In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star A/1-Americaff Newspaper Point guard 'Wayne's Brian Pearl World' parties leads Hens into theaters page 87 page 81 University sell~ birth control implant About Norplant _ '#§. Norplant is a contraceptive for~ that is fan-shapett' anci an :.:· By Karen Levinson which leaks out at a steady pace over five years. Hillary (not her real name) was the first student Inch and a third long. The deYice Is implanted in the woman:,.,_pper . 1\uisrant ,.,.,.,., Editor "It's good within 24 hours after it 's inserted," to havl! Norplant inserted at the Student Health ann and has six tube$ containing the hormone proge5terone;·whidl · Thursday the university became one of the few Lowry said. "The ability to conceive should return Service. leaks into the body over a·fi,ve-year period. ' .~ . · , major colleges to offer the female contraceptive shortly after it's removed." "I'm engaged. I will be having kids probably in · "':og~sterone pnM!flts ~lation and thickens the cervi~'!Wf, Norplant.. an implanted device which many say is five years which is the right timing," she said. mak'"g 1t harder for ~to reach the egg. , . · • more effective than the birth control pill. Dana Mitchell (AS JR) said she chose Norplant Norplant becomes effec;tiw within :24 hours of Insertion~ ~ • Yesterday, two university students received • See editorial page A 1 0 because she had forgotten to take birth control pills be implanted after mensnuation. rhe (.'9ntraceptive can b'e;~ y Norplant implants at the Student Health Service at in the past. by a physician at any time and fertility will be restored soon ~er. " Laurel Hall. Lowry said the Student Health Service began The pill costs $20 a month, she said. "It adds up, The Food and Drug ·Administration (FDA) approved Norplant•in Norplant is a hormonal contraceptive placed offering Norplant after two students requested the especially when you ' re a student and you don't December 1989 and Wyeth·Ayer&t Labs began marketing the inside a woman's upper arm, said Dr. Susan device. have money.'' contraceptive In February 1990. Lowry, gynecologist for Student Health Services. The contraceptive is intended for women who Because Norplant is relatively new- it was According to Wyeth·Ayerst Labs, 55,000 women hi 4'! countries The contraceptive is an inch and a third long and want to have long-term birth control which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration in used Norplant as part of clinical studies. has six tubes containing the hormone progesterone, reversible when the device is removed, she said. see NORPlANT page A9 KKK delays Medical program plans for continues Elkton rally Local benefactors rally to increase medical Maryland chapter of Ku Klux technology's enrollment Klan plans April 11 march By jonathan Thomas By larry Dignan Adminisrraliv" N"ws Editor Special Assignm.,nl Report"' More than 40 years ago, the state's ELKTON, Md.- A Maryland chapter of the medical community gave the push needed Ku Klux Klan withdrew its request for a permit to start the university's medical to march through Elkton on April 4, the 24th technology program. This year the same anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. forces have returned to keep the program Martin Luther King Jr., at Wednesday night's rolling. city council meeting. Medical technology, a program begun Chester Doles, leader of the Cecil County, in 1949 because of the state's need for Md. chapter of the KKK, said the request was trained medical technologists, found itself withdrawn to avoid offending members of the on the brink of elimination in the fall because of declining enrollment and • See editorial page A 1 0 university-wide budget cuts. Top: (left to right) Curtis Lewis and Terry Anderson However, hospitals and medical argue at the Elkton city council meeting Wednesday. laboratories across the state have offered community. Middle: Bobby Shook, president of the Klan's youth their services in recruiting students for the However, he said the white supremacist group, leads the pledge of allegiance. group submiLted another request Thursday for a Bottom: A crowd gathers around the Elkton Municipal permit to march April II. • Interior design killed, page A7 Elkton Mayor James Crouse said the council Building in anticipation of the city council's decision. will decide whether or not to allow the march program which they feel is a valuable at its next meeting on March 4. pool of employees, said Anna Ciulla, After Doles' announcement, he and nine of Residents react medical technology program director. his fellow Klansmen stood up in unison and Graduates of the program perform left the meeting. clinical Jab science, testing blood and In the lobby, the Klansmen huddled together other body fluids to aid in preventing. and began chanting "white power." to Klan march diagnosing and treating diseases. Standing in the lobby among angry Ciulla said she informed hospitals and bystanders, the curious and his fellow By Larry Dignan industries in Delaware of the program's Special Assignment ~~~!porter Klansmen, Doles defended his group's choice impending elimination in the fall. of April 4 as the original date for the march. ELKTON, Md. - Colby Sewell remembers when ln response, Med Lab, a private clinical Critics said the Klansmen chose to march he first went to elementary school in Cecil County. lab, Du Pont's diagnostic division and through Elkton on April 4 as a way to further "When I frrst went to a white school, they called me most of the state's hospitals collaborated incite the community by spreading their nigger everyday," he said mauer of factly. to form the Comminee to Save University see KKK RALLY page A9 Sewell, 38, also remembers when he walked around of Delaware's Medical Technology Elkton and was attacked by whites. Program. · But that was in the 1950s and '60s, and times have Commillee Chairwoman Shirley changed. Or have they? Tarrant said university President David P. Sewell, who has lived in Elkton his entire life, says Roselle challenged the comm i uee to although oven racism, including beatings and name­ address the problem of low student calling have vanished from Elkton. bigotry continues enrollment. to corrode this small community. Roselle gave the committee two-years At Wednesday night's city council meeting the Ku to increase enrollment from its current Klux Klan withdrew a petition to march in Elkton, level of 20 students to the program's 52 demonstrating how this small town is struggling to person capacity, Tarrant said. shed its bigotry-filled past. The committee plans to heavily recruit Despite conflicting ideals and preconceived images, undeclared students within the College of everyone at the meeting stood for the Pledge of Arts and Science, particularly chemistry Allegiance led by a 10-year-old boy.The child was the and biology majors, she said. president of the Klan's youth group. "Medical technologists have "Just when I thought Cecil County had goucn rid of · volunteered to participate in informal its image, this happens," a graying white man says meetings with students interested in while watching news cameras hover over the packed learning more about medical technology," 100m. Tarrant said. "Look at them all," another white resident says The commiuee's high school surveying a room filled with mostly whites. "You're recruitment will cons~st of visits by assuming tha1 all white people are in the KKK," his volunteers and an informational video on wife says. medical technology. Tarrant said. see RESIDENTS page A9 The committee will also be soliciting medical organizations within the state to see TECHNOLOGY page A9 Student volunteers help to battle blazes To our readers, Starting with this issue, The Review is sporting a new look. After 11 0 Delivering babies, fighting fires - all in a day's work years as the university's student newspaper we figured it was time for yet another facelift. Although we have changed our look, expect to By Scott Dailey Teclmical and Community College said delivering a receive the same award-winning coverage of the campus and and Rebecca Tollen baby is not something tha1 happens everyday, but is SliREdncm pan of his job. community. We thought and re-thought how to make The Review not It was just another SWlday for Steve Vasey. "I felt!XOOd. nervous and excited all at once, he only a more accessible newspaper but a more enjoyable one as well. The 20-year-old student and volunteer firefighter said. Here is what we came up with. Enjoy. arrived at Newark's Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Sara Romans (AS JR), a vohmteer fltefighter at Co. on Academy Street just around lunchtime to Aetna and a criminal justice major, said although ---INDEX--- wash the company's firetrucks. her studies come frrst. she has a passion for fighting At colleges across the nation ...Al Then. at about 1:15 p.m., the call came in - a names. Campus briefs .........................A2 "10-95"- or an emergency maternity call. "[Firefighting] seemed neat, so I started riding Classified& ............................... 89 Half an hour later, Vasey found himself ambulances and then went to fire school last delivering a baby in the back of an ambulance. summer," she said. Comics .................................. B11 "Not every time you pull out of the fire house "I enjoy volunteering, but do not see myself On the lighter side .................. .A3 you get 10 deliver a baby." he said. making it a career," she added. "Volunteering Police report ........................... .Al But every day Vasey and 14 other student allows me to experience new and exciting things.'' Review and Opinion ..............A10 • volunteers at Aetna find themselves helping the Her parents, however, were not IS enthusiastic.