Hit the New Scrounge confiscates IDs ~ U<lrwrrnl Men's basketball 0 ~O a.Aw~Ul.J 0 .a ..JMP.aON , hot 9spots c:::::::J... f'lil}l!/li' from policy violators au- • t - n •• drops six straight 0 a e 2 13 FRIDAY Holiday season offers no solace for homeless in Delaware By Robert Weston who has spent too much time on his feet. Broken bottles, concrete cinder blocks and The three men' look warily at me as I just passing through town, but will stay Assistant News Editor Shivering from the cold, he tugs on his car tires are just a few of the items found approach. "Mind if I sit here for awhile?" around if I can find some work. The writer spent one night posing as a undersized jacket which he can't seem to along the shoreline. I ask. No one answers, so I sit down on a A bearded man, wearing a green army homeless person. zip. The jacket is blue with grease stains The place appears to have become the milk crate next to the frre. A man with a fatigue jacket that looks as if it has smeared across its back. last stop for many of the city's problems. gray sweater, whose breath smells of survived several wars and a mud wrestling WILMINGTON - A lone figure Passing the Amtrak train station he As he nears the river the man's shoulders whiskey, pokes at the fire with a piece of tournament, turns to his companion and : shuffles down a dark stteet. Wearing bell­ comes to an intersection, where he pauses appear to sag. wood. says: . bottom jeans that look like 1960s left­ before deciding to turn left toward the At the riverbank, he joins two other "I ain't never seen you around here "That's just what this town needs, . overs, he crosses the street without waterfront. · men who are standing next to a barrel fire, before," he says . another white boy. : looking to see if any cars are coming. The Christina River waterfront is trying to ward off the night air. Next to the The wind coming off the river blows "You're a god-damned fool if you think · H·rs eyes seem fixed on the ground in littered with all kinds of refuse the city fire is a makeshift shelter constructed smoke in my face. Tears from the smoke you going to find work around here," he seems unable or unwilling to deal with . from wood found near the river. roll down my cheeks as I explain that I am ; fror.t of him. His walk is that of a man see HOMELESS page 7 :·Program Scholarships to study based on race !addictive :behavior to be curbed Dept. of Education reinterprets policy, :University receives calls awards a violat{on of civil rights : $4.8 million grant By Richard jones Organizers of the Fiesta Bowl and Molly Williams wanted to give $100,000 scholarship · to research drugs Staff Editors funds to the University of Louisville Universities which receive federal and the University of Alabama to By Molly Williams Copy Editor money could be prohibited from establish a grant for minority granting scholarships solely on the students. The university's departtnent of basis of race, according to a new In a letter to the Fiesta Bowl's sociology and the criminal justice Executive Director John Junker, : program have received a major interpretation of civil rights law by government officials. Williams said universities could "not · federal grant to create a drug : tteatment intervention program for receive or. disperse" race-exclusive See Editorial Page 6 scholarships, even if the money inmates that will be the first of its comes from private sources, unless kind. Michael L. Williams, assistant they are undergoing a desegregation President David P. Roselle said secretary for civil rights of the U.S . plan which includes such aid. at a press conference Wednesday Department of Education, an­ Tille VI of the Civil Rights Act of the National Institute of Drug nounced the new policy 1964 "prohibits discrimination on Abuse (NIDM gave the university interpretation as a reaction to an the grounds of race, color, or $4.8 million to establish and offer for a scholarship program for minorities at the two schools review the five-year program. see MINORITIES page 7 · The money will be used to competing in the Fiesta Bowl game. 'develop a project which integrates ~ 'therapeutic community" (TC) and work-release programs. University, James A. Inciardi, principal investigator for the program and professor of criminal justice, said union to neither the TC nor the work­ release programs are new, but this negotiate is the first time they have been combined. "What is unique is that contract this is the first time [TC and work­ release programs] have been put together," Inciardi said. Skilled laborers, "I have gotten inquiries [about the program] from as far away as Leslie D. Barbaro dining workers Brazil, Italy, the Soviet Union and ON GUARD Mark Murray (PE 91) drives to the hoop in Tuesday night's men's basketball .Yugoslavia," he said. game against Monmouth College. (See story p. 13) in AFSCME locals Maxine R. Colm see GRANT page 7 By Richard jones ~oing at the table." Admini5trative News Editor Negotiations for a new Negotiations between the AFSCME contract might have administration and two local units started late, Lapenta said, because of the AFSCME union began last of the length of time it took to week, university officials said. negotiate the faculty contract. Maxine R. Colm, vice president "We waited until the faculty for Employee Relations, said her negotiations were completed before office is currently in the we began talking to AFSCME," he preliminary stages of contract said. negotiations with Locals 34 72 and Sulsky said even though the 439 of the American Federation of union's contract expires on Dec. State, County and Municipal 31 , it would most likely be Employees union. extended into the new year and Vance Sulsky, leader of the continue for as long as negotiations AFSCME bargaining team, said the talce place. 120-member Local 3472 represents The American Association of skilled trade workers, such as University Professors'(AAUP) carpenters, plumbers and heating recent settlement with the and cooling specialists. university was a good indicator of Local 439, which has more than what AFSCME could expect, he 400 meinbers, represents workers said. in the grounds division, Dining Although, he would not discuss Services, and housing repair, AFSCME's contract request, he Sulsky said. said the negiotiations should not be Thomas Lapenta, director of the affected by the university's budget Office of Labor Relations and head crisis. of the administrative bargaining 1be union's most recent conlraet team, said his group would be was a two-year pact ratified in continuing negotiations throughout 1988, Sulsky said. the month. "I'm optimistic we can reach a However, Lapenta said he could settlement." he said. not disclose what issues were being Colm also geemed hopeful about discussed in the negotiations. a setdement. "We're going to deal "Part of the charm of collective fairly and responsibly with them bargaining," he said, "is that we and hopefully it will conclude can't really publicize what we're rapidly." 2 • JHE REVIfW • December 1-4, 1990 Scrounge employees confiscate IDs Dining Services renews crackdown on students who use others' points; judicial referrals may begin Holiday wishes sent By Alain C. Nana-Sinkam right on back of the ID card and we have confiscated. The next day, however, the Baumeister said he was without his 10 St.aff Reporter always tried to enforce it" confiscated cards are sent to Hullihen Hall, he card for three days and was unable to eat in ~o political prisoners Students who plan to buy food at The Students using other's cards will be said. the dining hall. "I couldn't even sell my Scrounge by borrowing a friend's student referred to the university judicial system, Brett Baumeister (EG 93) said he sent his books without my 10," he said. More than 1,700 students identification card run the risk of having the Eisenhauer added. roommate to The Scrounge to buy a pizza for He obtained his ID on Wednesday, he said, signed holiday cards for 10 card taken from them. Eisenhauer said Wednesday the ID cards the two of them. His roomate returned later but only after a lengthy discussion with a prisoners of conscience around Last weekend, dining hall officials would be held by Scrounge officials until the without his ID card. Scrounge manager. the world Monday as part of confiscated about 40 identification cards from rightful owners returned to retrieve them . "I went down to The Scrounge on Tuesday Stephen Arnold (AS 93), said a friend's 10 International Human Rights Day, students, Scrounge Manager Doug "A couple of people have already come by and they told me [the ID card] had been sent was confiscated last weekend after her said Nicole Jackson (AS 93), Springsteen said Thesday. to get their cards," he said. to Hullihen Hall," he said. "When I got there, roommate tried to use it at The Scrounge. acting coordinator for Amnesty David Eisenhauer, assistant manager of Springsteen said the cards can be retrieved they told me that they hadn't gotten anyone's Eisenhauer said: "We have to do this to International. The Scrounge, said, "The policy is written at the Scrounge the same day they are card. see SCROUNGE page 5 The signatures will be sent to speci fic prisoners during the holiday season, Jackson said.