City Council Approves Water Treatment Plant
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Wildcats invade Newark symphony .1" Hens' den To drink or not to drink orchestrates 25 years page 13 page 3 page 9 ./' FREE City council approves water treatment plant By Vincent A DeMuro Jr. Staff Reporrer Newark plans new water treatment plant Newark may be a step closer to having clean water after the city council accepted a contract Monday to construct a water treatment facility on Paper Mill Road. Water filtration process City officials decided to build a 1 . Water pumped plant after a report was submitted to in from ponds. the council two weeks ago, detailing 2. Chemicals added the city's long history of water to purify water. problems and recommending that a 3. Sand filters out treatment plant be built. Love-struck vandal paints City manager Carl F. Luft said at impurities. university buildings Monday's city council meeting that 4. Filtered water enters construction of the facility, to begin reservoir for storage. It was on the basketball courts. within a month and completed by 5. Water pumped It was on the bookstore. September I 992, will cost $4 to city system. It was on the Srrtith Overpass. million. It was on various Russell, Gilbert and Joseph Dombrowski, water Harrington dormitories, not to mention director for the city, said the city's up and down East Main Street. water supply has been plagued by "Gorgeous 43" or "G 43 I LOV U" serious problems since 1989, was EVERYWHERE. What began as a including high concentrations of iron couple's quarrel turned into a massive and manganese . red-and-white spray painting spree all Citi zen complaints of water rose across campus for everyone to see. that year, and officials found that the Police said Robert Leston, of florida, problem came from city wells, he Source: Newark C Council was visiting his girlfiend last weekend said. Graphic by Sonja Kerby and Andrew Lisse when he spray painted the phrases all Still, Dombrowski said officials strengthened and treated with Construction to build the concrete over Newark referring to his still do not know why iron and chemical purifying agents such as well system to support the water girlfriend's nickname and his old high manganese have continued to show chlorine, polymers and fluoride. treatment plant. school football number. up in Newark water. The treated water then will soak C.P.C. Engineering was · Leston was charged with criminal Dombrowski said the filtering through layers of sedimentary sand contracted to build the five steel trespassing and felony criminal system will work in the following which will filter o.ut impurities, tanks that contain the actual filtering mischief, police said, and jailed at way: pollutants and foreign particles. units. Each unit is capable of Wilmington's Gander Hill Prison in Water from White Clay From there the water will be processing 1 million gallons of water lieu of $2,000 bond and was later Creek,which settles in two existing stored in concrete basins below the a day, Dombrowski said. released. Officials said damages totaled ponds near the sight, will be plant and pumped into the city' s Final phases of the project will be more than $1,200. electronically pumped into the plant water supply. completed next spring, when lagoons -Paul Kane and collected in five steel tanks. Luft said city council members neccessary for the backwash systems There the water will be sterilized, approved a contract from P.G . to clean the filters will be completed. Athletic scholarships to rise The Greek question Aid to increase next year to meet NCM Division I requirements By larry Dignan house. By Dan B. levine the scholarships those players may The increase in scholarship Ciry News Ediror Whenever a date rape is reported Sporrs Ediror come here," he said . money, available to student-athletes September 1991 - Temple at a fraternity, attention is University Athletic Director At the NCAA convention in entering the university in September University - Nineteen-year-old immediately focused on the Greek Edgar Johnson announced an January 1991, legislation was passed 1992, will come from the newfy student allegedly gang raped at a community. The belief that rapes are increase of $160,000 Monday for requiring Division I schools to instituted NCAA revenue sharing fraternity after being initially raped more commonplace at fraternities athletic financial aid for the 1992-93 provide athletic scholarship funding grant program ($95,000) and by a former boyfriend. stems from the extensive coverage of academic year to be distributed of at least $250,000 annually for $65,000 obtained from the December 1989- University of incidents involving Greeks. among seven sports, including six both the men's and women's athletic elimination of the wrestling The unspoken crisis Southern California- Nineteen-year- Experts disagree, saying this which have never offered athletic programs, excluding the funding program. old allegedly date raped by a 21- perception is valid because of the scholarships. provided for football and basketball. "I'm thrilled by it," said women's year-oldfraternity member. environment and ideals perpetuated The scholarship expansion is University sports currently lacrosse coach MaryBeth Holder. The fifth September 1989- University of in a fraternity. A study conducted by necessary to bring the universi ty 's offering athletic scholarships are " It 's not a major amount yet, but Delaware - Alleged illegal se:cual sociologists Patricia Yancey Martin athletic program into agreement men's and women's basketball, ov er the years it will be a help in in a six-part series contact at the Kappa Alpha fraternity see CREEkS page 5 with the NCAA Division I women's field hockey and football. recruiting." membership requirements effective August 1993. Sports to receive aid for the first time are men's lacrosse and soccer, PTTP budget slashed women's lacrosse and soccer, Pick it up volleyball and softball. The funding will be distributed in designated Theater officials propose cutting program in half amounts and will also include Students hit the courts with blacktop basketball By Melissa Gitter The administration has produced by the PTTP will Senior Staff Reporter reduced P1TP's budget in the have less expensive costumes baseball, which is c urrently By jonathan Thomas Carpenter." receiving some financial aid. Copy Ediror Webb, a former high school player, In order to meet a $400,000 last three years from $2.4 and sets. budget cut, the Professi onal million to $1.78 million due to The budget council Johnson declined to comment on This is where the "big boys" play. Thi s says he plays three or four times a week to Theater Training Program the university's ongoing proposed eliminating the how the scholarship money would is where the bodies are banging, the keep in shape and blow off some steam. (P'ITP) proposed to reduce its budget crisis, Pipes said. program in January, Pipes be allocated to each sport. elbows are flying and the balls are "After taking a test it's great to come size by more than half. PTTP has proposed said, but former Provost and "I'm certainly looking forward to sinking. Those with weak hearts need not out here and really let loose," Webb says. The proposal would cut the eliminating t.he costume Vice President for Academic it," said men's lacrosse coach Bob apply. "I take out all my frustrations on the ball Shillinglaw. "We've always had Blacktop basketball. It is the rawest and the guys I'm playing against." size of PTTP from about 55 production program and Affairs Richard B. Murray kids interested in our program who form of basketball, played night and day "He's a maniac after a test," says Todd students to 25 students and reducing the size of technical decided to reduce its budget look at schools like Syracuse and on the courts across from the Perkins Ahern (EG SO), one of Webb' s possibly eliminate one faculty production program, said instead. After cutting the Johns Hopkins (schools which offer Student Center. tearrunates. "I'm afraid to play with member, said R. Byron Pipes, Joann Browning, associate program's budget by about scholarships for men's lacrosse) and The players may be freshmen, seniors him sometimes." provost and vice president for director of the PTTP. In $400,000 last spring, Pipes end up there. or maybe not students at all, but they Webb and Ahem met on Academic Affairs. addition, future plays see PROGRAM page 4 "Hopefully with the addition of gather daily to play what many consider the basketball courts to be the best basketball on campus . last semester during a .----INDEX----. "It's brutal," says Joe Webb (AS SR). pick-up game and say few "The basketball out players know each other Professor Opinion ............................... 6 here is much prior to the games. Vivant. ................................. 9 better than Max Paige (BE FR), Classifieds ......................... 1 0 what's being who plays five days a week, says he just shows Entertainment ................... 11 played in fishes for see PICKUP page 4 Sports ................................ 13 Comics ....................... .. ..... 15 free speech --Also inside:-- By Doug Donovan ~ssistant News Ediror Thomas hearing reaction .... 2 The first amendment has always been Van Hal en in concert......... 11 manipulated to further the inte.rests of those political groups who assert the amendment's power, said Stanley Fish, chairperson of the English department at Duke University. In his presentation, ''There is No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It is a Good Thing Too," on Wednesday night in Kirkbride Hall, FISh assened the shallowness of the phrases such as free speech. academic freedom, equality and equal opportunity. 11tese words do whatever work the political group using lhem wants, he said.