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.Rally to curb violence clarifies 'misinformation' By SUSAN CLINTON ministrators met to answer and the questions of the student PAULA WEBERS body. About 150 people at­ Assault statistics, lighting, tended the rally. and an escort service were Each panel member in­ discussed at a rally forum troduced him or herself and titled "Violence Against described the organization he Women on Campus," Monday or she represented and its in­ night at 120 Smith Hall. volvement with the assault The purpose of the forum, issue. according to Shaku Bhaya, • "We want to get to the bot­ co-chairwoman of Women tom of incidents that may get Working for a Change in the way of quality educa­ (WWFC) was to initiate a tion," said 4rno Loessn·er, ex­ student-faculty exchange of ecutive assistant to the presi­ views to. resolve discrepan­ dent and panel member. cies about the number of The WWFC and audience . crimes committed on cam­ members directed questions pus and get public com­ to the panel. - ~ m i t m e n t s f r o m a d- Lighting on campus was a .. ·-----·____ ministrators to create a safer major source of dispute bet­ Review photo by Neol Williamson campus. ween students, faculty and DR. SUZANNE STEINMETZ develops a point about the recent assaults on campus as Stuart A 12-member panel of administrators. Sharkey looks on at Monday night's awareness rally. faculty members and ad- Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz, professor of Individual and There have been three separate cases of "We didn't want to take any chances," Hug­ Family Studies and panel hepatitis reported to the Student Health gins said, explaining that in addition to giving member, felt that the lighting Center this semester, according to Dr. C. Ray immunization shots, he called Dr. Fantazier is poor from Alison Hall to the Huggins, director of the Student Health of the State of Delaware Health Department library and said she did not Center. to notify him of the situation. understand the priority of Huggins said that two of the cases have been Huggins said that even if the unidentified lighting on campus. identified as type B non-contagious hepatitis, case should turn out to be contagious, there is "I'd love to take a B-B gun UDreports one having developed as a complication of no danger of infection without close contact. to the tennis court lights," mononucleosis. Huggins added that both He defined close contact as sharing glasses, Steinmetz said. students are doing well. towels or toothbrushes with the infected per­ Complete lighting is an im­ three cases The third case has not yet been identified, son. possibility, said Stuart although it is known not to be type B. Because Huggins said that if a person is generally Sharkey, vice president of the unidentified case could be type A, which is clean, washes his hands before eating and student affairs and panel of hepatitis contagious, the Student Health Center has before leaving the bathroom, most illnesses member. Student groups and taken special precautions in order to avoid which are not airborne can be avoided. Security may tour the By GEORGE MALLET-PREVOST the spread of hepatitis on catnpus and in the Huggins described the symptoms of campus at night to find the t community, said Huggins. hepatitis as being similar to those of the flu, problem areas, he said. These precautions include giving shots to including fever, aches and pains, nausea and Detective Richard Ar­ nine people who had close contact with the pa­ sometimes vomiting. He said that hepatitis is mitage of Security said it tient which will provide immunity from almost always characterized by a yellowing of might be safer if people did hepatitis fer six months. the eyes and skin or "jaundice." (Continued to page,.} Campaigning DuPont stresses political activism By CINDY FRANK The specific duties of the Lt. on Governor Pete DuPont and Mike nor are to run the State senate Castle, the Republican candid-11te for chair the Board of Pardons. It is con­ Lt. Governor, spoke to a gathering.of sidered a part-time job and pays ap­ the 25 students on Wednesday afternoon proximately $14,000 a year. Castle, in the Ewing Room of the Student who is a prominent Wilmington at­ Center. torney, would continue to practice law inside if elected. The visit was arranged by the Col­ The governor went on to describe lege Republicans. According to State several of Ute major programs his ad­ Life in a Chairman Bob Chadwick, the purpose ministration has implemented in the of the visit was to give students an op­ last four years. "Jobs for Graduates, ai shadow portunity to meet with both DuPont, program for employment of high The campus gay com­ who is up for re-election in school alumni, was developed to help!. November and Castle. lower the state's unemployment rate., munity... 6, 7 Castle encouraged the students to Out of 22,000 unemployed in become politically involved. "Early Delaware, half ~re under the age of' political involvement by students can 2~," he said. Last year the program! lead to interesting and rewarding placed 475 graduates from eight high work in the future," he said. schools, according to the governor, Country liv­ Governor DuPont reiterated Cas­ and a board of directors has been tle's encouragement to the students established to oversee the program. ing, sort of and emphasized the importance of A competency testing program has The varied wares of teamwork between the governor and also been established in the public the Lt. governor. "You need a team in schools, said DuPont. These tests are the New Castle these two offices. It won't work given to every grade once a year to Farmer's Market... 13 without it," said DuPont. The current determine the students' level o~ Lt. governor is Jim McGiness, a achievem~nt: Before a student can1 Democrat. (Continu.d to page 9) fage 2 • THE REVIEW • October 17, 1980 .· . ACROSS TRACKS w 0 NDE RLAND FROM DEER PARK . - '738-6856 NEW & HOT!! ----- JOHN COUGAR Nothm' Matters And Wh•' If It Ood k l liTI" HLO\\ 1\urti.., Btu\\ . WINTER SESSION AWARD .. I ' ' NOT FICATIONS · ' can be obtained from October . 20,th through November l~th, 1980 in the Office of Scholarships . and S udent Financial Aid lnfor· .; I 3 . · • ,. October 17. 1980 • THE REVIEW • Page 3 Award-winning journalist at Clayton Lewis discusses role of press By JANET PERRELLA • , .. "Its hard to be here with l>J the Phillies playing," said ·~ Anthony Lewis, two-time Pulitzer winning journalist at Clayton Hall Wednesday night. His World Series competi­ tion notwithstanding, Lewis spoke to an almost full house about "The Press and the Law." In his speech, part of the Honors Forum Lecture Series, the New York Times jk-Yff columnist described the "deadly embrace" of the Cor~~ press and the courts and the ~"'ogram constitutional freedoms of the print media. plJ\. Lewis, 53, graduated from A\'JO()der-£ .1\ Harvard and began his newspaper career with the e.\bice. for Times in 1948. He worked yerW\ahzir~g briefly for the Democratic ANTHONY LEWIS National Committee in the its premise must be that the others involved as well as the "JOOr 1952 elections and was later Constitution gives it a unique journalist's. wardrote . employed by the Washington status: an immunity from "The press is not always Daily News. rules that bind others in our the good guy," said Lewis, Lewis received his first society," Lewis said. and added that, in the past, 8 Pulitzer Prize in 1954 while Lewis gave the example of those accused of being Com­ ~ !p STOCKPILE working for the Daily News. a 1972 Supreme Court case munist sympathizers in print 46 E. MAIN ST.. NEWARK He received the award for a during Watergate in which could lose their jobs and suf­ series of articles in which he President Nixon resisted a fer socially. "If someone disproved charges- against a subpoena saying he had were named in such a paper, U.S. Navy employee who had presidential (and constitu- on the basis of alleged con­ been discharged. tional) privileges to hold in- fidential sources and sued for Lewis won his second timate office conversations. libel, would justice demand Pulitzer in 1963 for his "Are we to say that law en- that the paper be allowed to coverage of the Supreme forcement is so important keep its sources secret and Court and is the author,of two that the constitutional escape responsibility?" books, "Portrait of a privilege of the Presidents Further questioning the Decade" and "Gideon's must bow to it - that the in- "justice" and "responsibili­ Trumpet," which was award­ terest of the press always ty" of the press, Lewis ex­ ed best fact-crime book in comes first?" Lewis asked. amined the Richmond $1.00 OFF 5:50, s:oo, 10:1o 1965 by the Mystery Writers "I would not say that. And I Newspapers case in which Regular Sat. ~a.t. 1 p:m. of America. Lewis now works do not think it helps the reporters and spectators AFantasy, Evening Admission Sun .. 1·45• 3·45 as a columnist at the Times press... to make such ex- were barred from a cour­ with Student 5 =45• 7=45• 9=45 and lectures at Harvard on clusivist arguments. troom. According to Lewis, a Musical, I.D. Card Mon.-Thurs. the press and the law. He examihed another facet the court said that the First 7:15, 9:15 Throughout this career, of the rights of the press in his Amendment gave both the Aplace where dreams The Army was no Lewis upheld what he felt speech - that of a "jour- public and the press the right come true laughing matter should be the "American nalist's privilege," his right to attend and that this was until Judy Benjamin sense of fair play" and the to withhold information on important because "never joined it.

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