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Delaware Football-An Overview. .. See Pages 14-15 Vol. 98, No. 15 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Friday, October 25, 197 4 Mail Procedure Disputed Personal Use of Campus Postal Service Ba-nned By JOAN TONNESSEN of the campus. Mossman said. the supervisor of The university's recent decision to enforce the the dorm or dorms will be notified and will be held policy of Campus Mail as not "available for the respopsible for informing the students. personal use of university employes or students" Stating that he is "never going to be able to has met with student disapproval. correct the system entirely... Mossman said he "It's just not fair." said Resident Student is primarily concerned with an overall reduction Association (RSAI Vice-President John Barth. in mail volume. He noted he is satisfied with the "The policy should have been enforced before. way the Campus Mail policy is now in effect. instead of putting the student under an illusion stating that "from the reaction of my men. there that it would continue as it always had." has been a marked decrease in mail. .. He hoped As outlined in the Policy on Use of Campus that ··the students will cooperate. ·· Distribution System. Campus Mail is a facility An RSA committee. consisting of Barth. Foster provided "for the in~house distribution of Schucker and Fred Schrank. has drawn up five university business and printed matter of proposed solutions to the problem of student importance and relevance to approved university discontent with the present implementation of the programs and service." policy. The policy further reads that "in this context. The first suggestion is to buy interdepartmental the Campus Mail system is a restricted service ... envelopes and to distribute them to the resident - The service has only been restricted de facto student at no cost. · this semester. the result of a request made last Another suggestion is to determine the cost per spring by Frank Mossman. director of malterial. student of Campus Mail and to give each student to Donald Crossan. vice president of business and the opportunity to buy the privilege of using the management. system for personal reasons. .-- Mossman stressed that the reason for the A stamp system is also being considered. in implementation of the policy was simply that the which only the student using the facility need pay. volume of mail on campus was too large for The fourth suggestion is for the University of employes to handle without working over-time. Delaware Coordinating Council 1UDCC1 or the "The men just couldn't get the work d<•ne." he RSA to take responsibility for the resident student said. Campus Mail delivery. Mossman said he fully realizes that the System A final possible solution is to determine to what is full of loopholes. He added the Campus Mail is extent students contribute to the total volume of still "being abused ... and that in fact "nothing Campus Mail ·and liberalize the policy if that can be done about personal mail in volume is minimal. interdepartmental envelopes." Personl\1 mail not These five proposals have been presented to in these specified brown envelopes "should not be Crossan for review. according to the committee. picked up. but sometimes it takes more time to Barth commented. .. I would like to prove that Staff phata by Stewart Lavelle track down the offender than it does to just mail students don't use Campus Mail that much. and if LIGHTER THAN AIR - Underneath Blaine Stauffer and a mass of the letter." Mossman said. so . they should not be denied the privilege of balloons is Eric Burkhardt. The members of APO were distributing If a large problem develops in a particular area (Continued to Page 6) balloons promoting the Job Jamboree. Insurance Commissioner Role Discussed by Candidates Smith Envisions Large Staff ELECTION Short .Suggests Proposals o Restore Personal Service 74 To Regulate Rising Costs By KAREN DINUNZIO By DAVID C. FLOOD Harry S. Smith. Democratic The rising cost of buying insurance is candidate for the office of Insurance the major campaign issue. according Commissioner. has promised to restore to Robert Short. the Republican prompt and personal service to incumbent candidate for Insurance insurance affairs. Commissioner. Smith described himself as "I take pride there are no crises in ·'people-oriented instead of the insurance service today,.. said company-oriented." He declared that Short. adding that this is the reason for his personal staff will be "large the absence of issues in the present enough, and qualified to do the job in race. the public interest. .. Short. Insurance Commissioner Smith felt that 34 years of experience since he defeated Harry Smith 12 years in the insurance business. as both an ago. is suggesting three main agent and a supervisor. is his most proposals to keep the costs of convincing qualification. "Insurance is insurance rates down. complicated," he explained. "People Regulation of Blue Cross-Blu~ Shield (Continued to Page 13) (Continued to Page 13) Editor's Note: This is the fourth of a seven part series dealing with the · candidates and issues of this year's election. Other candidates run11ing for Insurance Cammissioners include William Opfer of the American party and P. Robert Short. J\1eredith Sterret Jr. o.f the Prohibition party. Republican candidate Page2 REVIEW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware October 25, 1974 r-----------------------------------------------~ The Week A ~ Look at African Art Gallery 20 Exhibit Displays Tribal Artifacts In Review By MARY CHURCHILL the other items on display are display at Gallery 20. "I hope "The sound of the Kora is some hand-carved gourd many university students will not merely rhythmical and bowls from Hausa of Katsina, visit the gallery because this not merely built on a Nigeria; several carved is an extensive, worthwhile Cost of Living pentatonic scale. This wooden stools from Basse, exhibit," she commented. instrument violates many According to Labor Department statistics released Tuesday, the Gambia and ritual masks, · Gallery 20 is located at 20 misconceptions about African also from Nigeria. Consumer Price Index jumped up substantially again in Orchard Road and is open instruments," commented Some of the crafts September. The over-all increase was 1.2 percent. from noon to 5 p.m. on Marc Pevar while sitting on on display are also Consumer prices were up 12.1 percent above what they were in Thursdays, Fridays and the floor strumming his for sale. A pair of Saturdays and 7 p.m. to 9 Sept. 1973. This is the largest rise in prices since 1947. 21-string African harp. ante I ope-pi anting-ritual Food prices made the greatest gains. 1.9 percent, especially such p.m. on Friday evenings. Pevar and his wife, Susan, headresses, mad~ of wood "African Tribal Art" will commodities as meat, fish and poultry. Th'ere was a 1.5 sang authentic African songs and plaited fiber, are priced percent decline in the price of gasoline and motor oil. run until Nov. 16 and is free at the opening of "African at $1,500, while a and open to the public. Tribal Art," an exhibition of "fire-spitter" ritual mask Immigration African crafts. The exhibit sells for $875. Not all the The Canadian government announced Tuesday new tighter was designed to present a items for sale are quite so regulations on immigration flow. These new regulations are detailed look at African art, expensive. Several toys and designed to make it more difficult for a person to immigrate if he according to Pevar. pieces of pottery sport lower Recorder Concert does not already have a job waiting for him. The major impact of ··African Tribal Art" prices. A recording of Kora opened at Gallery 20 music, performed by Pevar's The student recorder this change should be felt by non-white immigrants. concert will perform at 11 <formerly the Phoenix teacher. Alhaji Bai Konte. is There has been much discussion in the press and on radio and a.m., Oct. 29, in the Loudis television on the increase of non-white immigrants into Canada. Center) Sunday afternoon. also for sale. The Pevars learned the Helen Mason. spokeswoman Recital Hall of the Amy E. Critics of a liberal immigration policy contend that an duPont Music B!Jilding. uncontrolled flow of immigrants can lead to ghettoes and racial songs they performed during for Gallery 20, said that the year they spent in the "African Tribal Art" · is just The concert will feature problems. Republic of Gambia. one in a series of art selections from the 12th Watergate ·:My wife. Susan. and I exhibitions scheduled to go on through the 18th centuries Under oath. John VV. Dean admitted at the VVatergate trial that became adopted members of with combinations of he had withheld damaging information for many months after he the family of Alhaji Bai recorders, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, said he had told ~he authorities everything he knew. Konte, who appeared on Massage Workshop Dean. who is the prosecution's chief witness, said that some of campuslastyear. VVelearned harpsichord, guitar, and his testimony before the Senate VVatergate committee last year these songs during our visit Ther:e will be a massage percussion. was "not accurate" concerning the dates he gave the committee with him. He was our workshop Monday night · at Highlighting the program for various meetings and events. He also admitted concealing his teacher," commented Pevar, 8:30 p.m. in Thompson Hall will be the selection, "Mes destruction of two notebooks of E. Howard Hunt. who also mentioned a few lounge. _ Different back rub Esperis" by Guillaume de Ford experiences he and his wife techniques will be Mach~ut, to be sung by Louis had in Gambia in context with demonstrated.

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