Roselle Sets Moving Date for Monday
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Dating: Special report:<? yvomen's Women place Real love or ISSUeS third at ECCs ·ust libido? page 4 for the 1990s page 17 THE EVIEWA FOUR-STAR ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER TUESDAY Roselle sets Faculty moVing date probes for Monday land usage Next UD president meets officials By Sharon O'Neal Roselle has visited with heads of By Johanna Murphy Administrative News Editor such offices as Admissions and Staff Reporter Financial Aid and the Student A resolution requesting the David P. Roselle, the university's Health Center. He said he will meet Committee on Budgetary and Space 25 th president. officially started his more university offices' staffs in the Priorities to examine the university's transition period Feb. 5 and expects near future. land-use and cultural resource policy to move to Delaware permanently In addition to meeting various was approved by the Faculty Senate Monday, he said Sunday. Newark officials, Roselle said he Feb. 5. "I'm just starting an orientation visited Southern Delaware facilities The resolution, proposed by Dr. period, getting to lmow the people, such as the College of Marine Kenneth Lomax, associate professor seeing what people do and seeing Studies in Lewes. of agricultural engineering, will add what their workplaces look like and "''m beginning to get acquainted to the responsibilities of the Faculty hearing their ideas about the with the University of Delaware," he Senate committee by charging it to campus," he said. said. "This is an important time for reinforce the need for land to be Roselle said he did not know me to get more familiar with the used for laboratory purposes. The when he would officially take office, people - sort of like freshman resolution also asks the committee to but that it would probably be after orientation." examine the use of the university's Spring Break. He also said he would Loessner said, "It's part of an cultural resources. · not move into the President's House orientation effort to get him familiar "Open space has historically been until that time. with the university and the state." considered open to development for G. Amo Loessner, vice president Roselle, whose daughter is a activities that are often incompatible for University Advancement and senior at St. Andrew's School in with teaching and research university secretary, said the board Middletown, said he will be in programs," Dr. John Dohms, of trustees' Executive Committee Newark until Wednesday. He will associate professor of animal science will meet tomorrow to decide when return to Kentucky this week to Roselle will take office. see ROSELLE page 9 see SURVEY page 9 Delaware to alert AIDS, HIV carriers' partners By Michael P. Williams identifiable partners who are suspected to Mary Herr, surveillance officer for the the program so "there would be control over assure patients' confidentiality. • Staff Reporter be unaware of the risk. divi sion's AIDS office, said the state any possibility of the regulation being "We did not think the language of the Dr. Paul R . Silverman, state currently only documents AIDS cases on a abused," Silverman said. proposal insured the clients' protection," she The state Board of Health approved a epidemiologist for the Bureau of Disease numerical basis. The task force consists of members of said. "There was a concern with who would program that will enable physicians to give Prevention, said the program will begin in The division, acting upon the Delaware Lesbian and Gay Health be given the confidential information." the identity of HIV-infected and AIDS March. recommendations of the AIDS Advisory Advocate (DLGHA), Delaware Council on Sharon Letts, member of the DCCJ, said, patients to the Division of Public Health for He said a reasonable effort must be made Task Force, amended its original proposal Crime and Justice (DCCJ), American Civil "We asked that the notification would be notification of sexual or needle-sharing to urge the patient to notify the partner to specify which employees would have Liberties Union and other interested private restricted to certain physicians within the partners. before referring the identity to the division. access to the information and to mandate and public organizations. division." The program enables physicians or When notifying partners of their risk, documentation of all notification Renna Van Oot, director of DLGHA, Silverman said the division is in the division employees to reveal the name of physicians may not reveal the names of procedures followed by the physician. said the task force was concerned the process of working out the details of the patients to the division if they know of infected patients. The division added the specifications to proposal did not contain specifications to program. Ray St. residents have mixed views about new dorms Some fear loss of community fabric By Leanne Riordan project Copy Editor He said most houses the university bought were owned by Construction plans for a student elderly blacks from the South who housing complex on Ray Street, had previously worked for the scheduled for completion this year, university. has left some residents of the J.ohn T. Brook, vice president for John Schneider historically black community Government Relations, said the only New student housing has some Ray Street homeowners concerned about the future of their reason the university is interested in worried the university will try to buy the entire street. neighborhood. the land is for its location between Many residents do not object to North and Central campuses. slowly fade away, she said, "You are kind of sad to see the the more than 300 additional The new dorm site will serve as a regardless of the lost property. old things go, but it's still good to students because they are corridor to connect the two Once a home to young families see improvement too," Lane said. Kevin Justita ;; accustomed to North Campus campuses, he said. with children, the street's residents The university held a meeting Andy Leneweaver, Grinnell students, but some neighbors are "We don't look at it as a black or are now predominantly middle with the entire neighborhood in technician, displays the upset because the university bought white community," Brook said. aged. Younger generations are October 1988 to prese nt the new Towers' alann system. several homes to demolish for the Although some of the houses the choosing to live elsewhere, Wilson university's plans to build the site. university bought were owned by said, because they often have better housing complex, Brook said. tbe East Tower should begin Some Ray Street residents said blacks, others were bought from opportunllJes than their HomeoWners were told about the within two weeks, O'Connor said. · they are upset because of the European Americans, he explained. grandparents and parents. university's interest in buying the "It looks like it will be university's poor communication The Ray Street community, also Although many are d!smayed to property. Those who wanted to sell completed sometime in March, but efforts with the community. known as "Dump Hill" for its see the Ray Street homes replaced negotiated a price later, he said. that's still tentative," Davis said Tracy Ricks, a 30-year resident of history as the site of a former trash with a student-housing complex, "They did not have to sell if they Davis said the Towers' system Ray Street, said he is unhappy with dump, was originally a self some are not opposed to the idea. did not want to sell. I think the ) .t T'.hi~ ': 'is': a systttrf that's is a custom voice-activation the university because "they have contained neighborhood, said David Moon , a resident of people who did sell got pretty good dilfr.lent," she said. "We're'rially, system with a smoke detector in not taken the time to communicate Patricia Wilson, a former resident. neighboring New London Road and prices for [their houses)." he said. · ftWty happy !b have it" · each apartment's living room. The with the black community to see Wilson, who grew up on the a former I 0-year Ray Street Ricks said the university could : .; Steve O'Connor, supervisor of smoke detector will beep if it reads how it feels." street her grandfather George resident, said he will not mind have done more to help the residents drinnel ·AIJi.tm and Detettion lrouble. If the resident has not One resident, who requested Wilson developed, said the seeing residence halls built on the who agreed to relocate. pivision, the cdtnpllll)' ins~llng reset the detector within 40 anonymity, said the new dormitory university is intruding on Ray street. He said the university's resources dl~ sysleni, said he hOpes the West seconds, a warning will appear on site traditionally has been the horne Street's community identity by New London Road resident and even some students could have Tower · syst~rri • .. whlch has three monitors, located in the · of many Newark blacks. The building residence halls on a row Beretta Lane said most of the homes counseled the residents about Christiana Towers Commons, wldergonc ~· · ror two weeks., university is taking a large section that has a legacy. were very old and the university buying new homes and financing wiU be ready wilhln two weeks. out of the black neighborhood, he However, it is inevitable that the gave the owners the opportunity to 'lest.int *ld trOuble sh6oting in see ALARM page 9 said, by acquiring houses for the Newark black community will move. see RAY STREET page 9 ...I• •.~~~·~TH~E~R~E;V,~lEW~.·~Fe;b~ru;a~~~1;3,~1~9;9o~ ........................................................................................................ -. ... ~ -:~-r'i~ - ~~! ~, ·: Student groups unite for awareness : ·..... \.: ,~.;~JJ ;, By Rey Searles other incidents were impetus for meetings, Congdon said.