Faculty Demonstrate on Parent's Day Union Protests at Clayton Hall, Football Stadium; Airplane Carries Union Message by Richard Jones Oct
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Jugglers defy ~ Security and crime Minutemen ~ gravity on mall • • clash on campus manhandle Hens a e13 • e• ages 4 & 5 page 17 TUESDAY Faculty demonstrate on Parent's Day Union protests at Clayton Hall, football stadium; airplane carries union message By Richard Jones Oct. 30, Settles said . Administrative News Editor The terms of the In their second demonstration, administration's modified offer about 30 faculty union members were not available at press time. carried signs and handed out Salary raises are one of the leaflets at Delaware Stadium issues surrounding the contract Saturday to spread information talks. The administration is about the state of contract offering a 2 percent across-the negotiations. board pay raise and a 2.5 percent Dr. Barbara H. Settles, president merit pay raise for those faculty of the local chapter of the who qualify. American Association of Merit raises are salary increases University Professors (AAUP), given to professors based on their said the union distributed about performance. 4,000 leaflets while positioned at The AAUP is asking for a 6 various locations outside the percent across-the-board increase stad.ium before the football game. with a 2.5 percent merit pay raise. The union hired a small plane, Marcia P. Halio of the English carrying a banner that read "UD department, who helped distribute Gets Richer - Faculty & Students the leaflets, said she hoped the Get Poorer," to fly over th e demonstration would urge parents leslie D. Barbaro stadium during the game as a part to communicate with the of the demonstration, Settles said. administration regarding the state This banner was hung on Kirkbride Hall Sunday night by Sean T. She said it was important that of contract talks. Walsh (AS 92). Walsh said he made the sign after a professor's in the union stage an informational Dr. Peter W. Rees, associate class comments made him angry. demonstration on a day designated professor of geography, said the Parent's Day to make university negotiations are "something that students' families and the involves the entire communi ty - Students' banners university community aware of the faculty, students and citizens." issues surrounding the contract Dr. Peter T. Vagenas, associate . talks. professor of theater, and one of express op1n1ons l eslie D. Barbaro Negotiations broke down several union members who Professor Lawrence Duggan of the history department distributes Thursday but the union will vote distributed leaflets at the stadium information on the contarct talks to Dan Keisel and Del Miskie. on a modified administrative offer see UNION page 11 on contract talks By Richard Jones did not know why the sign was Administrative News Ediror removed but said officers usually Officials review payment plan In two incidents last weekend, consull with a supervisor when three banners were hung from a making such decisions. Kirkbride Hall railing by students One of the SQE's flyers read in President Roselle urges committee task force to examine 16-Pius credit policy expressing their viewpoints on the part: "Quality education provided by faculty contract negotiations. quality professors. Students have By Julie Carrick credit, half of the $121 in-state per credit rate, and either participate in th e 16-Plus plan or attend at Saturday morning a sign which paid the tuition, its time for the Assistant News Editor out-of-state students pay $160, half of the $320 least one winter or summer session in order to read: "UD Strike A Possibility Read administration to spend the funds." In an effort to help students save money and out-of-state rate. graduate in four years, DiFebbo said. The Weber Report SQE" hung from The leaflet also urged students to graduate in four years, officials are considering a Roselle said members of the Enrollment According to the university course catalogue, Kirkbride Hall. read the Weber Report, which is revision of the 16-Plus payment policy, the Management Committee are reviewing the policy. many majors require more than 124 credits to The Weber Report is the audit of available in the reserve room of the university president said Sunday. Dr. Margaret Andersen, chairwoman of the graduate. Food science majors require the most the universi ty 's finances by Morris Library. The 16-Plus policy requires students to pay a committee, said her organiza tion investigates hours, 132, and civil and mechanical engineering Monmouth College economist Nc one from SQE has come base rate for 12 to 15 credit hours, and additional various issues to ensure strOng enro llment. majors need 131. Richard Weber, who says the forward to claim responsibility for charges for each credit exceedi ng 15. She said it would be premature to comment on Jama Allegretto, an academic adv iser in the un iversity is financially solid and the banner or the fliers. President David P. Roselle said he moved to the future of th e credit system until th e College of Arts and Science Advisement Center, able to meet the union's pay In the second incident, two signs institute changes in the payment plan when he commitle(;'s task force releases its report. said more students are taking 16 or more credits demands. were hung from Kirkbride Hall realized it was cost prohibitive to students and Mike DiFebbo (BE 91), president of the now than in previous years, because the university SQE is an acronym for Students Sunday night. affected their scheduled graduation dates. Delaware Undergraduate Student Congress now requires most students to take at least one For Quality Education, a group also One read: "Teachers Need More "There must be a way to change the system (DUSC), said students are forced to participate in four-credit foreign language cours. responsible for flyer dislribution and Money But Shouldn't They Earn without losing money for the universi ty," Roselle the 16-Plus system because they cannot graduate Other area schools such as Temple and Drexel posting during the weekend . It?" said. in four years tak:ing the average 15 credit load. universities do not have comparable policies, she The banner wa s made from a The other read: "The Teachers The 16-Plus plan applies only to undergraduate One hundred twenty-four credits is th e said. white bedsheet with black Ieuers. Who Want Student Support Are students and requires them to pay one-half the rate minimum a student must have to graduate, yet by Andersen said the university implemented the The sign was removed from Willing To Use Students As Pawns." for each credit hour beyond 15 credits. taking 15 hours per semester, a student can only 16-Plus policy in the 1970s and it has been in Kirkbride Hall by a Public Safety Both banners were signed by In-state students currently pay $60.50 per earn 120 credits in eight semesters. Students must place ever since. official, but a similar sign was also Sean T. Walsh (AS 92), who said he hanging on a tennis court fence made the banners after one of his across the street fro m the Perkins professors urged him and his fellow Student Center Saturday evening . classmates to support the local Soldiers for peace Sgt. Bill Clough of the chapter of the American Association department of Public Safety said he see BANNERS page 11 rally in New York Nazi symbols Protesters fight L!.S. presence in Gulf By Chris Cronis Now protest, a massive hodge painted on News Features Editor podge of activists and issues, all NEW YORK - Tattered and united under the umbrella of anti 4 university burning, an American flag fanned war sentiment. its flames above a rowdy group in The New York City the center of.Times Square. demonstration coincided with 25 buildings Waving the flag's pole, a similar protest in cities across the Four un iversity structures were grinning bearded man with long hair country, including Los Angeles, vandalized Thursday night when and a black leather jacket led chants Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and graffiti including a swastika symbol of "bum, baby, bum," and "Bush, Houston, and with protests in Richelle Perrone and the words "White Power" were you liar, we set your flag on fue." European cities such as London, spraypaintcd on the facilities. Thousands of people marched through Manhattan to condemn Surrounding him were fist-pumping Rome and Stockholm. University Police said they have the United States' policy of military Intervention in Saudi Arabia. youihs dressed in black, bandannas The protest, which organizers no suspects, and the graffiti was draped across their faces. said drew about 15,000 people, was greeted the demonstrators. circulated through the masses cleaned off early Friday morning. Graffiti was sprayed by the Half a mile away and oblivious organized by the Coalition to Stop The lineup included radio and The theme "No War for Big Oil," Swastikas appeared under Smith Smith Overpass elevator. to the small bonfue of flags, dollar U.S. Intervention in the Middle television personality Casey Kasem, however, permeated the event. overpass and Rodney walkway, bills and makeshift draft cards, a East. Michael Moore, writer and director Nearly every speech was punctuated while the words "White Power" administration will treat this Vietnam veteran addressed the The coalition has a myriad of of the critically acclaimed film with the battle cry "hell no, we with a swastika appeared on the incident the same as the "other square's · thousands of other endorsers, including Ramsey Clarlc, "Roger and Me," and Clark. won't go, we won't fight for walkway in front of McKinley senseless acts that have occurred." protesterS. former U.S. Attorney General under During the speeches, information Texaco." Laboratory and on a side wall of "I would hope that no one in the His voice echoed defiantly from Lyndon B.