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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • One man's tale of AIDS Blue Hen football remains and how he lives his life, undefeated, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE www.review.udel.edu Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Marchers denounce Spring graduate violence, destitution dies on BY JONATHAN RIFKIN protest how they treat women in Third-World Mnnn~:ing News Editor countries." WASHINGTON D.C. - About 25,000 Laberge said her contribution to the event was people, including 113 Delaware residents and part of an international movement that began in campus university students, joined the U.S. component March and has involved 157 countries. of the World March of Women 2000 on Sunday, The Washington, D.C., event was part of an BY SUSAN STOCK officials said. international effort that will culminate in a Executive Editor The event, which was kicked off by a march similar but larger march today at the United University alumnus Carl Patrick beginning and ending behind the White House, Nations, Laberge said Bliey passed away Sunday evening included 50 performances and speeches meant to "Preparation for the international program after collapsing on the basketball raise awareness about the event's focus began a year and a half ago," she said. "A lot of courts near Perkins Student Center, ending inequality and poverty for women. planning went into it, but it's been a real success. officials said. Marie Laberge, president of the Delaware "Things like this energize people. They see Dean of Students Timothy F. National Organization for Women, said she they are not alone and it invigorates them and it Brooks said Bliey was playing helped to coordinate the group's participation in keeps them going." basketball with a group of people the march. Hollace Pouncie, local organizer for the march when he collapsed. She said she arrived with members of the in the Washington, D.C., area, said because the "The University Police received Delaware community and about 75 university march was focused on general inequality and a phone call at 8:09 p.m. Sunday and high school students on chartered buses. poverty among women in the world, it had to evening indicating that there was a "I was really pleased to see so many young confront issues ranging from health care to the person in a great deal of difficulty people involving themselves," she said. "It was workplace. · over at the basketball courts," he really encouraging." "We need to talk about finding equality from said. Upon arriving, participants gathered at a rally birth to death," she said. "Women need to have a ~liey fell to the ground avd was point and began marching, contributing to the right to medical choices, education, child care, transported from the basketball cacophony of chants and holding university and equality on the job and voting rights." courts to the Christiana Hospital Delaware NOW banners. Throughout the course of the warm Sunday THE REVIEW/Christopher Bunn emergency room via ambulance, ''The march was real exciting," she said. "We afternoon, numerous ,speakers, amplified on a according to University Police walked past the World Bank and the IMF A pro-choice advocate listens to speakers onstage Sunday as part of the World March of Women 2000 in Washington, D.C. student dispatcher Adrienne Calvin. [International Monetary Fund] building to see 25,000 page A9 Bliey was pronounced dead in the emergency room at 9:15, she said. Brooks said the cause of death is still unknown. However, Bliey had Making their voices heard a history of seizures during his childhood. BY STEPHANIE DENIS On the stage, a powerful and anguished "The prevailing theory is that he Stude/11 Affairs Editor voice freezes nearby listeners: "My body had some sort of seizure o n the WASHINGTON, D.C. - The voices may be fucked up, but my voice is nice and court," he said. of thousands of marchers split the muggy loudforall ofWashington, D.C. to hear. " Brooks said the identities of the air at noon on Sunday. She is Cheri HQnkala of the Kensington people playing basketball with "We are the women I The mighty Welfare Rights Union. She stands with the B liey are so far unknown, since mighty women I Fighting for justice I And help of two others, because Honkala was University Police who arrived on for education I Everywhere we go I People just released from the hospital. the scene were busy trying to help want to know I Who we are I So we tell For three days, she underwent surgery the the collapsed man. them." after a brutal rape that caused internal Bliey graduated from the A mass of women and men snakes its bleeding. Doctors did not believe she university last May, Brooks said, way from the Ellipse to the International would live. with a degree from the College of Monetary Fund and the World Trade "I need to ensure that women get on Business and Economics. Organization. their feet, get the hell out here and start He also got married in March, he Women from Niger in ethnic garb and mobilizing," sh~? yells into the microphone. said. students from the University of "Shame on you if the only thing that gets While he was at the university, Massachusetts in tank tops and shorts you women to vote is reproductive rights." . Brooks said, Bliey took part in the march together, united in the World March She demands help so that women and Fortune 2000 program, which helps of Women. children will stop dying of hunger and students from the College of Back at the Ellipse after the 45-minute poverty. Business and Economics learn THE REVIEW/Christopher Bunn march, 25,000 protestors settle in for an Honkala is with a group of 18-children about their field and get work Kristl Dorscgber from Maryland and Florida State afternoon of speakers and music in front of standing in a line on the stage, arranged by experience. THE REVIEW/Christopher Bunn University students Kerri Blow and Amanda Welter a tall black metal sta~, on which hangs a height and age from toddler to teen-ager. Additionally, Brooks said, Bliey Equality, poverty, violence and hate was involved with the Center for wore their bras to show unity and to escape the heat. 30-foot television screen. see CAPITAL page A9 were topi~s present Sunday in D.C. Black Culture and was "an all around good student." Skid Row V.P. candidate's daughter nets $1,750 talks with College Dems. BY ANDREA N. BOYLE generations X and Y, are apathetic," NntionnVStale News Editor she said to the students. · with bands Whenever 31-year-old Rebecca ''I know that's not true because we Lieberman steps into the ballot booth, as a generation volunteer in the highest tears roll down her face once she numbers since World War II." BY RANDI HORNSTEIN realizes the importance of the Throughoot the discussion, Staff Repomr decisions she is about to make. Lieberman encouraged the gro up to "The weather is good, the women are beautiful and For it is the power of Generations X ask questions and share personal the beverages are flowing." andY, she said, that can determine the feelings. Junior Steve Tate summed up Saturday's events as nation's future. Students brought up many highly about 500 to 600 people - some in sundresses and Liberman, daughter of vice controversial issues, including the tank tops - enjoyed the unusually warm mid presidential candidate Joseph recent uproar in the Middle East and October day at the bi- annual Skidfest. Lieberman, relayed her thoughts on her father's reputation as a deeply Six bands played throughout the day, and eclectic voting to approximately 30 students spiritual man. mixes of instrumental jams and alternative sessions Monday afternoon in the Trabant Lieberman expressed pride in her wafted from the corner of East Delaware Avenue and University Center. father and his stance as a religious Academy Street from noon to 9 p.m. The roundtable disc ussion, politician. Music genres ranged from the improvisational sponsored by the College Democrats, "He's a man of faith ," she said. "He drum and bass stylings of the well-established THE REVIEW/Christian Jackson consisted of 30 minutes for students to thinks faith has a part in our culture, Healthy Doses to the hip-hop of Skidfest first-timer Peter Crowley Oeft) and Alex Mullen perform interact with the candidate's daughter. which doesn't mean he's not a Fat Daddy Has Been. Saturday at Skidfest with.their band Stepanian. THE REVIEW/Andrew Mehan In that time, she addressed an array supporter of the First Amendment - Rebecca Lieberman (right), Gelner's straight-ahead rock ' n' roll pop sound of issues ranging from college tuition he is." provided a contrast to the traditional jam band sound This year, although Skid Row had mostly new to gun control to the culture of alcohol Senior Katy Lewis, president of the daughter of vice presidential of Fat Apple . Funk trio Theory performed, and residents, the tradition continued as usual. on college campuses. College Democrats, said she thought candidate Joseph Lieberman, Mothers Magillicutti re-mixed its version of Sisqo's Senior Nicole Hermans, who li ves on Skid Row, "The goal is to break through the the gathering was a success. poses with College Democrats "Thong Song." said other tenants were willing to help post fliers and mutual neglect that exists between "Students go to class every day and President Katy Lewis Skidfest has been an institution at Skid Row since · design T-shirts.