on alcohol action officer underway by Ted Spiker mative action officer Sept. 1. Jack Miles Administrative News EdiJor Miles was named executive director Tailgate kegs of the commission Dec. 12. Rather than going through anoth Jack Miles, executive director of the David E. Hollowell, senior vice er search, Hollowell said the deci may be banned university's Commission to Promote president for Administration, said sion was made to na!Jle someone Racial and Cultural Diversity, was Miles was not the final candidate who familiar to the university. by Bob Bicknell named the new affirmative action offi was to be interviewed by President Hollowell said he could not com Student Affairs Editor cer Thursday. E.A. Trabant last week. ment on whether Miles was one of The announcement completed a Trabant was out of town and could four finalists for the position. Several programs to promote alcohol awareness national search for the position that not be reached for comment. Hollowell said Miles knows the are currently in the preliminary stages of implemen was left open after the departure of Hollowell said he could .not com minority community in Delaware tation in response to recommendations made by the Muhammed A. Ahmed in July. ment on the details. and is familiar with the goals of the board of trustees' ad hoc Committee on Student Use Ronald F. Whittington, assistant to However, he said there was some of Alcohol, university officials said Wednesday. the president, was named acting affir- discomfort with the single finalist. contin~d to page 11 "The seven-point report was basically the final report for that committee and now it's into the imple mentation phase," Dean of Students Timothy F. Brooks said. The programs being discussed include a required one-semester orientation course for entering students which will include information about alcohol use · and abuse and a possible ban on kegs at tailgate par ties. Athletic Director Edgar N. Johnson said, "We see editorial, p. 8 would like to ban kegs and make the excessive drinking prohibited, more inconvenient "We'd like to cut down on the large crowds tfiat congregate [in the parking lot] and create problems, and try to get them into the game." Johnson said excessive drinking at tailgate parties has long been a problem, mostly due to large num bers of people in the parking lot during the game. "The keg is an attraction," he said. "It attracts a large group of people. So, I think [a keg ban] will hopefully cut down on the large groups." The recommendation to ban kegs at tailgate par- . ties came from the board of trustees, Johnson said, The Review!fim Swartz although he said the idea is something he has been Don't bring me down- Rugby club member Mike Cherubini (AS 91) puts the hit on his opponent Saturday in interested in for awhile. · Bethesda, Md. Delaware plays Fordham University tomorrow at 1 p.m. behind the Carpenter Sports Building. continued to page 18 ~--------------------,Inside: - DUSC suggests lawyer for campus • Provost search post- by Ellen Ginsburg Congress (DUSC). Timothy Brooks, dean of stu- only direct the students to the poned un61 new presi Staff Reporter He said the idea has been dis- dents, with the idea of the legal appropriate legal source. The dent named: •.••..•.•.• p.-6 cussed by DUSC members and service this year. lawyer will not take any cases A student legal service is in the university administration in Through the. service, a lawyer there. • Women's spring the works and will hopefully be the past, but nothing was ever will be available in the Perkins "He will determine whether or fashiOns ............... p. 29 ., implemented by September, decided. Student Center to listen to stu- not [a student] should see.k a • Men's lacrosse team according to Jeffrey Thomas (BE Thomas said he approached dents' legal problems. lawyer," Thomas said. -beats New Hampshire, 90), vice president of the Marilyn Prime, director of the Thomas said there will not be He said the lawyer "serves 16-6 ............ _.......... p.40 Delaware Undergraduate Student Perkins Student Center, and · a fee, because this lawyer will continued to page 13 Page 2 • The Review • March 17,1989 ________....;;..... _________________ _.. _______________ _ Fruit from Chile laced with cyanide Local stores, university remove goods as precaution by Karyn Tritelli Menta said. Fruit being removed or held and returned to our warehouse PLO leaders meet Staff Reporter "Sixty-five percent of all the at the port include grapes, nec - all the soft fruit, like grapes. Israelis in New York Chilean fruit that comes into tarines, peaches, plums, rasp peaches, plums and things like Fruit imported from Chile is the U.S. comes in through berries and honeydew melons, that that we can't get this time Palestine Liberation being pulled from grocery store Philadelphia, so it's an incredi Menta said. of year," he said. Organization leaders met Israeli shelves across the country after ble volume," he added. Produce manager Phil Austin Stanley. produce politicians and peace activists small traces of cyanide were Three local grocery stores Johnston of the New London manager of Pathmark in for the first time on American found in two grapes in said they have already removed Road Superfresh said they College Square Shopping soil in a three-day conference at Philadelphia by the Food and the fruit and are accepting removed all Chilean fruit Center, said they pulled all Columbia University in New Drug Administration (FDA) returns of fruit sold before the Tuesday morning. their Chilean fruit Monday York, The Philadelphia Monday. removal. "Everything has been pulled night. Inquirer reported. FDA officials discovered the Produce manager Walt The meeting continued a cyanide when they inspected Compton from the Elkton Road series of gatherings that began crates of grapes .arriving from Acme said, "Everything is off last year in Paris and continued Chile at the ·Port of the shelves and out of the store. with a meeting at the Hague Philadelphia, according to Joe There's no Chilean fruit on the between U.S. Jewish officials Menta, assistant director of premises." and PLO leader Yasir Arafat Corporate Communications for Susan Locke, assistant man the Port of Philadelphia. ager of university food service. EPA proposes medical FDA· offiCials searched the said all the Chilean fruit waste restrictions crates in response to an anony received by university dining mous phone call received by halls was sent back Tuesday the U.S. Embassy in Chile immediately after it came in. The Environmental Protection threatening to pois~n Chilean "Any grapes we're using now Agency (EPA) announced grapes. are still left over from before Tuesday its plans to prevent What they found was "a [the cyanide scare]," she medical waste from washing up miniscule amount [of cyanide] explained. "Anything new was on the bea<,:hes of the East Coast that could not even make a kid sent back." and elsewhere, according to sick," Menta explained. "But, Menta said the port is unsure The Philadelphia Inquirer. of course they want to make when the fruit will again be dis The EPA program will control sure there's not more." tributed. the disposal of syringes and . After the cyanide was found, "We have 1.4 million cases body parts and call for the pack the FDA urged that all Chilean en route to Philadelphia now. aging and labelling of waste flu fruit be removed from super The Review/rim Swartz so we're hoping this thing gets ids and sharp objects. markets and any incoming fruit Area supermarkets have pulled all Chilean fruit from produce cleared up." he said. The two-year pilot program should be held at the dock, bins in response to recent discoveries of cyanide tamperings. will include 10 states but only New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are required to par Arts and Science discusses possibility ticipate. Space shuttle tank of changing graduation requirements . problem no real threat by Wendy Pickering "The rationale for making such a regula Staff Reporter "The rationale for making tion is that people are entirely filling their A hydrogen tank problem such a regulation is that peo transcripts with lower-level work," he said. aboard the Space Shuttle A proposal was recently introduced to the ple are entirely filling their "It's almost like educational junk food." Discovery posed a threat College of Arts and Science Faculty Senate Morrison said Tuesday to the length of the mis that would require students to obtain 45 of transcripts with lower-level Such rules are not uncommon to Olhec uni sion, although Mission Control the 124-credit requirement at the 300 level work." •' versities of comparable size and academic later said that the crew was not and above, a faculty senator said Tuesday. quality, he said in danger, The News Journal There are currently no regulations regard - John Morrison Some schools require almost one-half of reported. ing a minimum amount of 300-level courses affect only Arts and Science majors, said the course requirements to be taken at the Chuck Shaw, NASA flight needed for graduation. John M. Morrison, assistant professor of 300 level or above, said David F. director, said Tuesday that The legislation, if implemented, would mathematical sciences and faculty senator. continued to page 26 ground controllers hoped to solve the problem by turning the tank on but only using one of its two heaters.

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