UD Cancels Condom Plan by Lori Folts Sharkey Smd
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Today's weather: A five alar All-American Cloudy, MID8poper possible showers. Low 60s. One more week! Vol. 113 No. 52 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Tuesday, November 17, 1987 UD cancels condom plan by Lori Folts Sharkey smd,. "because It. Staff Reporter could create the perception In response to the growing that we were encouraging ~ex concern over Acquired Im- ual activity." mune Deficiency Syndrome, In an effort to formulate a the university is encouraging policy, Dean of Students owners of local establishments Timothy F. Brooks contacted local businesses to investigate off-campus availability of condoms. Brooks said when he ap proached the owners, he did not have to encourage them to see editorial p. 8 increase condom availability. "They were all [already] look ing into the idea," he said. Management from 7-11, The Stone Balloon and The Deer Park were contacted by Brooks. They said they have Stuart Sharkey mixed feelings about increas to increase condom availabili- ing the availability of condoms ty, according to Stuart in their establishments. Sharkey, vice president for Denise Sherman, owner of THE REVIEW/ Dan Della Piazza student affairs. the 7-11 on Elkton Road, said "The university chose not to she supports the need for in- Pledge play - Sisters of Alpha Phi and Sigma Kappa play pledges from their sororities in sell condoms on campus, .:o·ntinued to page 11 Powder Puff football at Lums Pond Sunday. ~J:m.Q~mpus PQ~~E"9YJ for l§,llr.d~b~t The loss of electncity and Pencader Dining Hall lost In addition to the loss of reported no problems, Bahret Staff Reporter . result~d from a. ~urned-out power. light, elevators and fire added. North Campus e~pene~cea cable m the Chnsti~ma Ea~t The power went out at mid- alarms were out of operation Accordm_g to Robert ~ts worst power ~allure smce Tower power statiOn, .s~Id ~ night Thursday and was not due to the power failure. Round_s, director of plant Its. constructiO';! . when Fred Olso~, he~d electncian totally restored to all the ef- According to Nancy Bahret, operatiOns, the ~owers and residents lost electnctty for 16 for . umversity Plant fected areas until shortly after hall director of the Christiana Cla~ton Hall received power a!ld a half h~urs Thursd~y OperatiOns. 4:30p.m. Friday. East Tower, the failure of fire earh~r.than expected .. mght, ac_cordmg to Daytd When the cable burned out, Pencader Dining Hall, alarmsrequiredRAstomain- .Ongmally, the director Butler, _director. of Housmg Olson said, the fuses in the however, did receive power in tain an all-night fire watch. stated, they exp~cted the and Residence Ltfe. main transformer overloaded time to serve breakfast Friday The RAs looked for fire power be off until 6 p.m. at the earhest.t~ "The quality of the crew enabled us to restore power sooner," Rounds continued. Bug Byte According to Olsen, the elec tricians and maintenance crew worked through the night UD computers plagued with program 'virus' Thursday checking circuts by Kathleen Clark to the comput~_r's memory,~' ~ot something- to be taken in the Morris Library trying to identify the problem. Staff Reporter Webster satd. From there It hght~y, she_ added. sometime in September, she "When you're dealing with Ov~r the past several weeks, t~ansfers to program ~nd d<;tta . It IS possible that part of a said. By mid-October, the 12,740 volts, you have to be a "virus" computer program dtsks whenever there IS a disk file may be lost or that library's consultants found careful," Olson said. has infected IBM PC disks in operation." changes to a file may be incor- altered volume labels on some Olson said he is not sure the general-access microcom- Webster explained the first rectly stored on the user's of their disks. whether or not the burn out in P';lting sites located in Morris sign of the vi.~us is t~~. ap- disk, 'Yebster s?id. , "After being notified by the the cable was the result of Libr~ry and Newark Hall, ac- r.earance ~! <c )Bram or "Were lucky!! hasn t_ ca~s- library, consultants at the natural wear or was caused by cordmg to Anne Webster BUFUED on the volume ed any damage, she said. It Newark Hall site checked all a loose connection. assistant manager of user ser~ label of a disk. was fortunate that we of their disks and found 12 out The cable was repaired, ~c~ for Academic Computing ~!though th~re is no discovered it ~fore anything of 1,400 had been infected," Olson said, but it may still Services. evidence of the virus program bad happened. Webster explained. need to be replaced. "The l?rogram copies itself causing_ actua~ loss of d~ta ~r ~he virus. most likely _surf~c- According to Carol Leefeldt, The reactions from Tower from an mfected DOS disk on- corruption of files, the virus IS ed m the microcomputmg Site continued to page H continued to page 1 3 Page 2 • The Review • November 17, 1987 Nation/World News Analysis Raising the speed limit will cost more lives ·cause an increase in traffic by Amy Byrnes Statistics from some of these period during the previous Arab oil embargo. As a result, fatalities, but the amount of and Cathleen Fromm states indicate that speeding year. the number of traffic fatalities fuel burned will escalate as News Editors infractions and deaths have in The national spee<i limit has on interstate highways well. '"""""~ ·. ~ .: On April 3, Congress over creased in conjunction with decreased from 55,000 in 1973 U.S. News and World Report rode a veto by President the new speed limit. to 46,000 in 1974, according to noted that nearly 167,000 addi Reagan to increase the na According to a study con SPEED Newsweek Magazine. tional barrels of oil will be con- ducted by the Insurance In Currently, the National sumed daily due to the new tional speed limit from 55 mph LIMIT to 65 mph on rural interstate. stitute of Highway Safety, the Safety Council estimates that speed limit. highways outside com number of drivers clocked at raising the speed limit to 65 The Los Angeles Times munities with populations of 70 mph in New Mexico, a state 55 mph will add 1,000 victims to noted that in a three-month 50,000 or more. which adopted the 65 mph the 43,800 people who die on period after the speed limit speed limit, has doubled in the U.S. highways every year. hike, 3.26 billion gallons of In the past seven months, 37 eight weeks since its In addition, ~e N~tional gasoline were sold. :r'his figure states have adopted the implementation. Research Council studied the · shows an increase m fuel of 6 legislation, which in addition It is estimated by highway 55 mph speed limit for 10 years million gallons consumed in to raising the speed limit, pro officials that the average and concluded that between California. vided federal funds for mass speed on highways with the 2,000 to 4,000 lives are saved According to Newsweek, the transit and special road pro posted 55 mph speed limit is annually by the lower speed Department of Transportation jects. Among those states 59.5 mph. With the increase, limit. cited that there is a direct link which have implemented the the average will climb to 70 California highway officials between speed and safety. new law are Alabama, In mph and beyond. report that in the four months Although the estimated diana, Nevada and California. The New Mexico Traffic following the spee~ limit hi~e, statistics vary in numerical The law stipulates that Safety Bureau reported that fluctuated over the past 20 the number of accidents on m- significance they all point drivers operating trucks main the number of highway deaths years. In 1974, Congress terstate highways rose 6 per- toward the same outcome - tain the 55 mph speed limit in in the four-month period enacted a bill to lower the cent from the same period last an increase in the speed limit 65 mph zones as safety precau following the increase in speed speed limit from 65 mph to 55 year. bears a direct correlation to an tions, due to the increase in limit rose to 56 - double the mph in an effort to alleviate Not only does the 65 mph in- escalated number of traffic size and weight of trucks. number of deaths for the same pressures brought on by the crease have the potential to related deaths. WINTER COMMENCEMENT DATE Sunday, January, 1988 MORNING CEREMONY Undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Agriculture and the College of Arts and Science will attend the morning commencement. AFTERNOON CEREMONY . Undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Human Resources, Marine Studies, Nursing, Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation, and Urban Affairs will attend the afternoon commencement. ELIGIBILITY Students who are planning to complete their requirements in December, 1987, are eligible to attend Winter Commencement. Students completing their requirements at the end of Winter Session are NOT eligible to attend. Exceptions to this policy must be handled by your Dean's Office. Graduate students should check eligibility with the Graduate Office, if you have not received the preliminary bulletin on commencement. , TICKETS Each graduate is entitled three t)ckets for his or her guests. Tickets must be picked up in room 109 Hullihen Hall between N_ ov~mber 30 and December 11.