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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY February 4, 2000 • Volume 126 THE • Number 27 Review Online Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid -www. review. udel. edu Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE Professors design .new courses BY CHRIS EMANUELLI to focus on developing courses that people from all 600 graduate colleges Also, Hoffecker said , many faculty Sruff Reporrer could be o ffered to freshmen. together to talk about how they teach members were eager to start teaching Professors gathered last week tc "It was a week of thinking of what freshmen in particular." interdisciplina ry courses for learn how to teach new courses that an interdisdplinary course is," she Green said the possi bility of fre shmen. combine subject matter from different · said. requiring the courses as part of the "There's no reason they can' t do fields - classes officials said may Green said professors learned freshman experience has not yet been so under the curre nt general soon be required fo r first -ye ar about the academic interests of decided, but wi ll be discussed by the education requirements," she said. students. ·freshmen and what leads them to stay Faculty Senate at hearings open to the Ardis said th ree Pathways pilot The Pathways to Discovery in and succ.eed in college. They also university community. courses are being offered as Honors courses a re being tested in a pilot shared examples of interdisciplinary The ins titute would have been Colloquia during Spring Semester. program during Spring Semester. courses already being taught at the more helpful if the Pathways to The spring courses will be used to Judith Green, director of the junior and senior levels, she said. Discovery Program had been experiment with different Center for Teaching Effectiveness. The professors appreciated having finalized, Green said. combinations of instructors, she said. said interdisciplinary courses are an an allotted time to sit down, discuss " The timing is kind of Ardis said the standard model for important component in a student' s and plan out the courses with other unfortunate," she said. "Things didn' t the Pathways courses wou ld development. fac ulty members, Green said . come togethcrr as originally planned." accommodate 60 to 80 students and "What we're trying to do here," Ann Ardis , di rector o f the Carol Hoffecker, a member of the would be taught by one faculty she said, "is communi cate to students University Honors Program, said the Facul ty Senate committee w hich member working with two to three that all of these courses you' re taking professors benefited by being able to suggested the courses, said one of the student assistants. The experimental THE REVIEW/Mike Louie are related even though they're taught communicate across departments. reasons for the ti ming of the sessions c ourses will vary g roupings of Hazardous materials have been mishandled in a shed separately." "Sometimes the disadvantage of a was fi nancial. faculty, graduate students and north of Colburn Lab, according to an investigation. Green said the. purpose of the large research institution is that "We had a _grant from the [William advanced undergraduate peer tutors. professors' experience during last people think they' re living in their and Flora] Hewlett Foundation that Ardis said o ne issue that has week's Pathways Institute sessions departme nt rather tha n in a larger had to be honored at this time," she Inspection was to give faculty members a chance un iversity," she said. "It's bringing said. see COURSE page A4 shows storage Some candidates of chemicals skip Del. primary BY JOHN YOCCA lawmakers and voters. • Narionai/Srare Ne11·s Ediror As a count er-reaction to the After a victory in the N e w Delaware law , New Hampshi r e Hamps hi re primari es, Sen. John poli ticians asked the candidate to breaks rules McCain, R - Ariz. , baffled GOP pledge their allegiance to ''The s upporte rs by c hoos ing not t o Granite State" and not campaign in BY KYLE BELZ c ampaign in the Delaware Delaware. Neu·s Features Editor Republican prima ry, which is According to B asi l Battaglia, An inspecti on of university facilities last week uncovered. scheduled for Tuesday. c h airma n of the Delaware five violati ons of the Environme ntal Protection Agency' s The candidate's d ecisio n is Republican State Commillee, New requirements for proper disposal of hazardous materials, questionable due to a conflict H a m pshire lawmakers said they officials said. between Delaware and New would do anythi ng to en ure that Bob Palmer, an inspector from a D over-based Hampsh ire over w hen Delaware candidates d o not campai gn in environmental agency, said that on T uesday representatives can hold its primary. Delaware. from the EPA discovered hazardous materia ls h andled The debate started in I 992, when "New Hampshire said, 'We will improperly inside a solvent shed. The shed, located just north a law was passed stating th a t badmouth you and tell the people of Colburn Lab, housed five containers of disposed chemicals Delaware wou ld hold its primary you don' t respect New Hampshire that were not marked with the date they entered the storage " the first Saturday after the and ask them not to vote for you' ," faci lity. The chemicals were remnants of experiments, he said. presidential primary is conducted Battaglia said. This omission breaks EPA regulations, said Palmer, a by the State of New Hampshire." As a result, the Delawa r e represe nta tive of the Delaware Department of Natural Problems ensued because New Republ ican Party c ha nged its Resources and Environmental Control. Hampshire's state law attempts to primary date to seven days after Dave Levandoski, assistant director of occupational health ensure that no other state will hold New H ampshire's, e nabling and safety, said the stored chemicals have to be labeled with a its primary less than a week after candidates t o campa ig n in date, but o nly three of the five container s in question New Hampshire's. Delaware without upsetting New possessed hazardous materi als - a mixture of methanol and The law says New Hampshire's Hampshire legislators. acetone. primary will be held "on the second Battag l ia said t he reason for T he violation was just an honest oversight, Levandoski T uesday in March, or on the c h anging the date of the said . But, with som e thing as large and complex as the Tuesday immediately preceding the Republican primary is because the university laboratory facilities, minor peri odical proble ms date on which any other state s hall De laware GOP party felt it was must be expected. hold a similar election, whichever useless t o spe nd $800,000 on a " It's something that could easily get neglected," he said. is earlier." primary that no one was going to "Your job is hard. My job is hard, but they might seem easy In the 1996 presidential election, attend. when you talk about them. THE REVIEW/Eric J.S. Townsend Delaware's primary was scheduled "We changed the date to stop the "I never talk about someone until I've walked a mile in Steve Fo~bes was one of the few presidential candidates to campaign four days after New Hampshi re's, their shoes," Levandoski said. in Delaware. Other candidates avoided the 'First State.' irritatin g N ew Hampshire's see PRESIDENTIAL page A4 He said he plans on initiating an awareness campaign for proper disposal of hazardous materials. According to material safety data sheets for the chemicals, acetone irritates the respiratory passages a nd can cause dizziness or unconsciousness. It is considered moderately UD advertises nationally toxic. Methanol attacks the eyes and may cause blindness. The EPA restricts small-time chemical manufacturers, like BY STEPHANIE DENIS AND JONATHAN university. the university laboratories, to storing hazardous chemi cals for RIFKIN 'The cost of the advertisement is comparable to no more than 90 days before they are sent to another disposal News Editors what it would cost in any local publication like the facility. The univers ity 's Co ntinuing Ed uca ti o n News Journal," she said. "It's very cost-effective George Whitmyre, the laboratory coordinator of chemi cal Department is advertis ing in local editions of because the magazine inserts the ad only into the engineering, said some materials could corrode the containers, N ewsweek , US N e ws a nd W o rl d R epoFl a nd market you decide to buy.'' before they <each the next waste point, making time a more Spa n s Illustrated, officials said. Although Kee said she has not yet analyzed the imperati ve concern. Tara Kee, marketing manager for Conti nuing information indicating how effective the ads have But, Levandoski said, the waste materials in the shed are Education, said th e one-page advertisements, been, she said she is confident they will succeed removed weekly. which are ai med at people in the Delaware area, in s pread in g informa ti on abou t Con tinuing "They' re not lookin g at what's in the containers - only at will run once in each of the publications. Education to the community. th e date,'' he said. "Our lab setup is a little confusing to S he also sai d the adverti sements have b een ''Whenever you buy an ad, you want to make someone not in our operations.