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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner TUESDAY March 7, 2000 • Volume 126 THE • Number 36 Review Online on-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid www. review. udel.edu ewark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 FREE No smoking next year in on-campus housing BY STEPHANIE DENIS of smoking bans on airplanes. housing now, it should be m ore AdministrClfil·e News Editor Roselle stated in an e-mail than enough time to find a place to All university-owned housing message that he hopes th e new live," she said. will be smoke-free starting in the smoking policy will decrease the However, j unior Jessica Ribble, Bans reflect a Fall Semester, President David P. total number of stude nts who who lives off-campus, said students ' Roselle announced Friday. smoke. now do not have enough time to Roland M. Smith, vice president " On the other hand, the airlines find a decent place to live off for Student Life, said both health decided that making nonsmokers campus for the Fall Semester. ,national trend and safety issues were factors in the more comfortable was sufficient Linda Carey, director of Student BY LINA HASHEM university' s decision. reason to ban in-flight smoking." Housing Assignment Services. said Managing News Ediror s he is not anticipating many Cigarettes are the leading cause he said. University students who will be prohibited from of fires and fire fatalities, he said. " The decision is a logical housing cancellations because of smoking in their resi_dence halls next semester will be in and the da maging effects of outcome of increasing the number the new policy. good company. second-hand smoke have been well Housing h as not received any of nonsmoking a reas. These Smoking bans are spreading ninionwide, in institutions documented. increases have taken place over the cancellations yet, although some ranging from restaurants to educational institutions - may be received this week and next Dr. Joseph Siebold, director of last several years.·· including residence halls at other universities. Student Health Services, said the Smith said 15 residence halls are week, she said. " It's not that unusual to ban smoking in dorms," said Several new programs will American Cancer Association has a lready smoke-free. The new ban Nancy. Rigotli, director of Tobacco Research and reported that approximately on Smoking wi II offer the highest complement the new policy, such Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital. -+34,000 people die annually from degree o f pr0tection for student as smoking cessation classes. "It's an idea whose time has come, and it's probably smoking-related illnesses. He said health and safety, he said. Betty J . Paulanka, dean of the going to become more frequent." second-hand smoke is also a factor Barbara Kreppel, associate vice College of Health and N ursing The University 'of Texas at Austin set the precedent by in 53,000 deaths. president for Administrative Science, said several university banning smoking in university housing in 1994. People who live with heavy Services, said returning students groups, soc h as Student Health Just five years later, the trend had spread dramatically. s moker~ have an increased risk of have until July I to cance l their Services, the Wellness Center and A 1999 USA Today survey found th at I 0 of the lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia housing contracts if they wish to Student Life will work to increase nation's 30 largest colleges and universities prohibit and asthma attacks, Siebold said. find smoking residences off awareness o n the effects o f smoking in their residence halls. Seven more gave just I 0 Smoking was banned in all campus. These students will receive smoking. percent of their housing to smokers, and five were academic buildings, office full refunds of their hous ing Roselle said further restrictions expected to extend their bans within the year. bui ldings, university vehicles and deposit. on smoking may come about in the . A more extensive unpublished study co-aut-hored by Delaware Stadium in 1995,Smith Kreppel said the univers ity future. Rigotti in the same year yielded similar results. Of 4 79 THE REVIEW/ Mike Louie said. timed its announcement to allow "There are a few restrictions on colleges and universities; 35 percent banned smoking in He likened the university' s new students to coordinate their housing outdoor smoking in California and More students will find themselves s moking restriction in residence situation for next semester. smoking outside as a resuH of the see DORMS page A9 halls to the step-by-step expansion "Since students are looking for see OUTDOOR page A9 university's new smoking policy. Fraternity Midterm five-star found guilty, SLAMMIN' rankings released BY ADRIAN BACOLO d e termines their social has appealed capabilities for the following year. BY DAWN E. MENSCH Six fraterni ties and eight Assistant Dean of Students Jane Senior N•11·s Ecliror sororities achieved a perfect five Moore said a sorority or fraternity The Alpha E!'Silon Pi fraternity was found guilty of star rating, accordi n g. to the ~esignated with the highe t rating results of a midtern e valu ation po~,ible is extended the fulle t a violation of the student code of conduct Friday, Dean re leased Friday . degree of social privileges. of Students Timothy F. Brooks said. The Office of Greek A ffai rs, T he university draws the li ne The fraternity has appealed the decision, he said. assisted ·by the Dean of Students' for maintaining social rights at Brooks would not comment on possible sanctions, but O ffice, released the evaluations. three- star status c ha p ters , s h e he previously told The Review that the chapter could which revise each chapter's star be suspended from the university if found guilty. said. status and give it a goal for next T he o nly exception is the The university judicial system found the fraternity National Pan-Hel len ic Counc i l guilty of failure to comply. The fraternity's house was fall. c h apte rs w hich do n o t ho ld as ordered to be alcoliol-free after a previous university O f the 18 Inte rfraternity Council chapters on campus, Phi many members as either the IFC sanction about one year ago, Brooks said or Panhellenic Council. On Feb. 5 of this year, University Police Sig m a Kappa, Sigma C hi, T a u Epsi lo n Phi, T heta Chi . Sig ma Presently, j ust six IFC chapters accompanied Newark Police to the fraternity house on Alpha Mu and Lambda Chi Alpha - Kappa Sigma, Alpha Tau Wyoming Road. Eric M. Sidman, a student and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity member, was arrested by Newark were a ll recogni zed as five-star Omega, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa Delta Rho and A lpha Epsilon Pi Police for drug-related offenses. fraternities. Brooks said University Police found alcohol in Mea n w hile , w i t hin the - are not allowed to be socially P anhe lle nic Council, eight of II fu ncti o ning frat ern ities, with plain view at the house, which led to charges b~ing sororities - Alpha Chi Omega, either two or three stars. filed. Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi De lta. C hi Moore said Tau Kappa Epsilon. Junior Lonnie Cohn, president of the fraternity, said Omega, De lta Gamma, Kappa which is currently not recognized he is not pleased with the outcome and is looking Alpha The ta, K appa Delta a nd by the university, will make its forward to the appeal. · return in the fall - it has not yet "We are disappointed that information we believe · Sig m a Kappa - were al o accep.te d a s f ive- s t a r Greek been d ecided what Tau K appa to be false and misleading has been disseminated chapters. Epsilon' s status will be. among the campus community," he said. 'The repons Each academic year, The cri t e ria. which e·ac h of our demise are premature and inaccurate." frat e rnities and soro ri ti es a re chapter is expected to fulfill, has Brooks said the appellate board has not been e v aluated o n a 500-point scale, been specifical ly tailored for the formed, but it should be within a week. and designated a star rating that Cohn said the fraternity is confident that through the see 14 page A4 appeal process, the truth will be known. "We did not violate any policy of the university," he said. "We have spoken with our attorneys and advisers and intend on being an integral·part of Greek life as long as Greek life remains at the University of Nader speech is Delaware." Interfraternity Council President Dan Mott said the IFC will comply with whatever sanction the university deems appropriate. almost canceled "If [Alpha Epsilon Pi members] did in fact break the rules, they realized what they were getting imo, and all blame can be placed inward," he said. BY ANDREA N. BOYLE Cohn said the fraternity is still functi oning and NarionaVState Nt!II'S Ediwr looking forward to Spring Rush. Members of Students for the Environment said they felt they were being Sidney Dunn, executive vice president of Alpha discri minated against by the university. after a planned speech came clo e to being Epsilon Pi International, refused to comment directly called off. on Friday' s decision . H owe ver, he did say the S4 E's plans to host a speech in the Trabant University fraternity has had problems with Brooks in the past.