Guyana Aftermath-Dover's Burden
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Vol. 102, No. 23 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DEL. Tuesday, November 28, 1978 Guyana Aftermath-Dover's Burden On the By ANDY CLINE charged with the murder of of bodies in Guyana by visual the majority of bodies will be Dover Air Force Base Congressmen Leo Ryan and comparison with passport fingerprinted and matched (DAFB) completed the four others at an air strip in pictures. Because of the ad with FBI files while some Inside largest airlift of corpses to the Guyana jungle last week. vanced stages of decomposi bodies will require identifica the United States since the During the height of the tion, this procedure was im tion by dental record. Vietnam war at 3:00 a.m. Vietnam war, DAFB handled possible with many of the After identification and Sunday morning. At final up to 1000 bodies per week, bodies. next of kin are notified, the Two Rodney count, 910 People's Temple according to an air base of According to Base officials, bodies will be embalmed. cultists died in a mass ficial. Many who lived on the Residents Evicted suicide/murder in the jungle base during the war did not "Obscene" Behavior near Jonestown, Guyana. know that DAFB was running By midnight on Saturday, the largest mortuary in the Cited ..... ......... p. 3 DAFB officials said they had United States, according to a made positive identification long-time resident. of 15 bodies and had finger The Dover facility iS one of printed over 370. two large scale mortuaries in Lenny's Song Base officials said autop the United States used sies had not been performed primarily for military per Perfetti--Only the Good Die in Guyana, and they would sonnel and their families. In Young ................ p. 14 not be performed at the base. recent years DAFB has been "Our first job is to make used for large scale civilian positive ID on them," one Air air lifts. Last year the base Force official said. Reverend handled over 250 bodies from Jim Jones, leader of the Peo a Canary Island airline Hens Topple ple's Temple was identified disaster. Jacksonville first. According to another DAFB went on alert last Air Base official, "he was Tuesday. Because of the sud Host Winston-Salem After 42- given high priority." Many of deness and magnitude of the the bodies have already been 27win ........ .. ...... p.16 operation, the Air Base had a ~ emballmed with autopsies ap shortage of personel. Air parently not performed, ac Corp volunteers took on the cording to Air Base officials. job that many trained person A receiving station for the nel had during the war, ac next of kin was set up on the cording to the Base Public Af Campus Briefs . ......... p. 5 Base. By Sunday no family fairs office. Classifieds ............ p. 13 members had come to Dover, but a special information line The volunteers unloaded Editorial ..... ; ......... p. 8 had received about 30 calls, the aluminum "transfer EtCetera .......... .. .. p. 11 according to Base officials. boxes" and began rigorous At about 4:00 a.m. the air identification process. Question ......... .. .... p. 7 lift officially ended. Now the The bodies were first Retrospect ............. p. 5 State Department will take removed from the boxes over the task of notifying which held up to three corp Something's Happening .. p. 5 family members. ses in separate body bags. Sports ................ p. 16 According to State Depart The corpses were removed ment officials there are from the body bags and This Week ............. p. 12 -"about 46 survivors, but there stored in fresh bags at the Review photographer Andy Cline Videogre ............. p. 11 could be more." None of the mortuary. The transfer boxes DOVER AIR FORCE BASE received the final shipment of survivors have been brought are then sterlized for re-use. bodies from Guyana at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Over 900 to the United States. Several A preliminary identifica persons died as a result of the mass murder/ suicide by the of the survivors are being tion was made of the majority People's Temple Cult. _Statistics Not Enough to Make Staffing Decisions By KEN MAMMARELLA "I see an upswing. The decrease if they are diSuputed between faculty leaves the university). Many students have heard about has bottomed out," said . languages and administration, they are the But the decision to add or subtract a departments or programs that have and literature chairman Robert clearest figures available describing faculty member is not based entirely had to limit enrollment because of too diPietro. student interest. Such statistics are, on the numbers of majors and student much student interest. (The Review, "Credit hours are holding pretty with time, used for allocatation of credit hours. The third criterion is Oct. 24.) The shift in student .steady with minor fluctuations," said faculty by the administration. "the intellecutal importance of the academic interests causes decreased psychology chairman Ralph Exline. The university cannot - and will program," said Dean Helen enrollment in some departments, in As for the decline in majors, "There not-alter staffing for sudden Gouldner. creased enrollment in others. are hidden psych majors in the changes. Here, the university can be Tllis factor includes the need to Unfortunately it is more difficult to undeclared pool." . compared to a ship. have a basic discipline (such as "Both downward trends are revers name names here because the "You can't trim yourself every time philosophy or physics) at the universi criteria are less definite, but research ed this year," said theatre depart ty and the requirements in certain ment chairman Peter Vagenas, "but I the wind (student interest) changes," into the swings of student interest can said Jay Halio, associate provost for majors for courses outside their am still trying to discover what that department. analysis means." instruction. "You do your best to keep "The number of majors oscillate," on an even keel as temporary student The college looks at past enrollment reveal part of the university's plann said anthropology chairman Juan, interests slide around," he said, ad figures, the general trend in society, ing policy. Villamarin. (Students) have changed ding that temporary faculty would be conditions in other universities, The College of Arts & Sciences in terms of their interests," he said. used for that maneuvering. academic and research needs, and ex Year-end Report cities five depart "Credit hours are up 35 percent Permanent allocations for faculty pence to make decisions. ments that, in the last two to three from last fall, while we're propping will not be ~hanged unless the trend Reallocations are based on these years, show a "trend" of a decreasing somewhat in majors," said has been consistent for five to eight combinations of factors, so· it is im in both majors and student credit philosophy chairman Frank Dilley. years. Since the number of positions possible to storm the dean's office and hours. They are: anthropology, By now the outside observer overall is held constant, an addition in demand more faculty positions by languages and literature, philosophy, wonders why these figures are studies one place generally means a subtrac showing overenrollment. psychology, and theatre. The decline at all especially when Dilley describ tion in another. (The easiest way "These statistics raise appropriate has been arrested in every depart ed them as "unintelligible figures politically to reallocate is to use funds questions but don't answer them," ment, according to the chairmen. good only for showing trends." Even available when someone retires or ytenger said. THE REVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DEi.. November 28, 1978 I NEw FROM L n uNITED ARTisTs AT · · J ~®WONDERLAND . Kenny . Including: Flame/Joy Lm·e Is Here Rogers :\II For )c)U ~W~t*=~~l ''The Gambler'' BRASS CONSTRUCTION I Brass Construction IV Gerry Including: Get Up/ Help Yourself Rafferty Sweet As Sugar /One To One· N. WILMINGTON f ''City to:· FOULK & NAAMANS RD. / . City'' 475-8928 NEWARK llOW.~ MAIN 738-685'6 of'"- • November 28, 1978 THE REVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DEL. Poge3 ATTENTION: STUDENTS WHO WILL ''Disruptive'' Students Evicted; COMPLETE . DEGREE REQUIREMENTS IN DECEMBER 1978 AND EXPECT TO GRADUATE IN JUNE 1979 Landlord Cites Obscene Behavior Any student who expects to graduate in June 1979 . By MITCHELL POTE measures, further action, but sity helped this student find and will complete degree requirements in December Two university student& didn't elaborate," said one. off-campus housing Butler 1978 should have completed the Application for were evicted last Wednesday They said that their behavior said. ' Associate or Baccalaureate Degree or the Application fr?m their dormitory and a "was not designed to Another student, a for Advanced Degree (Master's or Ph.D. candidates} third was put on probation for harass," and they were freshman, was evicted only and submitted the appropriate form with their "disruptive behavior " said unaware that they were from _the dorm complex, but bothering anybody. The graduation fee payment to the Cashiers Office. 012 David Butler, associaie direc permitted to move to another Hullihen Hall by this date. If you have not filed your residents added that their dormitory. The third received tor for Residence Life. form and payment, you should do so immediately. On Nov. 13, the appeals behavior stopped after they probation because of "less in were made aware that there volvement" and a "will Failure to remit payment for the graduation fee may board upheld an earlier rul result in withholding of your transcripts and diploma. ing by a proprietary board of was a problem. ingness to change behavior.'' the Residence Life judicial The hall director involved The two students who were system,. and the two were told disagrees· with the students' evicted will not be permitted to move out of their rooms by version.