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Silent disease attacks Season ends with win bone tissue :~:~3Wilmingtonp FREE TUESDAY Police find car wanted in hit-and-run Nefosky said. He declined further Senior hit by car comment until the case is complete close to death and said police expect to finish their investigation today. in intensive care Carpentier was listed in critical condition in neurosurgical By Abby Stoddard intensive care a t Christiana Oty News Editor Hospital Monday evening, a Newark Police said they have hospital official said. located the car driven in last Medical officials stopped week's hit-and-run accident that administering drugs to Carpentier left a university student with Sunday morning and arc waiting Michele Bartley severe brain damage and on the for them to drain from his system, The 104-man pack of riders in the inaugural Tour Du Pont speed through Newark on the way to Columbia, Md., Saturday verge of death. said Arthur Reilly, a family friend morning. Erik Breukink (far right), of the world's number-one ranked team PDM, savors the race lead. University senior Douglas of Carpentier. Francis Carpentier (AS 91) was After his system is drug free, walking westbound on West Main Reilly said, doctors will measure Street at about 7 p.m. last Monday Carpentier's brain activity. when he was hit by a white Saab If found brain dead, Carpentier Wheels of Steel driving on Hillside Road toward will be taken off all life support Cleveland Avenue. systems, said Dean of Students Tour DuPont brings world-class cycling to Newark According to an eyewitness, Timothy F. Brooks, who visited Carpentier was thrown about 10 Carpentier on Sunday with By Richard Jones feet in the air and landed on his President David P. Roselle. Administrative News Editor Tour DuPont 1991 bead from the impact. He suffered Reilly said draining all the drugs In Europe, they are known as les geants • Newark celebrates Tour du Fun, p. 5 severe head injuries, and is from Carpentier's system will take de la route - the gianiS of the road. • SEAC protests Du Pont, p. 2 currently in an induced coma to about 24 to 48 hours, and by noon They are the elite corps of world-class •Motorola is "America's Team," p.5 reduce the swelling of his brain. Monday, the level was still very cyclisiS who pedal, grind and suffer through Lt. William Nefoslcy of the high. He said doctors are looking • Enthusiastic fans greet racers, p. 5 mile after tortuous mile of racing. Newark Police said police have for an alternate way to test brain Tbe 104-man international peloton, or shon time trial designed to determine which found the white Saab, but have not activity. pack of riders, began the 1,100-mile ordeal rider would wear the race leader's jersey for yet identified who was driving it at Brooks said, "Essentially, at this known as the Tour Du Pont in Wilmington the first stage. the time of the accident. point, there is no brain activity at Thursday and visited Newark during rhe In cycling, specially colored jerseys Police are still investigating, all." weekend. signify an individual's prowess. Formerly known as the Tour de Trump, the Holland's Erik Breukink of team PDM 11-day event will be contested on the roads of said he waniS to wear the winner's jersey at Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the end of the race and he took a big step Two companies left Pennsylvania on a course designed to bring toward that goal by winning the prologue. out the best in a potential race champion. Breukink, touted as the world's best time Riders are expected to be tested every inch trialist, plowed through the 3.1-mile course in in contractor search of the route. Only the rider who is able to 6 minutes, 20.82 seconds, which translates master climbing, sprinting and time trials will into 29.37 miles per hour. By Andrew Moore wriggle into the winner's jersey when the Canadian Steve Bauer of Motorola was Leslie D. Barbaro StaH Reponer race concludes in Wilmington. second at 6:22.35 and Steve Swan of Coors Tour de France champion Greg LeMond Marriott Corp. and ARA Services That test began in Wilmington Thursday Light posted the third-best time of 6:23.18. raced modestly in the early stages. were selected last week: by the Dining Services review committee afternoon with the prologue stage, which is a see RACERS page 5 as the top two prospects in a search for an outside dining contractor, officials said Sunday. Representatives from the two companies will make separate Faculty Senate elects officers presentations to the committee this week:, said David E. Hollowell, By Julie Creech president. a three-year term. The president-elect also heads the senior vice president for StaH Reporter The position of president-elect. to Coordinating Committee on Administration. Faculty Senate officers, including be held by Kenneth M. Lomax, was Education, which reviews proposals "We still haven't decide~ if vice president, secretary and created last year to alleviate the concerning curriculum changes. contractors are going to be hired," be David Hollowell committee chairmen, were elected difficulty of adjustiQg to The president must attend . said. ... said decision coming May 23 last week and will take office in responsibilities of new offices. monthly senate meetings in addition Hollowell said the ftrst decision September. Taggart said there was "no to meetings of the four or five will be whether or not the university submitted proposals, the committee Robert Taggart, who is currently continuity" with one-year terms for committees the president must serve. needs a contractor, and if it is picked Marriott and ARA," he president-elect, will assume the each office. Taggart said, "(The Faculty decided a contractor is necessary, the added. office of president. Harrison Hall He added the senate changed iiS Senate) is the only place that faculty next step will be choosing between The committee also sent two will become vice president and constitution last Monday to funher and students can openly air their the two candidates. teams last week to visit other Judith Roof will be the new alter the process. grievances." He said Marriott Corp. and ARA universities that had their dining secretary. Beginning next year, the vice He said the senate had to cover far Services are the only two remaining services run by the Marriott Corp. or Taggart, assistant professor of president will not assume the office more material this year than it ever from the original seven ftrms that ARA services, said Charlene educational studies, said that once be of president-elect, Taggart said. expected, resulting in many extended the university asked to submit bids Benson, chairwoman of the was elected vice president in the Instead, the presiden t-elect will be meetings and continuances of in March. committee. spring of 1989, he automatically elected separately and serve a two meetings. Robert Taggart 'Three chose not to respond and University representatives visited became president-elect and then year term, then becoming president. ...Faculty Senate president-elect from the remaining four that see SENATE page 4 see SEARCH page 4 GREEK LIFE: Black, white Greeks view purposes differently A SYSTEM By Alain C. Nana-Sinkam white. tbe members secretly exchange gifts. In addition to strained relationships UNDER FIRE Asslsr.ant Spotts fditDr Wby bas there been such little ·Sbe said tbe program should "lead to between organizations, students rarely Greek letter organizations have long interaction between black and white better relations," but added that she didn't cross tbe barriers between the blaclc and been indicators --and dictators -of lbC Greeks? expect the relationship between black and wbite fraternities and sororities, and those social climate in a university setting. Frances Christian (BE 92), president white Greeks to improve drastically wbo do often face criticism from friends In a time of greater focus on gender of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, said anytime 10011. and family. relations marred by sexual assault, historically black and white Greek "Tbere are misconceptions tbey have Darius Young (AS 92) is a black administrators have pressured Greek organizations bave different goals. about us, and there are miscooccptjoos member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He said organizations 10 seek internal solutians. "The white sororities are more socially we have about them, and that will make be was alienated by his father, a member But racial issues among Greeks have oriented, and we are directed toward t.be propam a good thing," she said. "But of the Nation of Islam, after be pledged. long been overlooked. Almost all uplifdog the black community," she said. I don't aeo any big changes coming." "My dad would never speak to me fraternities and sororities are single-sell. Christian said Alpha Kappa Alpha is Even today, the historically white directly about his feelings, but I knew be PART3 and, more importantly, many are either currently involved with Alpha Omicron fraternities at Delaware bave only a w~'t bappy about it." predominantly black or predominantly Pi in a "Secret Sisters" program in which handful of blaclt members. I see GREEkS pase 7 J • 2 • rHE REVIEW • ~y 14, 1991 Police departments to use pepper guns device immediately immobilizes a person when The county police will spend $4,500 to qutfit A stun; gun bas to actually touch the peoon, New devices to repl~ce sprayed in tbe face, be said. its 153 patrol officers with Cap-Stuns. which means the offi&rs have to' get very close Fraternity collects electric stun restraints The pepper spray is meant to replace the Equipping the officers with stun guns costs the to the person they are trying to arrest.

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