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Freshman Killed on Railroad Tracks Black Faculty Alleges Hirings Freshman killed on railroad tracks A university .freshman who spokesper~on fr9m the medical westbound at approximately Cynthia Cummings, her behavior," Cummings was sitting on railroad tracks examiner's office. there is no 40 mph when the engineer associate director for the said. was struck and killed by an evidence of foul play. observed the victim sitting Office of Housing and Her body was given to the oncoming train Sunday night, The ca~se of death was between the tracks with her Residence Life, said they will medical examiner's office by according to Newark Police. multiple blunt force injuries, back toward the train. have to wait on the authorities the Newark Police Sun.tangala Chakkaravarthi, said police. The train was unable to stop to determine if the death was department. 18, (EO 92) a resident of She was pronounced dead and killed the victim. intentional, No labpratory test results Dickinson A, was killed at 9:35 at the scene when police Chakkaravarthi's body was "According toothe staff in on the body were available as p.m. at the CSX railroad tracks arrived at9:41 p.m. found underneath the train. Dickinson, she seemed to be a o_f 4:30p.m. Monday. near the 100 block of Elkton Police gave the following The Wilmington resident fairly friendly young woman, Road. account: was alone at the time of the and they bad not · ~ Karen Wolf According to a The train was beading accident. noticed anything unusua) in Today's Our second century of weather: Mostly sunny excellence and mild. High around75. Vol. 115 No. 6 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Tuesday, September 27, 1988 Faculty Black faculty Senate alleges hirings tables illegitimate plus/minus by Diane Moore obtained by The Review, from the Administrative News Editor coalition to Jones. by Sarah Gurman A list, compiled by the Copy Editor At least 15 administrative coalition, of administrators hired positions have been filled without without searches includes David The Faculty Senate has mandated affirmative action E. Hollowell, senior vice president tabled a motion to designate a searches since President Russel C. for administration; Raymond I. numerical value to the Jones' tenure began on July 1, Peters III, executive assistant to plus/minus grading system, 1987, according to Crystal the president; Harvey Stone, which is still under debate, Hayman, Black Faculty/Staff executive assistant to the said Frank Dilley, president of Coalition co-leader. president; and Jane B. Moore, the senate. These posts were filled with assistant to the senior vice At a Sept. 19 meeting, the "the apparent absence of president for administration. senate postponed a motion to affirmative action guidelines," assign the value of .33 to according to a Sept. 16 letter, contin&U?d to page 11 pluses and minuses: Under the sytstem, which will be debated again Oct. 3, an A would continue te5 be worth -4 points, a B plus worth 3.66, a "~-----' --------"~ B. 3.5. and a B minus. 2.67. Positions jiUed without mandated searches: The senate also rejected a The Review/Eric Russell motion to add -the grade of A Big bang - A tractor trailer lies amidst the wreckage following an Senior V.P. for Administration David E. Hollowell plus to the plus/minus system, accident on Kirkwood Highway Friday. (See story p. 7) Exec. Asst. to the President Raymond Peters Exec. Asst. to the President . Harvey Stone Todd Mason, a DUSC Considine said reports from Dilley explained that such a Asst. to the Senior V.P. for Admin. '· Jane Moore representative to the Faculty other universities last year system could lead "to a Secondary Mathematics Coordinator Cathleen Hollowell Senate, said Friday. showed "that at every school peculiar situation for graduate EDP Auditor Carl Hassler The senate approved the [plus/minus] is implemented, students." Asst. ·Dir. of Engineering and Const. Margaret Metzger plus/minus grading system in G.P.A.s go down." "Graduate students who Martina Moore 1985, and will record pluses Mason said DUSC also needed a 3.0 for continued Exec. Asst. to Dean - Arts & Science Lisa Huber and minuses on student's disagreed with the senate's funding might end up with a Asst. Dining Hall Manager Lawrence Stellini transcripts when instituted. 2.96," Dilley said. latest decision to not allow an Dilley said the earliest that Exec. Officer - Marine Studies Richard Tarpley If a value of .33 were A plus grade. Internal Auditor Vince di Leonardo the new grading scale could be "If you can_get a B plus, you assigned to pluses and Mgr. of Commissary - Food Service David De Stefano implemented would be next minuses, this would not should be able to get an A year, when completion of a Research Assoc. I • Life & Health Sciences Linda Sequeira happen. plus," he said. Research Engineer in Micro Computer moderninzing of the DUSC President Steve Students who get a grade of university's computer network Systems -Computer and Info. Sciences Carol Sargent Considine said the student B plus will benefit from the Accompanist· Coach -Music is expected. representatives moved to table system, but people who When the system was (temp. position) Julie Nishimura the mo tion so the student deserve an A plus will get Acting Associate Provost Carol Hoffecker adopted, it was decided that senate could further investigate credit only for an A, he pluses and minuses would be "the whole plus/minus assigned values of .3. system." conlin&U?d to page 13 • "~---------- ' P~l·~~-&~2~19~~-----------------------------------------------------------------------ews Look: The world in brief ew abortion Robert Riley, was charged same thing now," said Col. showed that boys are u.s. with assault· for chasing a Clifford M. Graviet, outperforming girls by a wide drug approved swimmers black man to his death in superintendent of the state margin. 1986. Charges of murder and police. set records " manslaughter were dropped The police 'believe the A acw drug that induces when Riley provided deaths are related because of ahod:imt g pre_gnaney was Janet Evans and Matt testimony against the other similarities among the victims. 100,000 - approwed - week in France Biondi, two United States boys involved in the attack. In homeless after aad China,. Tlu! ew Tork swimmers in the 1988 Summer addition to the prison sentence, TUlleS RpOifaL Olympics. both set Olympic Riley was placed on probation Nigerian flood 11lc dmg,. RU486. is a safer records Thursday in Seoul, for five years and given 400 aad less expensive method Sooth Korea, The hours of community service. diaD swzjcal ahortio • when Philadelphia . Inquirer The record of Riley's Students' science Several people were killed wscd - die tint trimester. reported. participation in the attack will and 100,000 were left ~ahonion groups in the Evans set a world record in be officially sealed and he will performance "low" homeless in Lagos, Nigeria. Ullircd States and elsewhere the 400-meter women's have no criminal record. when a concrete dam are opposed to the drug and freestyle, beating her own A national study revealed collapsed, causing the flow of fear dlat it mipt encourage record by 1.6 seconds. FBI says deaths recently that the performance a massive amount of water. ~ ~ A boycoU. has Biondi won a gold medal. of the average 17-year-old is according to The Philadelphia bee• tbrcate cd by the setting a world record in the linked Inquirer. Natioul Right to Life "distressingly low" in the field 100 meter men's freestyle. of science, according to The The dam was the fourth to Ow•ittcc~ - will boycott Investigations by the FBI Philadelphia Inquirer. collapse in Nigeria in the past aay UIIDpiliiJ that madeiS the have produced evidence that Reports have shown that few weeks. Torrential rains. dm&- Beach defendant the body of a woman found in the heaviest in western Africa drug as ot been only 7% of American students ne the Chesapeake and Delaware are adequately prepared for in two decades, have been appnwcd_in the United States. gets six months Canal and the deaths of two college science courses. reported as the cause. other women are the work of The eruption of water­ A defendant who cooperated Among the minorities, the the same man, The Ne~s reports showed that the damaged bridges caused the with prosecutors in the Journal reported. flooding of farmlands and Howard Beach case was performance of Hispanic and "The FBI Behavioral black students, between ages villages. Nigeria reported sentenced Friday to six months Science Unit said the first two earlier that floods in the in prison, The New York Times 13 and 17, remain at least four killings were linked and years behind their white peers. country's northern tier had reported. basically, they are saying the claimed at least 50 lives. The defendant, 19-year-old Among the sexes, the study let's face it, amigos, any beer that needs a slice of lime to give it flavor can't be much of a beer Discover Calgary Amber Lager ... Its rich, imported taste is hearty and robust Try it the next time you order beer, and hold the lime. Calgary Amber Lager. Join the stampede. iAT-Shirt offer that's not for suckers.--_·............... ~ . 1 Please send me thefollowing Calgary T-Shirts: (PlEASE PRINT) Prier Totd Quantity Size ~----------------------------- I _M _L _XL saooea. ~---------------------------- I • Alll'fnn residems add 6% sales tax. 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