Unive!si!y ot Delaware, Newark, Delaware Trustees Consider Recent Graduates By VALERIE HELMBRECK graduate student at the university during his or her term as trustee, and only graduating seniors The university Board of Trustees has taken the will be considered for the position. first step toward implementing a plan to elect a Smith said he feels the board is looking for a student-alumni member. student who has shown a definite interest in the . In a letter to university President E.A. Trabant, university, indicated by participation in E. Norman Veasey, chairman of the Committee on extracurricular activities. He pointed out, Student-Alumni Trustees, requested that the however, that nominations of candidates need not President's General Council recommend the come from any organized group. names of graduating seniors who would make The Council has been asked to submit the names "outstanding trustees." The request follows a of three to five qualified students before the early recommendation adopted by the board last spring June meeting of the Board of Trustees, according that an attempt be made to elect a student-alumni to Trabant. The council committee will submit its trustee. recommendations to the General Council at a May 20 meeting, he said. The Council will either According to Trabant, the President's General approve or reject the committee's nominations and Council has appointed a five-member committee to pass them on to the board. solicit suitable candidates. Members of the A vacancy among Board-elected trustees may committee are: Norman C. ' Smith (chairman), occur due to death, resignation or decision not to vice president of University Development; John J. stand for reelection. However, Trabant told the Pikulski, Faculty Senate president, Dave council the Board's request for candidates does not Poffenberger, Resident Students Association necessarily mean there is a vacancy at the present (RSA) president, Fred Crowley, University of time. Delaware Coordinating Council (UDCC) president, Veasey said the council's close contact with the and Jean Jacques Records, Commuter Association university community should produce the most president. qualified candiaates. Veasey also pointed out that The General Council committee will attempt to the board may not choose a trustee from among contact various university organizations for the names submitted by the Council. The nominations of qualified candidates, said Smith. nominating committee of the Board of Trustees According to Smith, suggestions are being will select the candidates to be passed on to the requested from any member of the university board for their vote. community. In an interim report, approved by the board, the Certain general criteria were established by the Committee on Student-Alumni Trustees board for filling the position, said Veasey. Since recommended that the decision of the board to the board has a required geographical distribution elect a graduating senior be given "high priority". among the three state counties, the candidate must The report also recommended involving the university community in the nominating process. DR. LIVINGSTON, I presume. Actually, Dr. be a resident from the appropriate county. Char/es Mason, professor of entomology, is According to Veasey, the board expects to fill a According to Veasey, the committee is vacancy created by a member from New Castle experimenting this year by using the President's dressed to ~ope with a fiesty colony of bees. County. The candidate would have to maintain General Council. (See relat,ed story on page 7). residence in New Castle County for the one-year . term if elected. In addition, the person selected should not be a Trabant Answers Students' Questions By RACHEL SUSSMAN hour and a half. Excerpts from the meeting are as follows: Charges Droppe~ '1n University President E.A. Trabant discussed Trabant: Most of you probably haven't been here various concerns with University of Delaware long enough to know the long history of student Coordinating Council (UDCC) members and other involvement... I'll just rattle off a few ofthem ... the Killing of UD Student students at an open UDCC meeting on Tuesday present alcohol policy... the living rules in the afternoon. residence halls ... the physical design of facilities ... By BETH MOORE Fred Crowley, president of the UDCC, moderated a new set of regulations concerning academic The gas station attendant charged with the April the question and answer period which lasted an honesty ... the closing of the Commuter House ... 9 shooting of a university freshman was cleared of course evaluation ... academic advisement. all charges after a hearing Tuesday, in the Harnett Student: How can we afford a new Health County District Court in Lillington, N.C., according Scienc~s School and we're cutting back in the to Lell.1uel Gregory, the detective investigating the College of Education? Where are we going to get case. the funding for this new Health Sciences School? Gregory said there was insufficient evidence to Trabant: Partly out of cutbacks in other try Robert L. Bass. operations of the university ... we are in a situation Hugh C. Sanders, 18, was the victim of the where the university must grow in certain areas ... shooting at the Robbie Ann Service Station near and tlie only way it can grown and be dynamic in Dunn, N. C. last month. He and two other certain activities is to cut back and diminish the freshmen, Joseph Proceno, Jr. and Arthur Copson, expenditures of others... there are really four both 18, were returning from spring break in fundamental areas that are of great importance Florida when the incident occured. and probably will be getting a great deal of Although the state had witnesses who placed attention at our university... food, energy, life Bass at the service station at the time of the sciences and health sciences. shooting, "apparently the evidence was not :student: How do you draw the line to say that sufficient... the boys that were accompanying Barb didn't work cooperatively? Hugh Sanders could not indentify Bass in a Trabant: We got into the confrontation mode. line-up," Gregory said. She said we want to pick the speaker. And we said Bass was arrested on April 11 and held without no .. That's the way we always worked, when we bail until the hearing. A hearing was held on April had class officers ... they bring in a list ... and we 13, but was postponed until last Tuesday because Bass suffered an epileptic fit upon entering the would work together to get a commencement courtroom. speaker. No murder weapon was found and since the Stratton: From now on, for anyone in student youths who were with Sanders could not identify government to be sure when you meet with the Bass, the evidence against Bass was president or any administrator, that you have them ... list exactly what they said you could do. circumstantial and could not be used in a trial, Staff photo by David RandaIlK;;~/er said Gregory. ......... From that, I'd just like to draw the controversy to E.A. TRABANT at Monday's UDCC meeting. a close. (Continued to POlle----- 21 , " .'t Page 2 ; REVIEW. University of Delaware. Newark. Delaware May 13.1977 SPRING CLOTHING MEN'S CLOTHING Top Seed .. Boost: . .•• Students Query Trabant at UDCC Meeting (Continued from POlle 1 t that Barbara's committee Mondessa ~ John Newc.ombe commencement sp~aklr). '. Kim Morgan Trabant: I again repeat, I Trabant: Any day that the presented you with? . am terribly sorry we had a Board of Trustees wants to Trabant: We talked about misunderstanding, I'm sorry say ... this is no longer- your it.., I we got into the confrontation responsibility and the Student: If the students TEN;NIS mode, I'm deeply sorry .. , but had no input at all, what do students are going to be held The Jock Shop I never thought... I ever accountable and respo,nsible you think the chances of I authorized her to go out and for the results, fine with having Dr, Lenher speak JOGGING SHOES 146 E. Main Sf. TENNIS SHOES hire a commencement me ... But as long as I'm held _ would have been? Brooks 368-0430 Adidas speaker, That is just as accountable and responsible Trabant: He probably Nlke Tretorn honest as I can be, for the operations of this would have been asked. StUdent: I fail to see why Student: Can you show me university, and if things go any difference at all between I you consider this important wrong, your necks aren't on 'l (the fee of $1,500 for a the line, it's my neck. having no say whatsoever t commencement speaker), Student: Was Dr .. Lenher and being told we have. a Trabant: You're in a (who ' will be the say? Only at situation where you had a commencement speaker for Trabant: No suggestion i student group composed of this year) on the original list went in, we went into the 1, six people .. , and you have the confrontation mode. ~ cabinet - 12 people, and they f Hair Desig~s by Susa'n , said, Dr, Trabant, if you sign ... Charges Dropped that contract, we don't I• (Continued from POll. 11 it. Sanders, who was sitting support it, you're doing Sanders and his in the front passenger seat of something very foolish .. , If I the car, was shot as the car had signed the contract, you companions arrived at the gas station at approximately left the station shortly after would have had the 12 senior 7:20 a.m. officers of the university .. , 7:15 a.m, on April9 ~ Gregory for said Prosceno allegedly r 2 1 criticizing the president. Sanders died at pumped about $4 worth of Student: Our input was approximately 1: 15 p.m.