No Deal Mercury Morris Denounces Drug Abuse As Self-Abuse of Today's Society
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Todav's Our second · weather: century of Partly cloudy excellence :c and windy high in low 50s. Vol. 112 No. 23-= Student Center, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Friday, Nov. 21, 1986 Student aid cuts loom for 1987-88 by Liz Meehan Staff Reporter Students who applied for financial aid after mid-October may have trou ble receiving it due to more stringent eligibity requirements, according to Maria Taylor, assistant director of the Delaware Postsecondary Education Commission. ··All Guaranteed Student Loan ap plicants after October 17 1986 must submit need-analysis documents to determine eligibility for Guaranteed Student Loans " Taylor said, at the Delaware Undergraduate Student Con gress meeting Monday. The new act for the Guaranteed Stu dent Loan Program was signed by President Ronald Reagan Oct. 17 and went into effect immediately. Monday was also the beginning of Financial Aid Awareness Week sponsored by DUSC. According to Taylor, there is good news and bad news regarding the new provisions for the loan programs. "The good news is that fhe overall THE REVIEW/ Koren Mancinelli loan limit over a possible five-year May I help you?- A friendly heifer peers from the University Farmhouse barnyard to get a closer look at the outside continued to poge 10 world. No deal Mercury Morris denounces drug abuse as self-abuse of today's society. dent for Student Affairs at the by Chuck Arnold "I did not have a cocaine university. Assistant News Editor problem," he maintained. "I However, Morris continued, In the early 1970s, Eugene had a Mercury Morris pro an individual effort to raise "Mercury" Morris was as blem." personal awareness about swift as his Roman-god One of the major misconcep substance abuse or simply namesake, speeding the tions about drug and alcohol choosing not to use drugs can Miami Dolphins to three Super abuse, Morris added, is the solve the problem. Bowl appearances. myth that alcohol is different "Everything in life is a mat Now , after spending three from drugs. ter of choice," he said. " It's an and-a-half years in a Florida " Drugs and alcohol are the ~ither - or' in sports and it's an prison for cocaine trafficking, same thing," he said. "Alcohol 'either-or' in life. ' Morris, 39, is tackling is the number one drug in the In order to say " no" to misconceptions about drug country." drugs, Morris explained, a abuse. Morris said by openly accep person must first know why he " There is really no such ting drinking as part of socie is doing so. If a person really thing as drug abuse," Morris ty, people perpetuate the myth understands the repercussions told over 300 people at the Stu that alcohol is not a drug. of substance abuse, he con dent Center Wednesday night. "If they blind you long tinued, then the decision is Instead he explained, enough, you II be blind too, " he clear-cut. " Drug abuse is self-abuse. A reflected. "Sometimes in our lives we drug is not an abusable item." Many addicts feel they are are our own worst enemies. Morris, who attributed his powerless to resist the seduc That's where you get self walking around the Rodney tion of drugs, Morris said at abuse," he said. Room platform to the freedom the program, which was spon Morris, describing how he he feels after his March sored by the Student Program stopped using cocaine, said he release from prison, said peo Association and the Offices of believed it was necessary for THE REVIEW/ Stacey K«en Mercury Morris ple, not drugs, are a problem the President and Vice Presi- contim4ed to pag 8 Page 2 • The Review • November 21, 1986 The Zenith z-111 Portable PC, It beats bum-out, Recharge your frontal lobe with this easy-to-carry, easy-to Special Student Price: read Zenith portable PC ... now at a Special Student Pncel Fact: College causes burn-out. All that readin', writin' and 'rythmatic can $999.00 really numb your noggin. 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Student Program Association down, but -it's not necessarily The State closed last week president, said he would like to out. because of financial trouble see the theater reopen, but is Although the theater closed caused by a "lack of participa not sure if it can survive as a Nov. 12 for the second time in tion" from the community, ac small theater. less than six months, landlord cording to previous owner Bob ''It seems as if your best bet Robert Teeven Sr. said he Weir. for something like the State, .would like to ''try to keep it as "Nobody wanted to close the outside a big city, would be a a theater." theater," said Teeven. "I college community," he said. didn't want to, and I know Bob ''But this campus as a whole is see editorial p. 6 [Weir] didn't." fairly conservative and they But T~e n said the State obviously didn't support it "We need an investor with a was in t and he felt its before." lot of capital who knows the financi I situation would only SPA Film Chairman Lamar business," he said. "The worsen. Willis (EG 88) agreed, adding theater has a lot of potential- "It's like pulling a bad that he thought student I still believe that." tooth," he explained. nYou disinterest affected the Teeven's real estate manag- have to pull it before it closing. ing agent, Bill Murray, said he becomes abscessed.'' has received about a dozen in- Teeven listed competition ''We've also had problems vestment inquiries so far, and from multi-screen theater ·getting student support," he gets more every day. chains, VCRs and university- explained. "We had to make a Murray, an agent for Young- sponsored movie and lecture conscious decision to book Murray Realtors in Newark, series as problems for a small more popular, newer rel~ases said he. and Teeven ·have theater like the State. to bolster [SPA's] program." discussed several alternative Mary McDermott, manager uses for the building, but they "There's nothing wrong with of Newark's Cinema Center, feel a theater on Main Street is showing art films, but nobody said that although she com "part of the whole scenario supported that," he said. "On petes with the State she would there, ~n integral part of the lya certain group go see that like to see it stay. street." / stuff." "It's a landmark, and I think "People have presented "It's a tough real estate pro several ideas," he said, "like it has a place here," she said. blem," Murray commented. "What's hard for them is that THE REVIEW/ Koren Mancinelli a dinner theater, a combina "But it's like any other tion of movies and stage pro most of the movies they run Main Street's State Theatre, which closed indefinitely last Wednes business. You've got to find out you can rent.'' ductions - a lot of different what the community wants day, shows an empty marquee to all who pass by.