UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE NEWARK, DELAWARE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1972 Dixon Disclaims Any Predictions Law Librarian Leaves, Stirs Debate By MIMI BOUDART and women students remarked, One student pointed out that Welch refused the DAVID HOFFMAN "all of us are kind of that a week before he was opportunity. f Axe Slayings gambling on the law school." Edgar Welch has been a discharged, Welch requested Student perceptions of the Also hanging in their mind the state attorney general, W. · law school and its future are By VINCE WOOD member of the Texas Bar is the continuing conflict Association for forty years. A Laird Stabler, to "conduct an optimistic. Rumors concerning an between the law school's investigation of the law year ago he was recruited by Rambo's observations alleged Jean Dixon prediction Dean, Alfred Avins, and a school." in the Sunday New York the fledging Delaware Law former librarian, Edgar indicate that students are Times that axe murders School as a Law Librarian Welch. Welch has claimed Welch relates that he "got "100% behind the dean." He would take place on this and Professor. Two weeks ago that Avins has "mislead" the the message" of his dismissal added that there has been a campus have been proven he was abruptly dismissed. law students by promising when one day, during the five-fold "improvement in the false and unfounded. Since its inception two student faculty rations that following week he returned quality of the faculty since to his office door to find that last year." Another student Thomas Dorsey, manager years ago, the history of the would have been half of what Delaware Law School has now exist. the lock had been changed. also voiced a note of of the syndicate which confidence when he said "I carried Dixon's newspaper been plagued by serious He also contends that However, James Rambo, doubts about whether it will Avins has stifled think in the long run the colunin, told the chairman of a Student Bar school will be accredited." News-Journal papers win accreditation and be student-faculty Association committee, Wednesday that Dixon does permitted to award degrees. communica~ion, curtailed the claims that in a letter dated In contrast, students who not make her predictions of Over the past year education law-librarian duties, and "sent Nov. 3, Avins gave Welch the left the school this semster disasters public. The New experts, members of the Bar, the school backwards.. .los­ option of returning "with no cited "disorganization" and York Times does not run her judges, professors, and ing ground." He has ill will attached." He noted (Continued to Page 15) column, Dorsey said, adding students have raised repeated commented that Avins, that the only area paper she questions about the quality because of his intense efforts appears in is the Philadelphia of the school's capability to to initially establish the Inquirer. meet the proposed school, is "showing signs of "preliminary" inspection by strain ...acting in an ···.·.··'' ~ the American Bar Association irrational manner... the 0 DENIALS next spring. school's frazzled him out." ~~--_.-r-··-, -·1 The News-Journal also Deep in the . back of A vins responds that Welch "t- t contacted the New York students' minds, is hanging was released from his job for Times, which denied that any the matter of accredation. As "misconduct and breach of such story was printed and one of the school's dozen contract." stated that Dixon herself has denied writing it. The axe murder rumors, Newark Man Stabbed some claiming that there would be 6, 8, or even 10 victims by the end of the year, have been circulating During Fight In Tavern for at least a week. A 20-year-old Newark man • According to News was stabbed and two others Journal accounts of the later arrested following a report, Richard Gilbert, 23, WORRIED CALLERS fight in the Stone Balloon of Fireside Park was charged Mary Hempel, Associate Tavern Tuesday night. with assault with intent to .'ita{{ photo by Dal'id llo{{HIUH Editor of Public Information Circumstances leading up to commit murder and was at the university, said she had Delaware Law School at 20th and Washington Streets in the fight are unclear. committed to Delaware Wilmington. received many calls about the According to Bill Correctional Center in default rumors from · worried women Stevenson, owner of the of $500 bail, pending a students. Hempel said that Balloon, he called Newark hearing at a later date. The "When their law librarian was fired, she had no idea where the Police shortly before weapon used was apparently rumor started, commenting midnight, when a man a pen knife. that similar stories make their entered the bar and stabbed Another Newark man, they preferred not to get involved. way across university another man in the chest and George Davies, 20, was campuses from time to time. right hand. charged with disorderly The axe murder rumor has They simply didn't have the time." Details surrounding the conduct and released on his been going around for about incident are unconfirmed, own recognizance. According five years at different schools, By MIMI BOUDART great many renovations to since a police report released to police he was a participant she said. In their converted complete. Although one-third Wednesday morning to local in the fight. Methodist Church building, of the library's books have The victim, James McDyre The Newark branch of the newspapers and radio stations 300 Delaware Law Students been shelved, the remainder of Maple Square Trailer Park, News-Journal said 1 it has concerning the stabbing was are studying and working are lying around haphazardly was listed in good condition received several calls and retracted later that day with diligence. in the basement and in the Wednesday morning at visits from students who were pending further investigation From the outside, the , loft. The painting on the Delaware Division, and was trying to confirm the story. into the case, and no new school is an incongruity with walls is chipped and the report has been released. scheduled to be released later One girl told reporters that its stained glass windows, red plumbing is poor. One However, according to a the same day. · the girls in her dorm were doors, and name plate on the stu dent blamed the Newark policeman, details afraid to go to their night In an unrelated incident, usual church-service schedule. renovations slowness on the classes due to the rumor. contained in that report now occuring Wednesday night, an shoddy labor of Wilmington appear to be correct. The activities inside are far unknown person or persons from liturgical even though contractors. The students are broke into a first-floor the nave of the church serves quick; though, to stress the Pencader C dormitory room as a classroom. Since last importance of completing the Peace March and stole a stereo. According July, Dean Alfred Avins with library before everything else. to the resident, someone cut a little money and a lot of Therefore, they don't mind The Philadelphia Action Coalition will hold a peace the screen and came in volunteer labor has renovated · that their student lounge, the demonstration tomorrow, beginning at 1 I' a.m. at Independence through the window. The the 50 year-old church to only smoking and eating Hall. The day's program includes a march at noon and a rally to door had been locked. house five classrooms, room in the school, still has a be held at 1:30 at Broad and Chestnut Sts. For more information, "I'm surprised no one saw approximately four offices drab appearance. They are contact the coalition's student mobilization committee, IllS it," she said. Newark Police for faculty members, a law willing to wait patiently until the most important functions Walnut St., (215) WA 3-0797. · have brushed for fingerprints library, and a student lounge. but as of yesterday had come It is obvious at first glance of the school are ready. up with no results. that the law school has a (Continued to Page 16) PAGE2 RE.VI EW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware NOVEMBER 17, 1972 apple turnover. • ., ' r BOONE'S FAR M, MODESTO, CALIFORNIA . ~) REVIEW, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware PAGE 3 Decries 'Stag Party' Atmosphere Salary Increases Scott Hits Sports Values By MIMI BOUDART ·.·.·-· · "Sports, in particular Remain Pending football, has become the By DAVE HOFFMAN recently also acknowledged Great American "Stag Party" Meeting across a that the administration may reflected Micki Scott,- the deadlocked barganing table, be "stalling" the talks in an Director of the Institute for the American Association of effort to "erode" faculty the Study of Sport and University Professors has support for the union. Society at Tuesday's offered a revised and "final" They have responded to University Hour in the salary proposal to the this challenge by urging Kirkbride Room. administration. Although the professors to sign a "The atmosphere of a stag new proposal represents a "resolution of support" for party really permeates sports, $100,000 reduction from an the union. The AAUP claims from the super macho show earlier AAUP demand, the that 340 faculty members in the center of the field to two bargaining teams still 82% of those · they hav~ the girlie show ( cheerlead~rs, remain almost $600,000 approached, have endorsed porn porn girls) on the apart from a settlement on the pledge since it was sidelines, to the all-male press salary increases for the circulated a week ago. boxes." faculty during 73-74. As the AAUP negotiations Scott says that the The administration's last remain at a standstill, leaders supportive role of women on offer, proposing a 639,000 of the University of Delaware the sidelines is destructive not faculty salary increase, also Federation of Teachers only to women but to men labeled as "final," when it (UDFT) are preparing for a also.