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In Section 2 In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Hens smell and a National Pacemaker Butt your bottom revenge in dollar on new Marshall rematch MTValbum page B5 page Bl FREE FRIDAY Newark A Four-Star inspiration Police - ... -- . Colin Powell . fight for tells Delaware back pay youth to 'work BY IENN VALESE Copy Editor The state labor board is like a dog' expected to rule whether Newark Police's charges of BY SEAN NEARY unfair negotiating tactics Assist ani News Edi to r against the city are valid in The Bob Carpenter Center is the home of about two months, said Charles athletes who have achieved many goals. D . Long, executive director of On Wednesday night, it played host to a the Delaware Public Relations different kind of achiever, not an achiever in Board. sport but an achiever in life. The Fraternal Order of Police The YMCA's 1993 Black Achiever in [FOP), Newark's police union, Business and Industry Awards Banquet and the city have been trying to honored those African-American individuals formulate a new contract for who have excelled in their careers, had an the police to replace the one impact on society and are role models for that ran out March 31, Capt. youths to emulate. Tom Penoza of the Newark To many, keynote speaker retired Army Police said. Gen. Colin L. Powell is the embodiment of All aspects of the contract have been settled except the these characteristics. He is more than a four date on which the 4 percent pay star general and former chairman of the increase promised by the city Joint Chiefs of Staff, he is a hero and an inspiration. will become retroactive, he To the hundreds of middle and high said. school students that packed the Carpenter Long said the major Center Wednesday night, he is their complaint of the FOP is that the inspiration. , city refuses to make the pay One such person is Steve Jarmon, 14; of increase retroactive as of April Milsborough. 1, like they did for all other " It's important to sec a black man who city employees. has done some good and is a positive ro)e There were also two other model for us." chief complaints issued by the "He might be president someday,'' Jarmon FOP, according to Long. said. Although the FOP requested • THE REVIEW /MG . ~ Schaeffer Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrant$, a fact-finder to investigate the Retired Army Gen. Cohn Powell addresses an ~ward banquet for the n·lack Achiever in Business and Industry at the Bob case, Long said the city Carpenter Center Wednesday. Powell told the aud1ence members that "no work is below dignity if done well." was born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx section of New York City. immediately stated they would Powell rose from the adversity of the not alter their opinion, inner city through hard work and education. regardless of the findings. After many years of working his way up The FOP also charged that the bureaucratic ladder, he became the the city was supposed to make 2,500 tum out for Bob speech chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the the hearing open to the public, principal military adviser to the President of but at the last minute changed BY t-MRY DESMOND military adviser. the armed forces all over again." never. It's stupid, absolutely stupid the United States. the location without ~New>Edilor Powell said he separates his 35· Desen Storm, Powell said, gave "You have every advantage Powell said he is the "product of hope announcement in order to Belief in your country and in year military career into two different Americans an opportunity to see the imaginable,'' Powell said to the · and vision," and owes his success to hard dissuade public attendance, yourself are the keys to being an pans: the flfSt 30 years of fighting the best and the brightest of its youth teenagers in the audience. "Live your work. Long said. achiever, said retired Army Gen. cold war, and the last five years, after fi ghting for and believing in their life accordingly." Bobby Jackson, 13 , of Milsborough, said The FOP contend the date for Colin Powell during his keynote the fall of lhe Soviet Unioo. country. It's Powell 's positive attitude that Powell is a great influence for African the pay raise to become speech at Wednesday night's 1993 "We were in the Kremlin, in this "There is a role for every member attracted university freshman Erik American students today. retroactive was set at July 1, Black Achiever in Business and beautiful room seated across from of society, a role filled by people Hower (AS FR) to see lhe retired "There are not enough positive black role instead of April 1, as a Industry Awards. Mr. Gorbachev, the tresident of the willing to give ti me and talent to general speak. models today,'' Jackson said. punishment for requesting a Held at the Bob Carpenter Center, Commwlist Pany. others. Everyone can be an achiever "He had it tougher than a lot of us Ron Dellwise, 12, also of Milsborough, fact-finder and ex tending the the YMCA-sponsored awards "He said to us that aftemoon,'It - black, white, gentile, Jew:'' do, but everyone has an excuse,'' agreed. "Powell is a good role model for us negotiations, Long said. ceremony was held to honor adults doesn' t work. We are going to The young have a responsibility Hower said. "No matter what race to have." Although he heard the who have excelled in their careers reform it in ways you won't not to squander the gifts they do you are, everyone sees thcmscl vcs as "There is too much negative and not charges of unfair bargaining and who also serve as mentors for believe."' have. Al though he grew up in the a victim" enough positive on blacks today,'' Jackson issued by Fraternal Order of junior high and senior high school The fall of communism was a South Bronx, Powell said, he never Addressing lhe students seated in said. Police Lodge No . 4 a few students. victory for America, Powell said, just succumbed to pressure to use drugs. front of him, Powell explained that Powell directed part of his message to months ago, Long said the The former chainnan of lhe Joint like Desen Storm. "I was born in Harlem, raised in since the age of 19 he knew the what he thought was the most important part actual ruling will not be set Chiefs of Staff under both Presidents In addition to showing America's the South Bronx, surrounded by military was the only career choice of the audience - the k;ds. down for two and a half Bush aiXi Powell shared his strength, Desert Storm caused the drugs," Powell said. "I never gave in for him. Reagan, Speakin~ to the audience of see NEWARK page A3 experiences as the country's top nation's citizen's to "fall in love with to the tcmptatioo. Not once. Never, see SPEECH page A3 see POWELL page A3 • Youth insist education DUSC rep. forced out of meeting :· Ron Lieberman (AS JR) said Ron Lieberman he felt that as a DUSC wanted to be representative, he should be system needs schooling allowed to represent the student body at meetings discussing changed in stresS harxlle. Some names have been to pralect idenlilies. them they are not yet Jl'CIUed to included. details of the incident. While many parents are trying to prepare and ensure Lieberman said: "I sat down successful futures for their children, Dr. Marion Hyson, a BY ROBYN FURMAN Administrators and they told me I had to leave. ~&Jtot wliversity child development professor, feels adults may be There were no s tudents, just forcing their kids to endure rigid adult -directed instructioo at Take a deep lrealh. said 'no.' administrators and big wigs." early Set a pare. Stay steady. ages. "I told [the administrators] I Doo'tfall bdlinL Hyson thinks jllfCI1IS often doo't realize that children learn BY RU NC IE TATNAll Stall Reporter was not directly affected by this, is li'C through play as well as through aabnic IC!>.'mS. F.dlali<n a cxmpetitioo. lD1 Ida; struggling to krep but I am on student government, "I think parents forget tmt childrmdoo't mve to be forced 10 When a Delaware and stude nts have a right to learn," she explains. "They are naturally curious about Undergraduate Student Congress know," he explained. everything in lhe world, lRI a lot of what lhey need is time to (DUSC) representative attended David Butler, director of e:c.plcre lhe enviroornent." a meeting Nov. 19, he expected Housing and Residence Life, This is causing kids to grow up too fast, an emerging to parti c ipate in a press said , "It's not a matter of j:J'Oblem in tcxlay's society. conferenc e on the recent excluding or including students, The educational dilemma iJXludes many facets, however. Christiana Towers incident to just solving a problem." Sane kids are oomplaely missing out oo an education, lRI gain information for the student The administration held a Marc Pocilio, associate exa:utlve director for the Delaware body. series of meeting s to "share Coun:il oo Crime and Justice Center, is convinced lhe lack of Ins tead, he was told to leave. what was going on and make il1 iocentive to anenl school is <n! reasoo. Tear gas had been released in determination s, " about three Kevin knows this bcucr lhan anyooe.