- An Asso9iated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Meeting Antarctica's native BasebaU team rolls over populations, Drexel - four times, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE Volume 127. Issue 51 wu·w.reriew.udel.edu Tuesday, !VIa~ · 8. 200 I Changes I Stepping good. • comzng time at the Bob to McD's BY GRACE GODDARD Staff Reporter • Many feet created a stepping crosszng explosion at the ninth annual Richard "Dick" Wilson Step Show competition Saturday night. BY STACEY CARLOUGH More than 500 people attended Staff Reporter the charity entertainment event at Renovations to one of Newark's the Bob Carpenter Center, busiest intersections have been including members of the National approved following a construction Pan-Hellenic Council, Panhellenic company's $1.01 million bid on the Council, Interfraternity Council and project, officials said. non-Greek students. Construction at the intersection of Omar Griffith,. ,presjdent of the East Main Street, Route 72 and NPHC and the Kappa Alpha Psi Route 273- near McDo.nald's­ Fraternity Inc., said stepping will begin in June. originated as a way to express Mike Williams, external affairs African heritage. officer for the Delaware Department Each chapter now varies which of Transportation, said the state­ steps are used, he said. funded project includes pavement The event raised money for the reconstruction, signal work, bicycle Dick Wilson Scholarship Fund, and pedestrian accommodations and Griffith said. TilE REVIEWII...eslie Uoyd a new bus shelter. Shirley Wilson, the widow of The routines of nine step teams THE REVIEW/M.S . Pel! A right-turn lane for entrance into Dick Wilson, sai·d when her plus tunes from DJ D of Power Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., (center) meets with Rexhep Meidani (right), the 99 radio station energized the the United States Post Office from president of Macedonia In Washington, D.C., Thursday. husband worked at the university Route 273 and a second left-turn one of his goals was to encourage Bob Carpenter Center Saturday. Jane from southbound Route 72 onto students to focus on their education fraternity into ~heir performances. eastbound Route 273 will ease the and not solely on Greek. Life. Senior Vanessa Murray, congestion, Williams said. "He wanted students to work president of the Greek Council and "Right now there's only one turn Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.: hard and to keep the fun on the member of the Delta Sigma Theta lane," he said. "The extra lanes back burner," Wilson said. Sorority Inc., said her sorority has reduce the length of time cars have During the show, nine step teams been practicing 10 hours per week to wait in line so more cars will be performed routines. Seven teams able to get through while the light is Delaware's globalYQice from the university competed as since February. "It's nice to see everything come green." part of the NPHC. together," she said. "The Step Show The project is part of an initiative BY M.B. PELL . Sti~ td last five iliirlutes, 15tit .Sideri spent almost an Two teams from Lake Forest NahOnai!State News Ed11or hour asking questions and absorbing information. from is a way to showcase talents and to improve highway safety in High School exhibited their talents express the history of our sorority Delaware, Williams said. WASHINGTON - He had the top of his skull legislative assistants .. but did not compete in the show. to others on campus." "This area is very difficult to removed in 1988 because of brain "Why does the Ger~an foreign The audience was continually maneuver," he said. ''This will make aneurysms, he is an authority on minister want to talk with me?" Biden energized from music provided by The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., won second place among the it a Jess difficult area to drive American judicial matters, foreign policy asked one of the 15 aids assembled around DJ D of Power 99 radio station in sororities. through." an <;I civil rights issues and he is the large oval table. ''What's your gut?" Philadelphia. The seven sorority members said Williams said the project has Delaware's senior senator. He listened to the staffer's response, Nine judges were present, theirs was the frrst black sorority to been in the preliminary stages for Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Def., has jotted down a few notes and quickly representing each of the fraternities be formed in the nation in 1908. years, and concerns of Newark represented the citizens of Delaware for changed subjects from the visiting foreign and sororities that performed. "We're so pretty - and oh so residents regarding the summer the last 28 years. Now, as the state's dignitary to the missile defense system. Jocelyn Harris, an affiliate from serious," they said. construction have already been longest serving politician in D.C., he ''I got to get Gephardt on," Biden said. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Wearing halter-tops and pants to resolved. commands a distinguished position of "One of the single most important issues said she judged teams on match, the women depicted life-size "Public workshops were held authority and respect among his 99 in our lifetime is whether I can stop this originality, showmanship, dolls, doing their steps on chairs years ago," he said. "Next, tlie colleagues in the United States Senate. Star Wars Bill." appearance and precision. project went to the planning a·nd In his office, formerly the heart of an He said most people are not interested Members of the Delta Sigma while wearing blindfolds. The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity design stage, where we weighed any area in the Russell Senate Building called in foreign policy issues. However, these Theta Sorority Inc. won first place Inc., won first place for the possible impact it would have on Confederate's row (because southern issues have a profound impact on the among the sororities. The routine fraternities. Members began their businesses and people. legislators who formerly occupied the long-range impact of the health and began with a sorority member performance wearing black cloaks, ''It then got sent to the engineers, area battled civil rights legislation), Biden security of the American populous, the dressed as a newscaster announcing glow-in-the-dark facemasks and who made the filiishing touches." received his morning briefing Thursday. senator said. "professional divas are on the white gloves. Upon planning completion, the Allen Hoffman, the senator's chief of Without missing a beat, he turned to loose." • The six men then dropped their project went up for bid. The staff, said the morning briefing was All routines incorporated the see SENATOR page A8 independent construction company history of each sorority and see ANNUAL page A5 Greggo and Ferraro bid lowest and was awarded the contract, he said. II Linda Osiecki, project engineer for DelDOT, said she expects the renovations to take approximately Mexican Mallstock madness 70 construction days. "We have construction phasing as BY BONNIE WARRINGTON a chance to get their name out there," she •Mall!)tock to have fun with students and part of our plan," she said. "That Staff Reporter said. · make the organ~zation known on campus. might change a little bit depending It was not an average Saturday on the Hermann said student:; enjoyed three ''Mallstock is one more fun thing for upon what the contractor wants and North Mall for approximately 600 live bands - The Pilfers, Green Eggs and our members to do," she said. "If people what materials are available." students and Newark residents who Spam and Stargazer Lily. have fun here and at our table then maybe Rich Lapointe, director of public attended the fourth annual Mallstock. Senior Matt Abbott, vice president of they'll come out and join our works for the City of Newark, said Live bands, a juggler, a balloon twister, the Resident Student Assoaiation, said the organization." the project was initiated following a a body painter and several student 'event's Mexican tbeme ·.was Qisplayed by ll_!p.ior Stephapie Sneddon, publicity DelDOT safety check on major area organizations participated in the event. gieen, red and white bailoons~ plfiatas and chair for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual intersections. Junior Jaylyn Hermann, coordinator of Mexican food. · ' ·' . Student Union,.said Mallstock was a great "This [intersection] rated as one the event, said she thought it was a "This year, the. event just ,happened .to event that gave yisibility to her group. of the worst in this area," he said. success. fall on Cinco de Mayo and gave us a 'good "Mallstock lets people who think that Lapointe said the project's aim is "It's like a glorified festival that not idea for a theme," he said. an organizat,jdn like LGBSU is just some THE REVIEW/Michele Balfantz only alJows students to have a good time, Freshman Aliza Israel, secretary of Students gather on the North Mall for music, games, see TRAFFIC page A9 but also allows student groups on campus Hillel, said her group participated in see FESTIVAL page A9 boxing and food Saturday afternoon at Mallstock. Debate rag_es·over reparations BY KEVIN ETIENNE­ Review. printed. anymore." CUMMINGS Four thousand copies of The Three of the nine papers offered Although part of demanding Staff Reporter Brown Daily Herald's March 16 public apologies to members of the reparations is monetary redress When the Brown University edition were stolen from campuses' minority communities, from the federal government, it is student newspaper ran a newsstands, while various campus but in every instance, papers also a process of self-determination controversial advertisement in its grouys accused ~he paper of defended themselves by citing the whereby African Americans decide March 12 issue, student reporters CJ.lltural insensitivity.