News Mosaic Sports Retired university The Goo Goo Dolls Baseball snaps eight-game professor dies at 91 Uncut losing streak with two wins See page A4 See page Bl See page Cl An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • on-Profit Org. ~Review Online U.S. Postage Paid www. review.udel.edu Newark, DE REV IE Permit No. 26 Free 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Tuesday Volume 125, Number 42 March 23, 1999 City's rental cap tabled for second time BY APRIL CAPOCHINO However, other residents are in favor from students that they think this Ci ty News Ediwr of the rental cap and said they think ordinance is anti-students." Newark City Council tabled the City Council needs more time. City Manager Carl Luft and his staff original rental cap proposal until May Fran Hart, who li ves on West Main drafted four ordinances, which were 24 and extended the morato rium on Street and has been a Newark resident discussed as proposals at the last City rental perm its for about two more ·for 30 years, is in favor of the cap. Council meeting two weeks ago. months during its meeting Monday "I think they know it's going to take The co unci I voted to move the night a while, and there are other solutions discussion of these ordinances to the The rental cap proposed that the city they want to investigate," Hart said. end of the agenda Monday night, which s hould limit the number of rental The university should also play a key some residents did not agree with. permits for single-family rental units to role in the decision-making process of The other four proposed ordinances 900. There are currently I ,200 permits the rental cap, she said. were discussed too late for this edition. in use. "It would be better for the city to Beaver said he thinks City Council City Councilman Gerald Grant said reach a resolution with the university," was trying to push the issues off until he does not think the rental cap is going she said. "The city won't be able to do it the last minute so the people who had to to be passed and added that he does not on their own." leave early would not get to voice their want to spend any more time discussing Rick Armitage, director of opinion. the issue. Government Relations for the "Council is pathetic," he said. "They 'Tm sick of talking about the rental university, said the university does not do everything they can to duck and hide cap," he said after the proposal was have a position on the rental cap. so they can't face the music." tabled for a second time since it was He also said he does not think the cap Grant said he also did not want to see first discussed on Jan. 25. will be passed because it lacks support. the extension of the moratorium because Dan Beaver, who is running against Armitage said he believes council he said it is creating more troubles Councilman Thomas Wampler for the members and students share different among residents. 4th district in April's elections, said he views on the purpose of the rental cap. "I'm wondering if this moratorium is thinks the rental cap is a dead issue . "I think every councilperson believes causing more problems than it' s THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill "I don' t want it to be tabled," he said. they are doing the right thing," solving," he said. Newark landlord and City Council candidate John Bauscher expresses his disapproval at "I want it to be killed." Armitage said. "But I have also heard Mayor Harold Godwin's announcement that the proposed rental cap would be tabled, again. Michigan State Greeks change alcohol policy· BY SUSAN STOCK related incidents on the MSU campus. StudenJ Affairs Editor Last May there was a student uprising when the While some Greek organizations across the country are administration decided to take away a field typically used adamantly opposed to going dry and others nave chosen to for tailgating, Rosenbaum said. prohibit alcohol, Michigan State University reached a rare "Students organized a protest on that field, and police compromise between students and administrators last met the students on the field," he said. "It was students Tuesday. expressing their concerns with East Lansing and the The administration and the Interfraternity Council at university:" MSU agreed to a proposal that would ban alcohol-related The second event took place in November ·when junior social functions in Greek houses as of July I . Bradley McCue died after drinking 24 shots on his 21st Jason Rosenbaum, MSU IFC president, said, "We chose birthday. this route for many reasons, one of which was this is not a However, according to MSU Panhellenic President radically drnstic move. Rebecca Gillespie, the major catalyst was a television "Members still maintain their personal rights and broadcast of their Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter having a party. responsibilities to consume alcohol in their chapter house if "The final straw was when the TV crews came into a they're of age, yet we're taking a strong stance on academic social function of a chapter and covered that on the local leadership." news," she said. Rosenbaum said alcohol has been a problem on campus Gillespie Said the executive board took immediate action for about 20 years. later that night. ''Drinking and alcohol abuse isn't a Greek problem or ·a "Pretty much all the presidents showed up, so they problem for any one campus," he said. '1t's a problem going realized it was a problem that needed to be addressed," she on throughout the country." said. Within the last year, there have been two notable alcohol- see MICHIGAN page A3 E-52 hits the airwaves THE REVIEW/John Chabalko Tom Pauley, an English professor, is the author Elia Kazan raises his Oscar in triumph of the most comprehensive book on Elia Kazan. during Monday night's award show. Theater group peiforms original slww for WVUD Hollywood sits for Kazan and live audiences BYKYLEBELZ Staff Repm1er BY RYAN CORMIER looking to "out" Communists. like Elia Kazan a Lifetime No surgeon would ever saw his patient like a tree, but Editor in Chief The committee, seen by some Achievement Award, who are you that's how it sounded Friday night during E-52 Student There was a palpable sense of today as a modern-day witch hunt, going to give it to? Theatre's performance, which was recorded in front of a controversy surrounding the 71 st had a goal of tracking down " The Academy has go[ live audience and is scheduled for a later WVUD Annual Academy Awards ceremony Hollywood Communists, one of themselves in a position where they broadcast. Sunday when Elia Kazan, the 89- whom was Kazan. were giving Lifetime Achievement "A Night on the Air," the theater tro upe's first year-old embattled film director, In 1952, Kazan added to the Awards to those whose combined attempt at performing on radio, consisted of various took his place at the podium to persecutions of the time when he work was like that of a pygmy to a comedy skits, including spoo fs of pop-culture accept the Lifetime Achievement named eight of his friends in the giant when set alongside that of heavyweights such as "ER" and "COPS," said freshman Award. movie business who, along with him, Kazan's." Chris Goering, the director of the performance and the Nearly half the c rowd at the had been members of the American The award-winning director's show's initiator. ceremony refused to stand when Communist Party in the 1930s. supporters claim hi·s superior work in Goering said while the evening was comedic, some Kazan received the award because Tom Pauly, an English professor film overshadows what he did in his of the skits made statements on social issues. hi s name has become synonymous at the university, is the author of :he personal life. But at the same time, In the "ER" skit, the doctor saves the patient's life with one the darkest chapters in most comprehensive book on Kazan. his .detractors believe his whi le appeasing his estranged wife. but when he learns Hollywood history, a chapter that which was published in 1983. participation in the hunt for the patient does not have insurance, the doctor somberly dates back to the Red Scare. " An American Odyssey: Elia Hollywood Communists damaged says, "Nurse, give me back that scalpel." But even with his name sullied, Kazan and American Culture" details numerous careers and helped The writers of the scripts, sophomore Toby Mulford THE REVIEW/ Bob Weill his film work , inc luding " On the both sides of the controversy around legitimize the movement. and Newark resident Nick Silva, said they co-wrote the E-52 Student Theatre Troupe performed "A Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named the famous ·director and includes an Many livelihoods were destroyed skits before the idea of a radio show even urfaced in the Night on the Air" for a WVUD audience. D esire" and " A Gentleman's interview with the filmmaker. once someone was announced to be a director's mind. Agreement" was enough for the Pauly said he watched Sunday's Communist, as they were then Mulford said they initiall y imagined the skit actor's point of vie' . it" s reall y lightweight. There· not Academy to bestow Kazan with its awards with interest and said he susceptible to being blacklisted from performed on audiotape, but were pleased with the way a whole lot of pressure on them.'· highest honor.