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In Section 2 In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Piecing The Four-Star All-American Newspaper showdown, together part III plastic page B 10 surgery page B I Non-profit Org. FRIDAY FREE U.S. Postage Pmd Newark. DE Volume 122, Number 38 250 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Perrmt No. 26 March 1, 1996 Bus drivers may shut down, halt UD service would involve refusing to work until According to Canale and other drivers, made even worse by the fact that th e Employees say they are fed up with unfair working demands were met, Canale said. In stead. the university has made a policy of hiring university rarely informs employees th at they are merely keeping open the option to the majority of bus drivers as miscellaneous they have a 1.000-hour limit. conditions and stalemated union negotiations pull over all the busses for a lime in hopes of wage employees. who don' t receive benefits Canale said the mi scellaneous wage and can only work for l ,000 hours per year. drivers are worked between 40 and 60 hours Steward Maureen Canale said of the getting the administration to listen to their BY MARK E. JOLLY As a result , the university lays off the per week but receive no benefits and have no At.!mult.'itrcwvt: Nt:n, Edaor possibility, " We' re seriously considering concerns, she said . Canale, a full-time driver who works employees as they approach their limit. only job security. University bus drivers rna) shut down bus shutting the busses down in the near future. bet ween I 0 and 14 hours per day, three days to hire them back the next year. Ray Fleck, a miscellaneous wage driver, service in response lo what they believe are We don' t want to alienate the students. We per week. detailed numerous complaints The practice. according to Canale. is said he believed the practice was unfair unfair employment conditions and inefficient like to service them, but this is the only way over the treatment drivers have received damaging to employees who can be left si nce both classe of employees are expected union negotiations. the bus drivers' steward we can gel our point across." from the administration. without work for up to six months and is aid yesterday. The driver do not plan to strike, which see BUS DRIVERS page A 7 Dole wins Wilm. heresy Dakotas; Forbes trial questions surprises• ordination of in Arizona gay priests BY LEO SHANE Ill Narumal/Statt: Ne». .~ Ec/uor Despite wins in North a nd South Episcopal doctrine, punishment will be handed down Dakota by Senate Majority Leader Bob then. Dole (R-Kan.), presidential cand idate waiting to be judged, Bishop James Stanton of Dallas, te ve Forbes catapulted into th e lead of tolerates homosexuality spokesman for Righter· s accusers, he Republican primary race with a said he believes the church will be surprise win in the Arizona primary but not extra-marital sex thrown into a seriow, crisis if the Tuesday. judges do not support the Com cntion' s policy. Forbc received 33 percent of the BY KRISTIN COLLI S Arizona vote, which was enough for him Mcmagmf!, Nt!\\'J Edaur ""People want their ch urch to ;.Land for somet hin g," he said. to win the primary anJ take a ll 39 WILMINGTON - Argument tn emphasizing the danger of delegates. Thus far. the editor of Forbes· the Episcopal Church's second .lagazine has 60 delegates. Pat !leresy trial in history , whose parishioners leaving the church if the judges do not support a policy Buchanan is running econd with 37 preliminary hearing began Tuesday that he says has been reaffirmed by delegates. followed closely by Dole. who morning in Wilmington's Cathedral the enllr·' dwr·b :n ca,n •.:f'' -~ · c>le '>. 1as 36 Cl!ur~h of St. John. came to a close In a speech to his supporten, after in the space of onl) a single day. '·Marriage, marital fidelity and sexual chastity are what thi s church winning the primary, Forbes said, ""A The I 0 bishops bringtng charges stands I or.'' week ago they wrote our obituary Now. against retired Bi s hop Walter A decision Ill favor or Stanton' we can perhaps w rite the obi tuary nf Righter. who broke the Episcopal conventional political punditry 111 General Convention's I 979 side. however. seems improbable considering five of the nine judges America:· resolution that demands chastity publicly announced s uppo rt for Dole had convinci ng wins in North outside of marriage with his 1990 Righter's po ition before the trial Dakota, with 42 percent of the vote. and ordination of non-celibate gay priest began. In fact. one of the judges South Dakota. with 45 pet cent of th e Barry Stopfcl. forced the church to recently ordained a practicing vute. The two wins, however, gave him a re-evaluate its policy on the homosexual himse lf. total of only 19 delegates. ordination of gay priests and " Miracles do happen,'' Stanton Buchanan. who fini hed second i11 bishops under the scrutiny of the South Dakota and third in orth Dakota. public eye. said of his chances for victory. He said he believed hearing the picked up I 0 of the available delegates Although th e Episcopal Church presenters· arguments '"ould sway from both states. Forbes received four does no t condemn homosexuality some of the judges. delegates in the two contests. per se, its official policy condemns Despite the odds, Ri ghter. 72, The voters in the three primaries were homosexual fornication bccau e it would not predict a verdict in hi especially unkind to former Tennc sec can on ly take place o ut si de the favor. "There's always a chance." he Gov. Lamar Alexander. He finished bonds of Christian marriage. said. fourth in Arizona and South Dakota and The mne bishop5 appointed as Regardle s, he said he was not fifth in N o rth Dakota behind former judges are currentl y discussing th e worried about the trial. "" I' m OK candidate Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas). arguments private!) to decide with God, and God's OK with me," He received only one delegate for all whether the Convention' s policy is he said. ""It· s the institution that has three contests. actually founded 111 doctrine, which to deal with this:· These poor fini shes, coupled with a the church takes from the Bible, the THE REVIEW I Alisa Colley And, a he implied, the trial has fourt h place showing in Delawa re 's Creeds and the Book of Common No one was seriously injured, but there was a quite a scare Thesday when a tractor trailor far more ramification for the primary, have left Alexander in a distant Praye r. If the judges vote to uphold hit a school bus and dragged it several feet near the corner of Main Street and South College Episcopal Church as a whole than fourth place with only 10 delegates. the policy , Right e r will have a for Righter alone. After Dole's loss to Forbes tn Avenue. See full story, page A3. separate trial in May and a Delaware's primary. he fired William sec HERESY page A6 Lacy, chief strategist and long-time Dole adviser, and William Mcinturff, a poll ter. In a statement released to the press, CAN UNIFORMS SAVE LIVES? Dole's Campaign Manager Scott Reed said the changes were. '·a normal development in a long campaign." The nation's next primary in South Local schools to implement dress code policy Carolina could be critical to all of the candidates. BY BETH MA TUSEWICZ of uniform dressing is starting to hit home. items like jeans, sweat pants, T-shirts and State Sen. David P. Sokola (D-North Currently. Dole has the support of StuJJ Reporter According to Bob Adams, principal of hiking boots may oon be on their way out. Star), a co-spon or of a law passed last year many Republicans in South Carolina The state's public school students may Shue-Medill Middle School in Ogletown, 'The phone calls I have received have including Gov. David Beasley, Sen . that permits schools to require uniforms. said soon be wearing pleated kins, white shirts students there will have a strict dress code to been much more positive than the written one of the goals of the legislation is to cut a nd khaki pants instead of the popular follow beginning with the next academic material which was about 50-50," Adams down on gang behavjor and clothing theft. see PRIMARIES page A 7 designer o utfits seen in Delaware's school year if his policy is approved by the said. According to Sok6la, the institution of hallways these days. Christina School District. "Part of the negative response was 'We uniforms will result in a decline of peer Since President Clinton mentioned the "We are asking the kids to neaten up quite don't like a uniform, but we think a dress pressure to wear certain items. He also said idea of mandatory school uniforms in his a bit," he said. code would be a good idea.' So that' s what parents like it better because there's no NAC State of the Union address Jan. 23. the idea Although there is no full-blown uniform, we ended up with." ' tournament see LOCAL SCHOOLS page A4 comes to the Bob March Madness officially begins in Newark today as the Heroin shoots up in Newark North Atlantic Conference men's basketball tournament comes to the Bob Carpenter Center.