Vandals Damage Statue

Today's weather: Our second NON -PROFIT ORG century of U 5 POSTAGE Partly sun excellence PAID ' ny, warm. Newark, Del Highs in the Permit No 26 mid 70s. Vol. 111 No. '57 Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Tuesday, May 13, 1986 Student .Vandals captures damage '86 honors by Susan Jacob Statue Staff Reporter For the fourth year in a row a univer by Allee Brumbley sity student is the recipient of the and Suzanne Suublek Harry S. Truman Scholarship for Staff Reporters sophomore political science majors. Joseph Curtis Schoen (AS 88) of A 19-year-old male student from Wilmington was chosen by Joseph Boston College was released on $100 Pika, the Truman Scholarship faculty bond Friday morning after his arrest representative, to compete nationally . in connection with vandalism to the for the scholarship. Statue of Liberty replica on East Main The award is given to approximate I Street, university police said. ly 100 students within the United I The suspect was charged with States, at least one per state and criminal mischief and criminal imper another 50 given at large. It consists of sonation after his arrest near Smith a scholarship of $7,000 per year for four and Purnell Halls at Amstel Avenue, years, two of which are for either according to university Investigator graduate studies or law school. James Flatley. The 2:28 a.m. arrest followed a short foot chase, Flatley Schoen and Donna Lynn Culver said. (AS 88), also a candidate, filled out ap Two university students who iden plications within the political science tified the man told police the suspect department. After being chosen, they had been around the statue with three were required to compose a 600:word other people near the time of the inci essay about their views on public dent. The other suspects escaped. policies. Flatley said the student was charg On Feb. 3, the two candidates went ed for criminal impersonation because to Philadelphia where they had to de ;he presented a false ID when initially fend their essays before a panel of five stopped. professors and journalists. Schoell's · Police had no estimates on tne winning essay was an analysis of the ·amount of damage to the 20-foot statue Carter and Reagan administrations' as of Monday morning. The right arm, handling of world terrorism. holding the torch, and the back were damaged by "physical force," accor- Additional criteria for the Truman ding to police reports. · scholarship includes a grade point The replica, on the corner of College average of at least a 3.0 and three let 1Avenue and Main Street, was erected ters of recommendation written by THE REVIEW/ Charles Fort Ia~ part of the J?elaware Sta.tue of faculty members and former · ··---:Liberty Foundation's campmgn to employers recognizing the candidate's coursework and overall potential. A broken woman- An out-of-state student was arrested in connection with van- ·raise $100,~ for the resto!ation of the dalizing the replica of the Statue of Liperty, on the corner of South College Avenue Statue of Liberty and Elhs Island. page 4 continued to and Main Street. continued to pa~~ 14 EPA, state handle toxic waste cleanup by Rob Ault all but 46 of the containers were reclaimed by the said. The remaining three are primarily Staff Reporter firms that had produced them. administrators. Thirty-eight of the containers were incinerated, "The law which we respond under [Superfund] and the contents of the other eight were treated at gives awesome authority," he said. "Red tape. is This is the third in a continuing series about toxic a total cost of about $125,000, Cardinal said. · eliminated in our program since, within minutes, waste cleanup in Delaware and surrounding areas. The EPA has regional response centers and OSCs without permission, an On-Scene Coordinator may who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week · determine the need for any course of action that he · PHILADELPHIA - When 400 abandoned con to respond to any chemical emergency in each of its or she deems necessary." tainers of toxic waste were found in a warehouse in 10 regions. Massey said OSCs have the authority to recom New Castle, Del., in February, the A-Team was call Philadelphia is the headquarters of the third region mend an evacuation and call in other federal agen ed in. which encompasses Delaware, Pennsylvania, cies the military and independent cleanup The A-Team is made up of the On-Scene Coor Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District contractors. dinators of the Environmental Protection Agency's of Columbia. In addition an OSC has $50,000 at his immediate Regional Response Center in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia center gets over 2,000 phone calls disposal, he explained. · The EPA announced Friday that the OSCs had a year and has been responding to about one The EPA spends an average of between $200,000 completed the cleanup of the 400 containers found in emergency every three days since January, said to $400,000 per incident and might take more than two two abandoned trailers in the Sardo & Horgan Thomas I. Massey, chief of the third region's months to complete an emergency cleanup, Massey warehouses off Sixth Street in New Castle. emergency response section. said. According to Ann Cardinal, an EPA spokeswoman, Ten of 13 OSCs do field work in the region, Massey ·continued to page 2. Page 2 • The Review • May 13, 1986 ------------------------------------------ ... EPA, state coordinate emergency toxic waste cleanup · continued from page 1 panies or individuals responsi ble for a chemical emergency "But we might take two to notify the NRC or a regional drums [of waste] that would response center. cost $8,000 [to cleanup]," he Once the regional response said, "and we might take $2 center has been notified, the . million for a tire fire like Win- OSCs take over. chester [Va.]." "We're not first responders, The emergency response we can't be - we have five program was started by the states to cover and hundreds National Contingency Plan of counties. We are seven established in 1968, which hours away from the farthest designates how the nation will place in our [region]," Massey handle toxic cleanups and oil explained. · spills. However, the program Normally, local fire com did not gain any significant panies are the first to respond, power until Superfund· was calling in the EPA when they passed in 1980, Massey realize the extent of the explained. problem. The emergency response "What I perceive our job to section, like the rest of the be is actually what the title of EPA, is restricted by a lack of our job is - to coordinate funding because Congress has emergencies. On-scene coor not passed a new Superfund dination is the key," Massey law. said. "We hav~ t9 postpone and do Massey explained that the the most mmtmu~ amo~nt of EPA works closely with state work at any particular site to · and local authorities to handle stretch our money," Massey chemical emergencies. said. The emergency response THE REVIEW/ Karen Mancinelli Emergency response IS teams are only responsible for Thomas Massey centered around the Nation~l emergency cleanup, but long Response Center based m term cleanup is handled under tion, public safety, Office of important part of Delaware's Washington, D.C. The <:oa~t Superfund by the EPA or in a joint response," he said. emergency response team Guard mans the NRC which IS dividual states. Delaware has its own Emergency Preparedness and the Fire School, said Phillip because they are the first responsible for ~eceivi~g "We're very lean in the emergency response team respondents. repor~s of ef!lergencies and m- amount of people [we have to headed by Bob Touhey, direc Retallick, deputy director of formmg eith~r the Coast ·respond to emergencies], and tor of the state's Division ,of the Division of Air and Waste However both Retallick and Guard (which handles in recent years we have been Air and Waste Management. Management. Massey cited a need for more emergencies in the tidal asking for more and more The team is made up of Retallick said the fire mar state and federal funding to areas) or the EPA. local and state cooperation to members from the depart shals and the volunteer fire improve toxic emergency Federal laws require com- help us respond. It's becoming ments of health, tran!>porta- companies make up the most training for local officials. IN PERSON SEX INFORMATION BACCHUS LUNCHTIME PROGRAM Thursday and Friday, HOTLINE May 15 and 16 at 12:10 p._m. Referrals and information to questions about sexual con The unique sounds of cerns: Operated by W ellspr THE SWEET ROSE REVUE ing Sex Education Program. Anna Epstein, Banjo Janice Buckner, Bass Confidential • Caring 451-8731 ' . Hours: Sun.-Wed. 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