Student Activities Fee Reconsidered New Act for Univ. Theatre Department

IInside: Looking '~ntothe· Future\ Today's weather:' A five star All-American NON PROFIT ORG Mostly sunny neW8paper . US POSTAGE high in the 40s' PAID I Newark Del Permll No 26 Vol. 114 No. 13 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, March 4, 1988 Student activities fee reconsidered by Kean Burenga see editorial, p.8 Administrative News Editor who should be charged. President Russel C. Jones "We have to find an ap and Staurt Sharkey, vice propriate mechanism for im president for student affairs, plementing the fee and mak are designing a proposal for a ing it work," he commented. comprehensive student act Jones and Sharkey will sub vities fee at the university, the mit the final proposal to the president said. Student Mfairs Committee of Although details are still be the board of trustees later this ing worked out, Sharkey ex spring. plained, funds generated from If the committee approves the proposed fee would pro the proposition it will then go vide more money for clubs and before the full board for ap organizations and allow enter proval at their semi-annual tainment programming to be meeting in May. This will represent the third student organizations received expanded. time in eight years that an ac Jones ~dded that another $172,830 from the university in area where the fee might be tivities fee has been proposed the current academic year. used is in expanding in to the university's administra The student organizations -tramural sports at the tion. The fee was rejected the originally requested university. previous two times. $336,662.40. Jones said the need for a stu According to DUSC Presi Ultimately, he said, "The dent activities fee is based on dent Rick Crossland (AS 88), students will have the oppor findings in the Delaware his organization will present tunity to decide on the priori Undergraduate Student Con Jones with three to four ac ty" of activities for which the gress' Project Vision survey. tivities fee options in an up fee will be allocated. THE REVIEWI Dan Della Piazza According to the survey, 66.3 dated Project Vision report on Issues still to be addressed, percent of students polled March 14. Spring fling - Chris Stein (EG 91) takes advantage of Tues Jones said, include the price of favored an activities fee. day's 60 degree weather to play frisbee on Harrington Beach_ the fee, uses of the fee and The report also showed that continued to page 13 New act for univ. theatre department by Clndl Olson Robbins d! "cts a similar program at Wiscon Staff Reporter sin's Milwaukee campus. The university's theatre department will be The theatre department will continue offer- ' phased out over the next five years and replac ing the same courses it does now until all the ed with a new Professional Theatre Training current majors have graduated, Vagenas said, Program, according to Dr. Peter Vagenas, adding that next fall's freshmen theatre majors directof:l.0f the department. will likely be the last admitted to the current In addl~lon, University of Wisconsin theatre program. professor S-a.nford Robbins has been hired to By that time, he said, the Professional replace Vagenas, who officially resigned as Theatre Training Program should be fully chair .:nan of the department two years ago. underway. Vagenas agreed to continue chairing the According to Vagenas, there are currently department until a replacement could be found. about 28 theatre majors enrolled at the univer Robbins, who will begin chairing the depart sity, and at least two freshman will enter the meQt this summer, presented the Professional department next fall. Theatre Training Program (PTTP), an inten Some undergraduate classes will still be of sive performing arts program, to university of fered for non-majors after the PTTP is im ficials as a means for upgrading the theatre plemented, Vagenas said. department. Students interested in entering the PTTP will According to university President Russel C. audition for admittance and undergo intensive Jones, both Helen Gouldner, dean of the College training in the performing arts for three years, THE REVIEWlChristine Thompson of Arts and Science, and the theatre·depart he continued. Mitchell Hall's empty seats await a new era in the university's ment advocated Robbins' proposal. Jones had continued to page 11 the final decision on the changeover. theatre department. Page 2 • The Review • March 4, 1988· _,;,;"-.,.;";.;.;,i,,,;;,;,___ ;;.-.;;... __________ .;.;. __ .:.._..;.;...;.;._.-;.-.;,;;;,.;_,;,,.,;.....; ___________ _ ~ews Look: 1'he world in briefi recession this year, down form Reagan meets the two countries, according to may possess Soviet-made Rutgers Greeks 43 percent in November. The New York Times. nuclear missles aimed at the appeal ban However, four out of five N A TO officials The Iraqi attack on Teheran United States. economists still expect a in Brussels signals a new beginning in the . Rutgers University frater downturn in the economy by eight-year war . Violence esc~~ates nities and sororities have ap the end of 1989. President Ronald Reagan Previously, Iraqi missiles pealed the ban on alcohol was in Brussels, Belgium were not capable of reaching in Panama related events in effect since Wednesday and Thursday for Iran's capital. Modifications to Feb. 15, after the death of Army told to stop a meeting with NATO heads of the existing missiles allow Five protesters were wound freshman Lambda Chi Alpha drug tes ting of state, the first such gathering them to land within the city ed Monday when plainclothes pledge James Callahan, accor in six years, said The New but with very little accuracy. police officers fired shots ding to The Philadelphia employees York Times. directly into a crowd of Inquirer. The meeting was intended to demonstrators gathered to op The resolution asks for the The army has been ordered reaffirm allie4 support for the Cuban missles no pose the closing of the last in permission to resume pledge to end its random drug testing Soviet-American treaty threat to U.S. dependent radio station in activites under supervision. of 9,400 civilian employees by eliminating land-based Panama, according to The Provost Paul Leath was con u.s. District Judge Thomas F. medium- and shorter-range Philadelphia Inquirer. sidering the appeal and has ex Hogan, The Associated Press nuclear missiles and to discuss The Cuban Missile Crisis of Two Panamanian reporters tended the ban to March 28. reported. European concerns that the the early sixties apparently were later shot outside the Hogan said random urine American commitment to the has lttle chance of reoccurring radio station. tests did not prove worthwhile defense of Europe may be at the present time, according Police fired shots into the Fewer economists in ensuring safety and wavering. to The Wilmington News crowd when they refused to security. Journal. disperse after warning shots . expect recession The tests were banned as a The Cuban military had been fired into the air. violation of the Fourth Iraq and Iran possesses some surface to air The radio station, the site of The number of economists Amendment. missiles, but they are without the demonstration, was sur forecasting a recession this Noting that another federal deploy new nuclear warheads. rounded when the radio an year has declined dramatical judge allowed the testing of missiles U.S. official said the Cuban nouncer appealed to his ly since November, according 30,000 employees at the missiles cannot reach the listeners to bang pots and pans to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Transportation Department Iran and Iraq bombed each United States. in the street in protest of a Approximately 25 percent of last year, Hogan asked the other's capitals Wednesday, Despite this, U.S. Presiden speech given by newly install the economists surveyed in Justice Department to appeal causing heavy casualties and tial candidate Pat Robertson ed president, Manuel Solis January said they expected a . the other ruling. escalating the war between continued to claim that Cuba Palma. ,. GUARANTEED FREE 30 MINUTE DELIVERY OR $3 OFF " THE BEST WE PIZZA ON DELIVER WHEELS TASTE GRAINERY'STATION 100 ELKTON RD. ______________________...;. __---------------------March 4. 1988. The Review • Page 3 Student plans salmonella lawsuit by Kirsten PhiHippe ty for negligence in the matter. been determined for the out university. report depend largely upon the Assistant Features Editor "We aren't suing [the break of salmonella food Glazer claims the universi- responses to 100 question university] for the hospital poisoning. A State Department ty and the Board of Health naires distributed to East A university student plans to bill," she said. "We're just su of Health and Social Services' were initially very cooperative Campus residents shortly take legal actions against the ing for pain and suffering." memo dated January 5 had in helping her obtain facts after the outbreak occurred. university in connection with Glazer spent four days in the stated the outbreak appeared about the outbreak. She was "One of the reasons that we the salmonella food poisoning hospital and continued to suf "to be centered around Russell told that nearly 3{), not 15, can't continue [our investiga she contracted in December fer from fever, nausea and Dining Hall.' students had contracted the tion] any further is that very 1987. stomach cramps weeks after Associate Treasurer salmonella, she said. few of the surveys were Jennifer Glazer, one of 15 being released, she said. Wallace N. Nagle Jr., said he Glazer said she was later returned," he said. students who suffered food Glazer said all her medical is unaware of any legal action denied information. "Without that data to work poisoning, said she believes expenses were covered by against the university.

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