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I I 1.1.1• Today's ·Weather: Our second Partly sun- century of ny with highs excellence in the low 80s. :c Possibility of an afternoon shower. --~ ·Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985 D aids. Prof, 42, ASAin falls to esearch by Suzanne Winge by Meg Goodyear Staff Reporter Community News Editor There will be an enc01mter Dr. Stephen Wolfe, 42, a space Wednesday morning, professor in the department first meeting in history of mathematical sciences for htw,•P.n a comet and a man­ 15 years, died Thursday even­ probe, so far away that ing in an apparent suicide there will take four and after jumping from his fifth minutes to get back to floor office window in Ewing Hall, said Newark Police No, this is not an entry in Chief William Brierley. log of the starship Dr. Wolfe, of 310 Arbour it's a NASA­ Drive, fell three stories and •wlaut::u project, and a Univer­ landed on a maintenance roof of Delaware professor three floors below his window collect data on the mis- on the west side of Ewing, facing Orchard Road, Paul Evenson, a Brierley said. He apparently professor with the jumped around 11 p.m. ....; .. ,,,..C!itu's Bartol Research Dr. Wolfe's wife, Christine, , will work with and University Police teams of researchers discovered the body, he said. study the comet Giacotiini­ Dr. Wolfe had been in a when it meets the depressed state, Brierley satellite the Interna-1 said, and was under Cometary Explorer at psychiatric care. 7 a.m. Wednesday A 1965 graduate of Williams 44 million miles from College in Massachusetts, Dr. Wolfe, a native of San Fran­ "(The comet) returns to the cisco, received his master's solar system every six and doctoral degrees in a half years, and every 13 mathematics from the it is favorably visible University of California at Earth," Evenson said. Riverside. Evenson will travel to the Dr. Wolfe came to the Space Flight Center University of Delaware in Greenville, Md. to be there 1970 as an assistant professor the ICE passes within and was made an associate miles of the center of the professor in 1975. He taught 's head, almost through courses in probability theory, calculus and finite math. middle of the ball of gas, Staff photo by Charles Fort ""'''""""" said. A member of a number of "(The ICE) will not be visi- THE BLUE HEN BAND marches to the stadium prior to the football team's victory over Rhode Island Saturday. national mathematical because of all the haze societies, Dr. Wolfe received grants from the National from the light scatter- 7 miles per second.) spacecraft is "close enough speed and energy. On its final in outer regions," he said. Evenson said the satellite for radio tracking but far orbit, the ICE passed within Science Foundation to pursue his research on probability cobini-Zinner will fly was previously used to collect enough away to study the un­ 40 miles of the moon's surface theory and random pro­ reach of the ICE at data on solar X-rays, cosmic disturbed interplanetary before it was flung "in a sl­ cesses," said Dr. Ivar m.p.h., or 24 miles per rays from several sources medium." ingshot effect," he said, and Stakgold, chairman of the ~e~con1d, while the satellite will and the structure of solar Evenson said about four sent on its way to the comet. along at a mere 45,000 wind from an orbit in the Ear­ years ago, scientists for­ "The last one gave it the mathematics department. Dr. Wolfe served as a per hour, oc 12.5 miles th's upper atmosphere. mulated redirecting the swing that threw it out," research assistant in 1976, second. (The escape The ICE's orbit is unique satellite to steer it to five Evenson said. L--•--a.. of the Earth is about because, Evenson said, the lunar orbits to increase its continued to page 8 1977, ~~~tin!~~o ~~: 8 at Ein- Page 2•THE REVIEW •September 10, 1985---------------------------------------- In the headlines · Lt. Gov. S.B. Woo reviews his first six months in Find out "who the hell" Andy King is and what Last year the field hockey team was the ECC r1 office, in an exclusive interview with The Review, The Hooters are up to on the Features page, p. 19. nerup. Find out what the prospects for another' p. 4. * * * cellent season are on p. 27. * * * Also on page 19, explore the alternative to super­ And keep an eye on pages six and seven for markets and preservative crammed foods in the thought provoking, irreverent and often humorous Newark Co-op article. II . 1 /1/0f//P APPKitiAiEf columns addressmg au racets oi me. • •• H tKftlfiJitl\ 'f(J * *. The Underground's semester opening featured 11£ 5fll(fs ll€SK, Bloom Bert Breathed's Bloom County joins The Review Honour Society, The Twisters and Newark's best ~Yov today on p. 7. alcohol-free dance concert series, sponsored by the Vfl('l County ••• SPA,p. 21. The Review profiles Dr. N. Bruce Walker, newly ••• MVC/1/ appointed Director of Admissions, who takes office I Today's music stars are taking ~~eir talents to the Nov.l,p.10. big screen. p. 21 . • • • • •• The university's second annual pep rally was held On the back page (front of the Sports section) find seepage? Saturday night. Highlights of the event are out how the Blue Hens "rammed" Rhode Island in chronicled on p. 11. the season grid opener and profiles of the running *. * attack, p. 28. • • * The Ansel Adams Collection We are proud to present 12 ofAdams' most popular images. ln a new poster form. Framed at a very special price. Call us today for details. YO.U'VE BEEN FRAMED PRINTS, POSTERS, NOTECARDS DRY MOUNTING and MATTING 170 E. MAIN ST., NEWARK 388·1403 The New Dance Studio E. Del. Ave. & Haines St. (Near the Student Center) DIRECTOR: (RIJIIIRD· LINDA MOORES $160° 0 IN VIBRANT GREEN, HOT PINK, OR SUBDUED BLUE Classes In Ballet, Modern AT &Jazz TWO WHEELED CYCLE AMERICA'S CLASSES START SEPT. 9 UP ALLEY BEHIND LANDHOPE FARMS FAVORIR 368-0365 CRUISER!! Beginner Classes Intermediate Classes 368-2685 - ----------------------------------------------September 10, 1985 • THE REVIEW • Page 3 os·discovery spurs cleanup rown, Sypherd decontaminated last month lty Margo McDonough ment contractor, was removing sent a health hazard unless it is air- cleared up by the time they moved in. StaffReporter asbestos from a wing of Newark Hall borne. Sypherd's ground floor resident Plumbing repairs led to the first not used for classrooms and offices. In February 1984, university Presi- assistant, Paul Well (AS 880.)said that llbestos cleanup in a university dorm Air monitoring was performed dent E.A. Trabant ordered Hall when he arrived for RA training on Ia August as plumbers discovered the throughout Harter and Sharp Halls, Education Building closed until Aug. 26, one student's room was still Dulation material in pipe lining at two other South Central Campus dor- fireproofing material containing encased in plastic. Brown and Sypherd Halls. mitories, and Brown and Sypherd. hazardous levels of asbestos was Outside Brown and Sypherd, plastic The aSbestos level of airborne par- Although sections of pipes in all of removed. The third floor corridors sheeting was taped over basement tides in the two South Central Cam- the buildings were cleaned up, Miller and stairwells of Hullihen Hall were windows and a large yellow sign pas dormitories was high enough to said, the workers concentrated on a decontaminated in March 1985, after warned: "Asbestos Area." warrant a cleanup, although Joseph basement hallway connecting Brown the discovery of asbestos in the "I was scared," said Well. "I called lliller, industrial hygienist for the and Sypherd storage and two student veneer used on walls and ceilings. up the area manager about re-testing llliversity's Safety Department, said, rooms in Sypherd's basement. Miller said his office attempts to my room." "At no time were the plumbers in any This was the first discovery and avoid situations such as those in Said David Butler, director of Hous- dlnger." subsequent cleanup of asbestos in Brown and Sypherd by keeping track ing and Residence Life, "People hear Miller, citing safety in residence residence halls at the university. of the type of work done by construe- the word asbestos and jump through llalls as "a primary concern," said Brown Hall was built in 1941 and tion and mainienance projects on the walls, but you can't find too many office and Housing and Residence Sypherd in 1957. The Safety Depart- campus. buildings that don't have asbestos." made a joint decision to divert an ment is aware, said Miller, that many Many Brown and Sypherd residents When ground floor Sypherd resident llbestos removal contractor already of the buildings constructed on cam- arriving on campus were unaware of Nick Graziano (AS 89) learned of the 11 campus at Newark Hall to Brown pus before a 1973 ban on asbestos-use the asbestos cleanup. Hall director cleanup, he remained unconcerned. llldSypherd. do contain materials with asbestos. Julie Elkins said residents were not Said Graziano, "If they say the Demo-Tech Inc., an asbestos abate- But, he said, asbestos does not pre- informed because the problem was (asbestos) level is safe, then it's fine --------------------------------------------------------•with ouncil may ban e-night parking response to complaints from lty Alice ~rumbley Newark residents about noise Assistant News Editor and loiterers. U a measure that came ,before the Newark City Conn- "People who are riding cillast night was approved, around town keep running­ then you'd better keep mov- dialogues with people who are IDg if you're in a car on Main parked in cars along the Stree street," Brothers said.

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