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In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Coilegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Football kicks Male survivors Mass., 33-13 of rape page 85 . page Bl TUESDAY ·Landlord Students evicts driven :student from :Disagreement blue lots :ensues over tenant's ~ black friend Limited parking, overcrowded buses By Glenn Slavin i\ssistant Entertainment Editor leave drivers fuming College students can be, and often are, kicked out of their apartments By Christy McAllister for wild parties, loud music and not Staff Reporter paying the rent. This semester it would seem But Laura Jacobs (AS JR) was Public Safety has the Midas kicked ,out of her apartment for a touch. more. personal reason. The university has changed all She has a black friend. Blue parking lots into Gold lots Jacobs thought she found the in order to free up parking spaces :perfect room in the ·soo block of for events at the Delaware Field · Bradford Lane. House. Before the change, Jacobs gives the following students who had at least 62 account of the day she moved into credits could purchase a blue the room at the end of fmals week sticker and those with 96 credits last semester: could buy a gold sticker. Jacobs was with her friend, Under the new regulations, . Marcel Jackson, who was helping commuting students must have at : her with the move. least 96 credits to buy a gold . The landlady, Betty Lovett, 76, sticker or they must park at the · requested to speak privately with Field House, said Gary Jacobs. Summerville, associate director Lovell asked Jacobs about for Public Safety. Jackson and inquired whether he Lot 6, located at Laird would be visiting regularly. Campus, ~nd lot 19 on North When Jacobs said Jackson was. College Avenue were the two lots Lovett said that she did not want THE Rf\/IEW /Maximlllian Gretlldl changed. bla<;k people around her house. Supporters celebrate State Rep. james H. Sills Jr.'s victory in Saturday's primary. The Wilmington mayoral candidate, a professor in Commuting students were According to Jacobs. Lovett said the Colle2e of Urban Affairs, won 55 percent of the vote to beat incumbent Dan Frawley. effected_ most by this decision · that if "those people" were around, because in the past, these students · the other residents were not going to had the privilege of parking . want to live there. closer to classes in their junior "She never came out and said Professor sweeps year. Now students who are not word for word that I couldn't live seniors must park at the Field there," Jacobs said. "But she implied House. that I wasn't welcome and before I "The change wasn't very much said I was going to move out, she mayoral p-rimary appreciated," said Kim Zebley was saying she was sorry it didn't (PE JR), a commuter who last work out." semester reached the 62 credit Jacobs said she then called a limit. couple of days later to tell Lovett By Chris Dolmetsch ecstatic, obviously relieved. Having "I look at it from a commuter's she was coming to move her stuff City News Editor gone through a rather tough campaign, point of view. They are forcing us out. WILMINGTON- History was made I'm pleased that I won." to use the buses and overcrowd According to Jacobs, Lovett said Saturday night in Wilmington when Frawley conceded the race before them," she said. "Now all that her stuff was already packed Democratic _voters gathered in full the totals were in, when it became commuters are forced to park at and on an adjacent porch. force to virtually guarantee the obvious that Sills was ahead. the Field House and we are away "She paid a guy that was living election of the first black mayor in the "I wish Dr. Sills every success," from campus. We are being there to pack up my stuff and move history of the city. said Frawley. "I wish him lots of luck, abandoned." · it to the other place," Jacobs said. State Rep. James H. Sills Jr., 61, an because he will need it." Resident students are also "She made it absolutely clear that associate professor in the College of Daniel Rich, dean of the College of feeling the effects of this she didn't want me to live there Urban Affairs, defeated two-term Urban Affairs, said he was excited for decision. Due to the new policy, because of my black friend," Jacobs mayoral incumbent Dan Frawley , · Sills but would be sad to see him leave they are not permitted to utilize said. winning the Democratic primary by 8 the university. the Field House lot. Lovett did return Palmer's $250 percent. "He's been a friend and colleague of In addition, Towers' residents security deposit. Sills received 5,839 votes to mine for 20 years, and I'm obviously t I Maxlmlllian are not allowed to park at Clayton In reference to the incident, Frawley's 4,914. excited for him," said Rich. "He's a James H. Sills Jr. receives a warm Hall on weekends, and are now Lovett said, "Her father was the one "I'm frankly having trouble person of great commitment to the congratulations following his victory Saturday. restricted to the Pencader parking who wanted to rent the room for her. believing this," said Sills, a professor lot and lot 6, now a Gold lot. "The guy that moved her in was at the university since 1973. "I'm see SILLS page A9 Some resident assistants have black. I told her that if she was received complaints about the going to have him around here she changes, which some say creates see DISCRIMINATION page A5 see PARKING page A4 Hurricane hammers Hawaii Trial ETS exam Student's family victims of storm, whereabouts and conditions unknown computerized By Clare Lyons She says she wasn't very worried By Pamela Wilson $35 to participate in the study. i\ssociate N~s Editor 1\smciot., ~ EditOI' because there are always so many The results of the test will also be Christine Ku.'ulei Woodall (ED JR) storm warnings and they always pass. Future Delaware teachers will confidential and will not be released sits on her bed in the middle of her She went to the Down Under. have the opportunity to participate in to anyone except the test taker, said small Pencader room surrounded by "I said 'Call me when it's over,"' an educational experiment this fall Jenson, referring to the usual public photos of soft tumbling waves, warm Christy says. by taking their certification record of scores. beaches, rocky cliffs and green palm That was two days ago. examination by computer. Lenora Green, a spokeswoman trees. The hurricane has severed The university was chosen by the for ETS, said the computerized exam A lean dark man in his twenties rolls communications. Death, injury and Educational Testing Service (ETS), will be offered as a standard off one of the photos' blue waves on a destruction tolls are changing daily. · which desi-gns nationally alternative to the paper version of surfboard. Christy's brown eyes shine Saturday President Bush declared standardized tests, as one of 15 the exam beginning next fall. as she introduces him as her boyfriend, Hawaii a federal disaster area, and U.S. schools nationwide to offer a Advantages of computerized tests, Alika. military aid has been pouring into the computerized version of the Pre said Kevin Gonzalez, a spokesman A white telephone sits quietly on a islands. Professional Skills Test. for ETS, is that they allow students stand next to her bed. When she left Kaua'i in August for The PPST is a basic skills test to work at their own pace and supply The magazine which lies on her her second year on National Student given nationally as a requirement for more times and places to take the table is titled "Kaua'i. The Exchange at Delaware, Christy education majors and for teacher exams. The computerized tests will Unconquerable Island." bypassed the traditional Hawaiian send certification in some states, provide immediate scoring, opposed She says it is ironic. off because of a fight with her mom. including Delaware. to the four to six weeks it usually Hurricane lniki ripped through Because finances make leaving the The pilot study will pay takes to receive test scores. Kaua'i Friday, virtually destroying islands a rare occasion, travelers are prospective teachers to take the ETS will also begin offering a everything in its path, killing four usually showered with adornments PPST as a practice test before they computerized vers ion of the people, injuring nearly 100 and leaving such as fresh flowered leis upon take the standard paper version of Graduate Records Exam this fall. 8,000 homeless. departure. the exam. The purpose of the study, Green On Friday, just hours before Iniki As Alika drove her to the airport, Their scores on the computerized said, is Ito determine how well hit, Christy spoke to Alika on the phone she remembers looking out of the version will not be counted. students take tests on computers as from their homeland. window and thinking; "God, it's so Janice Jenson, assistant testing opposed to the paper version. Allka had boarded up Christy's beautiful." coordinator at the university, said Individual scores on both tests will father's house and was going to head '7he thing is," she says, "that when the experimental testing "is a great be compared. as well as scores of for higher ground. He talked about the you leave some place for a long time way for future teachers to prepare those who have only taken the paper .